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three board prizes and playing on three winning teams.Since the mid 1990s I have become moreof a tournament director than a tournament. In addition, I have emphasized scholastic chess in tournaments which I have directed.Below is list of the numbers of players at South Dakota Closed tournaments since I moved to South Dakota. The numbers havelways been low. In fact the SDCA Annual Meeting which used to be at the Closed was moved to the Teams because the Teams had higher.We tried to solve this problem by having a separate Junior tournament with a cheap entry to Juionrs who wanted to enter after their tournament was at end We ended the separate junior tournament in 2001. Since then numbers have been below 20. Maybe we need to look at the Closed. North Dakota has opened its Closed.South Dakota has not run an Open Championship since 1970. Nebraska runs a 6 person Closed championship where persons qualify by winning various tournaments. You can contact me at Wes Schmidt,2213 E.Tricia Lane,Sioux Falls,SD 57103, 6053392248emailsaschmidt@prodigy.net. if you have any suggestions on improving the Closed. I personally am going to recommend moving the Closed to Sioux Falls for next year. Wes Schmidt 1983 19 Aberdeen 1984 26 Rapid City 1985 20 Sioux Falls 1986 Huron 1987 16 Rapid City 1988 24,Sioux Falls 1989 17,Pierre 1990 28, Rapid City 1991 24 Sioux Falls 1992 15,Pierre 1993 15. Rapid City. 2 Junior 1994 27. Sioux Falls, 5 Junior 1995 18 Rapid City,3 Junior 1996 23 Sioux Falls,9 Junior 1997 28 Pierre.8 Junior 1998 23 Pierre,10 Junior 1999 28 Oacoma,6 Junior 2000 26 Oacoma,8 Junior 2001 19 Oacoma 2002 18 Oacoma 2003 13 Oacoma one below. After you have created several headings, the "Table of Contents" button will automatically generate a table of contents.

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Sioux Falls ..Nels Truelson’s Sioux Falls Chess League meets on the third Thursday of each month from October to May. from 6:30−10:00 pm For more information call 371−4535 or contact Nels at NTruelson@aol.com Sioux Empire Chess Club meets at the Kenny Anderson Community Center,3rd &Bahson, Sioux Falls, SD on the first, second and fourth Thursdays of each month from 6:30−10:00pm Dick Rostrom is in charge 338−4277

PIERRE CHESS CLUB Contact Bob Wallace, PO Box 416, Pierre, SD 57501 Brookings Chess Club Contact

Bruce Brandt work 605/688−4058 home 605/5789email: brand73 @home.com. Madison Chess Club Contact Jud Bergan 605/256−6781Email: berganj@hcpd.com Rapid City Chess Club meets at Interstate Hardees meeting room, 2250 Haines Ave., Rapid City, SD Thursdays at 7pm. Contact Terry Likens 605/348−1015 E−mail: sdchess @rushmore.comm Rapid City chess Club Championship Vermillion The USD Chess Club meets at the Coyote Student Center, Sunday at 7:pm. Contact chess#usd.edu or L.J Ottenbacher at jottenba@usd.edu or Mark Derby 605/624−7823 or E−mail mderby@usd.edu