Nevada Chess, Inc.

Editor’s Message

(A. Magruder)

The Annual Members Meeting of Nevada Chess, Inc. will be held on Saturday, April 22, 2017 at the Las Vegas Chess Center, 2560 Montessouri St., Ste. 206 Las Vegas NV 89102. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 3:30 PM, but please check nevadachess.org for late changes if you wish to attend. The results of the 2017 election will be tabulated from the ballots and announced at that time.

All current members of Nevada Chess, Inc. can find the content of this bulletin at links on our website, NevadaChess.org. But if you know someone who wants to be a member but does not have easy access to the internet and would like to have this bulletin mailed to them, you could give them the membership form information on the website and have them send it to the editor at the address on the form.

All current members do receive a membership card attached to the January issue each year by mail which shows the expiration year of their membership, and which also contains the current year’s ballot for election of directors. The completed ballot is to be returned by mail to the election committee chairman.

Once again, Nevada Chess, Inc. sponsored our Annual Nevada State Scholastic Tournament, hosted by the Las Vegas Day School. There were 235 young players playing in the four sections: K-3, K-5, K-8 and K-12, with many individual and team trophies and medals distributed during the awards ceremonies. A report may be found on our website, and a link there to complete cross tables of the final results as well. You might also check out USChess.org for the tournament tables to find pre- and post- rating scores of all the players.

The annual membership meeting will be held on April 22nd at 3:30 p.m. at the Las Vegas Chess Center 2560 Montessouri St #206, Las Vegas, NV 89117.  The board of directors’ meeting will follow.

The 2017 Nevada State Scholastic Chess Championship is taking place on Saturday, March 25th, 2017 at the Las Vegas Day School, 3275 Red Rock St, Las Vegas.

During the tournament you can check pairings and results online HERE.

More detailed information is available HERE.

The first Nevada State Girls’ Scholastic championship took place today at our center. After five rounds Samira Prieto finished in first place with four points, tied in second to 5th places Nare Khachatryan (a great performance by Nare, she defeated the highest player in the tournament and current High School champion Naomi),  Shemmei Wu, Naomi Santiago, and Jan Stephanie De Leon, all with 3.5. Stephanie took the trophy for the best Under 800 section. Shanti and Riya from Clarence Piggott Elementary took the best team trophy.

Congratulations, and thank you to the players and the parents for making this great event possible.

Next Saturday , March 25th, the State Scholastic 2017 will take place at the Las Vegas day School, over 200 players are already registered online so far. Read more »

Prices increase after March 10th.

The 2017 Nevada State Scholastic Chess Championship will take place on Saturday, March 25th, 2017 at the Las Vegas Day School. More detailed information about this event are posted here.

At the Foundations Building on the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) campus, beginning on the morning of Saturday, December 3, 2016 and ending in the early morning on Sunday, December 4, 2016, chess Grandmaster (GM) Timur Gareyev set a new world record for blindfold chess games played simultaneously. Many people are familiar with the game of chess, considered by many to be the world’s premier strategy game. But few people have ever witnessed a blindfold simultaneous chess exhibition, and very few people have ever successfully performed one.   Read more »

Reno Club News & Announcements (from RenoChess.org)

David Sheryka Memorial Tournament

July 7 and 14, 2016

Reno Chess Club, Reno Nevada

David Sheryka, a longtime member of the Reno Chess Club, passed away on May 25th. David once sported an Expert rating and continued to play Class A chess for the past 20 years. In his honor, and with the generous sponsorship of David’s relative, Jerry Weikel will run a 6-round swiss tournament. Format is a 6-round swiss with rounds 1-3 at Game/30;5 second delay on July 7th and rounds 4-6 on July 14th. Cash prizes will be awarded: 1st: $100, Top A: $50, Top B: $50, Top 1599-below: $40.

The Nevada Chess Community has lost a valued player and frequent competitor in the North – South Team matches held annually in Tonopah, Nevada. We offer our condolences on behalf of our community to David’s friends and family, and from the Directors of Nevada Chess, Inc. He will be missed. – A. Magruder