Letter 1/2013

Letter 1/2013                                                                                                          17 January 2013

Dear parents

Welcome back to 2013, and a warm welcome to the new chess parents.  I hope you had a restful time during the school holidays.  Chess learners, I hope you have played a lot of chess during the holidays as well.

First of all, some very important news regarding dates:

Our first (and only) WP Chess tournament takes place on the 8^th and 9^th of February 2013.  The venue is not confirmed yet, but more information will follow shortly.   We don’t have a lot of practise time left to sharpen our games if we want to excel in chess this year, which means, you cannot afford to miss any practise days.  In order to progress to the District Trials, you have to end at least 10^th in the tournament in your age group.  The District Trails takes place on the 1^st and 2^nd of March 2013.  Here you will compete against the other districts’ top 10 finishers, to achieve WP Schools Chess colours.

In the Western Cape Tournament, you will no longer represent your school or district, but your province when you play against the SWD and Boland teams.  This year’s tournament takes place in Kuilsrivier.  Last year the tournament was held in Gansbaai (Boland) and the year before that in George (SWD).  The date for this tournament is the 19^th to the 21^st of April.

Secondly, you must take note of our practises:

We are going to practise in the Arts & Culture Room, on a Tuesday and Thursday, from 14:45 to 15:45.  Each player is going to receive a page with his or her name on. On this page he/she must write down the name of each player that he/she wins.  Each page is going to determine the top 20 list of players in the school.  Each time you finish a game, a witness must sign to confirm that the game took place during the practise times.  We will also have a beginners’ class on Tuesdays, in my class, from 14:45 to 15:15. After this, they will join the games in the Arts & Culture room.

More information regarding the tournaments will follow as soon as I receive them.  I look forward to this very exciting year of chess.  I hope you do to.

Kind regards

Mr. R. Bekker and Mrs. C. van Niekerk