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2011 Las Vegas Chess Festival |
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Written by Web Custodian
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Yermo was in Vegas with his friend, Suat Atalik, from Turkey. Both started out the 2011 Las Vegas Chess Festival strong but only one landed in the $$. You can see the pairing and results at the official website and watch the games at Monroi. Yermo's game 6 was a 15 move or so draw- not worth reviewing it seems. Here is a link of the first 5 games played by Alex with comments by Rypka.
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2011 US Women's Championship |
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2010 President's Statement Mr Waters |
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Written by Web Custodian
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As 2010 comes to a close we can look back at a fairly successful year for the SDCA. Although we always seem to struggle with numbers, 2010 was encouraging in the scholastic arena. With the Splitrock tournament in Garretson having 91 attendees and the Castlewood tournament having 93, it tells me our coaches are doing a good job getting the kids interested and involved with tournament play and that they have enough parental support that they are willing to travel!
In this age of computers, we now have more outlets to play and learn online then ever before. The next generation is very high tech and will take advantage of this if nurtured properly. The school systems today are very concerned about our students ability to problem solve, along with their critical thinking and reasoning skills and chess is the perfect way to help those skills evolve! They could benefit a great deal by getting chess clubs into their schools.
The competition for the student's time can be tough with all the video games, hundreds of TV channels, and multiple other school activities and local entertainment venues competing for their time. The schools have problems with tight budgets at every level, but in these tough economic times chess has got to be one of the cheapest alternatives ever and one of the cheapest hobbies to maintain.
This ancient game and intellectual pastime has more than surpassed the test of time. It spurs the individual competitive juices as well as team rivalry. It builds everlasting friendships and cognitive thinking skills that extend to all facets of life.
We have a lot of casual players out there who enjoy chess but have never had the courage to attend a club setting. I ask all of our members to invite a friend or coworker to play a game and invite them to the local club so they can enjoy and develop their game along with the friendships as much as we have-
With that I would like to thank all the coaches and club organizers for all of their time and effort this past year in teaching and promoting our sport and wish them continued success in 2011.
THANK YOU
Greg Waters
SDCA
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Written by Bob Wallace
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Very few chess players in SD knew Father Francis "Frank" Sieh but there are a few around who still remember him.
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Written by Web Custodian
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"Venio, Video, and Vinco!" claim the top 2 players of South Dakota (Alex Yermolinsky and Sandor Kustar) as they returned from their road trip out west into the deep southern parts of Wyoming with Mark Derby. In the first wild west chess tournament at the Saratoga Resort. Alex and Sandor had major competition from a strong IM from Texas (Jacek Stopa) with a rating of 2554.
Stopa had a draw with Kustar in the third round and a draw with Yermo in the forth so Alex and Sandor tied for first and second with 3.5 points and Jacek taking solo third place with 3 points in the open section. Sandor had a finish with the Colorado state champ in round four with a cramped space for the King. To see the games with Rypka comments go to: http://sdchess.org/chess_games/029_game_of_the_week/
The other SoDak in the tournament, Mark Derby, scored 2.5 points in the under 1800 section to finish just out of reach from third place. Unfortunately South Dakota with seriously under represented in the lower sections on the tournament which hopefully will be remedied in the years to come. Next years Wild West Chess tournament is scheduled for July 16-17, 2011 with a simul on the 15th.
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