Merry Christmas

To the  mighty and strong chess players: the Royal Knights,
my warmest wishes full of happiness and joy to you all.
You have done a great job building your game up this year.
I am so proud of you all: 

2010 Texas State Grades Championships

The Royal Knights came to Brownsville's Veterans Memorial
High School to participate in 14th Annual Texas K-12 Chess
Championships in the hope of bringing home the TROPHY.
Jonathan Olivares, a six grader at Edinburg's South Middle
School was sick Friday, but still managed  to win 5 points to
become a 6th grade Co-Champion but after tied-breakers took
home a 3rd place trophy.  Ashley Pena, a fourth grader at
Edinburg's Canterbury Elementary has really improve her game.
She won 5 of  her  6 chess matches to tie for 2nd place and
after tied-breakers took the 7th place trophy home.
Nathaniel Morales,  Canterbury's top board and one strong
chess student played  his way to a 6th place finish with 5 won
games and the 2nd grade trophy.
Elian de los Santos, a 2nd grader at Brownsville's  Elgy
Elementary was sick with a fever Thursday and Friday before
the chess tournament but still managed to win the 8th place trophy.
Philip Martinez, senior class president and captain of the
Porter Chess Team took home the 4th place trophy.

       Teams that won a trophy:
          South Middle School
         6 grade              3rd place

         Canterbury Elementary
        Kinder                2nd place
       1st grade              5th place
       2nd grade             2nd place
        3rd grade             8th place
        4th grade             4th place
        5th grade             8th place

Royal Knights help Canterbury Win

The Royal Knights came to Porter High School Chess Tournament
Saturday, October 16, 2010 to bring home "the Trophy".
Last year's State Champions (Canterbury K-1 team) took
1st Place with a commanding lead. This Primary Team will take
state again this year. Royal Knights includes:
Nathaniel J. Moralez, last year's Regional co-champion lead
the way with 4.5 points, Armando N. Ponce also 4.5 points,
Kristopher L. Solis 4.0 points, Nicolas Garcia last year's
National trophy winner added 4.o points and Justin J. Gonzalez
contribute 3.5 points. The team total score was 17.0 points.
Yes, the Royal Knights are the power behind this winning and
powerful Canterbury Primary Chess Team.

Chess Season 2010-2011

A new chess season is upon us.  Chess tournaments are
scheduled and  pairings will be up soon.
"Will you bring back the point" as stated at Nationals.
I know you will....I believe in you....
Remember Royal Knights are Winners and Leaders.
My work in the upper Valley continues.  My goal is
to balance the chess powers. The road to the
championship level is not an easy one, however strong
chess players are being develop. New champions are
coming from the Upper Valley....be prepare !

Brownsville Chess Club meets every Friday

The  Brownsville Royal Knights Chess Club 
will start meeting on  Fridays 3:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
The idea is to strengthen our Scholastic Division.  I want to
provide students the resources they need to develop and
improve their chess game.  I invite you to play a game of chess.

Playing last week was Philip Martinez 1724, Ray Martinez 1665,
Jon Beaudry 1544, Edgar Santoyo 1529, Brianna Guillen 1421,
Christian Muraira 1385, Ricardo Santoyo 1346, Jon S. Flores 1204,
Daniel Soto, Anthony Guerra, Jesse Guillen, Jorge Mares,  and
Guadalupe Lopez.

Club member Jon Beaudry wanted to analysis some Sicilian Lines.
We stayed until almost 9:00 p.m. We open some books and went at it.