This year, MSM continues to teach kids at King Edward School and Sun Valley School with Steve Udarbe facilitating lessons and workshops. The programs ended with school year closing and hopefully, will be continued in the next school year in September.
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We like to acknowledge the dedication to the chess game of a father and his two children from Saskatchewan. They came to Winnipeg's Sinclair Park Community Centre on Saturday, June 10, 2017 to participate in the Third MSM Open Chess Tournament. Although they did not place in the tournament after six rounds of play, the two kids got from MSM founder Steve Udarbe computer chess sets just for playing.
If you want a drop in chess match with another player, try going to Sinclair Park Community Centre and you will definitely get it on Wednesdays, 6-9pm. If you want to try your mettle at scrabble, then you are welcome to play against Arthur Charach, Greg or Eugene at SPCC. Decide early to enjoy the evening there.
Wednesday drop-ins at the Sinclair Park Community Centre are still on-going, players and friends of MSM! A lot of emails received here are asking whether they would see other players of chess and scrabble at the Centre those days and play as much as they could. Last Wednesday, September 7th, some chess players who came early could have missed me as I came a bit late and they could have left early as the gym was also closed for the day. For those who played scrabble, tell other people they could play your favourite game there next Wednesdays.
In the most recent issue of The Minor Hockey News (MHN40), Mind Sports Manitoba was featured in an article which we uploaded to this website. Read what was reported in the community newspaper in the page Articles newly created primarily to show what is being written about our organization. To access the Articles page, click on More in the Menu bar and select Articles from the context choices....
On Saturday, March 5, 2016, the Second MSM Open Scrabble Tournament was held at the Sinclair Park Community Centre with sixteen participants vying for the top three cash prizes in two divisions. In 2015, there were twelve players in the 1st tourney, what I called the "Dirty Dozen";this year, they were the "Sweet Sixteen." Check the "Announcements" section of this website for more info.Ronnie, our website editor, also posts on the official Facebook Page of MSM, easily accessed at http://www.facebook.com/mind-sports-manitoba. Put up by Ronnie on Christmas Day, 2015, it is another site to catch up on happenings and announcements from us here. There are chess and scrabble images already posted on the page, free for downloading to your laptops and mobile devices for your use. Let's regularly visit the page and message us on whatever you want to know about Mind Sports Manitoba....
Some funds were made available to Mind Sports Manitoba by the Government of the Province of Manitoba in line with their priorities-sports development in the province. We will purchase chess sets for use in our chess tournaments and school chess clinics. We would like also to purchase official chess clocks in the future. Hopefully, the Government of Manitoba will continue to look at our accomplishments and provide more funds next year. We hope you will give good feedback through letters to your MLAs and encourage them to support MSM....
The St. Edwards Community School Chess Club was founded by fourteen chess-inclined schoolchildren yesterday at the school with James Tyson, activity instructor and teachers Leah and Anna at hand. I discussed chess moves, openings, middle game moves and endings with them for half an hour and they showed great interest in learning the game. I will visit them regularly on Wednesdays to follow-up on their development and to answer their queries about chess and scrabble. I left a few of my hand-crafted chess boards and pieces so they could play against each other in friendly matches during their free time. This is only one of the activities of Mind Sports Manitoba that really perks me up....
If you miss the Wednesday drop-in activities at Sinclair Park Community Centre, you are not alone. There were regular activities on Wednesdays as far as this year is concerned and chess and scrabble enthusiasts rubbed elbows and sweated it out on friendly matches in a room assigned to Mind Sports Manitoba. For the last two weeks of December and the first week of January, these activities will not be held and will resume on January 12, 2016. We wish you all the best of this holiday season and encourage you to have quality time with your loved ones. We hope to see you again on January 13 for our first session of the New Year.
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