Dolphin Kings Chess Club

      We have a chess club at R. L. Stevens School for 4th, 5th and 6th graders. They are called the "Dolphin Kings." There are about 50 kids in our chess club. Mrs. Huffstutter our librarian, runs the chess club. She has been doing it for 10 years. We have a new chess teacher this year. His name is Mr. Dennis Yarnell. We really like him. He explains everything so that we understand it.
       Every Thursday we meet at lunch in the library. We also can come before school every day to play chess and sometimes at recess.

 This year in 2004 the  President of our chess club isParik T. . Ricardo M. is the vice president. The duty of the President and Vice President is to organize other tournaments.
 
 

             We also have a ladder tournament. Our ladder tournament is 4 months long and has about 40 people participating. Each participant's slot on the ladder is chosen at random. Once they know their number they can challenge somebody 1 or 2 slots ahead of them. If the challenger wins then they both switch places, if the person that was challenged wins they both stay the same. The object is to get to the top of the ladder as fast as you can. The top ten people in the ladder tournament at the end, get a prize.
 

     Our very last tournament is the quad tournament. In our quad tournament, four chess club members compete in one match against each player. Who ever has the most victories once everybody in the group plays each other is the champion of the group. If two people tie then they play each other again.