The Hamilton City Chess Club will be moving to Emmanuel United Church in time for its June 21 meeting. This deal has not be signed as of yet; but, the contract should be finalized over the next few days.

The church is on 871 Upper Ottawa Street on Hamilton mountain. It is near Upper Ottawa and Mohawk, so most of the chess players who use public transit should be able to get there with one bus. (Either Mohawk or Upper Ottawa.)

We shall have our last meeting at Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School Friday June 14. I'd like to thank the school board, its caretakers and security guards who have helped us in many situations the years we have played chess with them.

For our last two weeks at Sir Winston Churchill we will be having an unrated active (25 minute games). Anyone who wants to experience chess at our club is invited to come, as players will not need CFC memberships to play in these games.

Our next CFC event will be at our new location on Upper Ottawa. So spend the next two weeks booking up!

Congratulations Doug, Raymond and Bobby you have won the Hamilton May series 2013 with 3.5 points each.

To see how it happened please visit the following link.

May Series 2013

Congratulations to Doug, Raymond, Laurence and Bozidar. You have won the Winter Series 2013! Each of the first place finishers had 3.5 points.

Special mention goes to Eugene, Austin and Adrian who were only half a point behind with 3.0.

To see how these results were achieved please visit the following link:
Winter Series 2013

There will be no chess Friday April 26. This is a development day for high school teachers.

Our next CFC series will begin May 3, which is the following Friday after the holiday. So take the extra week to study up then come to our club to test your skills.

First of all I want to thank the players, parents and spectators that came to our tournament. My count for players this weekend was 83 (Bobby G please confirm this!). With parents and spectators we regularly had over 100 people in the building for things chess related.

The top finishers in the event were as follows:

Top Guns
1st Victor Plotkin with 4.5 points
Tied 2nd Roman Sapozhnikov, Hans Jung, Mike Ivanov with 3.5 points

U2000
1st Rob Gashgarian with an amazing 5 points
2nd Mario Moran-Venegas with 4 points
Tied 3rd Richard Chen, Wenyang Ming, Mario Piccinin with 3.5 points

U1600
1st Gary Hua with 4.5 points
Tied 2nd Nameer Issani, Nicholas Vettese, Adrian Calugaru, Alex Shlega with 4 points

The U1600 section received trophy prizes. Due to a shortage of trophies one of the second place finishers received a wind up radio that was graciously donated to the Hamilton Junior Chess Club. We would like to thank PK Hummingbird once again for their donation of wind up radios several years ago.

This tournament was filled with drama and excitement. McMaster University student Adam Cormier told me that during this event he played his best ever game. There were at least a few local Hamiltonians who were playing their first chess tournament. And it was great to see this tournament had one of our largest turnouts of women.

The stories are too numerous to tell so I hope some of you will help me out with that. In the meantime take a look at some of the pictures from this event in this chess talk thread. (And please feel free to add more!)

(Visit the following link to see pictures and discussion of our event)

Chess Talk Discussion On Hamilton Winter Open 2013

I want to thank Walter De Jong for giving me the wooden board and pieces that were used on board 1. (You can also check this Chess Talk thread for examples of his fine photography!) And thanks to Mikhail Egorov for the donation of his wooden board, pieces and DGT clock for use on board 2. Mikhail also gave us the coffee maker that served the free coffee.

I want to give a special thanks to Michel Vasquez and Rene Preotu for helping me in critical situations during the tournament.

And a final big thanks to Bob Gillanders who worked his something off to make this event successful (not to mention rides and stuff...).

Alright, enough of this wussy stuff. Go play some chess!

HAMILTON WINTER OPEN 2013

The Hamilton City Chess Club is proud to present our next weekend swiss which will take place at Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School on March 23-24
See our poster and join our Chess Talk discussion by visiting the following link:

Chess Talk Discussion On Hamilton Winter Open 2013

Also if you have any questions about our weekend tournament please post them to the above Chess Talk forum.

And the best of luck at the competition!


SIMUL WITH FM DOUG BAILEY

At the Hamilton City Chess Club on Friday March 22 there will be a simul with FM Doug Bailey. (One day before our weekend swiss begins).

Non members wishing to play our club fee for one day is only $3.00.

Please come to our club by 7pm to register to play.

Note: There will be a maximum number of boards (to be announced) and Hamilton Club members will get first serve on available boards. If you are interested email us at chesshamilton@gmail.com to let us know you are coming. Then I can try and let you know if the event is full in advance.

You can find our Chess Talk discussion regarding the simul at:

Chess Talk Discussion On Simul with FM Bailey

Our chess club will be closed on the following holidays:

Friday March 15 for March Break
Friday March 29 for Good Friday
Friday April 26 for Secondary Schools PA Day

Our club will be OPEN on:
**March 22 Simul with Doug Bailey**

Just a reminder that our next CFC series begins this Friday! So be at the club by 7pm to sign up!

Congratulations to Doug Bailey who has won the Low Budget Winter Special 2013! Honourable mention goes to Alex Friedman, Joe Ellis and Robert Gillanders who all tied for second.

To see all the results please go to the following link:

Low Budget Winter Special 2013 Pairings And Results

Hello Everyone,

I regret to tell you all that the 4th round of the Low Budget Winter Special will not be held tonight.

My original intention was to let people play casual chess but it turns out that the school will be closed so please dont travel to Sir Winston Churchill Secondary tonight.

If anyone has any questions please email me at chesshamilton@gmail.com.

Thanks