LiveChess Play – Weekly Tournam...
With the Return of Over the Board chess at the Gold Coast Chess Club their normal weekly online tournaments have died out.
We would like to change this.
Below is a Poll for what day of the week you would like us to set up a weekly swiss.
The tournament would be;
6 Round swiss.
5 minutes + 0
1 minute between rounds
start 6PM AEST
APPROX end ti [...]
Livechess News
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 [...]
AuNix Online Swiss
This Sunday the 3rd of May we are hosting an Online Swiss tournament –
AuNix Online Swiss
Rapid 15 Minutes per side Plus 5 seconds increment from move 1.
Free entry open to all registered Livechess Play Group members, CAQ members and selected invitees. Arbiters are FA Dusan Stojic and NA David Esmonde.
Round 1 will start at 10am S [...]
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& [...]
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!
Australian Junior Chess Championships...
Almost ready – despite falling bridges and flooded roads!
Live Games Here!
Timur Gareyev’s Stunning Blindf...
Timur Gareyev’s Stunning Blindfold Queen Sacrifice
Charm City Motel Open 2019 Roving Cam...
A video walk-around among the Charm City Motel Open players! What an unique sport where the youngest novice can play against the world’s best in an event open to all!
Bundaberg Blitz Simul with GM Timur G...
GM Timur Gareyev is a wonderful ambassador for Chess. On Friday night he and his students push-biked to “Grunske’s by the River” – a local Bundy seafood hotspot; then off to see the visiting Great Moscow Circus. Next morning it was a healthy start to the tournament by cooking breakfast for all the chess players hosted [...]