My name is Jeff Green, and I am the President of the Chess Club @ ASU. The purpose of the Chess Club @ ASU is to promote the social, intellectual, academic and physical benefits of chess to the university and local communities, and our website is http://asuchess.com. I am writing to inform you of the new presence presence of the Chess Club @ ASU as a tournament organizer. We have started two brand new tournament series: the Sparky Spectacular and ASU Action Chess tournaments. The former consists of standard G/60 Saturday tournaments, and the latter of Sunday G/30 cash-prize tournaments. In addition, we hold open club meetings for informal play on Thursday nights from 5-10pm, and we run a Wednesday afternoon recruitment table from 10:30am-2:00pm.

The Arizona Grades Championship will be held on Saturday, January 08, 2011, at the Sinagua Middle School in Flagstaff. A Blitz tournament will be held at Little America in Flagstaff on the previous evening (Friday, January 07).
A downloadable flyer and registration form, in .pdf format, is attached.

The Biltmore Chess Club meets on Saturdays from 6 - 9 PM at the Paradise Bakery in Biltmore Fashion Park. The address is 2502 E. Camelback. It is next to Borders Books which originally hosted the club, which also met at the Coffee Plantation for years until it moved.

For more information please contact Joe Peck at biltmorechess@yahoo.com.

MAL

The Tempe Chess Club meets Thursday evenings from 6:30 to 8:45 PM at the Pyle Adult Recreation Center, the westernmost building at the Tempe Community Center complex on the SW corner of Rural and Southern in Tempe. Please contact Myron Lieberman at azchess@cox.net for more information.

Organizers of chess clubs in Arizona are encouraged to provide information about their clubs for posting on this site. To do so, simply send an e-mail to azchess@cox.net with an indication that the information is for posting to the arizonachess.org website. So far we have information confirmed for clubs on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.

The Mesa Chess Club is meeting Tuesdays at the Coffee Cove at 528 S. Gilbert Rd. in Gilbert in addition to their Wednesday meetings at the Mesa Borders Bookstore. The Coffee Cove is located just North of Warner on the west side of the street next to the Mathnasium, which is also a chess venue.

The Tuesday meetings feature 4 round Swiss System USCF rated tournaments. An announcement is attached. Please contact Rick Smouse at rick_smouse@yahoo.com for more information.

The Mesa Chess Club meets at the the Mesa Fiesta Borders Bookstore, 1361 S. Alma School Rd., Mesa, AZ, 85210, each Wednesday evening from 6 to 10 PM.

The club, formerly sponsored by and located at the Mesa Bookman's bookstore, is now sponsored by Borders. Please visit the Borders website at www.borders.com.

Thanks to Justin McClure for starting the Bookman's club originally and to Rick Smouse for continuing and enhancing the club after Justin's relocation.

Their current flyer, which describes their Wednesday night tournaments and provides more club information is attached.

Please e-mail Rick Smouse at rick_smouse@yahoo.com or call (480) 390-9528 for more information.

Congratulations to David Adelberg who won the K-12 section of the 2008 Arizona Scholastic Chess Championship with 5.5 points, to Ben Marmont whose 5 points earned him the right to be Arizona's Representative to the Arnold Denker Tournament of Champions and to Sayaka Foley who was tied with Ben Marmont at 5 points and earned the right to represent Arizona in the Susan Polgar Tournament of Champions for High School girls. Sayaka Foley, however, was also invited to participate in her tournament by Susan Polgar and therefore Arizona may send an additional representative to play in the Polgar tournament. The first alternate for the Polgar tournament is Amanda Mateer. A link to the entire rated crosstable for all sections of the 2008 Arizona Scholastic Chess Championship can be found in the results area of this site.