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2024 Winter USCF-Rated Slow Swiss, Starts on January 2. Happy New Year!
USCF-rated 2024 Winter Swiss of 3-4 rounds will begin on Tuesday, January 2. Rated games of G/60 + 30s increment will be played in person, one game per week on Tuesday evenings. Games begin at 6:30 PM. Alternative dates and times can be negotiated if both players agree and they inform me ahead of time. Forfeit time is 7:00 PM. Register before noon on Monday, January 1 to be paired in the first round. Half-point byes are permitted in any round.
Site: Mayo Clinic Harwick Building, South Cafeteria, 201 3rd Avenue SW, Rochester, MN. Park for free on the street after 5 PM weekdays/all day on weekends or in a nearby parking ramp.
Registration online is required:
RESULTS OF THE 2023 ROCHESTER SCHOLASTIC HOLIDAY CHESS TOURNAMENT.
Forty-four students competed in the 2023 Rochester Scholastic Holiday Tournament on December 16 in the Mayo Clinic Harwick Building. Sixteen students were participating in their first ever USCF-rated event. Thanks to the numerous volunteers and Mayo Clinic for helping make the tournament a success. An informal poll among the participants indicated that they were in favor of another tournament next month. The event could be used as a qualifier for the RASCL Junior Varsity Swiss which will be held on Saturday, February 24 at Lourdes High School. Stay tuned for details. Below are the results of the Holiday Scholastic. Congratulations to everyone for playing chess and growing your brains! 🙂 The tournament has been rated by USCF: https://www.uschess.org/msa/XtblMain.php?202312167052-30901323.
Bughouse Tournament Tonight!
Note on relocation: The bughouse tournament and casual chess will be held tonight in the North Cafeteria in the Mayo Clinic Harwick Building. Enter the building through the same door on 3rd Avenue SW, summon security through the intercom and tell them you are there for chess. They will unlock the door for you to enter the second set of double doors. Turn right and follow the hallway to the North Cafeteria.
On Tuesday night the Rochester Chess Club will be holding a bughouse tournament! If you haven’t played bughouse before, it’s a blast. Bughouse is a four-player game played on two boards. Two vs. two. It’s a high-speed and social way to sharpen your chess tactics. You can read up on all the details of bughouse here:Â https://www.chess.com/terms/bughouse-chess
Matt Jensen will be directing a free bughouse event. Registration starts at 6:30 PM. We will have a brief introduction and Q&A around 6:50. Games start at 7:00. Each player will put their name on a slip of paper. We will randomly draw the teams for every board in each round of the bughouse event. Every time your team wins, you get a point. The player with the most points at the night’s end wins the event. No one gets eliminated, and you can join late or leave early.
We will also have a casual night for those not wishing to play bughouse.