PCS 2011-2012 Grand Prix Season!

Professional Chess Services

2011-2012 Grand Prix Series

October 1^st, 2011 DSA

November 5^th , 2011 DSA

December 10^th, 2011 DSA

January 14^th, 2012 DSA

February 21^st , 2012 DSA

March 24^th, 2012 DSA

Dear all, we hope that you have had a great summer. It is time to kick off another Grand Prix season!

This season will consist of 6 Tournaments in which a team must participate in at least 4 tournaments to qualify for a team trophy. There will be 5 USCF rated divisions K1, K3, K5, K8, K12 and a non-member division. Individual trophies will be given out each tournament. Teams will receive certificates each tournament and awarded team trophies when the season concludes. All tournaments this year will be held at the state of the art Divine Savior Academy. It is a beautiful playing site that the players really enjoy. It is located at 10311 NW 58 St, Doral.  All tournaments will start at 9am sharp, and will consist of 5 rounds, 30 min. each player. For more info please email chessgil@gmail.com or call 305.495.8155 or 786.543.3547. All information will be posted at www.gonzalezrenier.com. This season we will have monthly updates on team standings, and have a room for parents and coaches where they can watch videos. Lunch and snacks will be available on-site. We will also have weekly info and updates that you can find on http://professionalchess.blogspot.com/ This year registration will be done by submitting a roster with; name, division, USCF ID, school name, and rating.  The cost is $12 per tournament or $10 if you pay for the season $60 (cash, check,).

The non-member division will be open to all players. The prizes for the non-member division will be USCF memberships and certificates to the Top 3 players (10 player minimum).

Please feel free to email chessgil@gmail.com if you have any questions.

Happy New Year!

PCS would like to wish you all a Happy New year! Thank you for your continuos support of Professional Chess services. Our next tournament will be on Saturday January 9th at DSA. Here are the Top Team results of our last tournament. We look forward to seeing you all on January 9th.


K1


1st Amelia
2nd EBTEL
3rd Everglades


K3


1st Amelia
2nd Bay Harbor
3rd Coral Reef
4th John Smith
5th Everglades


K5


1st DSA
2nd Everglades
3rd Amelia
4th Bay Harbor
5th USA


K8


1st Hialeah Gardens
2nd DSA
3rd Everglades
4th Rockway
5th USA


K12


1st Ferguson
2nd Doral
3rd Ronald Reagan
4th Nautilus

PCS Grand Prix 3 This Saturday December 12th

PCS GP 3 is this Saturday December 12th at DSA. We look forward to seeing you all there. Please remember to email your registration to chessgil@gmail.com.


Thank you!

PCS GP 2 Results

Thank you all for a successful PCS Grand Prix 2 Tournament! We are proud that we had a great tournament on Saturday and we are looking forward to our next tournament on December 12th. Also please note that Gp2 has been rated for all sections. Below are the team standings.


K1


1st Everglades
2nd EBTEL
3rd Amelia


K3


1st Amelia
2nd Bay Harbor
3rd Everglades


K5


1st Amelia
2nd Bay Harbor
3rd DSA
4th Everglades
5th Calusa


K8


1st Hialeah Gardens
2nd DSA
3rd Bay Harbor
4th Everglades
5th Rockway


K12


1st Ferguson
2nd Terra
3rd Nataulis


Have a very Happy Thanksgiving and see you all on December 12.

PCS GP 2 Saturday November 14th

PCS GP 2 Saturday November 14th 2009.


Please send your registration to ChessGil@gmail.com

Tal Memorial 2009

The Tal Memorial 2009 will be one of the strongest tournaments of recent times. With 8 of the world's top 10 participating. To win this tournament will be an incredible feat. Let's just hope that the players come to fight. Usually in a tournament this strong there is an very high draw percentage. Morozevich, Ivanchuk and Carlsen will come to play. It will be hard to predict the mindset of the other players. Anand has an upcoming World Championship title defense, Kramnik can win this tournament if he decides he wants to, or you can expect an equal to +1 score if he is just looking for an equal result. Aronian is the man to beat lately. Gelfand, Leko, and Svidler you can expect many draws from an they will be happy with and equal score. Ponomariov has not been playing enough chess lately to be able to compete in such a strong event. I will be very surprised if one of the top 4 seeds do not win this event. If Carlsen can pull off another performance like he did in Nanjing, he will be without doubt the world #1. 


Viswanathan Anand 2788
Levon Aronian 2773
Magnus Carlsen 2772
Vladimir Kramnik 2772
Peter Leko 2762
Vassily Ivanchuk 2756
Boris Gelfand 2756
Alexander Morozevich 2750
Peter Svidler 2741
Ruslan Ponomariov 2741

Ray Robson America's Newest GM! Go Ray!

Ray Robson is now Grandmaster Robson. Congratulations Ray! Ray made his 3rd and final GM norm in Montevideo, Uruguay this weekend. Ray at 14 is now the youngest ever GM to play for America. He will turn 15 this month on the 25th. It will be interesting to see the changes in him now that he is a GM.

Next tournament November 14th

Next PCS tournament will be November 14th at D.S.A.

Thank you!