Showing posts with label News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label News. Show all posts

Looking for new officers
Sunday, April 8, 2012

Hello Club,

We recently had a couple of officers move on or become too busy to remain an officer in the club this year. So we are looking for people who want to help out as an officer for the rest of this school year, and with the option to stay on for next year too. Anything you want to do will be great, but the officers leaving helped out with the following items.

  • Sending/Answering emails from club address
  • Updating email list
  • Updating club website and other online pages (facebook, daviswiki)
  • Creating flyers, paper and digital, for advertisement
  • Keeping track of club budget
  • Organizing tournaments
  • Organizing social events
  • Recruiting new members
  • Attending meetings and bringing equipment
If any of that sounds like something you'd like to do, send us a response. If you have your own ideas, this is also a great opportunity to make them happen.

We are working to get club restarted for this quarter. If you haven't responded to our previous survey in another email, please do!

Thank you!
--Chess Club

 

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Chess Club Spring Quarter!

Hello everyone!

I hope everyone had a great Spring Break!

There is some bad news about chess club, though. Because of the random fees the school is charging, we can no longer book the meeting rooms at the ARC for playing becuase then we'd need to pay. We will have to resort to booking general rooms such as in Wellman and Olson. 
I know this can be a problem because of comfort while playing. Their desks and chairs aren't set up to play chess.

So before booking rooms, I'd like to do a survey:

Where would you like to play chess?
a) Just book those general rooms, we need a place on campus!
b) Set up a time and maybe play outside in the quad, hopefully it doesn't rain often this quarter!
c) Find somewhere off campus we can play, even though it may be cramped.
d) Other suggestions

I'm planning for scheduling Chess Mondays and Thursdays at 5pm to 7 pm. I need ot know what you guys think though. Deadline to complete survey is April 6. On April 7 I will make the official schedule.

Cheers,
Carolina Alonso
President

 

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Upcoming Chess Club Events: Movie Night + Tournament
Sunday, February 12, 2012

Hello Chess Club,

The officers have two events planned for later this quarter.

Cinema Night
The first being a cinema night where we will play various TV shows and movies featuring chess being played. We have collected dozens of shows and movies to play, and it should be very entertaining. A flyer is attached to this email you can print out and post or pass along to friends. The date is Monday, Feb 27, from 4-6pm in ARC Meeting Room 1, as usual. A $2 entry fee is charged to help support the club (but people who have paid for club membership are free!)

We do, however, need help from anyone who can bring a portable projector. We're still working on finding one to use.

Chess Tournament
The second event is a chess chess tournament. We're still finalizing the format, but we know it will be 10 minute time controls for each player, with at least 5 rounds played. The tournament will be held March 5th, 4-6pm in ARC Meeting Room 1. Entry fee will be $4. Please register at one of our next meetings or if you can't register in person, send us an email.

Please remember, people who have paid a $10 club membership fee get free entry into one tournament during the school year. And your support goes a long way to ensuring the club can stay viable in the future.

Thank you,


--Chess Club

P.S. A few members have responded with usernames for online chess. They are being added to the Members page of our website as they come in. Also those members who paid our membership fee during last week will be added to the list very soon.

 

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Online Chess with UCD Players
Friday, February 10, 2012

Hello Chess Club Members,

One of our members cannot attend meetings, and has asked if anyone would like to play online. Following his lead, if anyone else would like to play with other UCD chess players online, just send us an email with usernames, websites, and any links to profile pages you want to share. The information will be put on the Members page (that member who contacted us is already on there). If you want to include ratings as well (please state who issues that rating), we can find a way to compile the information in a clear way once some responses start to come in.

Thank you,
The Chess Club

 

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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!

~Phil

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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No Meeting on Jan 16 for Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Sunday, January 15, 2012

Hello,

Chess club will not be meeting this upcoming Monday, Jan 16. Regular meetings will resume on Thursday.

 

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Meeting Times for Winter 2012
Monday, January 2, 2012

Hello all, the meeting times have been set for Winter 2012 quarter. They are as follows:

Monday and Thursday, 4-6pm, ARC Meeting Room 1

First Meeting of Winter quarter will be Thursday, Jan 12.

More information on where we meet is on the Meetings page.

Also, please take a second to answer our poll question so we can know if these times will work for the majority of the club.

 

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Tourmanent Results, Recent Photos, and Membership Fees
Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Hi everyone, I'm happy to say that our Blitz Tournament last night was very successful. Each player got to play 8 games and we even finished on time! Below are the results of the tournament, and congratulations to the winners and everyone who participated!

