Delaware Chess Weblog

Come on out and play in the Newark Swiss Open on December 31, 2005. More information can be found by going to http://ncc.delawarechess.org/tournament.htm.

The Bear Scholastic Club is hosting a tournament open to all ages on December 28, 2005 to give you a chance to hone your chess skills during the winter holidays. You can find more information at http://bear.delawarechess.org/Christmas%20vacation%20tournament.htm. So set the new toys down for a day and come on out to play some chess!

The Newark Chess Club has moved its website to its new home under the Delaware Chess ‘banner’. Under the skillful webmastery of Mike Bartley the site is up and running at http://ncc.delawarechess.org. Click on over and checkout the club news, book reviews, membership information and tournament schedule at Newark’s premiere place to play on Thursday nights.

On Wednesday, December 7, 2005 the Charter School of Wilmington’s Chess Club held a tournament for its members. The tournament was a 5 round swiss with a time control of G/15. Congratulations to Chase Butler, Philip Saponaro and Matt Borowski for finishing in the top three. You can check out all the results of the event by clicking on over to http://www.docfleetwood.net/games/chess/csw2005fallswiss.htm.

If you have held club events please let us know so we can post the results here on the Delaware Chess Website!

Please join us for an exciting day as we kick off the start of a new year at the Hockessin Library Scholastic Club. The club will have a new leader - Josephine Fish - and is starting off on January 7th with a simul against our very own Delaware native, Master Dave Gertler! Click on over to the club flyer to see how you can participate. Be sure to come on out that day to support Delaware chess!

There is a new sheriff in town and his name is Richard Martin. He has a new deputy named Bob Wilder and the town record keeper is now Rick Lathem. These are your newly elected president, vice-president and secretary for the Delaware Chess Association. Congratulations gang!

You can view the complete list of officers, new and continuing, on our website at http://www.delawarechess.org/officers.htm

You will also note their email addresses on that page. The new crew very much wants to encourage all you Delaware chess players, parents and coaches to contact them with suggestions for making chess even better in this great state. A forum topic has already been started if you want to chime in on our Delaware Chess Forum. It can be found here.

So please join us on the message boards or email them directly so we can all carry this great game to a new level in our state.