What’s happening this Monday?

But we’re back May 27 with a full slate of chess activities:

• Adult and Kids’ Spring classes are well under way. However, late registration is still available: 6:00 to 7:30 pm at the front desk (payment by cash or cheque)
• Kids’ classes are 5:00 to 6:00 or 6:15 to 7:15 pm; Adult classes are 8:00 to 9:00 pm
• ACC Kids’ Club, 6:45 to 8:45 pm – supervised casual games, ongoing kids’ tournaments, game analysis and more, with Keith Denning
• The Toronto Closed is under way, with Round 6 at 7:30
• Our new Backyard Barbecue club tournament is starting, with registration 6:30 to 7:00 pm and Round 1 starting at 7:30 pm
• As always, there are pick-up games all evening in the casual section, 6:30 to 11:00 pm.

Please note: the club will be closed on Monday May 20 for Victoria Day.

Current Events

ACC Spring Fling – starting April 15

This is a regular five-round club tournament, in three sections – Crown (>1800), Reserve A (U1800), and Reserve B (U1400). The Crown section is FIDE-rated.

2013 Toronto Closed – starting April 15

Sanctioned by the Greater Toronto Chess League (GTCL), this tournament will decide the 2013 Toronto Chess Champion. In traditional, 8-player, all-play-all format, this FIDE-rated Championship round robin will see the top eight Toronto chess players (by CFC rating) playing one game per week for seven weeks. The next eight highest-rated players who apply will play in a Reserve round robin, where the winner qualifies automatically for next year’s Championship. Grab a flyer for full details.

Upcoming ACC Events

ACC Backyard Barbecue – starting May 27

This is a regular five-round club tournament, in three sections – Crown (>1800), Reserve A (U1800), and Reserve B (U1400). The Crown section is FIDE-rated.

ACC Summer Festival – starting July 8

Another regular five-round club tournament, in three sections – Crown, Reserve A, and Reserve B. The Crown section is FIDE-rated.

ACC Peaches and Cream – starting August 19

And another regular five-round club tournament, in three sections – Crown, Reserve A, and Reserve B. The Crown section is FIDE-rated.

Upcoming Toronto Events

Further ahead, please mark the Aurora Summer Open (July 6-7), the Labour Day Open (Aug 30-Sept 2), and the Hart House Holidays Open (Dec 20-22) on your calendars!

Past Events

ACC Club Tournaments

• 2013 Club Championship – winner: Michael Humphreys
• 2013 ACC Polar Bear Swiss – winner: Michael Humphreys
• 2012 ACC Roasted Chestnuts Swiss – winner: Geordie Derraugh
• 2012 ACC Autumn Colours Swiss – winner: Dave Southam
• 2012 ACC Summer Love Swiss – winner: Dave Southam
• 2012 ACC Beach Blanket Swiss – winner: Wajdy Shebetah
• 2012 ACC Patio Weather Swiss – winner: Zehn Nasir
• 2012 ACC Spring Swiss – winner: Wajdy Shebetah
• 2012 ACC Club Championship – winner: Michael Humphreys
• 2011 ACC Holiday Swiss – winner: Alex Ferreira
• 2011 ACC Fall Swiss – winner: Michael Humphreys
• ACC 1st Anniversary Swiss – winner: Pavel Peev
• 2011 ACC Late Summer Swiss – winner: David Filipovich
• 2011 ACC Early Summer Swiss – winner: Rolando Renteria
• 2011 ACC Spring Swiss – winner: Wajdy Shebetah
• 2011 ACC Club Championship – winner: Wajdy Shebetah
• 2010 ACC Holiday Swiss – winner: Erik Malmsten
• 2010 ACC Fall Swiss – winner: Steve Fairbairn

Club Speed Tournaments

• October speed: Halloween Ritz – winner: Wajdy Shebetah
• August speed: Late Summer Ritz – winner: Samuel Lipnowski
• July speed: Summer Ritz – winner: Geordie Derraugh
• May speed: ACC Rapid Championship – winner: Rolando Renteria
• December chess-960: ACC Chess-960 Tournament – winner: Pepin Manalo
• November active: ACC Fall Active – winner: Steve Fairbairn

Toronto Tournaments at ACC

• 2012 Toronto International – winner: GM Wesley So
• 2011 Toronto Thanksgiving Open – winner: IM Nikolay Noritsyn
• 2011 Toronto Labour Day Open – winners: Noritsyn, Krnan, Divljan

