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Bradford and Searcy take top honors at the 2008CAAS Senior High Regional held at Riverview

Riverview school district in Searcy, Ark. hosted 14 schools in one of four regional events to determine who goes to state. In the 1A-2A class, Bradford ran away with first, outscoring second place Cushman by four points. A tie for third assured both McCrory and Clarendon a trip to state also. In the 3A-7A class, Searcy narrowly edged out Pulaski Academy for first by a mere half point. A 3-way tie for third in the 3A-7A class means that Searcy and Pulaski Academy will be joined at the state finals by Mountain View, Bismark, and Bald Knob. The MVP award in 1A-2A class went to Jordan Wiggs of Bradford who was the only undefeated player in 1A-2A competition, beating out teammates Blake Harmon and Dana Weston, as well as Mcrory’s Brandon Mcnew and Clarendon’s Cory Tabor, who all had nearly perfect scores of 4.0. In the 3A-7A division, 3 players had undefeated records. They were Pulaski Academy’s Rohit Mittal and Searcy teammates Jared Taylor and Jake Usery, but only one of them walked away without even a draw. That honor as well as the 3A-7A MVP Award went to Searcy’s own Jared Taylor. All-in-all the Riverview Regional tournament was a complete success, with all the players showing outstanding sportsmanship (the mark of a true winner), on a beautiful day that had many players spending thier time away from the board, outside. Congratulations to all who participated for making the event so successful. Check out pictures of the event by clicking here.

Searcy brought home the 1st place high school team trophy from the 2006 National Youth Action Chess Tournament this past weekend (November 17-19). 24 different states participated in six different levels of competition. The event featured a nine-round individual/team format with no limit on the number of team members, but only the four highest scores were tabulated into the team’s final score. Searcy took first place by one point with a team score of 21, followed by Franklin, Tennessee and Miami, Florida each scoring 20 wins. 9 teams participated in the high school level. Overall 407 students in grades K through 12 attended this event in Atlanta, Georgia. Searcy team members and individual scores are as follows: Jared Taylor 6.5, Caleb Taylor 6.5, Todd Crawford 4.0, Josh Elander 4.0, Robert Craig 3.0 and Jake Usery 3.0. The Taylor brothers also won plaques in the individual category, tying for 4th place.

Michael Spinali won the open section of the Pulaski November Open and Scholastic (11/4). Three players had tie scores in the U1600 section: David Johanssen, Richard Wright and Michael Emerson. Rohit Mittal won the scholastic section. Congratulations to Fred Lemke and the newly formed Pulaski Chess Club!

Stan Carter won the November Three Rivers Smash in Batesville (11/4). We tip our hat though to Emi Stuart (Sorry Stan). Emi had drawn games with both Stan and Steve Paulson in that event.

The Searcy Knightlife Chess Club has a website library to promote the sharing of chess materials among its members. Club librarians are Steve Rice, Randy Grove and Donnie Cox Club members who have chess materials such as books, videos, software, etc. that they are willing to share shall submit, via e-mail to a club librarian, a list of each item that they wish to make available through the library. The list shall include the title, author, and a brief description. The club librarian shall post on the club’s website a composite list which includes the item’s title, author, description, owner, and owner’s contact information. Members who wish to borrow an item from the library shall contact the owner directly. Arrangements for the loan of all materials are to be agreed upon between owner and borrower. Neither the club nor librarians shall have any responsibility for the terms of the borrowing, failures to return borrowed materials, or for any damage to any returned materials. Club members may remove or add items to the library at any time by e-mailing the club librarian. Materials owned by the club shall be kept and supervised by Randy Grove.

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