Announcements 2009-2010
Wednesday, June 17, 2009

June 23, 2010
A quick announcement that the Chess Club is taking a break during the summer, but we may plan a few informal meetings to play and socialize. Updates will be posted here as we know them. If you are in the area and interested in playing with the club, email us or post a comment on this website (bottom of page).

May 22, 2010
Greetings members!

Do you know what time it is? That's right! It's nearing the end of the year! What does that mean? It means that we'll be holding elections for next year's (2010) officer positions for the magnificent and famous Davis Chess club. The elections will be happening this coming Monday during our meeting (5/24). If you're interested in taking part in the enormous effort to forward the endeavor of excellent and exciting chess playing and awareness, bring your best public relations hat to the meeting so that we can show you our full support! Anyone is eligible. You don't have to be able to beat James to become one; look at me!

Also, aside all that excitement about upcoming elections, there is a large tournament coming up that I have no idea about, so this is a reminder to James/Phil to inform our members about this joyous occasion.

Cheers
-R

April 5, 2010
Hello all of you loyal chess clubbers!

We've had a rocky start but we're ready to rock the rest of the quarter (with consistency). The officers have unanimously decided to hold our weekly meetings on Mondays from 4-6:30 PM in Fielder except for one date (check below). Here are the dates:

April 12
April 19
April 26
May 3
May 10
May 17 (Moss from 4-7 PM)
May 24

We're all looking forward to meeting with you again this brand new quarter! Remember, we'd like to meet some new faces too so tell your friends about us!

-R

March 30, 2010
Hello again all you loyal chessers!

If you were wondering we still have not settled on the best time to meet this quarter. We found that the 3 hour blocks on one evening worked quite well and hopefully we'll find something that works out for most of our members schedules. Please check your e-mails for a follow-up message about the room/times for this exciting new quarter! If you have any day requests or enormous time conflicts that you know already, please reply to this e-mail so we will accommodate you! Hopefully we'll get the club up and running by next week.

As a side note, we've lost a very valuable friend to the great nation of Brazil this quarter, so if you were wondering where the very punctual and amazing Brazilian chess player had gone, be sure to keep in contact with him!

Best regards,

-R

March 18, 2010
The club will be taking a break during Winter Quarter finals week and spring break. Check back when Spring Quarter starts for details on meeting times and locations.


January 7, 2010
Hello again all,

We have our official first meeting for the quarter next Thursday (1/14/2010) in our usual MU room Fielder from 4-7 p.m.! The club will usually meet in this room (or Garrison, the room next to Fielder) for the rest of the quarter's Thursdays and as well as the same time.

It would also be VERY nice if those that wish to play in the Sacramento Chess tournament would come to this first meeting so we can discuss some important items, such as:

- transportation to the tournament

- deciding teams, team captains, and of course the most important: Team names.

- Schedules of team players as well as alternates so that we don't have any forfeit matches this year!



Please feel free to ask questions about the tournament at the meeting, here are some basics about the tournament:

- Each team will be comprised of 6 players and 3 alternates

- Rounds will be weekly, starting at 6:55 pm on Wednesdays. The first round is on the 27th, and will be a round robin set up (all teams play all), which means there is no definitive end date at this point in time. The tournament usually goes until Mid-March

- the tournament will be played with a chess clock and USCF rules- those who do not already know what these rules are would benefit from coming to our Thursday meetings!

If you want to play and cannot make this meeting, it is EXTREMELY important that you either respond to this email or contact me personally EVEN if you have previously expressed interest in the tournament to me. We need to have the list of players on our teams BEFORE 1/20, which will be two Wednesdays from now. Here more info about the tournament (as well as other tournaments hosted by the Sacramento chess club): http://sacramentochessclub.org/scc_schedule.htm.

Hopefully this all wasn't too much info at once, bottom line: come to the meeting! See y'all soon!

-UCD Chess club

January 4, 2010
Hey all,

Hope you guys had a wonderful break! We would love to get the ball rolling again this quarter, but first we need to cover a few thing;

1.) We are changing our usual schedule of two days per week with 2 hours each to just one day a week for 3 hours. This will make it possible for some members who can't usually show up until later in the night to attend our meetings. Any further comments/suggestions on this subject are encouraged.

2.) That said, we now need YOU guys to vote on which day of the week is best for you. We had a problem last quarter picking a good time slot for our members, and many could not attend either of the two meetings. A simple emailed response with a day and preferred time slot would be greatly appreciated.

3.) Finally, the Sacramento chess club team championship is coming up! Players who want to compete, or even those who want to learn by watching, PLEASE notify us ASAP, we have to have our team(s???) ready by the 20th of this month! We hope that we will have as good of a turn out as we did last year, where our team brought home the first place trophy! (figuratively)



Well that about wraps it up. Hope to see y'all soon at the club, and have a good quarter!

-James

November 21, 2009
Hi all,
This coming Wednesday (11/25) and Thursday (11/26) chess meetings will be cancelled due to the holiday weekend.
-R

November 10, 2009
There is no meeting held on Wednesday, November 11th for Veterans Day holiday. Thursday hours will meet as usual.

November 09, 2009
We are planning to enter the Sacramento Team Chess Tournament in January. More information is located on the tournaments page.

October 29, 2009

There was a mistake on the location of Thursday meetings. For now we meet in Fielder on Thursday, as well as Wednesday. Apologies if you went to Garrison by mistake.



October 28, 2009

The next meeting, Thursday October 29th, will be held in the Garrison Room of MU from 4-6pm. We will continue to go over club announcements for those who missed them earlier. For the location of the Garrison room, see the Meetings page.


October 23, 2009
The next meeting of the club will be on Wednesday, October 28th from 4-6pm on the second floor of the MU in the Fielder Room. We should finally be able to discuss the overview of the club for this year like was planned last week.


October 21, 2009
The next meeting will be on Thursday, October 22nd. We will meet at the lounge in the ARC from 4pm-6pm.


October 21, 2009

Hello all,