Seven days is more than enough time to make incredible improvements in your chess game at the Fremont Summer Chess Camp. Today, Coach Joe Lonsdale noticed how much stronger one of his future stars has become in just the last seven days!
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Fremont Summer Chess Camp: Day 7
July 9, 2015Happy Fourth of July from the Fremont Summer Chess Camp
July 4, 2015Fremont Summer Chess Camp July 4th Special
On Monday July sixth, the Fremont Summer Chess Camp welcomes world famous chess coach Jay Stallings. Coach Jay founded the highly regarded California Youth Chess League in 1996, authored the popular “Fried Liver & Burning Pants: Curious but True Chess Stories,” and created Coach Jay’s Chess Academy App which is far and away the best hi-tech learning tool available to scholastic chess players.
On Thursday of this week the Fremont Chess Camp will also welcome acclaimed author and master story teller Eric Schiller. USCF National Master Eric Schiller will discuss how to “tame the wild openings” in honor of his new book, “Taming Wild Chess Openings: How to Deal with the Good, the Bad and the Ugly over the Chess Board.”
*After their classes, both Coach Jay and Master Schiller will be available for autographs and photographs with camp attendees.
At the Fremont Summer Chess Camp, your child will live and breathe chess while our elite coaches provide them with the most incredible educational experience available.
Camp Registration Includes:
Classes with California’s best chess coaches:
Eric Schiller (National Master)
Jay Stallings (Creator of Coach Jay’s Chess Academy)
Emory Tate (International Master)
Joe Lonsdale (Head Coach for MSJE)
Chris Torres (Correspondence Chess Master)
The Fremont Summer Chess Camp also includes:
1:8 coach to camper ratio
Camp Tee Shirt
Certificate of participation
USCF Rated Tournaments
Weekly Awards
Mind Blowing Special Events
In addition, our camp includes supervised recesses which feature basketball, soccer and art activities. Your child is guaranteed to have a blast while training with the 2015 National Elementary Chess Championship Team at Mission San Jose Elementary School!
Extended care will be provided by the Achiever Institute
This class will meet from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM,
Mondays through Thursdays, June 29 to July 23
At Mission San Jose ES 43545 Bryant St. Fremont, CA.
REGISTER NOW!
I WOULD LIKE TO REGISTER FOR:
$222 for ONE WEEK
$414 for TWO WEEKS
$606 for THREE WEEKS
Click the links below to see pictures from the first week of the Fremont Summer Chess Camp 2015:
A Sterling Recommendation for the Fremont Summer Chess Camp
June 27, 2015Below is an honest appraisal on the value of our summer chess camp copied directly from an email by the Head Coach of Mission San Jose Elementary School Chess Program:
Banners displaying some of our students’ highest achievements.
Attached is the flyer for the summer 2015 chess program in the MSJE multipurpose room. Chris Torres has been running these programs for several years and they have been very helpful to many of our stars.
You can sign up for one week, two weeks, or the entire four week program.
These programs are good for beginners, advanced students, and students working on becoming advanced. Students will play actual rated games in the class. These games will be reviewed by the experienced instructors.
This year MSJE won the National Elementary Schools chess Championship at the United States Chess Federation tournament in Nashville. MSJE also won the Yes2Chess USA National Championship. Each member of our 5 player team and one of their parents were flown to London for the international championships against teams form seven other countries. These classes have had a lot to do with our success.
You can register for the program at http://chessandmusic.com//aboutus/ .
Joe Lonsdale
MSJE Chess Coach
MSJE Wins the Yes2Chess International School Team Championship in London!
June 25, 2015The kids from Mission San Jose Elementary School are headed home from London with a huge trophy for winning a prestigious international school team championship. This truly global chess tournament was organized by the UK based Yes2Chess and sponsored by Barclays. In order to represent the United States, Team MSJE first had to defeat the other top chess programs from the United States in the Yes2Chess National Championship. Once MSJE won there, our players were awarded with an all expenses paid trip to London for the International stage of the event.
Team USA from MSJE: (left to right) Annapoorni Meiyappan, Leo Jiang, Kevin Pan, David Pan, and Rishith Susarla
In London, the kids from MSJE made quick work of the top schools from Sweden, Spain and Norway. Next, the small school from Fremont, California was paired against the Portuguese champions in the Grand Final. MSJE did the USA proud by winning the Grand Final with a score of 4.5 – 1.5
Results from the 2015 Yes2Chess International Challenge Grand Finals
Many chess enthusiasts are likely unaware that the USA wouldn’t have been victorious if not for the amazing efforts of one Chess Mom, Hui Wang. I first met Hui at the Fremont Summer Chess Camp in 2011 and she has continually impressed me since then with her devotion to her children and chess. Behind every great chess team I have ever coached for is a parent or two who really are the unsung heroes. Parents like Hui and are a huge factor in Mission San Jose Elementary School’s and the United State’s chess success. At MSJE, this parent tradition extends back decades all the way to when Head Coach and Founder Joe Lonsdale started the group.
