St. Patrick's Day♣Tournament
Tokyo Bilingual Chess Club's St. Patrick's Day Scholastic Tournament held on March 16, 2024 was small but fun! People often wonder: “What is the true story of St. Patrick’s Day?” No body participated in this tournament was the Irish origin, but it's Okay!
Students are being taught by the top chess trainers in the world. It is absolutely astounding that we have access to these talented coaches. The Tournament Director, Alex A., explained how to use a chess clock as it is part of the game.
There were 18 players that came out during our tournament from at least 16 schools, including many middle schoolers and five girls.
We had two sections and the winners were :
Class A: Kairi Akiyama with 4.5/5.0
Class A: Kai Tatsumi with 4.0/5.0
Class A: Haruki Shimagaki with 3.0/5.0
Class A: Asami Inada with 3.0/5.0
When two or more players ended up with the same score, we had a blitz chess play-off, in which they
play one game of five-minute chess to determine who wins which trophy.
Class B: Natsuki Takizawa with 5.0/5.0
Class B: Nguyen Quang Minh with 3.0/5.0
Class B: Sana Kuwabara with 3.0/5.0
Class B: Alisa Chelyukanova with 3.0/5.0
The 1st place winner of each section received free entry fee for the next scholastic chess tournament.
All in all, it was a great experience for young players got a good opportunity to display to display their skills. It has assured us that chess is a game wherein children learn to be responsible for their actions. Thanks to Teacher Kevin for helping with monitoring the games and setting up and breaking down everything.
Also, thank you for being the best photographer, Hiroko A., Kairi's mom, in our chess community! It was a huge help and much appreciated.
Thank you to all who came out to and participated the St. Patrick's Day♧ Chess Tournament.
Please join us this spring for the Geek Pride 👽 Chess Tournament on Saturday, May 25th in Osaki.
Sponsorship Wanted!
A BRAVE NEW WORLD! NEW OPPORUNITIES if you are interested in sponsoring global-minded young chess players! Build and grow your brand with Tokyo Bilingual Chess Club!
TBCC Sponsorship is open to individual, groups of supporters and large and small businesses, which allows you to obtain opportunities to reach a specific demographic, such as multinational corporations and communities inside and outside of this country. It increases visibility for the company and its brand through CSR activities.
TBCC is currently seeking sponsors for our tournaments, events, fixtures and materials during the forthcoming season as follows:
● Chess sets, chess clocks, uniforms, trophies and other fixtures
● Expenses for travel, accommodation, other fees of chess coach associated with TBCC players in various internal and overseas tournaments
● Expenses for travel, accommodation, other fees of chess master invited to TBCC events
Tokyo Bilingual Chess Club is looking for sponsors to replace chess sets and clocks. TBCC is currently using used chess sets and clocks donated by parents and a former Japan Chess Association. (Thanks always for your support!) These chess sets and clocks are damaged and broken recently and required to be replaced for internal tournaments. Especially, chess clocks are broken so easily with TBCC's little players who are so curious with chess clocks 😢
The fact of young players who are representing Japan in the various world championship by a selection from the National Chess Society of Japan is that expenses related to the championship is paid by each family of the player. Depending on a financial situation of the family, a talented and unbeaten young player sometime needs to give up enrolling the world championship which would result in his/her great experience and future challenges. Imagine being given such an international opportunity, the total costs would be X,000,000 yen for travel and accommodations for a young player plus Dad/Mom to visit the other end of the globe for two weeks💦
Additionally, pro-rata expenses for travel, accommodation, other fees for a wonderful GM chess coach, who comes all the way from Serbia and supports the Japan Team during the world Championship, is paid by each family of a player.
Your sponsorship will be recognized on the TBCC's various courses of benefit plans as follows:
WHY DO WE DO IT?
My son enjoyed his K-5 elementary school chess club in Tokyo. He was really looking forward to playing the chess club champions from the other international schools at the upper elementary chess club. Then, before the summer break, we learned the bad news. The majority of international schools had no chess club for elementary students in Tokyo to experience the benefit of chess. I started to speak with the school principal, teachers, students and parents.
Afterward I wondered, "could a parent with no expertise in chess start a chess tournament at an elementary school in Tokyo???" After all, I'm barely a good match for my 6 year old son! As it turns out, there were some helpful web sites indicating, this is indeed possible! But, how? A couple of the sites even provided general descriptions of the process of starting a scholastic chess tournament. However, none gave a good detailed blow-by-blow description of the process with actual requirements, all the necessary documents and materials to pull it off. I needed a scholastic chess tournament start-up do-it-yourself kit for dummies. But, none existed.
It was hard to put the idea of starting a chess tournament aside, in spite of my ignorance on the subject. My son and a lot of other kids in Tokyo Bilingual Chess Club stood to benefit a lot from the effort.
There will be still a lot of details to sort out and materials to prepare for our tournaments and events.
Let us try! And then try again! Hang in there!
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