Region IX Scholastic Chess Tournament
Where: Trinity School of Midland
3500 Wadley
Midland, Tx 79705
(plenty of parking in the back)
When: January 9th, 2010
Five rounds, Game/30
Rounds are at 10 am, 11, 1:30, 2:30, 3:30.
Lunch onsite and included in the tournament entry fee.
Cost: $ 20 per entry (lunch included)
$ 15 if received by Jan 1. (lunch included)
Lunch for extra adults ($ 6) or non-playing kids ( $ 4).
Prizes: Prizes to top three K-5th grade, 6th – 8th, 9th and up.
Prizes to top two school teams in each category.
A team can be any size, but only the top three scores from the school are counted for team score. Please see Texas Chess Association web site rules specific school team composition.
Tournament is a rated chess event following TCA and U.S. Chess Federation rules.
Please bring chess clocks and boards if possible; a limited number of sets and boards will be available.
U.S. Chess Federation Scholastic or Youth membership required. Please see U.S. Chess Federation web site (uschess.org) for specific requirements
Contact: Charlie Vetter
cell – 432-296-9279
work – 432-520-7232
midlandchessclub@yahoo.com
Is this tournament open only to Region IX students or open to any other scholastic in Texas outside region IX?
I think any region. I think kids from Lubbock, Slaton, Shallowater, and other places are coming.
Hope kids from El Paso can come to this event too. They have a growing scholastic players there but not just going out to play regionals or even states.
Non-Region IX players are welcomed and encouraged to come.
Only Region IX players can win the Region IX trophies though.
If we have enough non-Region IX entries, I’ll be happy to get some non-Regional trophies. If I don’t have enough entries to make trophies reasonable, I’ll have a special guest entry fee for non-Region IX players of $ 5 off the regular rate.
Either way, we’re working hard to make this tournament more than a tournament for the kids. The Christian school has opened its campus up for us, and we’re trying to organize as many things for the kids to do as we can think of and organize so the kids will have lots to do between rounds.
Lubbock and El Paso are not in Region IX.. The list of counties are on the TCA website. If you think I need to, I’ll list them. The biggest cities in the region are Midland, Odessa, San Angelo, Abilene, Brownwood.
Hope this helps people out.
Charlie