San Antonio Chess Club

President: Selby Anderson, tel: 210-695-2324

Vice President: Gregg Stanley

Secretary/Treasurer: J P Hyltin

Director at Large: Marty Gordon, tel: 210-744-9852

Web updates: Alok Kumar (linkedlist@gmail.com), tel: 510-378-0150

Annual membership meeting, held Jan. 28, 2010 at Lions Field

The meeting was called to order at 7:15 p.m. with Selby Anderson presiding. He began with the reading of last year's minutes. He next presented the financial statement, with an adjusted beginning balance (1-15-2009) of $3,770.24. (This included a correction, a $42 credit for TLA expense that should have been applied to the 2009-2010 fiscal cycle.) The current adjusted balance for 1-28-2010 was $3,606.21. This consisted of the bank balance, adjusted for club checks outstanding, checks awaiting deposit, and pouch cash; plus other adjustments: credit for TLAs applicable to the next fiscal year; and debits for payables: Scholarship Fund ($200), Club Sponsors Award ($225), and entertainment books ($125). That gives a net loss on the year of $164.03. On a voice vote, the members approved the statement.

In the election of officers, Selby Anderson ran unopposed for president (nominated by J.P. Hyltin, seconded by Gregg Stanley), and was elected by voice vote. He nominated Gregg Stanley for vice-presient to replace outgoing VP Ernie Shown, and Hyltin seconded; Stanley was elected on a voice vote. Next, Anderson nominated J.P. Hyltin for secretary-treasurer, and Gregg Stanley seconded; Hyltin was elected by voice vote. Finally, Anderson nominated Martin Gordon for another term as director at large, and Alfredo Garcia seconded; Gordon was elected by voice vote.

Under new business, Anderson proposed a weekend blitz tournament with $10 entry to be held before the Spring Slammer. (As it turned out, the proposed weekend of Feb. 27 and the one following were both booked up at the MHCC Hornbeak Building, and we have reserved a room for March 20.) Anderson moved to hold two such tournaments this year, and Stanley seconded. The motion passed. Gregg Stanley moved that we reintroduce an older time format, with 40/2 instead of 30/90, and followed by SD/1. Anderson, seconding, said this could be done in July. The motion passed.

Anderson moved to transfer the remaining balance of $200 in the Scholarship Fund to the Chess Club Sponsor Fund. J.P. Hyltin seconded, and the motion passed. That left a gap of $294 short of the goal, which Hyltin promptly made up with a personal check donation. Hyltin announced the recipient clubs and sponsors: Carson Elementary (Neil McDonald), Guadalupe Community Center (Albert Vandervort), Mission Academy (Felix Fierros), Clark High School (Bill Jones), and Stevenson Middle School (Arthur Segura).

Alfredo Garcia discussed the need to address changes brought by increasing use of MonRoi handheld recording devices. After discussion, Anderson created a new committee to which this issue would be referred, and appointed J.P. Hyltin (chair), Alok Kumar and Martin Gordon.

Gregg Stanley, observing that the dollar is depreciating against other currencies, moved that SACC put roughly half its resources into specie such as gold or silver. Hyltin answered that dollar depreciation has already been factored into the price of gold and silver. The motion failed for lack of a second.

J.P. Hyltin moved that when 30/90, SD/60 time controls are used, the clock setting should be at 90 rather than 85 as suggested in the USCF rulebook (deducting one minute for each second of clock delay). Alfredo Garcia seconded. Martin Gordon said "If the players don't mind I'm okay with it." [Addendum: The rulebook states that "the tournament director has the right to shorten basic time control, up to the number of minutes equal to the time delay used in seconds." In other worlds, the rulebook permits the motion.]The motion passed.

Selby Anderson moved to end the meeting, and Gregg Stanley seconded. The meeting ended at 8:21.

On Thursday, 15 January 2009, the San Antonio Chess Club held its annual business meeting. The current President (Selby Anderson), Vice President (Ernie Shown) and Director at Large (Marty Gordon) were all re-elected to their posts. The club elected Steven Dampier as the new Secretary/Treasurer To see the official meeting minutes, click here.

J.P. Hytlin submitted a proposal for some chess grants/scholarships. A copy of the proposal can be found here (PDF).

The club officers also formed a committee to decide on a course of action regarding the club website. Marty Gordon obtained the current URL, and Ernie Shown built the basic website, and allowed it to be hosted on his current web hosting package at no cost to the club. Alok Kumar was selected to do the weekly updates to the site. Any feedback on this site is greatly appreciated.