Greetings, The Colorado Springs Chess Club is playing the Jackalope USCF Club tomorrow in a Blitz (3+2) match at 5:30pm and a Rapid (15+10) match at 6:00pm! See the Upcoming Events or Notes for the links to the Club Match or regular tournamen...
Greetings, The Colorado Springs Chess Club is playing the Waltham Chess Club tomorrow in a Blitz (3+2) match at 5:30pm and a Rapid (15+10) match at 6:00pm! See the Upcoming Events or Notes for the links to the Club Match or regular tournament...
Greetings, The Colorado Springs Chess Club is playing the KNIGHTS of the REALM tomorrow in a Blitz (3+2) match at 5:30pm and a Rapid (15+10) match at 6:00pm! Blitz: https://www.chess.com/play/match/2296464?action=undefined&clubId=51450 R...
Greetings, CALL TO ACTION: The Colorado Springs Chess Club is playing The 24 Hour Arena Tournament Club tonight in a Blitz match at 5:30pm and a Rapid match at 6:00pm! Blitz: https://www.chess.com/play/match/2266261?ref_id=7846680&clubI...
Greetings, The Colorado Springs Chess Club crowned a new City Champ in October. Congratulations to Rhett Langseth who went unbeaten (+4-0=0, 1 bye) to claim his first title! You can see the results here: https://www.uschess.org/msa/XtblMain.p...
Greetings, This Sunday is the qualifier at 5:45pm! The club can nominate 4 players (2 male & 2 female; 2 open & 2 scholastic) for Judit Polgar's Global Chess Festival! The first-ever online #ChessC...
Greetings, The Colorado Springs Chess Club is having a membership drive in September. If you ever thought about how you can help the club, check out this page and details in the WANTED! section below. https:/...
Game Of The Week This week's game comes from the Colorado Springs Chess Club's Sunday-night, online, rapid tournaments. This was another event that I wasn't sure if I was going to be able join. Cal was playing the University of Washington this w...
Game Of The Week Thank you, Paul, for inviting me back for another installment of “Tim Brennan week!" Things got back to somewhat “normal” chess wise in the later part of 2021 after over a full year of things being shut down by the pandemic. I g...
Game Of The Week This week's game comes from the Colorado Springs Chess Club's Sunday-night, online, rapid tournaments. I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to play in this week's event since I was flying home from the Cal vs TCU football game...
Game Of The Week This week's game comes from the Colorado Springs Chess Club's Sunday-night, online, rapid tournaments. This week we played a club match against the Colorado School of Mines Chess Club instead of our usual Swiss events. I met them ...
Game Of The Week This week's game comes from the Colorado Springs Chess Club's Sunday-night, online, rapid tournaments. It was played by Koen Beaver and John Wagner. Koen started with the club online in February and has played in 12 events. Joh...
Game Of The Week This week's game comes from the Colorado Springs Chess Club's 4th Wednesday August Rapid OTB. After playing in several Blitz tournaments, Will Wolf requested a longer time control of G/10+4. The increment of 4 seconds seemed str...
Game Of The Week This week's game comes from the Colorado Springs Chess Club's Sunday Night Chess events. It was a bit of an unusual tournament. I didn't get to play since I was at the Renaissance Festival again. So, I can only guess about the ...
Game Of The Week This week's game comes from my database of 1,030 standard-rated, USCF games. The database came to an abrupt halt on March 10, 2020 after my 42nd win over Mark "The Money-Man" McGough. Then the club was shut down. Mark is the Tr...
Game Of The Week This week's game comes from the Colorado Springs Chess Club's Sunday Night Chess. It was played by the top 2 seeds in the event, Brian Rountree and Jose Llacza. They both have Rapid ratings over 1900. How they got their rapid rati...
Game Of The Week This week's game comes from the book by David Edmonds and John Eidinow called Bobby Fischer Goes To War, How A Lone American Star Defeated The Soviet Chess Machine. I was travelling across the country this past week to my sister...
Game Of The Week By Matt Grinberg Whitaker, though eventually awarded the International Master title by FIDE, is known not so much for what he did at the chessboard as for one singular thing he did away from the chessboard. I first heard of him w...
Game Of The Week This week's game comes from the Colorado Springs Chess Club's Sunday night online events. We have been meeting online since April of last year when the pandemic closed our physical location. The registration starts at 6pm, and t...
Game Of The Week This week's game comes from my first visit to the Parker Chess Club. The club is run by John Brezina, who played in the online Colorado Springs Chess Club events while the pandemic shut down our physical location and came down to...
Game Of The Week This week's game comes from LM Brian Wall's email list. One of the things that the pandemic interrupted, besides Over-The-Board chess, was the reading of my Wallmails. I had formed a habit of stopping by the library to get onlin...
Game Of The Week This week's game comes from the Colorado Springs Chess Club's Right Place Rapid Online. I was a late entrant to the event since I was a chess-playing monk at the Colorado Renaissance Festival during the day. It is nice that the ...
Game Of The Week This week's game comes from the Colorado Springs Chess Club's 26th Annual City Speed Chess Championship. The club has normally held this special event in January at our long-time home in the Acacia Apartments. However, this past...
Game Of The Week This week's game comes from the Colorado Springs Chess Club's Sunday night event, Pin Is Mighty Rapid Online (4SS, G/10+10). The game was played by Jeff Fox, ex-City Champ and ex-officer of the Colorado Springs Chess Club, and Ay...
