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Hello [NAME]
As the school year gets set to begin, Silver Knights Chess has some exciting new opportunities for scholastic (and adult!) chessplayers:
Our popular K-8 team tournament format is back and better than ever, as it returns to Radnor Middle School on November 14. The team tournament now features rated and unrated sections, as well as a bughouse tournament for kids at the conclusion of the main event.
We are also organizing our first grand prix tournament in several years, the Delaware Valley Open Championship. The tournament features $3,000 worth of prizes (mostly cash), and is scheduled for December 12-13 in Philadelphia. There is an Open, a U/1600, and a K-12 U/1000 (Saturday only) section.
The Bryn Mawr Community Center, host of our monthly Friday Night Action tournaments, will be unavailable soon due to construction on the adjacent public library. Our last tournament there is scheduled to be Friday, September 18. We are currently looking for a new site, so if you have any ideas, please let us know!
Complete Fall Tournament Schedule
September 18: Friday Night Action #9, Bryn Mawr, PA
September 26: Greater Pocono Scholastic Championship, Swiftwater, PA
October 3: Fall Warmup K-12 tournament, King of Prussia, PA
October 24: October Wave K-12 tournament, Wayne, PA
November 8: November Slam K-8 tournament, McLean, VA
November 14: Silver Knights K-8 team tournament & bughouse, Wayne, PA
November 14: Chess Workshop with National Expert Daniel Weissbarth, Annandale, VA
November 21: Chess Workshop with NMs Peter Minear and Adam Weissbarth, Bryn Mawr, PA
December 6: December Crush K-12 tournament, Wayne, PA
December 12-13: Delaware Valley Open Championship, Philadelphia, PA
August Tournament Results
August Burn: Ithan 5th-grader Michael Sydnes (rated 1117) scored 3.5/4 to take first place in the final tournament of the summer. Michael's teammate, 3rd-grader Jacob Calamaro (656), took first place in the K-6 U/700 section with an identical 3.5/4 score.
Friday Night Action #8: FIDE Master Rodion Rubenchik (2375) won 3.5/4 games to take first place yet again at the eighth Friday Night Action. Xiaojun Xu (1348) also won 3.5/4 to win the U/1400 section.
August Blaze: Kalyan Madanapalli (1199) went 4-0 to capture fist place out of the 46 players at our inaugural Virginia tournament. First-grader Tristan Ma won the Unrated section, winning all four tournament games and then a tiebreak game over second-grader David Lin, another undefeated player. We look forward to Tristan and David continuing to improve and hopefully trying out the Rated section next time!
Fall Chess Clubs
Silver Knights Chess has more than 60 scholastic chess clubs in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Virginia this fall. This includes ches clubs in private schools, community centers, and the following school districts:
Central Bucks School District, PA
Cheltenham School District, PA
Cherry Hill Public Schools, NJ
Fairfax County Public Schools, VA
City of Alexandria Public Schools, VA
Medford Township School District, NJ
Colonial School District, PA
Lower Moreland School District, PA
Great Valley School District, PA
Perkiomen Valley School District, PA
Radnor Township School District, PA
Methacton School District, PA
Upper Merion Area School District, PA
Unionville-Chadds Ford School District, PA
Regards,
Adam Weissbarth, Owner
Silver Knights Chess Company
PO Box 1103
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010-1103
610-446-0818
www.silverknightschess.com
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