PJ Chess

The meetings for the next three months are scheduled to take place on the following Sundays:

December: 2nd, 9th, and 16th (1pm - 5pm)
January: 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th (1:30pm - 5pm)
February: 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th (1:30pm - 5pm)

Please bring a board and clock, if you have one.

GM Roman Dzindzichashvili (three time US champion and former coach of Gata Kamsky and Eugene Perelshteyn) will be giving a simul and lecture, as well as selling and autographing his new books (Chess Openings for White and Chess Openings for Black) at the Mount Sinai Middle School this Friday, November 9, 2007 from 5-8 P.M.

The fee to play in the simul will be $20.00 for each participant.

PLEASE NOTE: Our next two meetings, on Nov 5th and 12th, will be held in the new Port Jefferson Library building, “Port Jeff at Good Times”, which is located right on the corner of Thompson St and Main St, just 50 feet away from the old library building where we regularly meet.

Here’s a video and a pgn of this crazy game, where Svenderlunk had 5 minutes and Nakamura only had 10 seconds for the full game.

Our next club meeting will be held:

Mon, Nov 5th
From 6 pm to 9 pm

After that, the following meetings are scheduled

November: 12th (from 6pm to 9pm)
December: 2nd, 9th, and 16th (from 1pm to 5pm)

Please bring a board and clock, if you have one.

Also, if you would like to help spread the word about this club, you can hand out and post some fliers.

At the last club meeting, some Stony Brook students mentioned that they might need a ride to/from the next meeting.

So, if there are some people who would like to offer rides and others that need rides to and from Stony Brook, you can use the comments section of this post to schedule rides and get in touch with one another.

There were only two chess clocks in the club on the first night. That meant that only a limited number of people could participate in the 15-minute ladder… Continue Reading »

The first club meeting’s Ladder rankings have been posted to the new Ladders page. I’m now working on the Ladder Archives page and a Ladder Guide (links to which will be posted on the same Ladders page when they’re ready).

In calculating the Ladder rankings, I’ve run in to a minor but significant glitch that will require a rules change to fix. See below for the gory details as to the whys and hows.

The resulting rules change is that (to be reasonably fair, and to avoid a major software rewrite) players who are absent or do not play any Ladder games for two consecutive club nights will be moved to the bottom of the Ladder, and will be taken off the Ladder after three such nights. This demotion in rank will happen after all the games for that night have been rated.

Now, on to the gory details…
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If anyone is interested in helping beginners (teaching the rules, giving them tips, playing through a game with them and giving them advice on how to improve), or if you’re interested in giving a talk on anything chess related at one of our upcoming club meetings, please contact the club.