Saskatchewan Scholastic Chess Association (SSCA)

This year's Provincial Championship saw forty seven students compete for the right to represent Saskatchewan at the Canadian Chess Challenge in May. The large field, coupled with a number of veteran chess players who did not play this year, resulted in many new grade champions being declared. There was a lot of exciting chess played as there were tie-breaker games in three grades. Here are the results, grade by grade.
Michael Mroske edged out Matthew Peters in grade one to win an invitation to Nationals.

For all of you who have been invited to this year's Provincial Chess Challenge Championship, please note that you must Pre-Register for the tournament. You pre-register by contacting the Tournament Director, Don MacKinnon, at donmac451@sasktel.net, or by telephone at 306 445 8369.

The February issue of Scholar's Mate is now online. To download the e-magazine (DNL or PDF file) to your computer, please visit the Scholar' s Mate page on the Chess'n Math Association website. No login is necessary to download this issue. Scholar's Mate is a great little magazine for beginner to improving chess players. I highly recommend it.

The Saskatoon Regional Scholastic Chess qualifier tournament will be held at St. George School, located at 748 Redberry Road in the North end of Saskatoon, on Saturday, March 24th, 2012. The tournament will start a little later than in past years, with a start time scheduled for 11:30 a.m. (We will aim to have two rounds before lunch, with lunch scheduled for 1:00 p.m.) The tournament should be over by around 4:00 to 4:30 p.m.

We are pleased to announce three Regional Scholastic Provincial qualifier chess tournaments being held to determine those chess players who will be invited to the Provincial Championships.
On Sunday, February 12th, in North Battleford, there will be held the North Battleford Regional qualifier tournament at E.M.B.M. school. (That is Ecole Monseigneur Blais Morand School located at 1651 - 96th Street, North Battleford). The tournament starts at 10:15 a.m. with registration starting at 9:45 a.m. Contact Don MacKinnon to pre-register at donmac451@sasktel.net.

The December issue of Scholar's Mate is now online. To download the e-magazine (DNL or PDF file) to your computer, please visit the Scholar' s Mate page on our website. No login is necessary to download this issue.
Scholar's Mate is always worth reading as a way to improve your chess. I hope that many of you will take a look at it.