Dear Bay Area Chess Community,

It is with great pride and excitement to announce that BayAreaChess has formed its very own professional chess team, San Jose Hackers, to compete in the US PRO Chess League! Information about the league itself can be found here:

https://www.chess.com/news/view/carlsen-caruana-to-compete-in-pro-chess-league-9733

https://www.chess.com/news/view/u-s-chess-league-becomes-pro-chess-league-5789

San Jose Hackers team is composed of our chess coaches, team members and chess friends around the world. 
GM Mamedyarov, GM Mamedov, GM Naroditsky, GM Izoria, GM Chirilla, IM Kavutskiy, IM Aleskerov, NM Virtanen, NM Ke and NM Yoo are ready to bring home the victory against the world’s best players and teams!

We hope that while competing in this amazing league, we will be able to bring awareness to chess as a competitive sport and an art that has many benefits to children and the community. 

The official website address of San Jose Hackers is: www.sanjosehackers.com

We are also on Facebook: Like and Follow us! www.facebook.com/sanjosehackers

SUPPORT US!
We need the community’s support to help support the team, and it’s mission.
Any and all donation help and is greatly appreciated. All proceeds go directly to support our team.
In order to provide a live and automatic update on our fundraising progress, we have set up a GoFundMe page:

www.gofundme.com/sanjosehackers

For certain sponsorship levels, your name, and/or company’s logo will be listed on our website, along with other potential benefits:
http://www.bayareachess.com/sanjosehackers/supportus/

Please, click and donate TODAY and get involved in OUR team in the US PRO Chess League

Many thanks for your continued support. Let's root for our team from Silicon Valley to bring home the title!

Judit, Abel and the entire BAC Family




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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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