2019-2020 CHESS CLUB

Chess Club will start on Thursday, October 3 Informational meeting and chess practice. This day is free and open to all.
But this club is being run thru community ed, so you'll have to register and pay to be a part of the club for 9 weeks. To register click here.
At this point it looks like there will be a winter session and a spring session as well.

We meet in room 163 at 3:25 every Thursday and we are done at 5:00
Arrange transportation, or take the activity bus when available.
I'll teach a lesson for 15-30 minutes.
Then we'll have either a drill or a worksheet to do.
Then we'll have almost an hour to play chess.

Rating system - you start at 100 or wherever you left off last year. You gain 5 pts for attendance, and 2 points per problem on worksheets. You gain 16 points for winning a game against a similarly rated player, more for winning against a stronger player, less against a weaker player. (Look up Harkness System if you want the details.)
By Jan I'll name our starting team (5 players and 3+ alternates)

TOURNAMENTS We participate in tournaments on Saturdays and a League on Fridays in Jan-Feb. Anyone can participate in the tournaments. There is no bus - students must arrange their own transportation.

FALL TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE
Oct 12 Metcalf Middle School, Burnsville
Nov 2 Highview Middle School, New Brighton
Nov 16 Metcalf
Dec 7 Metcalf
WINTER SCHEDULE (looking ahead)
Jan 4 Metcalf (need 5-player team)
Jan - Feb (Fridays TBA) Interscholastic league (Metcalf, Friendly Hills, Faithful Shepherd, et al.)

Meanwhile, start practicing. Find some good lessons on tactics on the internet.

Final Twin Cities Junior High League Results

Heritage Scores
---------------CHB MNE SPA CHA WaT NSt W L D
Brock Morris----W---W---L---L---W---W- 4 2 0
Corey Klooz-----L---W---L---L---W---L- 2 4 0
Gabe Fromm------L---L---L------------- 0 3 0
Dominick Strong-L---W---L---L---L---L- 1 5 0
Aaron Krey------L---L---L------------- 0 3 0
Alex Raddack----------------L---L---L- 0 3 0

Round 1
Northeast 3, Nellie Stone 2
Cap Hill A 5, Wash Tech 0
Cap Hill B 4, Heritage 1
Seward 3, St Paul Acad 2
Sanford 3, Lk Harriet 2
Round 2
Lk Harriet 3, Nellie Stone 2
Heritage 3, Northeast 2
Cap Hill A 5, Cap Hill B 0
Seward 3, Sanford 2
St. Paul Acad 4, Wash Tech 1
Round 3
Cap Hill A 4.5, Lake Harriet 0.5
Sanford 3.5, Nellie Stone 1.5
Cap Hill B 5, Wash Tech 0
Seward 5, Northeast 0
St Paul Acad 5, Heritage 0
Round 4
Cap Hill A 5, Heritage 0
St Paul Acad 4, Cap Hill B 1
Sanford 4, Wash Tech 1
Seward 3, Nellie Stone 2
Northeast 2.5, Lake Harriet 2.5
Round 5
Seward 3.5, Lake Harriet 1.5
Nellie Stone 2.5, Cap Hill B 2.5
Wash Tech 3, Heritage 2
Cap Hill A 3, St Paul Acad 2
Sanford 3, Northeast 2
Round 6 (Inter divisional) (these are my best guess)
Seward 3, Cap Hill A 2
St Paul Acad 4, Sanford 1
Cap Hill B 3, Lake Harriet 2
Wash Tech 3, Northeast 2
Nellie Stone 4, Heritage 1

-------------MATCHES-----GAMES
-------------DIV---ALL---DIV. ALL
-------------W L D W L D Pts. Pts.
ST. PAUL DIVISION
*Cap Hill A---4 0 0 6 0 0_18.0_25.5
*St Paul Acad-3 1 0 4 2 0_15.0_21.0
Cap Hill B---2 2 0 2 2 1_10.0_15.5
Wash. Tech---1 3 0 2 4 0__5.0__9.0
Heritage-----0 4 0 1 5 0__3.0__7.0
MPLS DIVISION
*Seward-------4 0 0 5 1 0_14.5_19.5
Sanford------3 1 0 4 2 0_11.5_16.5
Lk Harriet---1 2 1 1 4 1__9.0_11.5
Northeast----1 2 1 1 4 1__7.5_11.5
Nellie Stone-0 4 0 1 4 1__7.5_14.0
*Qualified for playoffs

