Our Holiday Party will be held on December 16. There will be an unrated G/5 or G/10, and then Bughouse! Bring food! We usually have more food than we know what to do with, but it doesn't matter - bring more!
Some highlights from the last few months:
Finally, our five-week Club Championship comes next year in June. This will be a 10-round G/45 Swiss, 2 rounds per Friday night. The fee will be $30 per night, but will be discounted for those who come regularly to our Club. There will be daily prizes for each night and a first- and second-place Grand Prize at the end. Advance entries are recommended.
See you at our Party and enjoy your holiday season!
Nicholas P. Sterling, Ph.D. Waltham Chess Club, Tournament Director
Plenty of Halloween candy was on hand to greet chess trick-or-treaters at our Blitz event on 10/28/11. The Wall-Chart is on my blog, http://xenophon98.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/77/. Steven Winer, Robert Perez, and Evan Rabin tied in first place with 10 points apiece out of 12. Thanks to all who played.
Waltham Chess thanks Jim Walker, self-described as "photo editor of the Waltham News Tribune and wickedlocalwaltham.com and proud resident of the Watch City since 2008", for coming to visit our Club in January and posting a great article with pictures in the February Tribune. We came to know Jim last December after he published his blog entry "So many chess tables, so little chess..."(http://blogs.wickedlocal.com/brandnewwatch/2010/12/14/so-many-chess-tables-so-little-chess/#ixzz1KIyzSPTI), with his first mention of the Waltham Club. You may find the final article at the Wicked Local Waltham site:(http://www.wickedlocal.com/waltham/photos/x1240515108/Waltham-Chess-Club).
We also thank SM Denys Shmelov for coming so faithfully week after week through 2010. He has started graduate school at University of Connecticut, and we wish him the best of luck. We additionally congratulate him on receiving his first GM norm at Berkeley.
Finally, we will be hosting a Waltham Club Championship in June, 2012. More details to come.
Some highlights from the last few months:
In September Waltham Chess Club collaborated with Howard Goldowsky and Back Pages Bookstore to host an event at the bookstore (on Waltham's Moody Street) on the 11th. The event was designed to promote the book Masters of Technique, edited by Goldowsky and published by Mongoose Press. Included was a simultaneous exhibition by Senior Master Denys Shmelov, followed by a blitz tournament run by Michael Gosselin and Todd Chase. All of the proceeds were donated to charity. I'd like to thank Howard and Back Pages for organizing this event and inviting us to participate, and Denys, Michael and Todd for running the simul and blitz tournament. The participating players enjoyed themselves and a few copies of Masters were sold. We hope the bookstore will host another such event in the future and that, with more effective promotion, more players will come.
Waltham Chess Club had a slight dip in attendance in September, but came back strong in October, and in November we had our highest turnout in my tenure, 20 players. I am especially pleased with the high influx of new players, an average of one per week.
Check out our newly designed website at http://walthamchessclub.org. Vitaliy Ryabinin worked really hard to get it published for us, and we thank him for the high-class upgrade.
Some highlights from the last few months:
We'll see you in 2011 - Happy Holidays!
Nicholas P. Sterling, Ph.D.
Waltham Chess Club
Tournament Director
The highlight of our summer was the observance of our 100th First Friday G/10 tournament this August. The first ever First Friday was directed by Michael Gosselin back in 1996, making our 100th a long-awaited watershed to reached. Everyone who came brought lots of munchies to nosh on and made the event a great success.
Another event upcoming (as of the time of writing) will be held at Back Pages Bookstore on Waltham's Moody Street on Saturday, September 11, from 12 PM to 6 PM. The event will include a simultaneous exhibition by Senior Master Denys Shmelov, followed by a blitz tournament run by Michael Gosselin and Todd Chase. All of the proceeds will be donated to charity. I'd like to thank Howard Goldowsky for organizing this event and inviting Waltham Chess Club to participate.
Our attendance numbers this summer have stayed consistently high, between 16 and 20 players, with occasional dips when players were away on vacation. We expect our numbers to return to full strength from September onward.
The Waltham Chess Club meets every Friday evening from 7 PM through the evening, sometimes burning the post-midnight oil. Our website is http://walthamchessclub.org, including directions to our site at the IBM Building (404 Wyman Street in Waltham), and our schedule of events (which can also be found on the MACA website calendar).
Some highlights from the last few months:
And I continue to welcome game scores to publish as articles.
We thank all of you who have come to play at Waltham Chess Club.
Nicholas P. Sterling, Ph.D.
Waltham Chess Club
Tournament Director
Pizza! The staff of life for chess players.
On the Friday before Memorial Day, our club hosted a Free Pizza Night to escort in the MA Open weekend. 11 players appeared, including a few new players and one returning after a long absence; together we made quick work of 3 16” pizzas. The winner of that night’s 5-round G/15 was a new player for us, Igor Gavrilov, who comes to us from Skopje, Macedonia. He put his FIDE experience to good work that Friday night, winning the event with a score of 4.5 out of 5 points.
