NEW VIDEOS POSTED

For Christmas break, I thought I would post some more essential videos.

Please see our MSCC Video Library to see the new ones added.

A few words about Chess.com

First - THANK YOU to those parents who have signed up their kid(s) to chess.com, and who have given me their userID.

I have looked at several user's games, and forgot to mention one thing -

Chess.com starts a player at 1200 rating, which is a very strong rating- stronger than all but the top 4 boards or so on our varsity team (and we won our conference).  Not sure why they do this... but what this means is, your child will probably lose several games before winning their first game.  Their rating will drop and drop until it finds the right level.

Please tell them NOT TO GET FRUSTRATED AT FIRST as they play against much better players- they should use these games as important lessons, and go back and replay those games to think about mistakes they made, and what they could have done better.

They should be proud in the beginning to be around 500 or so.  Anything better than that and they're starting to learn some chess!

P.S. please keep those chess.com IDs coming... I am seeing some important things about what our kids need to learn in class!!!  

P.P.S. I will never share a kid's userID!!  and I will also never share a kid's game with the class or with anyone else without that kid's permission.

Great turnout tonight for pizza and chess!  Thanks to Leah and Summer for their hard work!

For tonight's lesson's Mark taught the green & white groups, Danny the blue group, and Matt the red and black groups.

Happy Holidays everyone.  Play chess over the break!

Merry Christmas / Happy Holidays to All!

Hoping everyone has a safe, warm, fun, relaxing time with family and friends this holiday season.
NO CLASS on Dec 25 of course, or on New Years Day.
Our high school team has a very difficult away match at Brookfield Academy on Jan 7.
Next class for everyone is Wed Jan 8, ... then...
Our own tournament on Jan 11 at Lake Denoon Middle School!  We have added unrated divisions for K-3 and K-6, so mark down that date for all white division players to jump into the mix and compete against other schools and cities.
Two weeks after that, we have another IAC "Grand Prix" event at Star of Bethlehem church in New Berlin.

Be like Santa!  Practice chess at home on chess.com and chesstactics.com, or of course by playing some "real" games with family or friends (or elves).

- Mr Seghers

great job at BA!

Lots of good things happened at brookfield academy!  Here is a link to the full results.
Congratulations to:

• Everyone who participated in this tournament!  Especially the younger players in their first or second tournament!
• Joel Otterbacher for taking 9th in K3 unrated with 2.5 points
• David Bundy, Nick Schuster, and Anoushka Prasad for getting 2.5 points in their first tournament and earning their Blue wrist bands
• Gavin Joers for earning 3 points and taking 10th place in the K-3 Rated section, and Nelson Klein for earning 2.5 and taking 15th place.
• Will Schantz and Alyssa Przedwiecki for each earning 3.0 points in the tough K-6 rated division and taking 9th and 12th overall.
• Mitchell Salentine for overcoming a tough start to earn 2 points in the same tough division- welcome back to tournaments, Mitchell!
• Jason Markowski (2nd=4.0), Evan Seghers (3rd=4.0), Reid Seghers (7th=3.5), and Rachel Gomoll (12th=3.0) for finishing in the top 12 for K-12 rated.  
• John Lamb for winning 2 in his first scholastic tournament.
• Congrats also to those who stuck it out in a very tough tournament and kept a positive attitude, and remained committed to improving their chess game.  We have a great group of kids in Muskego!

                                      Way to go, David!

BA tournament begins!

School Teams for Tournaments

We would like to put together a full team for each school, if we can!  That's not so easy.  The way we did it in the past, kids would ask their friends to join the team, and they would play together in tournaments.  Right now we have a big club, but the tournament participation is very scattered.
Chess on your own is fun, and you still have the other Muskego kids with you!  But chess AS A TEAM, together with your school winning a team trophy, is really a blast!
Our same group of Evan, Reid, Jason, Jorin, Kolt, Rachel, and others have been playing together for many years.  We would like to see if we can get the same thing going within different schools - especially in the same grade, so they can play in the same division every year as they grow up!
Just some food for thought.  If any parents have any ideas here, please let me know.  - Mark S