General Information
Norths Chess Club meets each Tuesday evening at 7.30pm in the Auditorium at Norths Club, 12 Abbott Street, Cammeray.
For information about the club, contact:
Norm Greenwood (Treasurer)
Email: normg74@mysoul.com.au
Mobile Phone: 0431 234 741
Contact Norm if you have any questions.
2010 Australian Chess Championships
It is official! Norths Chess Club is hosting the event at Norths Club from Saturday 2nd January to Wednesday 13th January 2010.
Interclub Grade Matches
As we do every year, our members are competing in this event with other chess clubs in the Sydney area. It is a mixture of at home and away games.
Winter Ladder Tournament
For those people who are not playing grade matches, we have a new event this year. It is a informal winter tournament. Come along when you can to play. Register for the night and you will be matched up with someone of similar rating and wins and losses.
Big Board Match against St George
The first Leg of this annual event was played on 12th May with norths obtaining a substantial lead of 28½ to 19½ in the bid to regain the John Kellner/Terrey Shaw Trophy.
Norths had a convincing win against St George in our at home game. 40 North members played against 40 St George members. Extra Norths players had a mini match amonst themselves. The return match will be at St George in November.
Little Board Match against Manly
The first Leg of the North of the Harbour clash with Manly Chess Club was played on 5th May with the result being 15½ to 9½ in favour of norths
Club Championship 2009 Results
Championship Division
Vladimir Smirnov 7.5 - 8
Blair Mandala 7 - 9
Karel Hursky 7 - 11
Andre Hariman 6 - 8
Candidates Division
Oscar Wang 9 - 9
Marek Baterowicz 8 - 10
Paul Glissan 6.5 - 11
Peter Lay 6 - 8
Yu-shiun Chen 6 - 10
Reserve A Division
Anton Smirnov 7 - 9
Ian Dickson 6.5 - 10
Rex Simmonds 5.5 - 9
Robert Pike 5.5 - 10
Horst Bleicher 5 - 9
Reserve B Division
Jeroen De Graaf 7.5 - 10
Reg Ryan 6.5 - 9
Mark Ryan 6.5 - 10
Harry Kolotas 6 - 10
Reserve C Division
Shane Dibley 9 - 10
Norbert Heimburger 7 - 9
Michael Tracey 6.5 - 10
Fred Schuetz 5 9
Reserve D Division
Robert Laurie 9 - 9
Greg Matthews 6 - 8
Neil Ashworth 6 - 9
Joe Harrison 5.5 - 9
George Bennett 5 - 8
Hareesh Thippeswamy 5 - 9
Club Lightning Championship Results
Club Lightning Championship Results (03/02/09)
New Member Blair Mandla was the winner with 8.5 points closely followed by WIM Biljana Dekic 8.0 and Peter Abbott 7.5.
Fourth and best Junior was Oscar Wang on 6.0 points.
Tournaments
Two major tournaments are held at North Sydney Chess Club each year. Click below for information on these tournaments, latest results and games.
Web Game Collections
The club maintains an on-line collection of chess games. This includes games played in club tournaments and other games of general interest from various events throughout the chess world. The games may be viewed on-line in a javascript viewer or downloaded and for use with other chess software. The games are in PGN format.Click to visit the Game Collections main page.
Miscellaneous
Read about some of the other activities at North Sydney Chess Club and other pages available on this web site by clicking on the links below.- Big Board Match vs. St. George and Results.
- Grade Matches
- Consultation Game
- Lectures
- Fun Night
- Here are some Photos taken at the club.
- The names of all Club Presidents and Club Champions are on the History page.
- Other Chess Clubs (listed on the NSWCA site)