Don’t forget state publications and website for your TA toolbox. I never look at Chess Life for in-state tournaments. I use it, and the on-line search tools in particular, when I contemplate travel.
You can’t rely on Chess Life alone, but frankly, as a player, I never trusted any tournament that didn’t appear in Chess Life .
And of course Grand Prix events must be in Chess Life.
Chess Life received in Sacramento, CA on October 17. Really late this month. Usually I get it around the 10th of the month.
Michael Aigner
Judy Misner asked me earlier today if this is an annual phenomenon in October (and possibly again in November) due to the increased volume of catalogs in the mail. (I know we’re getting anywhere from one to a half-dozen catalogs a day here.)
Actually, this has happened before around this time, but apparently for a different reason. A number of Chess Life staff would attend the Delegates Meeting at the U.S. Open, and the political issues would often delay getting Chess Life ready for October. I recall that in 1998 there was a particularly noticeable delay in October. The U.S. Open was in Hawaii that year.