Upcoming Tournaments (updated)

Below is an updated listing of updated tournaments for McKinley chess kids:

• MARCH 4 - BUTLER MIDDLE SCHOOL - (WSCF) - good WSCF tournament, great practice.  If you have to choose this one OR March 11 at Elmwood, choose March 11 at Elmwood...  But we may have a team for Butler if enough people cannot make 3/11 work.  Register directly at www.wisconsinscholasticchess.com
• MARCH 11 - ELMWOOD - NEW BERLIN - (IAC) this is a great annual tournament with lots of trophies and a ton of fun.  New Berlin "Man of the Year" Randy Bubolz has been a champion of Scholastic Chess, and this is a great one to attend.  HERE IS THE FLYER!
• March 25 - March of Champions (WSCF) - another great WSCF tournament.  HERE IS FLYER
• April 1 - Grade Level - UWM Union - This is a great annual event and a state championship opportunity!  Each kid competes only with kids in their own grade, vying for championships for each grade.  Teams also exist by grade - top 3 scores in a grade make a team - we are very strong in a couple grades I think.  HERE IS INFO
• April 22 - Kalahari - State Class Championships - More info to come.  Play chess at a water park!  Discounted rates.
• May 11 - Supernationals - Nashville, TN - Gaylord Opryland - Every year, there is a National Championship tournament for Grade School, for Middle School and for High School.  Usually they are in separate locations.  However, EVERY FOUR YEARS - including this year - they have all K-12 together for one amazing tournament.  The last SuperNationals had thousands of kids from all 50 states and was the largest chess tournament of any kind in World history.  I met Garry Kasparov.  Seriously.  :)  This is an event you might consider going to... if we are able to get four kids together for a team, I will go too.  Our best bet is probably K-3 Unrated, or K-6 Unrated.  This is a tournament your family will remember for the rest of your lives.   HERE IS INFO

McKinley takes K-3 at Evangel

Another 1st for McKinley

Great job to Jack, Zach, and Matthew who took 1st place in the Evangel Chess Tournament on Saturday 2/25!  Jack also won an individual trophy.  Alex just missed an individual trophy in the K-6 division.  Great effort by the small team we had at Evangel.  Coming up - Butler next weekend, then Elmwood on 3/11,  See email for details.

Still trying to fill K-3 and K-6 teams for Evangel!

See the link to the upper-right of this site to register!   Need 2 more for K-3 and 3 for K-6!

REMINDER: Butler Middle School tournament is coming up on March 4th... if we miss you at Evangel, see you there!

Isabella and Meghan Represent McKinley at All Girls

Wisconsin All Girls 2017 Tournament (WSCF)

For some reason, proportionally more boys choose to play chess than girls.  OF COURSE, this does not mean boys are "better" at chess.  Once a year, the WSCF has a tournament just for girls.  This Saturday Feb 11, two of McKinley's 4th grade girl chess players - Meghan and Isabella - represented McKinley at this tournament.  Because they had done so well in previous tournaments, they had to play in the K-12 division against girls as old as 12th grade!  They did very well, each winning 2 games in the tournament.  Way to go GIRLS!

Upcoming Tournaments

Here are the upcoming tournaments to consider- the big ones are noted in asterisks!

• Feb 11 - All Girls (WSCF) - university school of Milwaukee 
• Feb 25 - Evangel Assembly of God (WSCF)
• March 4 - Butler Middle School (WSCF)
• March 18-19 - STATE SCHOLASTIC - K5 - UW Oshkosh *****
• March 25 - March of Champions (WSCF)
• April 1 - Grade Level (WSCF) - UW Milwaukee Union *****
• April 22 - Kalahari - state class championship - Wis Dells

The big tournaments are the state scholastic at UWO, and Grade Level at UWM.  Details will be emailed to parents, and all WSCF tournament details are found at wisconsinscholasticchess.com

McKinley Shines at Golda Meir

Congrats to McKinley elementary chess club for a solid showing at Golda Meir on Sat Feb 4!

Way to go kids!

The Golda Meir tournament is a fun annual event.  This year, over 170 kids from the Milwaukee area participated.  McKinley sent 8 kids this time around, and were divided into two divisions.  Some chess tournaments segment kids by rating as well as grade level.

We always tell kids that their goal in their first tournament is to win 1 game (out of the 5 usually played).  5 of our 8 kids were playing in their first tournament.  Not only did they all win at least 2 games, but 3 of them won 4 games.

Zach Brunow had to miss game 1 due to basketball, but then joined in and won all four of his games- in his first tournament!  The rest of our K4 team (3 out of 4 in their first tournament) all won 3/5 games... we missed first place by a HALF POINT, taking the 3rd place trophy.

In our other team, K12 U575, Alex Jaworski won 4 out of 5 games to take the 4th place individual trophy.  Jack Sanders also won 4 games.  We took 4th as a team, only 2 points away from 1st place.

All in all, a great day and a very fun and well organized tournament, way to go McKinley kids!

Full results are here-  http://www.wisconsinscholasticchess.org/websource/web/results/Golda%20Meir%20Results%20.pdf