Time Flies When You're Having Fun!

I haven't posted here in 3 months. Too many other things fighting for attention...

In the past three months the MadWash Chess Club has sponsored two tournaments; both were a great success! Last year, I hit my limit as far as how big of a tournament to have. Checkmate Hunger hosted 242 chess players. We didn't have the room or resources to accommodate that many players and the families members who came with them. We made it work, but it was stressful. At the Warsaw Winter Tournament last year, we had about 160 players; again, too many for the venue. We tried pulling back on the advertising of the tournaments this year and ended up with manageable numbers; around 160 for checkmate hunger and 135 for the Warsaw Winter Tourney. We now have a nice core of 6 volunteers who help make the tournament and the concessions run smoothly. With a little extra help from the Warsaw High School student council we've been very efficient and productive!

We are now done with tournaments until next season. I've already updated the flyers for next year's tournaments and have fixed the errors that I made on this year's flyers. Even after 15 years of organizing tournaments I still make mistakes on them! I'm sure that there's something I'll miss on next year's flyers!