Nevada Chess, Inc.

The schedule and rules for the States Cup online chess league have been posted. Team Nevada’s first two matches are scheduled for 7PM Pacific time Thursday, September 10 against southern California and 7PM Pacific time Tuesday September 15 against Colorado. Any Nevada chess player(s) interested in playing for team Nevada should contact Tom Brownscombe at tkbrownscombe@hotmail.com ASAP. The complete schedule can be found at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15wyAgtzhRkpJ4xPfbq6MOZ5Pf6tuScx4xF3lF93sclo/edit#gid=538827637 and league rules can be found at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cqTj42htE4jhpj1q783xQBDfJLMzTwYVkcfjEHRB3e0/edit

A new online chess league called the States Cup is forming. If you would like to represent the state of Nevada in the States Cup, please contact Tom Brownscombe at tkbrownscombe@hotmail.com ASAP.

US Chess is pleased to announce the 2020 High School Senior Online Rapid, a free event sponsored by Dewain Barber, the Dean of Scholastic Chess.

Date: Saturday, June 13 at 2:00 p.m. EDT / 11:00 a.m. PDT 

Registration deadline: Friday, June 12 at 9:00 p.m. EDT / 6:00 p.m. PDT – No exceptions! 

Eligibility: 

– Students with senior student status in the 2019-20 academic year

– Current US Chess membership valid until 6/30/2020 ( Click here to join/renew .)

For full event information, including how to register, please see our post on Chess Life Online here: https://new.uschess.org/scholastics/announcing-2020-high-school-senior-online-rapid/

The 2020 National Open has been rescheduled for September 16-20. For more information, please visit https://chess.vegas/national-open/.

As you may have heard, Clark County is canceling large events at parks and recreation facilities over coronavirus concerns and Clark County School District is suspending all district and non-district sponsored extra-curricular activities. The Governor of Nevada has just declared a State of Emergency. For these reasons, the 2020 Nevada Scholastic Chess Championship has been cancelled.

It is unclear at this time when or if we will be able to reschedule it in fall. Watch our web site for announcements.

All individual entry fees will be refunded by March 27th.  If you paid by personal check, we will return it uncashed. If you paid online, we will issue a refund through PayPal.

We apologize for the inconvenience and hope you will be able to participate next year. Next year’s event is tentatively scheduled for March 6, 2021.

Best Regards,

Alan Losoff, President
NEVADA CHESS, INC
US Chess Affiliate for Chess in Nevada

The 2020 Nevada Scholastic Championships will be held on March 14th at Springs Preserve, 333 S Valley View Blvd, Las Vegas.

Complete details are here.

The Nevada Girls’ Scholastic Championship will be held at the Las Vegas Chess Academy on Saturday March 21st. Details will be available soon.

Editor’s Message
by A. Magruder

The Annual Members Meeting of Nevada Chess, Inc. was held as scheduled on Saturday, April 21, 2018 at the Las Vegas Chess Center, 2560 Montessouri St. Suite 206, Las Vegas NV 89117. The first order of business was tabulating and announcing results of the 2018 election. All officers on the ballot were reelected to a two year term: Allen Magruder, Robert Wheat, Gail Winds and Charles Chinnici. However, Robert Wheat has recently moved out of state, and former director Jerry Weikel was appointed by A. Losoff to serve a one year term as director to complete the seven members of the board of directors.

The following directors volunteered to serve in their current positions with some revisions and responsibilities:
a) A. Losoff will continue as President
b) Juan Juaregui will assume responsibilities as Webmaster of nevadachess.org
c) Juan Juaregui will assume responsibilities as Treasurer
d) Tom Brownscombe will assume responsibilities as Secretary
e) Jerry Weikel will assume responsibilities as Vice President
f) Tom Brownscombe will continue as our Scholastic Chess contact/coordinator
g) Tony Chinnici will continue to serve as principal contact for Northern NV activities and responsibilities
h) Allen Magruder will resign as Treasurer but wishes to continue his two year elected term of office as director and assist other directors with their duties whenever possible and will continue to serve as editor and distribute the Nevada State Bulletin Quarterly issues until the end of the year if needed, but not including the January 2019 Ballot issue.

Finally, we will no longer mail the April and July issues of the Nevada Chess Quarterly Bulletin, and ask all those members who requested a mailed copy to provide an email address where you should be able to find all the information in those issues on our website, nevadachess.org. The membership entry form in this issue provides a space for the email address you choose. All current members will continue to receive by mail the October issue which contains the Call for Candidates for the next election of officers, and the January issue which contains the Election Ballot with the list of candidates.