I can't believe I'm writing the results for week 10 of season 1 already. Big thanks to those of you who've been with me for the whole time. If you guys don't know already, season 2 signups are open on the website: http://greatlakeschessleague.com/...
Hello Great Lakes Chess League Season 1 Members, thank you for sticking with me until this point. We did have a few dropouts, no shows and cancellations over the last few weeks of the season, I am working hard to ensure this won't be an issue in f...
Hello Great Lakes Chess League members, I have yet another exciting announcement to make, the GLCL Grand Prix is active! Points for the Grand Prix will be, and have been, awarded for league play, USCF Online Tournaments, and for Sparring League Su...
Signups for season 2 of the Great Lakes Live Chess League are now open! I'm not sure when the league will start exactly, but I'd like around a month for signups, so, maybe some time toward the end of March. Either way, whether you played in season...
Hello Great Lakes Chess League faithful, this last Saturday we hosted our very first USCF Online event and other than me accidentally creating a 3 round tournament (instead of the advertised 4), it was a huge success! 7 people played, and the tour...
The second to the last week of the season had 10 games decided over the board, a few people have dropped out at this point, or stopped responding... We'll have to figure out how we can avoid this in the future, but let's concentrate on the good an...
Weekly USCF Online Tournaments Start This Saturday! This Saturday, February 19th at 2pm EST will see the first ever Great Lakes Chess League USCF Saturday Swiss tournament! USCF Online rated, 4 rounds, 30+5. Get registered at www.greatlakesches...
WEB SITE: Finally, we have a web presence! https://www.greatlakeschessleague.com/ Please keep in mind I threw this together today, so it's far from polished, but it should take care of what I need it to, and that's to offer registration for the u...
The last week of the season! Good luck! Post the results and the game link in the forum: https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/week-10-results-game-reporting WEEK 10 PAIRINGS white pieces black pieces SUPERIOR ER...
Hard to believe we are doing results for week 8 already. This week we had a few scheduling draws and a couple of no shows, unfortunately. Please keep in mind no shows at this point in the league WILL prevent you from joining in future seasons. Tha...
I am interested to hear what you have to say about the possibility of making this club a USCF affiliate and hosting USCF online events. Are you up for it? Would you play in a weekly USCF online tournament? These would be either very cheap or free,...
Second to last week of the season! Team Lake Ontario has the bye. Please post the results and game links in the forum: https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/week-9-results-game-reporting Good luck! WEEK 9 PAIRINGS ...
This week featured the battle for 2nd and 4th in the league, Team Lake Michigan and Team Lake Erie will both play as white against Team Lake Huron and Team Lake Ontario, respectively. Erie and Michigan are in a battle for second place, as Huron an...
Only 3 weeks left in the regular season including this week. Good luck, please report the game results and game links in the forum: https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/week-8-results-game-reporting Please contact your opponent as soon as possi...
This week we got back to normality in the sense that every game was decided over the board, but we were thrown a big curveball with a huge upset in one of the team matches. This week Team Lake Erie took the white pieces against Team Lake Michigan,...
I resorted the teams based on their rapid rating as of today in order to sort out some discrepancies with lower rated players playing higher boards. None of that should matter though, contact your opponent as you see in the list, and good luck! Te...
After a couple of really successful weeks, week 5 was a bit different. From my travels to an otb tournament making my schedule a bit more cramped than usual, to misclicks, disconnections and scheduling problems, week 5 was an interesting one. That...
Thank you for your patience with the delayed pairings this week. We have reached week 6, the latter half of the league. It's still up to Michigan, Erie and Superior to figure out who's going to battle in the Championship Series, this week Erie wil...
Hi Great Lakes Chess League folks, you may have noticed I didn't release pairings today and I am sorry about that, I am away at an otb tournament until tomorrow evening. Pairings will be delayed because of this until tomorrow evening.Â
Week 4 was our first week that had every single game decided over the board! We had an upset, some beautiful checkmates, crazy accurate endgame play and more dazzling dominance by @bluberrie_tea. In addition to all of the individual game curiositi...
Most things league wise are running pretty smoothly, we only have @MinnesotaDude @tewald @nd23903 @miahg @practicality and @neatgreatfire yet to report a game for week 4, please get that in as quickly as possible. Other than that, we are on to wee...
Week 3 was by far the most successful week so far, we had all but one game decided over the board! The big questions in week 3 were do Team Lake Michigan and Team Lake Superior have what it takes to continue their winning ways, and can Team Lake H...
Week 3 went way better in terms of games being played. Not much to update here, other than letting @littleshooters @miahg @a-blunderful-life and @60_minute-man know their games haven't been reported yet, so please play and report it in the next da...
Week two spanned two weeks over the Christmas holiday, and whether due to holiday complications or just players we hadn't weeded out yet, we had quite a few no shows, especially for Team Lake Ontario. All that stuff aside, we did have 10 games dec...
Week 3 Pairings Are Out! As I said in the previous news post, the changes all look very differently now than they did in weeks 1 and 2, due to a bunch of no shows that have since been removed. Each team now has 7 boards, so I really hope we can de...
