On July 19th at 8 pm, Noble Park played in the final round of the Chess.com Clubs League; we faced a strong team from Cesena chess club; curiously, the town of Cesena is located within 30 km of our round 7 opponents' club in Forlì! The match conc...
On Saturday 11th July at 7 pm Melbourne time (11 am Italy), Noble Park Chess Club played round 7 of the Clubs League against the Circolo Scacchistico Forlivese on 4 boards. Our team had a clear victory with a score of 6-2 and moved into 6th positi...
On Saturday July 4th at 7 pm, Noble Park played in round 6 of the Clubs League against a Slovakian team, ŠK Považská Bystrica. We won a close match on 6 boards by the score 7 - 5, and would like to thank our opponents for agreeing to...
Noble Park Chess Club played the 5th round match with a second Czech team, this time based in the capital Prague, on 27th June from 7 till about 8 pm. After a very close match we lost 8 - 6, the same margin by which we had won against TJ Valasska ...
At 9 pm Saturday June 13th Melbourne time (or 2 pm in Moscow), Noble Park played our round 4 Clubs League match on 5 boards with Chess Club Zebra; the Muscovites exploited their advantage in depth and cruised to 2-0 victories on the lower three bo...
Round 3 saw the Noble Park team play a strong club from Höchstadt an der Aisch (on the river Aisch), Germany. The match resulted in a 5.5 - 4.5 win for our club; Nick on board 2 played the last game to finish, a critical draw, and the result ...
On Saturday 30th of May, 2020, at 5 pm, Noble Park Chess Club played a match on 7 boards with the club TJ Valašská Bystřice - Sachy, from the Czech Republic; given the difference in time zones, our opponents were very accommodat...
On Saturday 23rd of May at 7:30 pm, we played our first match in the new Online Clubs League against Hobart chess club - each club fielded 6 players, and Noble Park won by 10-2. Despite the clear winning margin, as always in rapid chess there were...
We played our annual match with Mentone Chess Club online this year on 4 boards at a time limit of 10 + 3, results were: NPCC: 8.5 - Mentone CC: 7.5 Round 1: 1. Tim Anderson (W) - Nick Ilic (B) 1 - 02. Leon Leontyev (B) - Jesse Zafirakos (W)...