1st: Johnathan (7.5 points)
2nd: Tie: Phil (6 points), Andy (6 points)
4th: James (5.5 points)

We have also uploaded pictures taken at the Halloween Party and the Blitz Tournament, which you can see at our Picasa Web Album.

Finally, after calculating the clubs budget, we have decided that we need to ask for a membership fee to offset club expenses. We will be asking for $10 from each member. Membership has some perks, including free entry into 1 of our future tournaments. Those club members who already paid to play in the Blitz Tournament, we would only ask for $6, since you already paid $4 to enter, and consider that tournament as your free entry.

If we could get $10 from each member, it would go a long way to helping out the club. Our first priority is to offset registration costs, and second is to get our own equipment. The boards we use are borrowed from the Sacramento Chess Club, so we'd like to be more self-sufficient and perhaps get clocks as well.

So please, at one of our upcoming meetings, talk to one of the officers about your membership fee.

Thank you, and once again, congrats to all the Blitz Tournament Participants!

 

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Fall Quarter Blitz 2011
Tuesday, November 8, 2011

The Chess Club will be hosting its first tournament of the school year this upcoming November 14th. It will be a blitz tournament, so bring your boards and especially clocks!

Event Details
Date: Monday, November 14th.
Time: 6-8pm (please be prompt!)
Location: ARC Meeting Room 2 (map)

Entry Fee: $4.
For every entry fee, $3 will go towards prizes for the top winners, $1 goes to support Chess Club operations.

Tournament Rules
4 Round Blitz Tournament.
Each round play your opponent twice (2 games per round). Once as white pieces, once as black pieces.
Swiss Round Robin.
5 Minute time controls.
Touch Move.

Registration
Please email Daniel at djmoglen@ucdavis.edu to register. You can pay the entry fee on the day of the event or at a regular meeting before.

Flyer
If you can, please print and distribute our event flyer around campus.

Please bring your clocks, especially extras. At this time, the club has only 1 timer.

Thank you and we hope to see you there!

 

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Reminder: Halloween Party and Blitz Tournament
Friday, October 28, 2011

Hello Chess Club!

This is just a reminder about our Halloween Party on Monday, October 31st! It will be at our regular meeting spot, Arc Meeting Room 2 from 6-8pm with candy, drinks, and a costume contest.  Please RSVP by answering our poll question on the right sidebar. More info at our previous post.

Also, we have scheduled our first tournament of the school year for November 14th. It will be a blitz tournament, and you can find the rules and event information on this page.

Thank you, we look forward to seeing you at our upcoming events!

 

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Chess Club Halloween Party
Thursday, October 20, 2011

Halloween is on a Monday this year, which is also Chess Club day. The other officers and I were thinking that it might be fun to have a little mini party by playing chess in costume (with a costume contest -- and a prize for the winner), and maybe bringing food and drink and stuff as a sort of potluck. And small bags of candy for everyone. :)

Chess-themed Halloween costumes are not required, but may garner you more votes in the contest!

Time: 6-8pm
Location: ARC Meeting Room 2

So please, answer our poll question so we know how much food/candy and drink to get.

If you have any food allergies, or want to volunteer for a potluck item, please send to: aggiechess@gmail.com

 

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Good News Everyone! On-Campus Meetings Finalized!
Wednesday, October 5, 2011

The club is registered and we have reserved rooms to play.

We will be meeting on campus in the ARC on Monday and Thursday evenings from 6-8pm. The rooms where we play are Meeting Room 2 (Monday) and Meeting Room 1 (Thursday). A general map to their location in the ARC is on the Meetings page of this site.

THE FIRST MEETING will be Thursday, October 13th in Meeting Room 1, 6-8pm.

The club has boards and clocks, but feel free to bring extra if you have them.

Chess club asks just one more voluntary thing from you. If you have time, and paper, it would really help the club out if you could print out this flyer, and post it around one buildings on campus. If we can get about 10-15 members or so to do this at the busiest buildings, it will go a long way to recruiting new members.

Some busy places: The MU, Silo, ARC, Hunt, Wellman, Shields, Olson, Bainer, and the freshman dorms. Any other buildings are great too.

Thanks! We hope to see you all at our first meeting!

P.S. To those not on the mailing list yet, send a quick email to aggiechess@gmail.com saying you'd like to be informed of the latest news and events through email. New and returning members, thank you!

 

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Fall Quarter 2011
Friday, September 23, 2011

Hello all,

We are currently in the process of re-registering and reserving space for the club to meet this fall quarter. Chess Club has to do this every school year, and it can take a week or so for the paperwork to get approved.

