Our next tournament is The Return of the Rooks Quad at La Farge Library, LLano St. Santa Fe. Everybody plays 3 rounds. Rounds are at 10;15, 1:00 and 3:15. To enter send a check for $10 to Santa Fe Rooks, 84 Moya Road, Santa Fe NM 87508. 1st place in each quad wins $30.
Future tourneys:
July 24th Prairie Dog Quick G/29 6 rounds
August 20th Time Odds Tourney 6 rounds at Rodriguez Comm Ctr Prairie Dog Loop
October 15th Berserkers Tourney 8 rounds of G/15
November 19th Match-ups 2 games against the same opponent G/90 + 30 secs December 19th Christmas Octos 3 rounds G/60.

Return of the Rooks Quad and Time Odds Tourney are already confirmed. The other tournaments will be at venues in Santa Fe to be announced. Santa Fe Library venues can only be booked one month in advance.
All tourneys are $10 to enter and will award cash prizes.
See you all there

Time Odds Tournament on August 20th

Santa Fe Rooks will be holding a handicap tournament at Nancy Rodriguez Community Center on 20th August. I thought you would all appreciate some advanced warning on how to set your clocks when you get there! You start with 30 minutes each on the clock....then calculate the difference in the players' ratings. Divide by 10 to get the number of minutes to adjust and then add half to the weaker player's time and subtract half from the stronger player.

For example......Joe Fish rated 1304 plays Magnus Bloggs rated 1697. The difference is 393 points.Divide by 10 leaves 39.3, so 39 minutes is the difference in clock times. Add 20 to Joe's clock so he starts with 50 minutes. Subtract 19 from Magnus which leaves him with 11 minutes.
5 sec delay is always used.
The stronger player will never start with less than 5 minutes
For calculation of time odds times, unrated players count as 1200

There will be 6 rounds, 1 section, prizes for 1st and for biggest upset(s) though only 1 prize per player. Hope to see you all there.
Jim Johnston

Results reported

Congratulations to yesterday's winners, with 2 1/2 points each:
Jim Johnston and Caleb Jaquish in the top section
Chris Hyde and Dan Tellez in the second section

Results have been submitted to www.uschess.org and should be posted shortly.

April will be a good month for chess in northern New Mexico:

The annual Class Championship will be held in Santa Fe April 16-17, at Desert Academy in Ssanta Fe. The winner of each class will be invited to represent New Mexico in the Rocky Mountain Team Challenge, tentatively scheduled in July in Taos.

April 30 is the 17th annual Pir Maleki Memorial, held at the United World College in Montezuma (near Las Vegas). BY far the most beautiful location for a chess tournament in New Mexico.

For more details and to register, follow the links from www.nmchess.org

It has been a pleasure hosting and playing in tournaments in the last couple of years, and I am grateful to know that Jim Johnston will be carrying forward the tradition.

Tournament Entries

First, I'd like to announce that this year's NM Class Championship will be in Santa Fe April 16-17!!! More on that soon, or visit www.wiredkingscc.blogspot.com.


As of today's mail, the following people have signed up for this Saturday's tournament at the Nancy Rodriguez Community Center, #1 Pririe Dog Loop in the village of Agua Fria.

This is the season finale and we are offering a $200 first place per Octagon.

Entry fee is $25, and we will accept onsite entries between 8:30 and 9:00. If you know you are coming, please call or email in advance.

As usual, ratings reflect the most current ratings based on the tournament history tab on a player's page.

1924 Sam Dooley
1885 William Frank
1875 Caleb Jaquish
1830 Robert Hampton
1828 Jim Johnston
1610 Christopher Cruz
1535 Julian Trujillo
1514 Rick Lass
1508 Gregory Currin
1475 Daniel Trujillo
1467 Chris Hyde
1332 Dan Tellez
1234 Scout Veitch
955 Elizabeth Cooper
599P Sirius Amerman

Hope to see a few more of you there!

Thanks Rick

April 2nd will be the last tournament Rick organises in Santa Fe before taking off for new adventures in another town. If you are reading this you probably already know it, but he created the SFR and has run monthly tournaments in Santa for about 2 years now.
I hope you will all turn out for this one.

Tournament results and upcoming season finale

Results from our match play tournament have been posted to the uschess website. Thanks to all for playing on Saturday.

The Season Finale will be Saturday, April 2 at the Nancy Rodriguez Community Center in Agua Fria village. It will be a G/75 with 15 second delay, 3 round tournament.

First place prize will be $200 in each octagon, with a $25 entry fee.

Onsite registration is available, but please sign up in advance if you know you will be playing. Registration is between 8:30 and 9:00, first round starts at 9:15.

I am also pleased to announce that Jim Johnston will begin hosting SF Rooks tournaments after this season. I will be moving to Silver City for the summer (and beyond??), and am looking forward to the move.

Thanks to every one for making my Santa Fe chess life fulfilling.

Stay tuned...

Tournament Entries

As of this Thursday's mail, the following players are entered in Saturday's tournament.

1923 Wayne Hatcher
1911 Sam Dooley
1854 Caleb Jaquish
1851 Robert Hampton
1818 Jim Johnston
1591 Charles Gillespie
1539 Julian Trujillo
1518 Rick Lass
1502 Chad Frantz
1468 Daniel Trujillo
1070 Ian Scott
953 Annabelle Romero
814 Alfredo Vigil


Onsite entries are available between 8:30 and 9:00, but please register in advance if you plan on playing.