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

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.