Up and Running new Chess Ladder, USCF rated tournament Oct 5th at Coe College

We had a great chess club this morning.  I have shaken the dust off the old chess ladder and we got started this morning.  We had two games, Peter Adams taking on Patrick Selby and Sebastian defeating Aidan (who told me his name was misspelled).  We started to learn notation, and Iona Scheer was helping Ashley Niemiec learn the moves.  We did some computer analysis of games we had recorded and Students are encouraged to play their parents and notate the games so we can analyse these games as well. 

I also told the history of the Weber Chess Club and the many state champions that have come from that very room.  Arshaq Saleem (current K-8 State champion), Ziwen Zhen(2013 K-8 State  Champion), and Teresa Knecht(2013 and 2014 Girls State Champion)  all got their start at Weber Elementary.  Peter was so impressed he took it upon himself to dust the trophies.

On Oct 5th there will be a tournament at Coe College, this is a USCF Rated tournament and is sponsored by their newly formed chess club.  Games will be long with each player getting 45 minutes to make their moves but I feel that the top 6 of our chess ladder could compete and have fun, just need to remember notation and to take their time with moves.

I realize some of these names are not present and over the next few weeks there will be some editing.


1   0  1  0 Peter Adams                        
  2   0  0  0 Carter Phillips                    
  3   0  1  0 Sebastian Rutkowski                
  4   0  1  0 Patrick Selby                      
  5   0  0  0 Dominic Rutkowski                  
  6   0  0  0 Parker Imborek                     
  7   0  0  0 Elias Davis                        
  8   0  0  0 Keenai Fender                      
  9   0  0  0 Brendan Klutts                     
 10   0  0  0 Teya Kerns                         
 11   0  0  0 Tommy  Kerns                       
 12   0  0  0 BJ Wolfe                           
 13   0  0  0 Sam Callahan                       
 14   0  0  0 Brady Gromacki                     
 15   0  1  0 Aidan Jacobsen                     
 16   0  0  0 Max Gerke                          
 17   0  0  0 Sam Weitz                          
 18   0  0  0 Teddy Kim                          
 19   0  0  0 Eleanor Weitz                      
 20   0  0  0 Nickolas Ferrel                    
 21   0  0  0 Jackson Seering                    
 22   0  0  0 Sam  Showers                       
 23   0  0  0 Ethan Truman                       
 24   0  0  0 Davis  Nepple                      
 25   0  0  0 Tyler Lieberman                    
 26   0  0  0 Luke McConnell                     
 27   0  0  0 Gable  Kauffman                    
 28   0  0  0 Ashley Niemiec                     
 29   0  0  0 Scheer Iona                        
 30   0  0  0 Rahman Afreen