We had a huge turn out Tuesday with two more brand new kids joining us; Arlo and Naomi. We played a 3 round swiss tournament, which is no longer enough rounds for a definitive winner! After those rounds, 4 players had perfect scores. Els, Elliot, ...
I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! With the holiday I forgot to post the results of the 28th of November, so those are in here as well. We had a slightly smaller turnout, but still plenty to run the tournament. The results of that one are b...
Another good turnout in spite of the upcoming holiday! We had a lot of fun with our 3 round tournament and then played a few rounds of hand-and-brain. Also the U1000 tournament is now complete. Congrats on the second place finish Kasey!
All, Another very strong turnout at the library tournament yesterday! Congrats to Elliot on his perfect performance and the win! This week's tournament we introduced clocks with the delay feature. Players started with 5 minutes and had a 10 secon...
Another good turnout for the library group last week. We had a new player, Mateo, who played all three rounds! Congrats to Chase and Delanie on the perfect scores!
This Saturday, November 11 there is a USCF/MCA tournament in Lansing. The U900/Unrated section (which I think applies to everyone including me) is $28 to enter, along with any membership fees (I think USCF is $40/year and MCA is $10/year which get...
All, Another great turnout Tuesday afternoon! We got a new local player as well as Karrie's sister visiting from Japan to play with us to make a total of 15 participants! Congrats to Austin for his perfect performance scoring 3/3 points! We had ...
All, Some further experimentation with a time that works best for people. This week I'm going to try a Saturday morning tournament. I think that might work for the adults' work schedule and kids who are limited by weekday bedtimes or screen time ...
This tournament is past due starting because it needs at least 3 people to start! So if you meant to join and thought you missed it, here's your chance!https://www.chess.com/tournament/rookery-games-u1000
We had another great turnout for our library club and you can see the results in the thumbnail! Also, don't forget the under 1000 daily tournament starts soon. Sign up if you're interested in playing in that. Right now it's just Dexter and Kasey ...
Thanks for coming out Matt, Elliot, Eric and Kasey! Sorry you got the first round bye Kasey, better luck next time. Results are shown above! I had a lot of fun and I hope you guys did too! You can check out the games here: https://www.chess.com/t...
As some of you may know, we've been playing some over the board games with local kids at the Chelsea District Library on Tuesday afternoons after school. Yesterday, we tried out the Swiss tournament format to see if the kids would like it and it w...
Hello again everyone! Last week, the Swiss tournament auto-cancelled because there were not enough players. This week, I'm trying it again but on a Thursday with the hope that fewer people will have schedule conflicts. Hopefully this one is easier...
I overhauled the club rating algorithm. A bunch of new players broke my "provisional" rating system and there are now so many players that the colors became very confusing.So here it is, solid lines are Rookery members online, and dotted lines are...
Austin and Eric are still embattled for the top spot in Niowave games II. The site doesn't officially support overtime, but we couldn't allow it to be undecided. Those games are very excited and can be found here. Austin v. EricEric is up two paw...
All, I'm trying a little something different this time. I have scheduled an online swiss style rapid tournament. The link to join is here. However, you can't join until an hour before the event begins, so add it to your google calendar or similar...
All, I'm playing a tournament this week! See the forum topic here: Games! Where I will put all of the details of my games as well as some analysis! Wish me luck!
All, I'm so far unable to start our current match, or create a new one for players who didn't get a game. No doubt chess.com will assure me that this is merely "feature regression" as a result of "improving their product" and will be back to bare...
Thanks to Austin, Eric, Matt, Lubna, Kasey, Nathaniel, Ade and Jenny for their excellent play. We won our second match! Well done everyone! New match! Don't forget to join the next one which starts today! It does look like our opponents have bee...
There's a new tournament starting on the 23rd! join here: Rookery Games I If you know someone who is not a club member, or not a chess.com member who wants to play, send them this link: https://www.chess.com/join/the-rookery
Welcome Jeremy and Kellan! Sorry for the late notice everyone, but I was able to get a room at my local library for an in person meetup!The meeting will be held at Chelsea District Library 2nd floor large study room from 5:30pm to 7:45pm (Library...
Hey everyone! First, welcome our newest member Mike Post! Glad to have you. I understand that you weren't able to join the most recent match. I think that's because of a chess.com anti-bot thing because your account is so new, but I could be wron...
All, I posted an open club match challenge and it was accepted! Head here if you'd like to play two daily games (one as white and one as black) 3 days/move.https://www.chess.com/club/matches/1484405Don't feel obligated to play if you already have...
All, Nobody responded to the naming contest, but I still wanted to move forward with re-naming so I just charged ahead with that. Please don't hesitate to say so if there are any objections to what I picked. Below is the new club description, and...
