docfleetwood on December 28th, 2004

There doesn’t seem to be a plethora of chess tournament software on the market. It is ashame, really, since competition makes for better software. As best I can tell, the big money contenders are SwissSys and WinTD. I have never used either of these packages since they cost about $100 each. Instead I discovered a [...]

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docfleetwood on December 22nd, 2004

January 16, 2005 2005 City of Wilmington Championship – 1st Annual; Location: Central YMCA, 501 West Eleventh Street, Wilmington, DE 19801 4-SS; TC: G/60 REG: 9-9:30; RDS: 9:45 – 12:15 – 2:45 – 5; 1/2 pt. Byes (limit 1) available; byes for rds 4 or 5 are irrevocable and must be requested prior to round [...]

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docfleetwood on December 22nd, 2004

See the result of the 2004 Delaware Blitz Championship at the link below. http://www.delawarechess.org/tournaments/2004dechessfestivalresults.htm Thanks to all who attended.

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docfleetwood on December 19th, 2004

The Delaware Chess Association is going to start a school chess league where schools will play each other much the same way as current sports programs. At the end of the “season” there will be a state champion chess team in both the high school and middle school levels! This league will begin with the [...]

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docfleetwood on December 19th, 2004

What’s this, a name change already? The former ‘site of the week’ is now the ‘review of the week’, and after only one post! I figured why limit myself to just Internet sites when there are also all those books, programs and pieces of chess equipment out there that can be reviewed too. So off [...]

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docfleetwood on December 16th, 2004

I thought I’d start a new benefit for the visitors to our site by pointing you to some other chess sites on the Internet you may not know about. In my bumblings around the ‘net’ I have come across quite a few neat sites to see games, learn tactics, practice with puzzles, read official rules [...]

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docfleetwood on December 9th, 2004

The 2nd annual Delaware Chess Festival is coming on December 17, 2004. Read more about it here… http://www.delawarechess.org/tournaments/2004dechessfestival.htm

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docfleetwood on December 7th, 2004

The Bear Scholastic Chess Club is sponsoring a tournament for kids and adults during the winter holidays. See here http://www.delawarechess.org/tournaments/christmasvacationtournament.htm for more information.

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