I will update this post each week with the link to the next week's tournament and the results of our previous tournaments. Our Next Tournaments Saturday, 10am: Niles Library tournament on lichess.com. You first need a free account at lichess.o...
I put the wrong link for today's tournament into the previous announcement. You can find the tournament here: https://www.chess.com/live#t=1188411. And as always, you can also go to "live chess" and then "tournaments" to find it.
We'll have our regular M and W tournaments this week at 1pm each day. Monday will be a "Chess 960" Arena tournament. "Chess960 is a chess variant in which the pieces on the back ranks are all jumbled up (here is a link for more information). We'l...
This Saturday our tournament will start at 10am and will be at a longer time control: 4 rounds at 15 minutes per side each game. This is still quicker than our normal in-person tournaments, but will give more time to think than our last few blitz ...
Our next two tournaments will be similar to this past Saturday. I've made each of them 5 round Swiss tournaments with 6 minutes per player. Monday at 1pm: https://www.chess.com/live#t=1171428 Wednesday at 1pm: https://www.chess.com/live#t=1171429
As I posted earlier today, we'll do a one-section blitz tournament on Saturday. See the previous announcement for the details! We had two smaller sections today. In our upper section, Nathan just barely edged out Therese for first place. In the l...
On Saturday at 1pm we'll have a "blitz" tournament (each side will have 5 minutes per game). The link for the tournament is here: https://www.chess.com/live#r=172475. As always, you can find the tournament under "live chess" and "tournaments" The...
Both sections did great in today's tournament. The lower section had 13 players, with Wyatt running away from the crowd with 25 points. The upper section had 8 players, with Nathan overcoming an early loss to take first with 21 points. Full result...
I've created two more tournaments for our kids. If they work for a good amount of people, maybe we can make these regular events on M/W at 1pm. I know that my kids we're excited to play more with everyone and we're usually looking for things to do...
Our first online tournament (https://www.chess.com/live#r=171921) is complete! We had 25 players who played for at least part of the hour. We had three players go undefeated, with Therese taking first place by playing the most games. Next time mig...
