Chess Champs- Monday mornings at 7:45am
Below is the list of the upcoming tournaments. The best tournament and the one we have the best turnout for is the State Elementary Chess Tournament. It will be held Saturday, March 16 at Freedom Preparatory Acadamy, 1761 W 820 N Provo, UT 84604. If you only go to one tournament this year, you should go to this one. Even if it is your first chess tournament you can come here, have fun, and do well. I'd estimate about 1/3 of all the kids there will be playing in their first tournament so no prior experience is necessary.
Sat Jan 19 Canyon Creek K-6 Tournament (This is the one I will be attending with my kids)
Sat Jan 26 West Jordan Scholastic (Kevin Chou one of our coaches will be here with his kids)
Sat Feb 9 Mountainville Acadamy Scholastic Tournament
Sat Feb 23 All Girls State Chess Tournament (Really good tournament for girls only)
Sat Feb 23 Freedom Prep Acadamy Chess Tournament
Sat Mar 16 State Elementary Chess Championship (Best tournament even for new players! I will be here as well we will have a reserved area for our team)
Monday March 11 We will start the Ridgecrest Elementary Tournament running 1 round each Monday at chess club (for 6 weeks). No registration necessary. We will have an end of year party and prizes will be given out based on the tournament results for each grade!
If you would like to attend one of the tournaments please go online to and register your child. In general you will need to take your child to the tournament and stay with them during the event unless you make other arrangements. I am happy to carpool and/or take extra kids to the ones I go to and when we are at the tournament we have an area where the kids come and relax between round so we have plenty of supervision there as well.
Link to register: http://www.utahchess.com/tournaments/
Usually there is a small cost to register and of course that gets you into all of the rounds.
Blake Durtschi, Chess Champ Coach
durtschi@gmail.com
Sat Jan 19 Canyon Creek K-6 Tournament (This is the one I will be attending with my kids)
Sat Jan 26 West Jordan Scholastic (Kevin Chou one of our coaches will be here with his kids)
Sat Feb 9 Mountainville Acadamy Scholastic Tournament
Sat Feb 23 All Girls State Chess Tournament (Really good tournament for girls only)
Sat Feb 23 Freedom Prep Acadamy Chess Tournament
Sat Mar 16 State Elementary Chess Championship (Best tournament even for new players! I will be here as well we will have a reserved area for our team)
Monday March 11 We will start the Ridgecrest Elementary Tournament running 1 round each Monday at chess club (for 6 weeks). No registration necessary. We will have an end of year party and prizes will be given out based on the tournament results for each grade!
If you would like to attend one of the tournaments please go online to and register your child. In general you will need to take your child to the tournament and stay with them during the event unless you make other arrangements. I am happy to carpool and/or take extra kids to the ones I go to and when we are at the tournament we have an area where the kids come and relax between round so we have plenty of supervision there as well.
Link to register: http://www.utahchess.com/tournaments/
Usually there is a small cost to register and of course that gets you into all of the rounds.
Blake Durtschi, Chess Champ Coach
durtschi@gmail.com
