Sunday, March 24, 2024

 2024 WI State Scholastic Championships at UW Oshkosh

On Saturday the MSCC brought just 4 players to our year end event held at UW Oshkosh, which was run by the IAC.  It was very well run for a busy one day event that had close to 300 players in K5, K8 and K12 (plus another 100 players in the K12 team format event).


K8 

Mia had 2 wins on the day, Mason had 2-1/2 wins and Anthony led the way with 4 wins and an 11th place finish (actually tied for 6th place) !

K12

Luke had 3 points for the day - 2 wins & 2 draws


Everyone played some very good rounds and had some good competition as well.

It was a great way to finish the year, officially for the club, anyway.  There are a couple other events still going on in April for anyone who wishes to join (I'll forward emails).

Looking forward to seeing everyone in fall!

Coach Dan 




Sunday, March 10, 2024

 Grade Level Championships - UWM 

Our Muskego club brought 6 players to UWM this weekend to participate in the annual Grade Level Championships, run by Wisconsin Scholastic Chess.  It was a great event with 375 players present!


Our players did great, and we took home a few trophies as well!


Grade 5

  • Ashton played in his first tournament this year and took 3 out of 5, just missing out on the trophies!
Grade 7
  • Austin took 3 out of 5, also just missing out on the trophies.  Mason won 4 out of 5 and took home the 3rd place trophy!
Grade 8
  • Anthony also took 4 out of 5 and a 3rd place trophy!
High School
  • Josh took 2.5 out of 5 in only his second tournament this year.  Luke took 3.5 out of 5 and a 10th place trophy!

Everyone did a great job representing our club, showing good sportsman ship and playing solid games along w/ notation.






Next up, and likely the last of the chess year - State Scholastic Championship at UW Oshkosh campus - March 23rd - one day only this year!

Remember - no class this week, March 13


Sunday, January 28, 2024

 Brookfield East Spartan Open

We brought 4 players to Brookfield East yesterday in a well run tournament by the IAC, with about 100 players in attendance.


K12 rated 

  • Luke was our only player in this section - he played very well, taking 3 out of 4 and finished in 3rd place!
K8 rated 
  • Shout-out to Carter, Mason and Austin - all of them stepping up and playing in their first rated tournament which is not easy to do!
  • Carter had a solid win.  Austin took 3 out of 5, and Mason took 3.5 out of 5, just missing out on a trophy.
Great job to all for playing & representing our club well!





Monday, January 22, 2024

 Midwest Regional Championships 

...were held at UW Milwaukee campus on Saturday.  This is a new event that was run by both the IAC and WSCF, thus having both WSCF sections and USCF rated sections.  This tournament brought in close to 200 players and should only get bigger in the coming years.

The MSCC brought 5 players to the event and our teams did VERY well, bringing home many trophies.

Our 5 players were in 3 different sections, as you'll see below, and we took 1st place in every one of those sections!  I don't recall having done that before, so this turned out to be a very nice event for our club!

WSCF U900

  • In this section we had Mason and Austin.  Austin took 3.5 out of 5 and finished in 9th place.  Mason went 5 for 5 and took the first place trophy!
USCF U800
  • Anthony and Grant played in this section.  Grant had two points, and Anthony took 4.5 out of 5 and took the first place trophy!  In addition, the team of Anthony & Grant took the 2nd place trophy!
USCF U1200
  • Quinn was our only player in this section and he took 4 out of 5 and also took the first place trophy!

Great job to everybody!!