MPCC Spring Quads Round 2

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

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

MPCC Spring Quads Round 3

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

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

Wednesday Night Chess

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

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

MPCC Burgess Park Blitz #2

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

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

Free

MPCC June Mini-Marathon, Round 1

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

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

Free

MPCC June Mini-Marathon Round 2

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

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

Free

MPCC June Mini-Marathon Round 3

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

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

Free

MPCC June Mini-Marathon Round 4

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

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

Free

Game Analysis with Jim Eade

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

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

Free

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 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,

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+2

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