Monday, July 11, 2011

Master and GrandMaster Summer Camps

Summer is in full swing, and there are many chess camps going on.   There are camps affiliated with Bay Area Chess, Ted Castro, and Chris Torres that are all local in Fremont going on this month.

For the advanced players, there are some camps of note:

This week, July 11-15, there is a master camp (1200 and above) with GM Sam Shankland in Fremont at Mission San Jose Elementary.  Go to bayareachess.com for more details.

On August 1-5, Norcal House of Chess will be hosting a Grandmaster Camp (1600-2100) with GM Dejan Bokjov.  Here are the details for this camp:

Who: Advance players 1600-2100
When: August 1-5 (Mon-Fri)
9 am. to 4 pm. (early and late-pick up are also available)
What: Summer Camp Grandmaster Edition!
Cost: $ 200/half-day (whole week) or $ 370/whole day (whole week); other options are possible -- 3 whole days only, 2 days only, etc.
Where: NorCal House of Chess 47655 Warm Springs Blvd., South Bldg. of Northwestern Polytechnic University (NPU), Fremont, CA 94539.
 
Guest Coach: Grandmaster Dejan Bojkov (2544), former coach of World Champion for Women and excellent professional chess trainer!  A Bulgarian GM who qualified from the Sports Academy of Sofia as a trainer, a profession which he has followed in various countries. After his work as a trainer in Kavala (Greece), he was hired to coach ex World Champion Antoaneta Stefanova. Bojkov has also written more than 30 reports for chessbase.com and chessbase.de. Bojkov was champion of Bulgaria in 2009 and was a member of the Bulgarian team at the European championships in 2009. In cooperation with Vladimir Georgiev he has written "A Course in Chess Tactics" which appeared as a Gambit publication in 2010.
 
 
Also, IM Emory Tate will be teaching a couple of master camps at the Harker School in Cupertino/San Jose on the weeks of July 25-29 and Aug 8-14.  Details at bayareachess.com
 
Finally, Mechanics Institute in San Francisco will be holding their 11th annual Master camp for kids 1200-2200.  Details at http://www.chessclub.org/children/camp.php
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