OCBCF Newsletter April 2007
FROM THE EDITOR
Hello everyone,
Planning stages are in full bloom. Meetings are being held and schedules are being checked. But, we are not through yet. We have several chess organizations running the local competitions. We still have the Coastal Bend Champions to determine. On April 14, in Flour Bluff, the primary and elementary championships are being held. This is spearheaded by Mr. Muir. The flyer for this tournament is up, but we did not forget about the older group because this tournament also has an open section.
On April 21, we have the middle school and high school championships in Kingsville. This tournament is run by Mr. Rios(me). This tournament also has two open sections, one rated and one non-rated. Again, The flyer is up.
Mc Gee Elementary and Calallen Middle School are hosting the Coastal Bend Grades Tournament. Ninfa Villarreal is the person in charge of that activity. This tournament will be at least a four section tournament. The flyer is posted .
The South Texas Chess Center also is running several Friday and Sat scholastic and open tournaments. You need to go to their website to check out their activities for the month.
The OCBCF end of year meeting is in the future as well. We use this meeting as our jump off point for the upcoming year, We elect officers and recognize everyone for their participation. It is the OCBCF way of saying Thank You for a wonderful year. Dr.George Tintera, our great leader is in charge of this activity. If you have anyone interested in finding out a little more about our organization, bring them to the meeting as our guest.
For those of you who have read our latest edition of US Chess News, you will see that several individuals are up for election for the Board of Directors, please read all about the candidates.
Texas Chess Association has relocated their website, but that has to do only with their server. The website is still www.texaschess.org . If you are interested in joining TCA please feel free to look up this site for instructions because the sign up on line option is not available at this time. Elections for new officers will be in September, and you must be a member to vote or receive a ballot. If you should not receive one at the proper issue, you must contact TCA and let them know.
Last but not least, The Texas Girls Scholastic Championship will be hosted this year in Corpus. Kingsville Chess Academy is the party awarded this tournament by TCA. Working in conjunction with KCA will be OCBCF and South Texas Chess Center. This past week I signed the contract and gave the deposit for the Hotel, Which will be the Bayfront Plaza Hotel in Corpus on October. Traveling to Dallas will not be necessary. This tournament will have a collegiate/open section for any Texas Colleges who wish to participate or any other ladies who wish to play.
Along with this, there will be a one day open scholastic for boys. Start practicing folks, the Houston and Austin Teams are already working their schedules for this tournament.
If you have any interesting news or stories or commentaries, please send them to me and I will in turn send the to the Texas Knights publisher and also include them in the OCBCF Newsletter.
Thank you
Eddie R. Rios Sr.
TCA Region 7 Director
OCBCF Newsletter Editor