GCCC Swiss Allegro Thursday 21st 6pm.
Gold Coast Chess Club is hosting a Swiss Allegro this Thursday night. The tourney will be a 5 round 10 minute per side with no increment. Sonneborn–Berger is the tiebreak.
The tournament link is GCCC Swiss Allegro
This is (hopefully) the final test before the Swiss system goes live and unattended.
All w [...]
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GCCC Swiss Allegro Thursday 21st 6pm.
Gold Coast Chess Club is hosting a Swiss Allegro this Thursday night. The tourney will be a 5 round 10 minute per side with no increment. Sonneborn–Berger is the tiebreak.
The tournament link is GCCC Swiss Allegro
This is (hopefully) the final test before the Swiss system goes live and unattended.
All w [...]
Cheating and Online Chess
I woke this morning and the first article in my news-feed was a youtube link to IM Danny Rensch from chess dot com talking about online cheating. He mentioned the word “pandemic” in describing the avalanche of evidence gathered by their site on players using engines or bots to assist their play.
Link to IM Danny Rensch “Don& [...]
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Photos of the Australian Juniors 2020
Official Photographs AJCC 2020
Claire Liu is the official photographers for the Australian Juniors 2020 – so to see more of her fantastic work please follow the link by clicking the image!
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Charm City Motel Open – Prizegi...
So to start the Sunday off on a great note, Karen from Charm City Motel served up a Bundaberg friendly style breakfast by the pool! The kids loved the pancakes!
Grand Master Timur Gareyev, holder of the world record for blindfold chess, won the Charm City Motel Open 2019 event with a perfect 6.
WIM Heather Richards and IM Brodie McClymont fi [...]
