The Alachua County
Scholastic Chess Association
Remember that we have our last summer tournament this Friday, July 23 at the Tower Road Library. See details below.
For summer 2010 we are holding three different sets of summer activities:
1 SUMMER CAMPS: The ACSCA is holding two one-week camps this summer. The first is 6/21-25 at Wiles Elementary and the second is 7/19-23 at Chiles Elementary. Sign up now and put these on your summer schedule. You may sign up for either one or both. The camps are not duplicates of one another and many kids will attend both. The daily schedule for the first camp is available on the web page.
2 GATOR KIDS CHESS CLUB: The Gator Chess Club is hosting a gator kids chess club that meets 5:30pm-7pm in the New Engineering Building on most Thursday nights throughout the summer. UF Gator Chess Club members will supervise the children and help them improve their chess game. See details and exact dates here.
3 SUMMER TOURNAMENTS: We will hold chess tournaments open to all K-12 students on the final Friday of each chess camp. The June Tournament will be on June 25th and the July Tournament on July 23. Kids can play in these tournaments even if they do not participate in the summer camp. There will be sections for all levels of play.
The Spring Grand Prix finished on Sunday, April 25. Congratulations to all the kids who played and to the organizers for running a smooth tournament. The final standings are here. 
On Sunday April 18, two scholastic teams from Gainesville traveled south to play two teams from Tampa (See photo above). The Gainesville open section team won handily by a score of 18.5 to 8.5. Congratulations to Ben Wu, Reggie Cai and Davis Washburn for being the only players to earn perfect 3-0 scores. The under section team lost by 1 point, 21 to 20. Congratulations to Jad Helmy as the only player to earn a perfect 3-0 score. Final results are here. Many thanks to Coach Taylor for hosting us and running a smooth tournament. And thanks to all the dedicated parents who drove in the rain and spent their Sunday so the kids could play in this match. 
The UF spring championship was held on Sunday, April 11. Congratulations to Mahbub Shahalam for winning the Championship section, Celestino Torres and Taalan Liebermann the co-champions in U1600, Joshua Levison (who drove up from Tampa), Ravi Shekhar and Amir Helmy (see above) who tied for first in U1200 and Mr. Randy Teague for winning U800. Click here for the final results.
CONGRATULATIONS TO GAINESVILLE! Gainesville again did very well at the state championships in Miami including 3 open team titles (K-1: Oak Hall, K-3: Williams and K-5: Williams) and an individual co-champion (Harish Vemuri) in K-5. Full results are here: www.fsclchess.org/FSCL3.html
The top 10 individuals from Gainesville were the following:
In K-1 open: 2nd place Natahja Graddy, Oak Hall; 3rd place Zachary Teague, Oak Hall; 4th place Graham Bernstein, Gainesville Country Day; 6th place Jad Helmy, Chiles; 8th place Daniel Curbow, Oak Hall; 9th place Christian Reece, Oak Hall.
In K-3 open: 3rd place Cindy Jie, Williams; 8th place Jeffrey Lu, Williams.
In K-5 open: Co-champion was Harish Vemuri, Stephen Foster, 3rd place Reggie Cai, Williams, 6th place Noah Harris; Oak Hall; 10th place Amir Helmy, Williams
We held a free Valentines Day Tournament on 2/14/10, with many of our Gainesville kids playing against visiting kids from Tampa (3 rounds swiss style G30). Results are here.
The UF Winter Championship were held on Sunday, January 24. The final results are here
The North Florida Regional was held Saturday, January 16. The results are HERE! Congratulations to all the players, and to George Pyne and all his helpers for running such a smooth tournament.
Congratulations to all the local players who went to Dallas to play in the K-12 National Grade Championships in December. In team competitions, Oak Hall won 2nd place in Kindergarten and 1st grade, and 8th place in 2nd grade. Individually Natahja Graddy was tied for 10th in 1st grade and Cindy Jie was tied for 15th in 3rd grade.
See full results here: http://main.uschess.org/tournaments/2009/k12/?page=RESULTS
The Fall Grand Prix finished up on Sunday Dec 6. Congratulations to all the participants! Click here for the final Grand Prix standings See the individual winners in each division above.
Results from UF Fall Championship
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