Mille felicitazioni!

Stolen from Tom Panelas on Facebook (and you are already a member of the Chicago Area Chess  Facebook group, no?)

Congratulations to Marco Codenotti of Pisa, Italy, who reports that he’s just earned his IM title. Marco is a former Chicagoan, Hyde Parker, and student at William H. Ray Elementary School. His father told me a few years ago that Ray was the place where Marco started getting serious about chess. He played for the school in the 2005 CPS elementary school championships at Lane Tech, at least one or two of Mike Cardinale’s YCFC tournaments, and possibly one of Zack Fishman's Navy Pier events, though I’m not sure about the latter. He also did Wayne Smith’s summer chess camp at Kennicott Park in Kenwood. Marco is 15 or 16, which means he’s certainly on track to make GM in due course.

 International Master Marco Codenotti of Chicago Pisa

Tom had blogged about Marco as early as 2007.

Congratulations to Marco and his family!  (Well, we still have the Leaning Tower Y....)

All Grade at Whitney Young November 13th!

From the Illinois Chess Coaches Association blog:

ALL-GRADE SPECIAL ENTRY

2010 ILLINOIS K-12 ALL-GRADE STATE CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP

Entry Fee: $125 per High School until Nov 10th. BRING Everybody for the fee of five.

Coaches can pay team registration fee at the tournament or online.

Register your teams at www.chessteachers.org 

USCF Membership required--However, we can provide a one day membership that is valid for this event only. The fee for the one-day membership is $7 per player.

USCF Memberships can be purchased at USCHESS.org. We recommend a yearly membership for each player. 

Presented by  Whitney Young Magnet High School, Chess Education Partners, and the Youth Chess Foundation of Chicago

Individual entry fee is $25/player until Nov 5th.

If you have any questions, contact Paul Kash at pjkash@cps.edu or 773-512-2811

2010 Chess Camps: Chess Education Partners

The kids are getting out of school soon, and Chess Education Partners has wonderful camps taught by masters to keep their mischievous minds (ages 6 to 14) occupied:

• June 14-18 - Hinsdale
• June 21-25 - Latin School, Chicago
• June 28-July 2 - Mount Prospect (with GM Nikola Mitkov!)

Follow this link for more information!

GM Mitkov's chess clinic: January 18th in Rockford

Details here!