The Arizona Scorpions have officially broken over 100 fans on Facebook in a little under 5 days on the website. We have 108 fans officially now and it will hopefully continue to climb. To visit the Facebook Scorpion Fan Site or to become a fan there you can click here. Invite your friends! Go Scorpions!
The Scorpions have joined Facebook and Twitter. You can become a fan of the Scorpions by visiting their Facebook page.
You can also make comments on Twitter about the Scorpions anytime…including during matches! You will see new Twitter feeds on the right as they accumulate.
Good luck to the Scorpions on Wednesday! The match will be starting at 6:00 PM AZ time and 9:00 PM ET. The match will be in Tucson, AZ at the University of Arizona, Cesar Chavez building room 406. Hope to see you all there or on ICC!
GM Susan Polgar announced today that Danny Rensch has been invited (and confirmed) to play in the next SPICE Cup. The SPICE Cup is an international FIDE tournament, to be held September 19-29, at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX.
Danny will be hunting for his final IM norm.
FM Danny Rensch of Arizona has confirmed his participation in the SPICE Cup B
group. I was so impressed when I read a story about him. That is why I decided
to invite Danny to give him an opportunity to earn his third and final IM norm.
Group B will be a 10-player round-robin event (Category 11-12). So far the confirmed players are:
Good luck Danny! We hope you get your norm (and title)!!!
Welcome to the new Arizona Scorpions website.
The Arizona Scorpions are part of the US Chess League.
The newly created 9 Queens Foundation, created by Tucsonan Jean Hoffman and WGM Jennifer Shahade, recently ran a large tournament in Tucson with the famous rap star and avid chess player and fan, RZA. You can find out more about the 9 Queens foundation at http://www.9queens.org/. Many of Tucson’s junior players helped run the main blitz tournament as well as some other events, such as a simul, blindfold chess, teaching sessions and much more. A three part video about the event can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/user/J9QUEENS.
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