WEIBEL CHESS TEAM REGISTRATION FOR 2014-2015 AVAILABLE NOW

With our Awards Ceremonies on Friday May 30, 2014 we ended one of our best chess years ever . I want to say thank you again to Fahria Khan and her staff for producing this great event. It  brought the perfect finish to Weibel’s  25th year of chess.  I also want to thank Ted Castro and his NorCal House of Chess for the generous free summer camp certificate awarded to our Rookie of the Year, Prisha Jain, and our Most Improved Player of the Year, Aaron Hu.  My thanks also to our anonymous donor of a professional wooden chess set to our Most Valuable Player of the Year, Oliver Wu. Special thanks go to the Ferguson’s for continuing, for the last 21 years, a memorial scholarship to the individual who best represents the values of Weibel Chess.  This year’s winner was Shivangi Gupta. I would be remiss if I failed to mention the winner of this year Sportsmanship Award, Serafina Show.  Serafina not only tied for the CalChess Girls Junior High School & Senior High School Championship this year but she has been selected to represent Northern California in the National Girls Invitational Tournament in Florida this August and was invited to attend the Susan Polgar Girls tournament in July.

Weibel Chess, this year, had more students on our Honor Roll (USCF ratings over 1000) than ever before—24. Two more dropped down and one more just made it-so in total it was actually 27.   I provided 13 elite team members jackets to those players who reached a very high goal I set for the various grade levels at the beginning of the year.  For 2014-2015, I am continuing the jackets awards and have added an Ultimate Award for the few players that can reach an extreme level chess rating that will place them in the middle of the top one hundred chess players in the country for their age/grade level.

While our Varsity Team did not win a National title this year we were in contention in the four sections we entered right down to the last two round.  Our Varsity Girls’ Team did win a national title—their fourth. 

The Information Sheet and Registration Form for the 2014-2015 chess year can be found at http://www.calnorthyouthchess.org/WeibelChess/Information2014-2015.html or at the tab link at http://www.WeibelChess.org.

Have a great summer and please do have your children play and work on their chess.