This summer at chess club

The ACPL All Ages Chess Club meets Saturday mornings from 10:00 am to 12:00 noon in Young Adults’ Services on the second floor of the Main Library.  Come by and play some games!

It’s also worth mentioning that there are chess sets available in Young Adults’ Services during all hours that the library is open, and often there are people looking for a game at times other than the Chess Club meeting time.

This summer, besides the 12th Annual Young Adults’ Chess Tournament on Saturday, August 8, we’ll try to have an informal tournament or two at Chess Club as well.

End-of-summer chess tournaments

Entry forms are now available for the 11th Annual Young Adult Chess Tournament! It’s an unrated, 5 round, all day affair, with snacks and pizza for lunch provided. The only catch is that you must be entering 6th through 12th grades.

Entry forms are due by Friday, August 1, 2008. On the day of the tournament, registration confirmation will be at 9:00 am, with the players’ meeting at 9:20-ish, and first round starting around 9:45. The tournament will be held in the meeting rooms (near the cafe) in the Main Library.

The Children’s Chess Tournament entry forms are not yet available, but look for them soon.

Edit: The Young Adult Chess Tournament is Saturday, August 9; The Childrens’ Chess Tournament is Saturday, August 16.

They just keep coming

We’ve had another couple of weeks of 15+ people showing up at our weekly meetings.  I’m not sure whether we have enough regular members to support a tournament yet, but I think we’ll get there.  It’s possible that we might be able to run a small round robin tournament with a fast time control, though.  Maybe the week after next would be good.

Meanwhile, you may or may not be aware that we’re meeting in Young Adults’ Services every week (from 10 am to 12 noon).  We used to meet in Meeting Room C, but we gave it up because YAS has better seating – though it’s farther from the Brick House Cafe, but you ARE allowed to bring food/drink into Young Adults’ Services, as long as you don’t sit at the computers with them.

Quick update

We had something like 15 people come through last Saturday’s meeting – they weren’t all there at the same time, but still, it was great attendance compared to recent weeks.

One chess player mentioned that he thought it people might not want to play in a library department since you can’t have food and drink there.  I realized that it’s still assumed by a lot of people that you can’t have food and drink in most of the library.  BUT IT’S NOT TRUE!  ACPL changed its policy, and in the new Main Library, you can have food and drink anywhere except 1. in the Genealogy Center, and 2. at computer stations.

So now that we’ve moved the Chess Club to Young Adults’ Services on a full time basis, it IS farther from the cafe, but you can bring along your drink, snack, lunch, or other food.

We’re still meeting Saturdays from 10 am to 12 noon, but it’s probably not too early to say that there WON’T be a meeting on August 2 or August 9 – the dates of the two annual chess tournaments.  (August 2 is the tournament for kids up through 5th grade, and August 9 is the tournament for people in 6th through 12th grades.)

Change of meeting location

The ACPL All Ages Chess Club will now meet in Young Adults’ Services every Saturday. Meeting Room C was convenient to the Brickhouse Cafe, but it wasn’t working out for other reasons, and YAS is much more comfortable anyway.

To sum up: Don’t go to Meeting Room C; go to Young Adults’ Services. Every meeting. (Which is every Saturday from 10 am to 12 noon.)

See you there!

Meeting location changed for 1-12-2008

I’ve had to move the meeting for this Saturday to Young Adults’ Services.  (I changed it on the January schedule post.)  I won’t be there for this meeting, but grab a chess set and a booth and play some games!

January schedule

New Year, same basic schedule: Saturday mornings, 10 am to 12 noon, usually in Meeting Room C, but check below to find out where we’ll be for each meeting.

Saturday, January 5: Meet in Young Adult Services (2nd floor of Main Library).

Saturday, January 12: Meet in Young Adult Services (2nd floor of Main Library).

Saturday, January 19: Meet in Meeting Room C (1st floor of Main Library, next to cafe).

Saturday, January 26: Meet in Young Adult Services (2nd floor of Main Library).

Schedule for December

Saturday, Dec. 15: Meet in Meeting Room C (1st floor of Main Library).

Saturday, Dec. 22: no meeting

Saturday, Dec. 29: Meet in Young Adults’ Services (2nd floor of Main Library).

November schedule

November 10: meet in Young Adults’ Services (2nd floor of Main Library)

November 17: meet in Young Adults’ Services

November 24: meet in Meeting Room C (next to cafe on 1st floor)

There weren’t enough people at the October 27 meeting to play a tournament, so we’ll look for an opportunity to reschedule that.

Tournament Saturday October 27!

This is just a quick reminder about the blitz tournament that will be held at our October 27 meeting.  I don’t have anyone signed up for it yet, but I won’t cancel the event until we actually have the meeting, so if you still want to sign up, call Young Adults’ Services at 421-1255.