Great Wraps Hail Caesar Action! Open

Ten players participated in the last Great Wraps event until fall.





Four of these players made their first appearance at a Great Wraps event.
The event has been rated.

2008 ICCL Junior

The Tri-County (Lapeer, Genesee, and Shiawassee) chess tournament, more recently known as the I(nter) C(ounty) C(hess) L(eague) held the annual Junior event on Saturday. This event has been held every year since 1984. The 2008 tournament was won by Jordan Rathburn of Kearsley high school. He is pictured here with the traveling plaque that lists all of the previous champions.

Don't Forget Great Wraps on Sunday

Our last event until fall will be held at Great Wraps in Ann Arbor on Sunday, April 13th.

5 rounds of Action chess are an exciting way to ward off the impending weather.

Garden Market Cafe boasted best attendance on 4.9

With Ann Arbor Public Schools on their second spring break, there were lots of students with no homework who had an extra evening for chess. Despite missing several regulars, the session on Wednesday, April 9 ran until nearly 10pm with about 5 new additions to the regular crowd.
Please join in the fun this summer as we continue our weekly meetings.....

2008 Michigan Junior Rated

Thank-you to all of those who participated.

The 2008 Michigan Junior Championships have been rated.

Team Tournaments Rated

The 2008 Michigan Junior High Team tournament (Championship) and (Reserve) and 2008 Michigan High School Team Tournament have been rated.

FINALLY!!!

The Primary and Elementary Team Tournaments have been rated!
Thank-you for your patience.

K-3 Primary Team Championships

K-5 Elementary Team Championships

K-5R Elementary Team Reserve

K-6 Elementary Team Championships

2008 National JHS Championships

46 Michigan players from the Detroit area are bringing home lots of trophies on their return trip from Dallas. Results are posted on the USCF website.

Particular congratulations go to Andre Thorne from Ludington Magnet Middle School, winner of the K-9 UNR Individual title and Redford Cornerstone Academy, team champion in the K-9 UNR section.

More players from Michigan will be competing in the National High School Championships in Atlanta later this month and the Bert Lerner Elementary Championships in Pittsburg in May.

Friday Knight Quad #1

On Friday, 4/4 the inaugural rated event was hosted by the Garden Market Cafe in Ann Arbor.

The first Friday Knight Action Quads were run in 3 sections.

The upper section was won by Rey Santiago, Will Rhee, and Nate Bromberg, each with 2 points.
They all beat me!
My 3rd round game with Will was really interesting. I had the black side of a semi-slav.
I've posted the score with some annotations.

The second section was won by Albie Silverman with a perfect score.

The third section was won by Graham Gerdes, also with a perfect score.

Please join us on 4/25 for our next event.