The Tournament was a great success!
We have 37 participating players in all sections.
Jace Belisle won 1st place in the student section earning him $100 cash. His name will be added to the Holiday Family Chess Tournaments perpetual trophy of DEATH which will stay on that monument of honor for at least 7 years.
Jace Belisle and Lance Labrum battle it out on board 1 in the 6th round.
Avery James won 2nd place Student award of $50.
Tanner Labrum won 3rd place Student award of $25.
We gave away 26 official prizes and all participants received something.
Thank you to Story Time Chess for their generous donation of prizes.
All players said they had a wonderful time and a couple said they played their best Chess game in life so far!
The venue was at St. Peter & Paul Elementary School in their spacious Parish Hall which provided a kitchen for food and ample room for the tournament.
Thanks so much to Rhett Mahony, school principal for his donation of the venue!
The Chess Guy had some very difficult problems with the old software used to run the tournaments which delayed the start by 2 hours for data entry and fixing issues.
Thanks to the patient players who waited and waited for the first round.
The Chess Guy is working on writing new software for later tournaments that should fix the issues with the 20 year old commercial product most tournament directors have had to put up with.
Near the end of the tournament, the top players battled it out with a clock added to finish the rounds, leading to very exciting chess with everyone watching excitedly for the winner to be revealed.
Though the Chess Guy was on crutches still from a foot infection, all went smoothly with many parents expressing their pleasure with an event that highlighted the mental work-out that the game of Chess requires.
Lots of parents and players and especially my wife Kim, pitched in to help as the crippled Chess Guy manned the PC to generate pairings, print out player status and pairings sheets, and collected and entered game results.
The Chess Guy wishes to thank all the donors to our donation jars around the area and to those businesses that sponsored the tournament.
This was the first time the tournament was held in the spring as opposed to around Christmas for reasons due to illness.
Players will be rated by RatingsNW.com soon.
We have 37 participating players in all sections.
Jace Belisle won 1st place in the student section earning him $100 cash. His name will be added to the Holiday Family Chess Tournaments perpetual trophy of DEATH which will stay on that monument of honor for at least 7 years.
Jace Belisle and Lance Labrum battle it out on board 1 in the 6th round.
Avery James won 2nd place Student award of $50.
Tanner Labrum won 3rd place Student award of $25.
We gave away 26 official prizes and all participants received something.
Thank you to Story Time Chess for their generous donation of prizes.
All players said they had a wonderful time and a couple said they played their best Chess game in life so far!
The venue was at St. Peter & Paul Elementary School in their spacious Parish Hall which provided a kitchen for food and ample room for the tournament.
Thanks so much to Rhett Mahony, school principal for his donation of the venue!
The Chess Guy had some very difficult problems with the old software used to run the tournaments which delayed the start by 2 hours for data entry and fixing issues.
Thanks to the patient players who waited and waited for the first round.
The Chess Guy is working on writing new software for later tournaments that should fix the issues with the 20 year old commercial product most tournament directors have had to put up with.
Near the end of the tournament, the top players battled it out with a clock added to finish the rounds, leading to very exciting chess with everyone watching excitedly for the winner to be revealed.
Though the Chess Guy was on crutches still from a foot infection, all went smoothly with many parents expressing their pleasure with an event that highlighted the mental work-out that the game of Chess requires.
Lots of parents and players and especially my wife Kim, pitched in to help as the crippled Chess Guy manned the PC to generate pairings, print out player status and pairings sheets, and collected and entered game results.
The Chess Guy wishes to thank all the donors to our donation jars around the area and to those businesses that sponsored the tournament.
This was the first time the tournament was held in the spring as opposed to around Christmas for reasons due to illness.
Players will be rated by RatingsNW.com soon.
Here are the prize winners:
All Participants:
Thank you for coming!