Dear Players and Parents,
Happy Mother's day to all the amazing Chess Moms out there! Without you, and your love, support and dedication towards the children and chess, this organization would not exist!
Thank you for everything you do!!
Would like to relay my special thank you for all of you who have been supportive of the recent changes at BAC.
Your feedback, and opinion is greatly appreciated, and always welcome and what makes BAC the best and help us constantly improving, bringing new ideas not only to life, but to perfection :)
On January 1
st we have implemented a new rule regarding the play-up qualification to encourage players to play in their natural section, encourage players who stayed at home because of the many play-ups to come and attend tournaments more often,. While the original reason has not changed, many of you have expressed that the 100 points was a bit too tight, and hence based on your feedback we are now modifying it:
From
May 1st, anyone within 200 rating points to the next section will be able to play up.
This will practically mean that anyone can play up one Class, but only one class.
This is a modification to the existing one hundred point rule, and hopefully will be well received, and will satisfy most players, coaches and parents.
While this mostly affects adults or advanced scholastic players, I wanted everyone to have a chance to learn about this rule.
Also, reminder that as a courtesy to your fellow chess players, PLEASE NOTIFY us if you can't make it to a tournament you are registered for. It is not only not nice to your fellow player to have them waiting, it also affecting their overall tournament rating, since one less played round affects the total number of round played in a tournament, and hence the rating changes are different.
We always send orientation emails to our players the day before the tournament. If you don't get these, please update your email preferences online: http://bayareachess.com/account/update/
How to notify us? Email to
ask@bayareachess.com, call or more preferably text to 408-409-6596 or 919-265-7560.
Also, a few other announcements regarding our events:
1.
BAC Teams
Both the Beginner and the Intermediate team has a few open spot, so feel free to schedule a tryout class if you are interested. Meetings are on Saturdays in the NEW BAC office in San Jose.
More information:
www.bayareachess.com/teams
2.
BAC Weekend Clubs
We are constantly looking for new places to offer clubs. Our Club in Palo Alto is growing rapidly, so we added a second time slot to accommodate the interest: Palo Alto Club is now offered between 12-2PM and 3-5PM. Please, check our webpage for updates at
www.bayareachess.com/club and email us if you know a good spot to start a new club via
ask@bayareachess.com.
3.
BAC Camps
BayAreaChess is offering chess camps throughout the entire summer at multiple locations. Register NOW to save sport. Please know that some of these camps have limited spots available, so register NOW to secure a spot. The BAC Camp webpage is:
www.bayareachess.com/camps and email us at
ask@bayareachess.com if you have any questions regarding coaches, schedule, food or anything else.
Any other question, feedback, suggestion, Email us and we'll get back to you very soon!
Many thanks,
Judit and the BAC Team
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Judit Sztaray, PhD
Executive Director
judit@bayareachess.com
main:
408-409-6596
cell:
919-265-7560
www.bayareachess.com
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