Yes2Chess finalists from eight different countries enjoying London together.
Of course it was the kids themselves who won the event. Team USA from MSJE was comprised of David Pan, Rishith Susarla, Kevin Pan, Annapoorni Meiyappan and Leo Jiang. Each of these children are chess stars in their own right and together they proved to be an unconquerable force with an overall record in the international stage of 16.5 wins out of a possible 20!
Kevin Pan hanging out with Grandmaster David Howell after Kevin defeated the GM in a simul!
The MSJE Fremont Summer Chess Camp starts on Monday June 29th. For more details and to sign up for the camp, please visit: http://chessandmusic.com/aboutus/
The Easiest Chess Move You’ll Ever Make…
June 22, 2015
Could be signing your children up for the Fremont Summer Chess Camp.
At the Fremont Summer Chess Camp, your child will live and breathe chess while our elite coaches provide them with the most incredible educational experience available.
Camp Registration Includes:
- Classes with California’s best chess coaches
- Emory Tate (International Master)
- Eric Schiller (National Master)
- Joe Lonsdale (Head Coach for MSJE)
- Chris Torres (Correspondence Chess Master)
- Jay Stallings (Creator of Coach Jay’s Chess Academy!)
- 1:8 coach to camper ratio
- Camp Tee Shirt
- Each camper will receive a certificate of participation
- USCF Rated Tournaments
- Weekly Awards
In addition, our camp includes supervised recesses which feature basketball, soccer and art activities. Your child is guaranteed to have a blast while training with the 2015 National Elementary Chess Championship Team at Mission San Jose Elementary School!
Fremont’s MSJE Wins its Third National Elementary Chess Championship!
May 11, 2015
MSJE is the 2015 USCF National Elementary Chess Champion
Mission San Jose Elementary School hasn’t just won a third National USCF K-6 Championship in just seven years. They’ve become a scholastic chess dynasty! And if ever a dynasty needs an icon, Head Coach Joe Lonsdale can fill that role quite capably for the MSJE Chess Team.
Head Coach Joe Lonsdale with his beautiful wife Donna DePietro Woods.
Perhaps you haven’t heard of Joe Lonsdale yet but he is worthy of being compared with such great coaches as Mike Krzyzewski, Gregg Popovich, or Phil Jackson. Coach Joe, who originally established the MSJE Chess Team for his sons back in 1990, has done much more than teach chess. He has created a model for running a successful scholastic chess program that is constantly being copied but never quite duplicated. Coach Joe’s approach to teaching chess isn’t rocket science. His coaching staff takes the time to thoroughly analyze every child’s game every Monday night as well as at all major chess events. Many coaches do something similar but lack the consistency and commitment to keep it up all year let alone for twenty-five years.
Every great coach needs more than his/her own skill and dedication to win national championships. It is, of course, the players who actually win the titles through competition. And MSJE had quite the talented bunch of kids playing in the Elementary Championship Section.
Teammates Kavya Sasikumar and Annapoorni Meiyappan.
The battle at the chess boards for these kids was difficult and in the end they received top honors by the slimmest of margins over I.S. 318 from New York. Sixth grader David Pan lead the charge by finishing tied for fifth place overall with an impressive 5.5/7. Super talented fourth grader Annapoorni Meiyappan finished only a half point behind David with 5/7. Next was the fourth grader Rishith Susarla with 4.5 and fifth grader Kavya Sasikumar with 4.
For now, it is once again time to celebrate a National Championship in Fremont, California. The victors can revel in their success. Soon after the party finishes, the kids will be coming to the Fremont Summer Chess Camp at, where else except for their own school’s gymnasium to hone their chess skills. Since only one of MSJE’s top scorers is graduating this year, you can bet they will be a strong favorite to repeat next year.
MSJE Coaches Joe Lonsdale and Chris Torres will be teaching at the Fremont Summer Chess Camp in Northern California. For more information on the Torres Chess and Music Academy and to register your child for the summer camp, please visit: http://www.chessandmusic.com
MSJE Wins Big at the 2015 Calchess Super States
May 8, 2015Coach Joe’s report on Mission San Jose Elementary School’s championship performance at the Calchess Scholastic State Championship.
