Upcoming Sacramento Team Chess Tournament
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
One of our fellow club members is trying to organize a team to compete in a sacramento chess club team tournament.
Every year, the sacramento chess club puts on a 6-round team chess tournament event, one round every Tuesday night for six Wednesdays. UC Davis has played in the past and done fairly well, however, last year, we did not field a team.
The tournament is coming up: I (Phil) am happy to captain this year / handle administrative issues; however I need your support as volunteers.
Ideally, we would like to have a spread of players of various strengths, with a special invitation to players who may have not played in a tournament before. You don't have to play every week, if you want to be an alternate.
Here is some information:
1-24 Sacramento Chess Club Team Championship: Captains and Organizational Meeting will be held between 7:30 and 8:00 pm. We need team captains to be there with the names of players on their team and individuals who would like to play but are not on teams. Team details below.
1-31>3-13 Sacramento Chess Club Team Championship. Round Robin. 6 person teams. No team may have more than 3 alternates. The average rating for any given night may not exceed 1750. For purposes of calculating the adjusted ratings, any player rated over 2200 will count as 2200; any player rated under 1300 and unrated players will count as 1300. Ratings will be based on the January 2012 Supplement. Trophies for the members of the winning team and plaques to the best board score. (To win a board prize, a player must play 60% of the available games on that board. For example, if there are 5 games in the event, a player must play 3 games on a board to win the board prize.) All rounds start at 6:55 pm.
Some more information about the tournament is at on the Tournaments Page.
Please contact me at pmseitzer@ucdavis.edu if you have any questions, and are interested in participating. If there is even the slightest probability you might be interested in playing, please shoot me an email; the more the merrier! We can also talk about it this Thursday at the club meeting.
Go Aggies!
P.S. It is likely you will need to be a member of USCF to participate in the tournament. More information on USCF membership is on the website, but we are still investigating if that is a requirement.
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