You are invited to the 2011 Columbia Chess and Chess.com Meetup and Tourney April 16th 2011

Location: The British Bulldog Pub |1220 Bower Parkway E-10 Bower Pkwy, Columbia, SC 29212

Open to all. Rated and Unrated play available

Rated rounds starts at 10 AM byes available. $1 entry for rated tournament.

3 round rated rounds at 10 , 1 and 4. G60 +30sec inc or G75 +5sec del

 Please let me know by Thursday April 14th if you would like to play or just show up and have a great time.

Sponsored by Chess.com Meetup and Columbia Chess http://www.columbiachess.com

This a different venue from our regular weekly meetings on Thursdays at 7 PM

Ashland United Methodist Church

2600 Ashland Rd

Columbia, SC 29210

Thanks,

Daniel M.Smith
daniel@columbiachess.com

Plan on being there unless the sky falls or the wind changes....

Although I didn't play in the tournament, I was pleased to attend for a time.  Anyone who has viewed my profile knows I like to play & imbibe.  This venue was good on both points.

What I missed was the chess.com part.  Point being, who's who?  Some of us may already be aware but I know only a few faces to connect to the handles on chess.com.  Beyond the "who's who" part; why are certain people not members of chess.com?

As I understand it, there are over 200 South Carolina members of USCF.  Yet there are less than 70 who are members of the SC Group on chess.com.  Why?

Now I don't suppose there is one definitive reason.  That would make the solution too simple.  But each of us could make a point of encouraging others to join chess.com & to paraphrase Martha Stewart...  that would be a good thing.

Thnaks for the comments.

We added a few more memberships and I posted some handles with some real names.  Hope this helps.

http://blog.chess.com/SunTzuLombardi/columbia-chess-chesscom-meetup-april-16th