Bellevue Catholic Chess Challenge - Saturday, March 26th

My name is Tom Michaels, and I am the parent volunteer at St. Louise Parish School in Bellevue, WA that manages our school scholastic Chess Club. I have teamed up with Gena McReynolds from Sacred Heart in Bellevue, WA and Chess4Life to host an upcoming Scholastic Chess Tournament for Catholic School students this spring. We are doing this to offer Western Washington Catholic school students the opportunity to play in a local chess tournament with other local Catholic students.

Bellevue Catholic Chess Challenge
Online Registration Available -- http://www.chess4life.com/chess-even...e/1278/addedit

The event is open to all Catholic school students from grades K – 8th grade only. Do to the Catholic school requirement, we are not advertising this event to the general public, but we are advertising this event via work of mouth. Please help us spread the word by sharing this with your school chess clubs and forward this to anyone else that may be interested in having Catholic students participate. We have divisions for all levels or play, from beginner to intermediate to advanced open players.

Date of the Event: Saturday, March 26th, 2011
Time: Check in opens at 8:30AM, First Round starts at 9:00AM. Targeting to wrap up awards between 2:30PM to 3:00PM.
Location: Sacred Heart, Bellevue WA
9450 NE 14th Street – Bellevue, WA 98004
(Directions -- http://sacredheart.org/School/aboutshs/mapdirections/)

Below are the divisions we plan on having at the event:

• Grades K-8 Beginner Division. Targeted at students that have not played in a chess tournaments before. This will not be a WA state qualifier division.
• Grades K-2 U900 division, WA State Qualifier division.
• Grades 3-4 U900 division, WA State Qualifier division.
• Grades 5-8 U900 division, WA State Qualifier division.
• Grades K-8 Open division, WA State Qualifier division.

*** We plan to have a generous number of trophies for both individuals and teams of four or more.

Registration fee is only $18, prior to one week before the event March 19th. $25 within the week of the event.

If you have any questions, please feel free to reply to me via this email, or contact me via ChessManager@StLouiseSchool.org