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Tournament registration for the 2020 Scholastic State Championships is up!
This year we are offering not only the regular tournament, but a parents Championship on the Saturday, and a Scholastic Blitz Championship on the Friday.
We will also be joined over the weekend by several food trucks!
New tournament for Denver area- details are at their website: https://capitalchess.us/
We have to reschedule our announced board meeting.
I'll post an announcement when the meeting is rescheduled.
Sorry for any inconvenience,
Paul Covingotn
The Date has changed to May 30 & 31 to faciliate the Denver Open 2020 changing their dates.
I look forward to some great chess battles in the Manitou Springs Art Center. (Paul)
Location: Castle Pine Library, 360 Village Square Lane, Castle Pines, CO
Time: 12:30 PM, January 11, 2020
Agenda:
1. Online registration costs: I am proposing that we charge the listed price for that event. This will reduce the amount of income for the tournament which will have a small effect on the prize funds and calculating the 70 percent level.
2. Same as above for the membership dues.
3. Review of our upcoming events and lock in the TLA for the Colorado open.
4. Add a "Hand and Brain" tournament--possibly on Saturday night after the Senior--Under 50 event OR National Chess Day.
Continued...
The January edition of the Colorado Informant is up!
In This Issue:
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Howdy,
I have setup a place to donate to CSCA without costing you anything. Here is the explanation.
I have a request for ALL chess players, friends, and followers: Amazon has a program that allows us to designate a "charity" to receive a small donation from certain purchases. The "Colorado State Chess Association Inc" is now listed as a charity on Amazon. This donation does NOT add any costs to the purchase price!
Select Amazon Smile when making purchases on Amazon. As an example, I haven't purchased very many things, this last two months but the few chess books and other items I have ordered has generated $2.57 .... multiple that by our CSCA membership (approximately 170) could generate over $450!!! Spread this idea to a wider supporting cast and our tournament prize funds would increase....
I trust everyone will see the potential which this program has to add support to the operation of CSCA.
Thanks for considering this request!
Paul Covington
Exciting news! Griffin McConnell has been invited to represent the USA in a new FIDE chess tournament called the FIDE Confederation Cup for the Disabled People. There will be 30 competitors from around the world competing on teams of 6. The Americas will have a team of 6 as will 3 other continents. The "sponsor " team will also have a 6 player team, 3 from Russia and 3 from Turkey.
Griffin will leave for Ankara, Turkey on December 7th and be gone for a week. It is a team Round Robin of 5 rounds. The sponsoring organization is covering airfare and hotel stay and we need to cover food and passport (he's never even been out of the U.S. before).Neither Kori or I could leave on such short notice to attend with him so we asked Griffin's chess coach (and friend) Lior Lapid to go with him and he has graciously agreed. We are deeply grateful to Beatriz Marinello and Dora Leticia for nominating Griffin for this honor.
Several years ago the CSCA setup a special fund to support our young players for these types of events. The fund is supported entirely by donations which are set-a-side just for supporting this type of event (Invitational International Events). We are supporting Griffin with a stipend and look forward to following his successes!
