Our Objectives:
We are devoted to popularising chess on campus.
We also actively help out with the
ANU Chess Festival.
The ANU Chess Club meets every Friday 12 noon - 3:00pm in Union Court on the blue tables. For cold/wet weather we are inside the Refectory. The club doesn't usually meet on Fridays during uni holidays. Sets can also be borrowed from the Uni Bar whenever it is open.
All students, as well as staff, are welcome to come along and have a game.
and get more students to play in the most presitigious chess events in Australia, the ANU Chess Festival, and the Doeberl Cup.
Membership is $1 for the calendar year - we are an ACT Chess Association affiliated club.Our primary objective is for people to have fun and we will be organising many novelty and social events, as well as serious tournaments like the ANU Chess Club Championship.
We will be organising some novelty events during semester 2, however the next huge local event to watch out for is the 2001 Australian Centenary Chess Festival, incorporating the 2001 Australian Open. This is an event not to be missed.
There is talk of an Australian Intervarsity Championship to coincide with the Australian University Games in Ballarat between October 01-06 2000. Contact the executive for further details.
President Vice President Treasurer Secretary Committee Member Committee Member
Please feel free to contact us if you have any queries or suggestions that
you think would improve the chess club and popularise the game. The issues
raised will be discussed at the next executive meeting.
View the new festival photo gallery.
The events were as follows:
The links above give details about each of the events.
In 1995 the then President of the Australian Chess Federation said that the
ANU Chess Festival was the most important chess event in
Australia, comprising a masters tournament, a prestigious open weekender,
National Computer Chess Championship, and a simultaneous display by a champion player. However an unfortunate corollary of having so many
events was that there was a shortage of organisers. Clearly if the ANU
Chess Club is able to establish itself, it will be admirably placed to
combat this problem in one of the ANU's biggest annual publicity events.
2000 Simul Bar Challenge:
ANU Inter-College Chess Championship 2000: Market Day during O-Week 2000:
Upcoming Events
The ANU Chess Festival has just been completed and the ANU Chess Club is recovering somewhat! Go to the website for full results.
2000 Executive:
The above people were elected at the AGM earlier this year. We are always
looking for more people to help with organisation.2000 ANU Chess Festival, 15-23 July
2000 ANU Chess Festival Results
The 2000 ANU Chess Festival was a great success.
Overall there were 600 participants in all of the events - a record attendance. Players alone totalled over 450. The event is now firmly on the calendar of top Australian events.
- National Computer Chess Championship
- Computer Chess Workshop
- ANU Primary Schools Championship
- ANU Primary Schools Championship
- ANU High Schools Championship
- University Co-op Bookshop Simultaneous Match
- ANU Open
- ACT Go ChampionshipReports:
13 players took part in this year's Club Championship during March/April.
Games were played at a time limit of 1 hour.
The winner was Milan Grcic with a perfect 7/7.
ANU Champion Vladimir Smirnov took on 20 players simultaneously
in the Refectory on Friday of O-Week in late February. Participants got free drinks for every
20 moves they survived!
There was an impressive turnout of 195 players.
International Master Aleks Wohl (Qld) took out the Open Section. Click on the link
for full results.
Burgmann College won the round-robin competition consisting
of 6/7 of the halls and colleges. Nigel "Nasty" Tao won the event giving Burgmann the title for the second year in a row.
Click on the link for the report.
There was a good turnout during market day. The club has over 40 members for 2000.
News:
- current and past local ACT chess news.
ANU Chess News
To subscribe to either of these lists send a message to
listproc@samba.anu.edu.au with no subject and a body of:
subscribe chess YOUR_NAME (for the ACT list) or
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If you have trouble subscribing then contact the executive.
Australian Links: Directory
of ACT Chess Clubs
Our Links:
Belconnen
Chess Club Page
Tuggeranong
Chess Club
Adelaide University
Chess Club
Flinders University
Chess Club
Australian Chess Federation
ACT Chess Association
Ian Rout's ACT chess page
Overseas Links:
Exeter
Chess Club Coaching Page
FIDE - International Chess Federation
Deep Blue vs Kasparov
Match
Pittsburgh University Chess
Club
University of
Maryland-Baltimore Chess Club
Minnesota
University Chess Club
Malta Chess Federation
Page
Internet Collegiate
Chess League
Free Internet Chess Server
Kasparov v The World Match
Frank's Chess Page
Photos
View our photo gallery.
Also view the chess festival gallery.
