The Kingston Chess Club is located in the picturesque City of Kingston, Ontario, Canada on the north shore of Lake Ontario at the head of the St. Lawrence River. Toronto is approximately 260 km to the west, Montreal is about 290 km to the east and Ottawa is about 175 km to the northeast. Enjoy your visit.
What's New
IMPORTANT NOTICE!!!!
Thanks to the election and an early voting date, WE WILL BE UNABLE TO MEET ON OCTOBER 6, 2008.
There will also be no chess meeting on Thanksgiving Day, OCTOBER 13, 2008.
Our next meeting night is: October 20, 2008. Please plan accordingly.
October 4, 2008: Rd. 2 Results Posted
OK - we now have the 2nd round results posted... well, most of them. :-) We are awaiting the results of two unreported games before we can expect to post the Rd 3 pairings. It is all on the Tournaments page.
Don't forget: we do not meet again until October 20.
September 29, 2008: Rd. 2 Pairings Adjusted
Please be advised that the round two pairings have been adjusted to accomodate some new information. Sorry for the inconvenience, folks!
September 28, 2008: Tournament results \ Pairings posted
The Kingston Fall Swiss, 2008 tournament featured a couple of upsets already! We have updated our Tournament page with all the results and the pairings for Round 2. Your TD is: Brian Murray (email). Please contact Brian directly with any questions or future bye requests.
September 21, 2008: A new Annotated Game
We have updated our annotated games page with an outstanding Canadian Correspondence game by Jim Cairns featuring the odd looking 2.Na3 in the Sicilian. You can find it from the Archives page or go directly to the game.
ROUND 1: Fall Open Swiss begins Sept. 22, 2008
Are you prepared? Round 1 of the Junior and Adult tournaments begin September 22, 2008. We would ask the adult members to arrive about 15 minutes earlier than usual in order that we may ensure that the pairings are done and the event starts as close to 7:30p as possible. Thanks.
September 14, 2008: UPDATE
We have updated the flash .pgn games viewer! You will find the link to it on the Archives page. Among other things, we have added games from the 2008 Club Championship and sorted all the listings by date. You may have to refresh your browser cache to see the changes. If you do not see your 2008 Club Championship game, either you did not submit it (as requested) or you submitted a gamescore with too many errors to properly interpret. It would be greatly appreciated if you submitted a clean .pgn of your missing game(s). Thanks.
September 7, 2008: UPDATE
We have updated the Junior page with the schedule of events and some important information for chess players and their parents from Junior Coordinator Harry Jordan.
September 1, 2008: Members in the News
Jay Serdula Completes Swim Across Lake Ontario
It took a grueling 41 hours, but Kingston Chess Club member Jay Serdula managed to complete his swim across Lake Ontario to raise awareness for Asperger's Syndrome on Wednesday July 30, 2008. We congratulate Jay on his outstanding achievement. The entire story with video can be seen here:
Geoff McKay Recovering from Heart Surgery
We are pleased to report that Kingston Chess Club member Geoff McKay is recovering from heart surgery undergone in August. Geoff is a former Club President and many time winner of the KCC Championship.
You may send your best wishes for a speedy recovery to Geoff by email. We hope to be meeting Geoff over the board very soon.
August 29, 2008:
Call for Executive Meeting
Please be advised that KCC President Brian Murray is calling for a meeting of the current Executive at Denny's Restaurant on Gardiners Road on Wednesday September 3, 2008 at 7:00pm. There are a number of critical issues that must be addressed prior to resuming our club fall session. ALL members of the Executive are required to R.S.V.P. Brian immediately. Thank you for your attention.
The Agenda:
- 1. Schedule of events for the upcoming year,
- 2. CFC Membership and alternatives,
- 3. Continued discussion of moving the club,
- 4. Financial situation, and
- 5. other issues.
Comment: Welcome back to the Fall Session of the 2008 - 2009 chess season. Club meetings resume September 8, 2008. We hope everyone has enjoyed our far too brief (it seems!) summer break. Over the next week we will be bringing the site up to date with the emphasis on answering some of the questions that potential new members have sent. If you still have questions, feel free to contact us and your webmaster will get back to you personally.
As many of you know, the CFC (Chess Federation of Canada) has been struggling with some very serious problems. Indeed - those problems have already seen members refusing to renew in droves, various financial scandals and some radical surgery (including the cancellation of the CFC magazine Chess Canada). Your webmaster has already spent some time last year exposing the refusal of the CFC to protect your personal reputations within the chess community. Most of our members have historically preferred not to know what was going on "behind the scenes" and we have reflected that preference in the past by avoiding publishing the various stories and scandals. Your webmaster thinks that this was a mistake. The chess community in this country can no longer afford to remain willfully ignorant nor can it remain uninvolved. We will use this page to inform, to challenge and seek your opinions on the current crises facing us in the year ahead. It promises to be a most interesting year.
(Wayne A. Coppin, webmaster)
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