So stay cool and check back for meeting times and locations. Until we get a room to play in on campus, we're working on meeting in public at a coffee shop, park, or campus patios.

In the mean time, we are starting a brand new mailing list. So please, send a quick email to aggiechess@gmail.com saying you would like to receive email notifications from the club on the latest news and events. We are asking both new and returning members to do this. Thank you!

Stay tuned!

 

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Chess Club in Summer
Sunday, May 29, 2011

Hello all,

Because memorial day weekend is this week and finals start next week, we wont be having any more official meetings during spring quarter.

For summer, we may try to get together at local cafe's and restaurants. Check back for more info on when and where. As of now there are no plans to reserve a weekly meeting time, but that could change.

Good luck with finals and we hope to see you during the summer!
-- UCD Chess Club

 

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Spring 2011 Agenda
Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Hello everyone!

Spring is in the air and you know what that means: it's time to get our chess on! The first club meeting will be held this Monday (April 18th) in the ARC from 4-7 in Meeting Room 1. Since the meetings are weekly instead of biweekly, they will be three hours long instead of two hours. However since the weather has been so nice out, we will also be holding informal meetings throughout the quarter at various cafes and eateries. :)

Also, we are in the process of obtaining T-SHIRTS. We need to know how many of you are interested in buying an official UC Davis Chess Club t-shirt that says "You're forked now!" so if you want one, please let us know as soon as possible!

Hope you're all enjoying your new classes!
Megan Malloy
Secretary

P.S. Here's a chess comic for any of you being frustrated by your own personal Deep Blue.


P.P.S. Some photos from the Winter 2011 Tournament have been uploaded to the Campus Tournaments photo album.

 

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Round 7 of Tournament Back On
Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Hey all,

Since I didn't get quite the affirmative response about my suggested end to the tournament, I decided just to run things as normal and pair you guys up for a final 7th round. I should have the prizes ready, so come even if you don't think you will place! See you guys Thursday.

Here are the pairing for round 7.

 

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Round 6 Pairings
Thursday, March 3, 2011

Here are the pairings for round 6. I know they may seem unusual, but keep in mind many of the top players have already played each other, and the colors worked out much better with these pairings.

I would also like to suggest that we have tomorrows round be the last round, and reserve the last date (March 10th) for blitz matches in case of ties.

Finally, I have decided that since you all competed in the first weekly tournament in the club's history and were subjected to changing rules and errors in general on my part, that I will give all the entry fee money back as prize money. Here is what I came up with:

1st- 18 dollars
2nd- 9 dollars
3rd- 6 dollars
?th- 3 dollars

The last prize is a bonus prize (to someone who finishes in the lower half of the tournament). I will not list it here so that no one purposefully loses...

I will explain how the blitz tie breaker matches will work if everyone agrees to the change I suggested above in a later email.

 

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Spring Quarter Meeting Times
Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Hello, it's about that time again. Please answer the poll question on the side bar to let us know what days you want to play chess during Spring Quarter, 2011.

You can assume we will be meeting for a 2 hour period sometime from 4-7pm, depending on when we can get a room reserved.

 

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Post Round 2 Email + Round 3 Pairings
Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Hey everyone,

Attached is the Pairings for this weeks round. Reminder: please tell me ASAP if you are going to have to take a bye during for a specific round, last week I had to give out two half point byes and two full point byes (which should never happen!) due to last minute unforeseen circumstances. I will no longer be taking bye requests the day of the tournament, and if you do not show up to the round you will be forfeited, two forfeits will mean expulsion from the tournament.

A second note, The priority of pairings is largely due to point class (2,1.5,1,.5,etc) and opponent (meaning you cannot play the same person twice), and then color. This means that you may have to play a color (white or black) twice in a row, especially if you have a full or half point bye the previous round. This problem has not occurred yet, but it will come up later in the tournament! Finally, please tell me if you have already played your opponent in a previous round, as this should not happen and I will fix the pairings accordingly.

Have a good rest of the week, See you all Thursday.

 

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Round 1 Post-Email
Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Hey guys,

Excellent first round we had last week. Just as a reminder, please be quiet if you finish your round early, as any noise is very distracting to those still playing. Here are the pairings for this next week, which should not change unless someone decides to join last minute.

Another reminder; if you are planning to miss a round on a specific date, please notify me asap so I can give you a bye (worth half a point) instead of give you 0 and your opponent for that week a free point. See you Thursday!

-UCD Chess

 

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