These are indeed challenging times, but to make your home stay a little more pleasant, we are organising our first online tournament! Playing time: Thursday 16th 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Time control: 5 minutes per player, no increment No entry fees, no prizes. Just fun! The tourney URL is http://play.livechess.aunz.net/tournament/3khfEpES Password is gcccfunblitz Follow…
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GCCC July Blitz Results
Another very enjoyable blitz tourney played in great spirit! One of the stories of the night was that Josh Cooper’s grandparents were watching his game v Dusan live from Bali!
GCCC 3 Week Rapid Results
The GCCC 3 Week Rapid was run over the last 3 club nights with 3 rounds per night. Congratulations to the following winners… Place Name Rating Score Prize 1st Stojic, Dusan 2282 9 $100 + medal 2nd Grigg, Sam 2018 7.5 $ 80 + medal =3rd Kitikov, Oleg 1702 6 $ 25 + medal =3rd…
GCCC IM Blitz Challenge Report
A great night was had by all – lots of happy smiling faces! David Vella from AuNix Internet did a great job broadcasting the top 4 boards and projecting the pairings and internal game viewer. 36 blitz games and many flying pieces, and the Livechess software worked perfectly. IM Peter Froelich finished 1st on 8.5…
IM Blitz Challenge broadcast live!
The IM Blitz Challenge is a 9 round 3 minute plus 2 second increment tourney featuring some heavyweights of Gold Coast Chess – IM Aleks Wohl, IM Peter Froelich, current Queensland Champion FM Dusan Stojic and current Australian Women’s Champion WIM Alexandra Jule are headlining. Cost is $10 payable on the night and all players…
Weekly Puzzle 2019-03-28
The story behind this beautiful puzzle: A few weeks ago, former World Champion Vishvanathan Anand was conducting a two-day workshop in Pune, India, which was attended by some of the most talented young players in the world. To challenge these young IMs and GMs, as well as some of the strongest and experienced GMs in…