Junior League Details - Note TIME CHANGE

GENERAL INFORMATION

We will meet at my house (146 W. Moreland - SW corner of Moreland and Bidwell)
All games will be played at Seward Montessori in Minneapolis.
All games are touch-move, must be notated, clocks set to 40 min or 35 min +5 sec time delay.
Seward chess club will be serving pizza and pop, so bring money or a lunch.
If all games are done early, we'll start the next round.
SCA merit points will be awarded for games won.

SCHEDULE

Feb 12 Saturday - Meet at Mr. Heinemann's house at 8:00
Round 1 - 9:00 Heritage vs Capitol Hill B
Round 2 - 10:30 Heritage vs Mpls Northeast (non-conference used for tie-breaks)
Round 3 - 12:00 Heritage vs St. Paul Academy
You'll be home around 1:30

Mar 5 Saturday - Meet at Mr. Heinemann's house at 8:00
Round 4 - 8:45 Heritage vs Capitol Hill A
Round 5 - 10:15 Heritage vs Washington Tech
Round 6 - 11:45 Interdivisional match against one of the teams from Minneapolis
You'll be home around 1:45

PLAYOFFS

Mar 20 Sunday Burnsville Metcalf (if we make it)

Top team in each division goes to playoffs
Round 6 - 2nd place team from St. Paul vs. 2nd place team from Mpls earns a playoff spot
Top 3 teams from South Metro Division make playoffs
Top team from West Metro Division makes playoffs
One wild card team - next best record from all divisions makes playoffs

POLLS

Very unscientific pre-season rankings
St. Paul
1 Cap Hill A
2 SPA
3 Cap Hill B
4 Heritage
5 Wash Tech
Minneapolis
1 Lake Harriet
2 Seward
3 Nellie Stone
4 Northeast
5 Sanford

Jr. High Chess League update

It's official. We are going to participate in the St. Paul Division.
Our opponents will be Capital Hill A, Capital Hill B, St. Paul Academy and Washington Tech.
All matches will be played at Seward. The Mpls Division will play there also, but we only have one match against them (Lake Harriet, Seward, Nellie Stone, Northeast, Sanford) but it doesn't count in the league standings. The schedule will come out soon. Set these dates aside.
Feb 12 - 3 rounds
Mar 5 - 2 rounds and awards

State Championship

April 9-10 is the State Championship for Jr. High and High School sponsored by the Minnesota State Chess Association. Set aside those dates.

Jr. High Chess League

Heritage will be competing in the Twin Cities Division of the Junior High Chess League.
Matches are on Saturday mornings 8:30 - 1:00 at Seward Montessori in Minneapolis. The school is paying all fees. Transportation will be provided by parents and coaches.
The schedule has not been finalized yet, but it looks like you need to reserve the following dates plus maybe one other which has not yet been named:

Feb 12
Mar 5
Mar 19 (Playoffs, if we qualify)

Teams that are in the league are:
Sanford
Capitol Hill A
Capitol Hill B
Lake Harriet
Nellie Stone
Seward
Washington Tech
Heritage
Northeast ??

The following have been named to the team based on a mathematical analysis of SCA tournaments over the past several years. These are SCA ratings which tend to run about 300 points lower than USCF ratings.

Board 1: Brock Morris 798
Board 2: Gabriel Fromm 621
Board 3: Corey Klooz 553
Board 4: Eric Santo 516
Board 5: Dominick Strong 515

We will also have alternates assigned in case one of our top 5 boards can't make it. Alternates will play board 5 and other players will move up a board to fill in the vacancy.