Tag: Chess Tournaments
New Look for our Website
WFM Jovana Milosevic recently completed her course on web design. She immediately put her new-found knowledge to work by updating our website. Thank you very much Jovana!
In person meetings with Rochester Chess members are still on hold. This situation will likely remain the same until the pandemic subsides. Your membership will be extended without charge by the amount of time the club was closed.
What should you do in the interim? Rochester Chess has held several online chess tournaments on Lichess.org and Chess.com. The most common format is a swiss at a slow time control (G/30+30 or G/60+30). You can register here for the next tournament which begins on Tuesday, November 10. George Paulik and Paul Gabrail won the most recent tournaments with perfect scores (4-0 in the swiss and 3-0 in the quad, respectively).
Master Milosevic is leading a weekly “Online Advanced Chess Class” on Saturdays, noon – 1:30 CDT (soon to be CST). Topics include how to play with different center pawn structures and material imbalances, the importance of centralization, open files and diagonals, and many more. Tuition is $15/class. Send me an email if you are interested in joining the class: dennismays101@gmail.com.
Rochester chess players Matt Jensen and Jesse Buss have created a chess improvement website called ChessGoals. ChessGoals offers study plans that were formed based on study habit data from hundreds of players. They also have weekly blog posts about chess improvement and current events.
Current State of Rochester Chess, May 26, 2020
Hello Chess Fans! Over the board (OTB) tournaments are on hold until further notice. The close proximity of the opponents in a chess game and tournament make it very difficult to be safe. All OTB tournaments in Minnesota and the nation (maybe the world?) have been cancelled or postponed indefinitely. The annual Rochester Open originally scheduled for the first weekend in June has been cancelled. We will try again next year.
Something New: Rochester Chess will be hosting an unrated online chess tournament on Lichess beginning on Tuesday, June 2, 2020. Lichess.org is free. Among the 11 respondents to the March survey about online tournaments, 6 indicated that they would play G/30 + 30 and 5 indicated they would play G/60 + 30. Allowing the majority of the respondents to rule, this first tournament will be G/30 + 30. The format will be a 4-round Swiss event. I prefer all of the games to be played on Tuesday evenings at the regular club meeting time (6:30 – 9:30 PM). Alternate times can be negotiated. To participate, you must send me an email by Sunday, May 31.
MSCA Online Chess Tournaments: MSCA will host Online Swiss #3 on Sunday, May 31st. Currently, 70 players have signed up for the tournament, including 2 GMs, 2 IMs, and 2 FMs! Tuesday (today!) is the last day to register and receive the early entry, so sign up at https://onlineregistration.cc/MSCA/OnlineSwiss3!