Hamilton Chess Club

Remember it is the club end of year picnic in the gardens, this saturday, from 11am. Bring your chess sets along for some recreation in the open air. The flyer is here

The club welcomes Greg Van Eyk as its newest member. Greg has played nine games suitable for club rating so far and is enjoying the Spring Cup. Welcome Greg

Club ratings and club ladder have been updated.

We will have a rerun of the Spring Cup starting again next week, six games over 2 weeks. Dont be late. Guests are welcome to join in — be there around 7:05

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The club is sad to see Stefan leaving us to take up his new post in far away Scotland. Stefan has been a club stalwart over the years and one of its strongest players. He will be sadly missed, but we wish him all the best.

The Hamilton Press now lists us in “Clubs and Groups” so lets hope we can attract a few more members

The recently created New Zealand Chess Forum “Over The Board” can be found here.

Over the board is all about having conversations centred around Chess for the NZ Chess Community. So start a conversation or join in a conversation already started.

Discuss your favourite opening, get help analysing an interesting game, show off an awesome game you played, talk about famous players and your heroes, send your review of a book or two, throw in a comment about a tournament in progress, start a local chess event or even hint at something that is bugging you.

Share your love for our great game and inspire others to do the same!

Next week we will start the first of 2 Spring Cups. Please if you want to be in, make a commitment to be there for both nights.  The time control will be 20+0, 3 games per night, over 2 nights. We will have two solid hours of chess, so kick off will be as soon as the draw is done. Dont be late. Guests and non-members are welcome to come along and join in.

Club ratings and club ladder have been updated, as have the graphs of club ratings. There were a few games recorded incorrectly after the recent Round Robin, these have now been sorted.

If you have been thinking about coming along for a look then the next 2 club nights (1 Nov & 8 nov) at 7pm are a good place to start. We will have  lightning chess 1/11/16, 6 games at time control 3 minutes plus a 2 second increment per move from move one.  The following week we start the Spring Cup. Come along and join in the fun. Games kick off by 7:30 so dont be late.

Division A

Division B

Division C

We have three divisions in the round robin. Divisions A and B have six players each and are single round robins, division C has 4 players and will run as a double round robin. Last nights results are below. See you next week.

Division A

Remember we are back into it tomorrow night. Graded round robin, two games at 25 + 5. Don’t be late.

The club is in recess now for the school holidays, we resume on 11 October with rounds one and two of the graded Round Robin. There will be three (or possibly four) divisions depending on numbers:  An  A and B grade consisting on groups of six players based on club ranking. There will also be a C grade that will be a five round Swiss style tournament. There will be two games  for each of two weeks, with the fifth and final game 25/10/16. Time control will be 25 + 5. Please players  will need to commit to being there on each of the three nights to take part. See you there.