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California Chess Journal goes digital
As you can see, the California
chess Journal has taken on a
new form. In order to reduce
costs and take advantage of
some of the opportunities
given to us by the latest technology, we are now presenting
the Journal in a digital form. All
CalChess members will now
received its printable digital
publication, In this way we can
reduce our fees, while at the
same time offering those who
prefer a printed version the
opportunity to subscribe at a
rate which will simply cover
CalChess Board of Directors:
Elizabeth Shaunessy, President
Eric Hicks, Vice President
Richard Koepcke, Treasureer
Roger Poehlmann, Secretary
Michael Aigner (Clearinghouse)
Jacob Green
Joe Lonsdale
John McCumiskey
Eric Schiller
Steve Smith
the additional costs involved in
producing the printed version.
This first issue of the digital
couch as journal is a big experimental, and it will take
some time for us to work out
the best possible presentation
of material. We welcome your
comments and criticisms and
have set up a web page at the
CalChess site for your use.
The PDF format is crossplatform and universal, and
most of you probably have
software to read the files. We
feel it is the best format to
reach all of our members. It is
a big file, especially when we
use a lot of color photographs.
So we have emailed a special
link for downloading the file,
rather than sending it by email.
If you are online when reading
this, you can click on links to
take you directly to web pages.
Remember, this issue is highly
experimental, We rely on your
feedback to help create an
ideal publication.
Eric Schiller, Editor.
Chess is booming in California!
Although both the
United States chess
Federation and the
world chess Federation
are facing major challenges at the moment,
just in California is doing very well indeed.
We have a chess playing
governor, the tournament calendar is nearly
full, and more kids than
ever are involved in
scholastic chess programs.
Traditional chess tournaments are adapting
their formats to make it
possible to participate
even taking into account how busy most
people are. There are
unlimited opportunities
to play chess online,
most of them for free.
2005 is going to be a
banner year for chess!
Matthew Ho at World Youth Championships
San Jose junior NM Matthew Ho was selected
to represent the United
States at the World
Youth Chess Championship in Crete, Greece
on November 4-13.
Matthew is the highest
rated junior in Northern California, with current ratings of 2259
USCF and 2277 FIDE.
He has his work cut out
for him in Greece, since
he is seeded 41st out of
116 players in the B16
(boys 16-and-under)
section, with two
Grandmasters sitting at
the top boards. Matthew joins the 24-player
delegation of American
kids who play in five age
categories. Southern
Californians NM Elliott
Liu (B16) and WFM
Tatev Abrahamyan
(G16) are the only
other west coast participants. Full results
available online.
Michael Aigner
Matthew finished with an
even score in the impressive field.—ed.