The Chess for Charity tournament held by Andrew Shermeyer to benefit St. Jude Children’s Hospital was an unqualified success. Congratulations to the winners of each bracket and kudos to the Shermeyer family for organizing this event. Everyone had a good time playing and winning some wonderful raffle prizes! The Shermeyers would like to say…
Thank you to all who participated in making this event so successful:
Newark Charter School for donation of the space and custodial support,
The Learning Station, BEST BUY and Days of Knights for their gracious
donation of raffle prizes and Rick Martin and the Bear Library Chess
Club for allowing the use of their chess sets. Another thank you goes
to Dr. Tom Fleetwood and Bob Wilder for their support, guidance and
invaluable expertise in officiating the tournament. Finally, thank you
to Andrew Shermeyer who came up with the idea and worked very hard to
organize the event.
An exciting and surprising part of the tournament was that for quite a
few players, it was their very first experience in a chess tournament.
This type of tournament was perfect for them because the competitiveness
was very low key. Hopefully a positive experience at Chess for Charity
will encourage those players to explore more opportunities for
tournament play.
You can find the full results and some tournament pictures by clicking on over to http://www.delawarechess.org/tournaments/chesscharity.htm