Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Happy Valley K-8 Chess Tournament

Date: Friday, March 16, 2012
Start Time: 10:00 am   End Time: 4:30 pm (Younger kids will finish sooner)

Location: Happy Valley Elementary
Category:  Oregon State Championships Qualifier

Description
Location: Happy Valley Elementary
13865 SE King Rd.
Happy Valley, OR 97086

Time: Friday, March 16, 2012
10:00am – approximately 4:30pm. [Young novices may be done before 2:pm.]

Pre-Registration ONLY: To register, send your name/age, grade/school, and your NWSRS ID) to happyvalleychess@gmail.com with subject line: "HV Chess K-8 Championships". Registration will close on Thursday, March 15 at 7:00 pm. We will limit the player numbers at 80. You can check your ID here: http://myrating.chess4life.com/nwsrs_players/search
Check in: 8:00-9:30am. If you are late, you still can play starting with round 2. You don't have to play all the rounds. In case you decide not to play in a round, please inform the Tournament Director ahead of time. Zero points for byes.
Cost: $20.00 payable on site

Description: Tournaments are a great way to help players apply knowledge and gain necessary practical skills to achieve success. This tournament will be held Swiss style, and will take approximately 5 hours.

Eligibility/Sections: This tournament is NWSRS rated and open to any kids up to grade 8. Players will be group in the following sections: K-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8. The kids participating for the first time in a chess tournament (no previous chess ratings) will have their own sections: Novice K-4 and Novice 5-8.

Rounds/Times: Five rounds
Game/30 (25/5 for time-delay clocks)

Awards: Trophies for top 3 players in each section! Medals for anyone who has at least 2.5 points and no trophy. Chess gift for everyone with 2 points or less. Computer generated tie-breakers will be used to decide top 3.
Pre-registered players will be listed at:
http://happyvalleychess.blogspot.com/

** An adult must accompany all the participants under 12 years old. If the child is not supervised they will be forfeited and asked to leave the tournament.

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