Join Us for Thursday Evening Chess on the San Francisco Peninsula
The Menlo Park Chess Club will hold our first rated quads over three weeks from April 27th - May 11th, 2022, with a make-up round to be held May 18th, if needed. The time control will be the same as that used for our earlier Swiss tournament, the dual Quick- and Regular-rated G/30 d/5, while …
Our regular weekly club meeting occurs Wednesday evenings from 6:00-9:45pm in the Cypress Room of the Arrillaga Family Recreation Center. Casual, blitz and bughouse chess are in the offing and a few members will be making up tournament games from our previous quads event. Next week we will hold a free, informal, unrated Swiss system …
The Menlo Park Chess Club will hold a free, unrated blitz chess tournament Wednesday, May 25th, beginning at 7pm. There is no entry fee and no US Chess membership is required to play in this one-section Swiss system event using the G/5+2 time control. Chess sets, boards and clocks will be provided but if you …
The Menlo Park Chess Club will hold another rated mini-marathon beginning Wednesday, June 1st, at 6:30pm, a four-round Swiss system event of G/45 d/5 over four weeks and one suitable …
The Menlo Park Chess Club will hold another rated mini-marathon beginning Wednesday, June 1st, at 6:30pm, a four-round Swiss system event of G/45 d/5 over four weeks and one suitable for experienced players as well as new or newer US Chess members seeking to establish an over-the-board rating. Details follow: Format: Four-round Swiss-system tournament in …
The Menlo Park Chess Club will hold another rated mini-marathon beginning Wednesday, June 1st, at 6:30pm, a four-round Swiss system event of G/45 d/5 over four weeks and one suitable for experienced players as well as new or newer US Chess members seeking to establish an over-the-board rating. Details follow: Format: Four-round Swiss-system tournament in …
The Menlo Park Chess Club will hold another rated mini-marathon beginning Wednesday, June 1st, at 6:30pm, a four-round Swiss system event of G/45 d/5 over four weeks and one suitable for experienced players as well as new or newer US Chess members seeking to establish an over-the-board rating. Details follow: Format: Four-round Swiss-system tournament in …
Jim Eade, FIDE Master, club supporter and head of the Eade Foundation (https://eadefoundation.org/), a non-profit organization dedicated to expanding chess literacy and chess excellence around the world, will analyze one or two games from our recently-completed June Mini-Marathon. Note that Jim's lecture is tentative given he has a very busy week leading up to Wednesday …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …