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Memorial Sunday Tournament in less than 2 Weeks
The Memorial Sunday G/60 Chess Tournament is in less than 2 weeks! It should be a fun day of rated chess. A few people have already registered and we are looking forward to a hopefully good turnout. Stay tuned as we will be posting pre-registrations once or twice before the tournament (below in the Facebook comments).
Manoa Club Closed Until Summer Session
It has been brought to our attention from Manoa Chess Club Director Reynolds Takata that the club will be closed until the summer session. It seems the Park made some sudden changes. Details follow:
Summer session: (every Monday from 6:30 to 8 pm) June 4 to August 13 [June 11 is a holiday so no club]
After the summer schedule ends, the club will be closed till the fall schedule which restarts on September 10.
Please direct any questions to Reynolds at hawaiichessdoc (at) yahoo.com
WMS Chess Team – 3rd in the Nation! (And there’s a new National Champ from Hawaii!)
The WMS Chess Team - 3rd in the Nation!
We would like to deeply congratulate the Washington Middle School Chess Team, who made the journey to the National Junior High Championships in San Diego. As a team, they represented Hawaii and WMS well, taking 3rd place in the nation in the K-9 Unrated Division!
Hawaii has a new national champion: Wun Shen Chen scored 6.5 out of 7 points and is the National K-9 Unrated Co-champion! Wun Shen’s teammates all posted strong scores too:
Ted Hirai – 5.5 points (4th place)
Aaron Ou – 4.5 points (12th place)
Sungyool Park – 4 points (14th place)
WMS’ Chess Team coach Eric Floro also deserves recognition for his hard work in getting the team to the Championships. His hard work, determination and dedication to the team is admirable.
It should be mentioned that Hawaii’s current Intermediate Champion, Ford Nakagawa, made the trip to San Diego as well; Ford played in the extremely strong K-8 Championship division and also had a strong result, scoring 5 out of 7 points, – tying for equal 14th place and gaining a good amount of rating points. Ford is now an “A” player, having bumped his rating up in this tournament to 1800.
Well done, all. Hawaii’s proud of you! Links to crosstables and photos follow:
