• MPCC Surfeit of Blitz Marathon: 5+3

    Arrillaga Family Recreation Center 700 Alma Street, Menlo Park, CA, United States

    The Menlo Park Chess Club seeks to answer a simple question: How much blitz chess is too much? Over four consecutive Wednesday evenings in July we will hold four separate unrated

    Free
  • MPCC Surfeit of Blitz Marathon: 5+0

    Arrillaga Family Recreation Center 700 Alma Street, Menlo Park, CA, United States

    The Menlo Park Chess Club seeks to answer a simple question: How much blitz chess is too much? Over four consecutive Wednesday evenings in July we will hold four separate unrated blitz tournaments of ever-shortening time controls (5+3, 5+0, 3+2, 3+0), each with free entry and modest cash prizes. Where this event differs from most, however, is

    Free
  • MPCC Surfeit of Blitz Marathon: 3+0

    Arrillaga Family Recreation Center 700 Alma Street, Menlo Park, CA, United States

    The Menlo Park Chess Club seeks to answer a simple question: How much blitz chess is too much? Over four consecutive Wednesday evenings in July we will hold four separate unrated blitz

    Free
  • Fischer Random (Chess960) Tournament

    Arrillaga Family Recreation Center 700 Alma Street, Menlo Park, CA, United States

    The Menlo Park Chess Club will hold its first Fischer Random (Chess 960) tournament Wednesday, September 14th, beginning at 7pm sharp. The event will be unrated and will occur over

    Free
  • Burgess Park Double-Blitz G/3+2

    Arrillaga Family Recreation Center 700 Alma Street, Menlo Park, CA, United States

    Based on conversations at the club last week and on a few online interactions over the past couple days it seems that another Blitz tournament is what people most wish

    Free
  • Casual 5-Round G/3+2 Blitz Tournament

    Arrillaga Family Recreation Center 700 Alma Street, Menlo Park, CA, United States

    We'll hold a casual 5-round G/3+2 blitz tournament as something of a warmup for our club's blitz championship, to occur the following Wednesday, December 14th. Tomorrow's event will either be

    Free
  • Year-End Blitz Ouroboros

    Arrillaga Family Recreation Center 700 Alma Street, Menlo Park, CA, United States

    Our final meeting and tournament of 2022, we'll play 5 or 6 rounds of G/3+2 blitz in a single Swiss section or, depending upon turnout, we may hold 4- or

    Free
  • G/3+2 Blitz Tournament in Two Sections

    Arrillaga Family Recreation Center 700 Alma Street, Menlo Park, CA, United States

    We'll hold our first blitz tournament of 2023, a free 4- or 5-round G/3+2 unrated event in two sections, assuming there are sufficient entries. Clock move (as opposed to touch

    Free
  • “Tower of Flints” Team Blitz #1

    Arrillaga Family Recreation Center 700 Alma Street, Menlo Park, CA, United States

    The Menlo Park Chess Club will hold two consecutive team blitz tournaments March 9th and 16th, part of a long-promised experiment to see if this format works for our membership.

    Free
  • “Tower of Flints” Team Chess960

    Arrillaga Family Recreation Center 700 Alma Street, Menlo Park, CA, United States

    The Menlo Park Chess Club will hold its first team Chess960 event March 30th, a follow-on to our Team Blitz on March 9th and part of a long-promised experiment to

    Free