Coach Joe celebrating with his students.
The 2015 Northern California Scholastic Chess Championships were held the weekend of April 26th and 27th at the Santa Clara convention center. Over 900 students and more the 50 schools competed in these championships. Mission San Jose Elementary school (MSJE) of Fremont was the big winner in the Elementary School Division. MSJE swept all of the Championships sections and won several of the Junior varsity sections and rookie sections.
The top elementary school section at these championships is the 4-6 Championship Division. For the first time in four years this section was competitive with Weibel close behind MSJE right up to the last round. With one round to go MSJE was ahead by a full point. However, the second highest rated player on the MSJE team, Annapoorni Meiyappan, had to miss the last round due to a commitment to a dance program (Annapoorni excels at dance and chess.) MSJE scored 1.5 points in the last round and Weibel scored two points. This left MSJE in first place by the smallest possible margin, a half point. The key to the victory was a draw by MSJE star Connor Chen (rated 1239) against Jeremy Chen (rated 1424) of Weibel. If Connor had lost this game, Weibel would have won the championship. The top scorers for MSJE were David Pan and Annapoorni Meiyappan (with 4.5 points), Connor Chen (with 4 points) and Mihir Bhuptani with 3.5 points. Abhinav Raghavendra, Amulya Harish, Luke Zhao, and Sriram Bharadwaj also competed for the MSJE K-6 Championship team.
The K-5 Championship section is the second highest elementary school section at the State Scholastic Chess Championships. This section was created in 2007 to give elementary schools without a grade 6 a fair chance to win a championship section. MSJE has won this section every year since it was created. Both MSJE and Weibel entered strong teams in the K5 Championship section. The MSJE team was headed by Rishith Susarla (rated 1956) the top player in the section. The Weibel team was headed by Oliver Wu (rated 1846) the second highest rated player in the section. Many observers expected these two stars to meet in one of the final rounds and determine the individual and possibly the team championship. However, in the second round Ryan Dong (rated 1228) of Chadbourne Elementary School beat Oliver Wu. This was a major upset and left the MSJE team ahead. Rishith continued winning all his games and was paired with Chenyi Zhao (rated 1818) in the last round. Rishith needed only a draw to secure the first place, but the Weibel team was only one point behind and Rishith needed a win to maximize the chances of the MSJE team winning. Rishith won his game with Chenyi and MSJE won a comfortable 19.0 to 17.5 victory in the K-5 Championship section.
The scoring players for the MSJE Championship K-5 team were Rishith Susarla, 6.0, Leo Jiang and Edwin Thomas, 4.5, Kavya Sasikumar, 4.0. Jaisuraj Kaleeswaran, Jeffrey Liu, Atul Thirumalai Sandeep Salwan, Edison Zhang, Jonathan Zhang and Shree Jay also competed for the MSJE K-5 team.
The K-3 Championship section is often called the primary school championship. MSJE won the first place team trophy in this section every year since 2008. Going into the last round MSJE was one point ahead of Weibel. The top four MSJE players (Kevin Pan, Arnav Lingannagari, Stephen He, and Nicholas Jiang) scored three wins and a draw. Weibel had a good last round with three points but this left MSJE in first place with 17 points to 15.5 points for Weibel. Aidan Chen, Allyson Wong, Shreyas Jay, Nivedha Maniv, and Vasu Rao also competed for MJSE in the K-3
The 2015 K-3 State Championship Team from MSJE.
MSJE also did very well in the other sections. The 1-3 unrated section is for players that have never played in a tournament before. Dhrish Karangula, Adit Mital, Aditya Sujay, and Adarsh Swarmy competed in this section. The team won the first place team trophy and Dhrish scored a perfect five wins in five games, tied for first place in the section, and won a large trophy.
Ekasha Sikka and Jason Liu (Pre K brother of Jolene and Jason Liu) competed in the kindergarten division. Both players won trophies. Jason won four of five games and tied for third place.
Vaibhav Wudaru, Monish Jonnadula, Ayaan Kassamali, and Siddharth Arutla competed in the 1-3 Junior Varsity division. Eight teams competed in this section. The MSJE team won the second place team trophy.
Carolyn McNay, Joshua Diao, Diya Sen, and Gursachi Sikka competed in the 4-6 Junior varsity division. Fifteen teams competed in this section. The MSJE team won the fifth place team trophy.
A group hug for the head coach.
Congratulations to the chess team for a clean sweep of all Championship sections at the Northern CA Scholastic Chess Championships.