The Waltham Chess Club meets every Friday evening from 7 PM through the evening, sometimes burning the post-midnight oil. Our website is http://walthamchessclub.org, including directions to our site at the IBM Building (404 Wyman Street in Waltham), and our schedule of events (which can also be found on the MACA website calendar).
The "Top 10" free or low-cost benefits that the club offers are:
Some highlights from the last few months:
Finally, I intend to publish regularly in Chess Horizons one featured game from a WCC tournament. If you have a score of a game that you’d like to see in print, turn it in to me and I’ll write up an article. Annotations are welcome but not necessary.
Thanks to all those who have come to Waltham on Friday night. We love to have you!
Nicholas P. Sterling, Ph.D.
Waltham Chess Club
Tournament Director
We closed out 2009 in high spirits with a highly successful Holiday Party on 12/18/09. Everyone who came brought so much pizza and so many delicious desserts, snacks, and soda that we were all floating in food within an hour. We ran a 3-Round Game/10 tournament, which Max Chiu-hsin Lu won with a perfect score of 3 points; we followed that with a team quad Bughouse tournament., which Team I (Todd Chase and Hao-Yuan Pai) won with a perfect score of 3 points. This is certainly the first Bughouse Tournament WCC has held for a long time, if ever, and I look forward to many more. Thanks to everyone who came, brought food, and played.
The Waltham Chess Club meets every Friday evening from 7 PM through the evening, sometimes burning the post-midnight oil. Our website is http://walthamchessclub.org, including directions to our site at the IBM Building (404 Wyman Street in Waltham), and our schedule of events (which can also be found on the MACA website calendar).
Some highlights from the last few months:
Finally, I intend to publish regularly in Chess Horizons one featured game from a WCC tournament. If you have a score of a game that you’d like to see in print, turn it in to me and I’ll write up an article. Annotations are welcome but not necessary.
Thanks to all those who have come to Waltham on Friday night and helped our club to grow and prosper.
Nicholas P. Sterling, Ph.D.
Waltham Chess Club
Tournament Director
Thank you to all the players who have come to the Waltham Chess Club recently and raised our attendance! We had so many people show up on the Friday before Columbus Day that we were able to run an impromptu unrated G/5! My goal is to crack an attendance of 16 so that we can have sections with at least 8 players in a section. So keep on coming and helping our club to be a success.
The Waltham Chess Club meets every Friday evening from 7 PM through the evening, sometimes burning the post-midnight oil. Our website is http://walthamchessclub.org, including directions to our site at the IBM Building (404 Wyman Street in Waltham), and our schedule of events (which can also be found on the MACA website calendar). Each month, we schedule most of the following events: a First Friday G/10, a two-round G/60, a three-round G/25 (all of these USCF rated), and an unrated G/5 Blitz. Our prizes come out of the cash from entry fees each night.
Masters play for free, as long as they have a 2200 Rating as of the latest Supplement, or can show they have a Life Master title.
We’ll have Free Pizza some nights, and we look forward to scheduling big special events with lots of prize money.
Some highlights from the last few months:
Finally, I intend to publish regularly in Chess Horizons one featured game from a WCC tournament. If you have a score of a game that you’d like to see in print, turn it in to me and I’ll write up an article. Annotations are welcome but not necessary.
Happy chess-playing and all the best wishes for a safe and prosperous 2010.
Nicholas P. Sterling, Ph.D.
Waltham Chess Club
Tournament Director
This is my first report to MACA as Tournament Director of the Waltham Chess Club. I have been regularly active as Director since November, 2008, and since I started, we have had a slowly but steadily increasing number of regular attendees to our Club. The Waltham Chess Club, after having endured a lengthy period of doldrums with distressingly low attendance, appears at last poised to enter a new period of renewed vigor. Rumors afoot of our demise are greatly exaggerated.
We meet every Friday evening from 7 PM on, and our website is http://walthamchessclub.org, including directions to our site at the IBM Building on Wyman Street in Waltham, and our schedule of events (which can also be found on the MACA website calendar). Each month, we schedule most of the following events: a First Friday G/10, a two-round G/60, a three-round G/25 (all of these USCF rated), and an unrated G/5 Blitz. Our prizes come out of the cash from entry fees each night.
Masters get to play for free, as long as they have a 2200 Rating as of the latest Supplement, or can show they have a Life Master title.
On some nights, we will bring in Free Pizza, and whoever is lucky enough to show up first will get some. The more people come regularly, the more Free Pizza we’ll bring in – and the more prize money we can award!
Some highlights from 2009:
We may also schedule some big special events in the future, so stay tuned.
I heartily thank everyone who has played at our Club, and hope you will all come visit us regularly and often to keep our Club prospering and flourishing.
Nicholas P. Sterling, Ph.D.
Waltham Chess Club
Tournament Director
WCC Member Coordinator
Todd Chase
(781) 790-1033
info@WalthamChessClub.org
WCC Webmaster
Vitaliy Ryabinin
vitaliy1219@gmail.com