Windsor Chess Challenge

Monday February 27, or Tuesday February 28, 2012

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What IS all the fuss about??
The Chess Challenge is just a big chess tournament for kids. It's so big that we have to hold it over two days, with playoffs on a later weekend. This tournament is for Grades 1 thru 8.

Why have playoffs?
One purpose for this tournament is to select outstanding players who will be invited to the Ontario Youth Chess Championship.

Only about 14% of players at the Chess Challenge qualify for the playoffs, and only 5% will be invited to the OYCC.

Okay, so what do I have to do?
The process is (from your point of view)

  1. You collect the money from the kids, register them online by Feb 10th
  2. You send us a cheque.
  3. You can make changes to your list until Feb 17th
  4. After you get section details (see 6 below), you pass along that info to the kids
We understand that you collect the money from the players, and then write a cheque to us. What we ask is that you mail the cheque a.s.a.p, and then you can honestly reply "the cheque is in the mail" if we starting nagging you.

From our point of view, everything starts after Feb 10th...

  1. We divide the players into groups, depending on what grade they are in and what day they play. In 2011, there were 90 groups (called "sections" in chess parlance).
  2. We fit all the sections into the available space, and rent tables (about 100, usually)
  3. We produce room and section layouts, and assign volunteers to look after everything.
  4. After February 17th, we make adjustments as necessary to sections
  5. We produce nametags and score cards for all the players
  6. We produce a player list for each school, showing where each kid will be playing
On the day of competition, we all cross our fingers and pray for NO SNOW. (Snowday plan, just in case)
You show up with your kids
A good time is had by all

Hope this helps

John Coleman