Club Ratings start next Thursday

A small field of strong players enjoyed Thursday night. We played some unrated G/15 games and talked about how to promote the Longview Chess Club. The plan is to start our club ratings and do a G/15 swiss this coming Thursday. We are looking forward to the unrated tournament on December 15th in Shreveport and plan to attend. Anyone interested in going there as a group and sharing a ride, drop me a line.

3 ROUND SWISS SET FOR JANUARY 12, 2008

There will be a 3 round swiss hosted by the Longview Chess Club in January.
See the poster below for details. If you need a copy click on the poster to download one.

Shreveport Chess visits LCC

Thursday night we were delighted to have Robert Stockman visit us from Shreveport. Robert let us know about the club he runs in Shreveport. They meet Wednesdays, 6:00 PM, at Barnes & Nobles Bookstore (Youree & 70th in Shreveport). They are also having tournaments every other month with the next one December 15, at the Ramada on Industrial Drive. We are hoping to start hosting our tounaments starting in January and alternating with Shreveport. We plan to work with them and have a USCF rated section at the future tournaments starting with the one here in January. I hope to have our January date and location set within the next 48 hrs..

Gaining 1 New Member a Week

Thursday night we were up to 6 players and we had action on 3 boards. This Thursday looks to be even better as the club grows and players are starting to find us. We will be setting a date for our first Saturday "rated" Swiss. It will be early January. Reply to this blog if you have a prefered date. We will need to get a date set so that we can publish a TLA in "Chess Life".

RSVP for Thursday

As we prepare for the next Thursday evening of chess at the Tyler Street location this question stands alone........

WHAT TIME CONTROLS SHOULD WE USE?

The goal is to play a 3 round robin by seeding the players into groups of 3 or 4. We plan to keep a record of the results each week and re-seed the players according to a club rating system based loosely on the USCF rating system.
Some of the issues revolve around shorter time controls, more games or longer times and the ability to write down the moves.

Leave a "COMMENT" and RSVP for Thursday and let us know what you think about the time controls.........

FIRST MEETING SUCCESSFUL

The first meeting of the new Longview Chess Club took place last Thursday evening. The new sets were put to good use as the new members got to know each other. Plans were made for next week to start competition consisting of round robins of 3 games with special club ratings and a club ladder, showing the new leaders, kept on the wall.

On another another note, I will be competing in the "2007 U.S. Class Championships" being held October 19-21 in Houston. I am hoping to see as many of you as possible there. For those that will not be able to come, look here for live updates and pictures.

NEW SETS HAVE ARRIVED

All 5 new sets, (pieces, boards, clocks and carry bag) arrived today in time for our first meeting. For those that are hungry I will have some "Texas Jambalaya" tomorrow night. Come hungry and ready to play some chess.