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Chess Life Online 2014 July US Girls Closed Set for New Hampshire, July 17-21
Chess Life Online 2014 July US Girls Closed Set for New Hampshire, July 17-21 | US Girls Closed Set for New Hampshire, July 17-21 |
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| By Nita Patel | |
| July 10, 2014 | |
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MANCHESTER, NH, 7 July 2014 - The University of New
Hampshire at Manchester and Relyea Chess will host the first ever United States
Girls Junior Closed Championship, July 17 through July 21. Concurrent with the
championship the New Hampshire Chess Association will host a 2-hours "Basics of
Chess" classroom for young girls and boys within the Manchester community. The US Girls Junior Closed Championship is a prestigious, nine-round tournament that will have ten of the top-rated girls (under age 20) in the United States. The winner will be recognized internationally as the US Girls Closed Champion by the United States Chess Federation, will receive a $2,000 cash prize and will be awarded a $10,000 scholarship to the University of New Hampshire.
In 1966, the United States Chess Federation started the US Junior Closed Championship, which provides the winner a seat into the US Championship.
This year, F. Alex Relyea, FIDE arbiter and Associate National Tournament
Director based in Bedford, NH, decided that an equally prestigious event for
girls should exist.
The first girls vying for the US Girls Closed Champion title
include Maggie Feng (Women Candidate Master), Apurva Virkud (Women Candidate
Master), Jennifer Yu (Women FIDE Master), Akshita Gorti (Women FIDE Master),
Becca Lampman, Claudia Munoz (Women Candidate Master), Alexandra, Wiener, Carissa
Yip (special wild-card invitation as highest ranked girl in New England), Alice
Dong, and Kimberly Ding (Women FIDE Master).
The opening ceremony will be at 8:00am on Thursday, July 17
in room 323 at the University of New Hampshire at Manchester campus, 400
Commercial Street, Manchester, NH. All games are free and open for public
viewing. Spectators are invited to attend. Details can be found at www.relyeachess.com.
The "Basics of Chess" short course will be held from 1-3pm
EDT on Friday, 18 July in the University of New Hampshire auditorium. The
course will be led by NH Chess Association scholastics coordinators, Vince
Bradley, Eugene Tappen and Nita Patel.
Relyea Chess is dedicated to bringing high quality,
specialty chess tournaments to New England. For example, Relyea Chess hosted a
first-ever 26-person round robin blitz tournament, directed the prestigious New
England Open multiple times and organized a unique FIDE, invitational, round
robin. Relyea Chess is a private organization affiliated with the United States
Chess Federation.
Contact:
Nita Patel
Relyea Chess, Publicity
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