Chess Coaches Joe Lonsdale Chris Torres
Div Harish Terry Liu
Mission San Jose Elementary School operates under the auspices of the Torres Chess and Music Academy. For more information on the TCAMA and our annual summer camp at MSJE please visit: www.ChessAndMusic.com
Calchess Super States 2015
May 2, 2015The Calchess Super States(Calchess Scholastic State Championships) is occurring this weekend at the Santa Clara Convention Center. For most, it will be an occasion for games to be won, rivalries to be rekindled and large trophies to be distributed. For myself, weekends like these are all about celebrating chess and teaching hundreds of young bright minds.
Below are some of my favorite teaching moments from day one:
Michael (fpawn) Aigner analyzing a chess game with Rishith Susarla.
MSJE Head Coach Joe Lonsdale thoroughly entertaining his students and their parents.
TCAMA Director of Instruction James Paquette doing what he does best. Teaching!
And then there was me helping out where I could.
I Endorse Joe Lonsdale for the Ohlone College Board of Directors
August 31, 2014It is my great pleasure to endorse Joseph Lonsdale Sr. for the Ohlone College Board of Directors. I have known Joe since he joined with the Torres Chess and Music Academy ten years ago. The Torres Chess and Music Academy is widely recognized as the highest quality provider of after-school youth chess programs in California and I am quite comfortable in stating that this would not be the case without the hard work and dedication of Joseph Lonsdale Sr.
TCAMA students, parents and faculty often remark that Joe is a very talented educator. What many of them overlook is how hard Joe has worked to achieve his coaching successes in the face of adversity. I experienced first hand the effort that he put into the Mission San Jose Elementary School Chess Team immediately following the death of his first wife to cancer. Within months of that tragedy, Joe managed to lead MSJE to the National Elementary Chess Championship Title and in doing so, became the first chess coach to ever achieve this goal with a school from California. Joe, to no one’s surprise, later accomplished leading a second team to the National Elementary Chess Championship and in doing so has established himself as one of the best team leaders, chess or otherwise, in the Bay Area.
Joe’s scholarship and background in education also give me every confidence that he will be an effective member of the Ohlone College Board of Directors. Joe’s scholarship includes a BS in Chemical Engineering from Northeastern University, an MS in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University and an MBA from Harvard University. Mr. Lonsdale was also an adjunct professor of finance in the MBA program at Golden Gate University for over 15 years. After successfully raising three sons who all graduated from prestigious universities, Joe is also well versed in the concerns of the parents of college students. Having been a college student at several top institutions of learning, a university professor and a Stanford Dad, Joe seems uniquely qualified for a leadership role at Ohlone College.
Seeing Joe Lonsdale’s unwavering concern for education and quality of life in Fremont, I believe Joe’s leadership will enable Ohlone College to obtain excellent results just as his efforts have done for the Torres Chess and Music Academy. I strongly endorse Joseph Lonsdale Sr. for a position on the Ohlone College Board of Directors.
Sincerely,
Chris Torres
President of the Torres Chess and Music Academy
www.ChessAndMusic.com
For more information on Joe Lonsdale’s candidacy for the Ohlone Board, please visit: http://www.joelonsdale4ohlone.com/
Fremont Summer Chess Camp: Week 4
July 28, 2014Below are photographs of my favorite moments from week four of the Fremont Summer Chess Camp. I wish to thank all of our students, coaches, Steve and Kate’s Camps, the Wild Cat Education and Conservation Fund and Grandmaster Susan Polgar. It takes a lot of great people to make the Fremont Summer Chess Camp as successful as it is and without these great groups and individuals many kids from Northern California would have missed out on an experience of a lifetime.
Thanks to Coach Tans for doing a great job teaching our youngest campers.
For four straight years, Coach Francisco has been teaching our campers confidence through attacking chess.
International Master Emory Tate managed to greatly improve the chess skills of every child in the advanced group.
Coach James proved daily why he is the Director of Instruction for the Torres Chess and Music Academy.
James Pacquette also managed the technological aspects of our Esteemed Guest Series.
MSJE Head Coach Joe Lonsdale was always available to help kids review their USCF rated chess games.
The Wild Cat Education and Conservation Fund put on a great show for our kids.
Everyone in attendance will never forget the day Susan Polgar (The World’s Top Chess Trainer) challenged every mind in the room with an extremely thought provoking chess lesson.
Most of all, it was all the awesome young chess players that made the 2014 Fremont Summer Chess Camp so fantastic.
Want to see more?
Fremont Summer Chess Camp: Week 3
Fremont Summer Chess Camp: Week 2
Fremont Summer Chess Camp: Week 1
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