Southwest Chess Club: Coming Up...

This week's lecture (tomorrow night) (6:00-7:00 pm) will be given by Allen Becker. ANTHONY PARKER, as defending Club Champion, will be giving a SIMULTANEOUS EXHIBITION from 7:00 - 10:00 pm. This is a Free Event. Here is our major upcoming event for the summer: Southwest Chess Club Championship: July 9, 16, 23, 30 and August 6 & 13 6-Round Swiss in One Section. Game/100. USCF Rated. EF: $7 (must be a member to participate). SWCC Membership $10 (can join prior to first round). (Two ½ point byes available in rounds 1 through 5 if requested at least 2-days in advance; no byes available for round 6.) TD is Becker; ATD is Grochowski. Thursday events are held at St. James Catholic Church in the lower level of the Parish Center building (immediately in front of the church). The address is 7219 South 27th Street in Franklin. Parking in rear, enter through south door.

Southwest Chess Club: Popular Lecture Series!

This Thursday night: This week's lecture (6:00-7:00 pm) will be given by Expert Ray Hayes. His topic is:

"Lipnitsky and Development of the Soviet School of Chess"

Last week's lecture by John Veech was excellent, and Ray Hayes' lectures last summer were popular. Come on out and enjoy some chess instruction, and stay to play some casual chess! Location: St. James Catholic Church in the lower level of the Parish Center building (immediately in front of the church). The address is 7219 South 27th Street in Franklin. Parking in rear, enter through south door.

Stormy Weather!

Not the Lena Horne song - the real deal! Last night was tornado warnings and flooding and strong winds, lots of thunder and lightning! Between about 7 p.m. last night and when things finally calmed down around 10 p.m. (although it continued raining moderately) we got 4-5 inches of rain in my area, but that wasn't even close to the record-breaking rains falling further to the west where at one point it was raining 14 inches an hour! (That's in addition to the 3-4 inches we received Thursday night-Friday morning). Strong winds too - I had to clean up a rather messy storm-tossed yard filled with leaves and downed branches from my mini grove of trees (back yard) this morning, and the deck was a wet soggy mess, but I didn't lose any major branches, the trees all stayed upright and there was no hail, so no damage to the siding. Polish Fest down at the lake front (it opened yesterday) would have been pelted, too, unfortunately. Today has dawned sunny, hot, but much less humid, and there is a breeze that will help dry things up a bit. The swimming pool that had appeared in my back yard last night is gone this morning, thank Goddess! Flooding continues along streams and rivers locally as the cresting water makes it way toward Lake Michigan. People will flock toward the lake front today and tomorrow to enjoy the great weather, so hopefully there will be a good turnout for the simul with GM Josh Friedel at the Southwest Chess Club tent this evening (sign up starts at 5:00 p.m.) The grass needs to be cut but it's full sun in the front (I missed the shady window between 8:30 and 9:30 a.m.) and too shady in the back yard and still too wet in both yards; I'll cut the front this evening after 6 p.m. when the sun swings around to the back of the house, giving me shade to work in, and I'll save the back yard cutting for tomorrow. I cleaned off the deck and it just needs to dry off. I'll settle there later with the lap top to enjoy this great weather while it lasts. These hot breezy dry days don't show up too often! While the elements were raging about me last evening, I was working on an article for Chessville - stay tuned.

Southwest Chess Club: Popular Lecture Series!

Whew! I was sooooo excited about the Southwest Chess Club's announcement that GM Jesse Krai will be manning the Club's chess booth at Polish Fest (at Milwaukee's beautiful lakefront festival grounds) this Saturday night that I forgot about this announcement (see post below)! Mea culpa! Our popular Summer Lecture series begins this Thursday, 18 June, at 6:00 pm. John Veech will be lecturing on The Art of the Swindle. John is Wisconsin's newest Expert. The Southwest Chess Club meets every Thursday night from 6:00 PM at the St. James Catholic Church in the lower level of the Parish Center building (immediately in front of the church). The address is 7219 South 27th Street in Franklin. The club opens at 6 PM, Tournament Games at 7 PM (we have a tournament in progress this Thursday, Round 2). Here is a map to the club. We are just south of Rawson on 27th, and close to I-94 in Franklin.