Championship Tournaments at ACC

• 2012 Toronto Junior Championship – winner: Mike Ivanov
• 2012 Toronto Women’s Championship – winner: Zhanna Sametova
• 2012 Toronto Closed – winner: IM Artiom Samsonkin
• 2011 Toronto Junior Championship – winner: Michael Song
• 2011 Toronto Women’s Championship – winner: WCM Liza Orlova
• 2011 Canadian Women’s Championship – winner: WIM Natalia Khoudgarian

Chess Lectures

Come to a chess talk, on certain scheduled Mondays at 6:50 pm

On lecture dates (see below), come to the club at 6:50 pm, before the tournament starts, to hear a half-hour chess talk. One of our players will discuss an interesting aspect of chess, or a piece of chess history.

2013 Lectures

Future dates are available, and members are invited to offer lectures. Email us if you’d like to give a lecture in the upcoming weeks.

upcoming

• No talks are currently scheduled – email the club to book an upcoming date

past

• March 25, 2013 – Rhys Goldstein: “Depth, Width, and Tenacity: Lessons in Calculation”
• March 11 – Omar Shah: “Most important skill for a club player”

2012 Lectures

• December 17 – AGM
• December 10 – Omar Shah: “Modes of Thinking – Part One”
• November 26 – Rhys Goldstein: “All in One Endgame”
• September 17 – Michael Sutton: “Chess 960: Is this the future of chess?”
• August 20 – Rhys Goldstein: “Safety Behind Enemy Lines”
• June 18 – GM Nigel Short: “A game from Gibraltar”
• February 27 – GM Alexei Shirov: “Three Recent Games”
• February 13 – Rhys Goldstein: “Capablanca’s Advice”

2011 Lectures

• December 5, 2011 – Michael Humphreys: “Plans in the KID Orthodox”
• November 28 – Erik Malmsten: “Q-KN3 What!!” (or zipped with .pgn file)
• November 14 – Mohammad Zaki Uddin: “Saving a Lost Game”
• November 7 – Rhys Goldstein: “Long Journeys on Horseback”
• October 31 – AGM
• October 24 – Brian Fiedler: “Reviving old main lines”
• September 26 – David Cohen: “The first time I beat a 1700″
• August 22 – FI Rolando Renteria: “The True Power of the Pieces”
• August 15 – Nick O’Bumsawin: “A game from the Canadian Open”
• August 8 – Liam Henry: “How to Improve in Chess: from 1300 to 2200″
• July 25 – Brian Fiedler: “King’s Indian Attack – Battle Plans”
• July 18 – GM Dejan Bojkov: “A game against GM Bator Sambuev”
• July 4 – Wajdy Shebetah: “Spot Your Opponent’s Mistakes”
• June 27 – Daniel Wiebe: “Practical Sacrifices (continued)”
• June 13 – David Cohen: “History of the Canadian Open Championship (with a game from its past)”
• June 6 – Liza Orlova: “Two of My Games”
• May 30 – Daniel Wiebe: “Practical Sacrifices”
• May 16 – Daniel Zotkin: “Losing the Advantage: A game against Yakos Spiliotopoulos”
• May 2 – David Cohen: “Povilas Vaitonis”
• April 18 – David Cohen: “Yanofsky-Botvinnik, Groningen, 1946″
• April 11 – Brian Fiedler: “A game against IM Deen Hergott”
• March 21 – David Cohen: “The Most Famous Game in Canadian Chess History”
• March 14 – Erik Malmsten: “King and Queen versus King and Rook Endgame”
• March 7 – Wajdy Shebetah: “Mind Reading in Chess”
• February 14 – Dan Wiebe: “Wilhelm Steinitz”
• February 7 – Yakos Spiliotopoulos: “The Unglamorous Majority: insights into rank-and-file chess”
• January 24 – Brett Campbell: “Bobby Fischer vs. Boris Spassky, 1972, Game 6″
• January 17 – Dan Wiebe: “Bobby Fischer’s Game of the Century”
• January 10 – Liza Orlova: “When Knights are Better than Bishops”

2010 Lectures

• December 20, 2010 – Hugh Siddeley: “Amazing Chess Puzzles”
• December 13 – Erik Malmsten: “Classic Bishop Sacrifice”
• December 6 – Michael Sutton: “Chess 960 – Part Two”
• November 29 – Michael Sutton: “Introduction to Chess 960″