Community Education and Recreation: Mr. Ray Garrison's Chess Classes

Clague K-6 State Champions 2009

Chess & Games

with

Mr. Ray Garrison

Thurston Champions 2007

Note from Ray,

On Saturday, (2/14/09) the Michigan Chess Association hosted the 27th annual state team chess championships at MSU. It was the largest ever with 151 teams competing.

I am proud to say that our teams won all three of the championship divisions.

Clague Middle School sent two teams of sixth graders to the K-6 team tournament. One team took 3rd place and the other team won the championship with a perfect 5-0 match score.

King Elementary won the K-5 championship outright with a 4.5 match score.

Logan Elementary and King Elementary tied for first place in the K-3 championship with 4.5. King and Logan drew each other in round 4 and King had to beat Thurston in the last round. This is the first championship that Logan has won.

Altogether, 59 kids, 15 teams, that I coach attended the event.

Ray

Mr. Ray Garrison is one of Michigan's top 100 rated tournament players. He is also ranked #1 out of more than 15,000 players at www.littlegolem.net one of the internet's leading thinking games website. Mr. Ray Garrison is the number one ranked player in the world at the strategy game "Breakthrough".

Chess improves critical thinking skills and concentration, encourages students to focus and learn problem solving skills, improves visualization skills and teaches the art of patience.

You are invited to join Mr. Garrison's chess or games classes!

Click on the ID numbers to get more details.

1317.511 Intermediate/Advanced, Tuesday 7:45am-8:48am 12/2-2/10 King

1317.512 Advanced, Tuesday 7pm-8:15pm 2/2-2/10 Logan

1317.513 Beginning/Intermediate, Wednesday 7:45am-8:48am 12/3-2/11 Wines

1317.514 Beginning/Intermediate, Thursday 5:30pm-6:45pm 12/4-2/12 Logan

1317.515 Intermediate/Advanced, Thursday 7:15pm-8:30pm 12/4-2/12 Northside

1317.516 Intermediate/Advanced, Friday 7:45am-8:48am 12/5-2/13 Thurston

1317.601 Beginning, Monday 7:45am-8:48am 3/16-5/11 Thurston

1317.602 Intermediate/Advanced, Tuesday 7:45am-8:48am 2/17-4/21 King

1317.603 Advanced, Tuesday 7pm-8:15pm 2/17-4/21 Logan

1317.604 Beginning/Intermediate, Wednesday 7:45an-8:48am 2/18-4/22 Wines

1317.605 Beginning, Thursday 7:45am-8:48am 2/19-4/23 King

1317.606 Beginning/Intermediate, Thursday 5:30pm-6:45pm 2/19-4/23 Logan

1317.607 Intermediate/Advanced, Thursday 7:15pm-8:30pm 2/19-4/23 Northside

1317.608 Intermediate/Advanced, Friday 7:45am-8:48am 2/20-4/24 Thurston

Stratego, Risk and other Strategy Games with Mr. Garrison

Grades 1-12. A large variety of thinking games will be discussed and practiced, both traditional and modern, including the very popular Risk and Stratego. The following games will also be introduced to the students: Cribbage, Backgammon, Go, Gomoku, Twixt, Breakthrough, Twixt, Connect 4, Chinese Chess, Shogi (Japanese Chess), Dvonn, Dots and Boxes, Lines of Action, Amazons, Blokus, Pentago, and more. There will be a Stratego tournament and a Risk tournament and at least one other tournament based on what the students want.

1319.601 Wednesday, 1/14-2/18 5:30pm-7:15pm

1319.611 Wednesday, 3/4-4/8 5:30pm-7:15pm

Any questions, call Ivy Juan at 734-994-2300 ext. 53248