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Registration Open For Toronto Women's Closed!

August 23, 2023 8:55 PM

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2023 Toronto Blitz Championship Results!

August 17, 2023 9:44 PM

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Club News Update – Jun 19, 2023

June 19, 2023 10:20 AM

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September 18, 2023 7:30 PM

918 Bathurst Street, Toronto ON M5R 3G5

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Club Activities

We run five-week CFC/FIDE-rated competitive tournaments on Monday evenings starting at 7:30 p.m.

We typically have three sections of players – Crown, U1800, and U1400. Players may play up a section if their rating is within 100 points. Players must have a valid CFC membership which they can purchase from our STORE.

Time control is 90+30. Drop-in and membership options are available.

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Our casual area (skittles room) opens at 6:30 and accommodates 24 players.

Kibitzing and social talk are welcome.

Our nightly casual drop-in fee is $10+HST payable at the front desk. Casual memberships are also available.

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We have both in-person and online chess classes, which may be purchased as a drop-in or a whole.

We have classes for young people and adults, for beginners, intermediate players and advanced players. Each class involves a mix of lecture, discussion and play, and may run from 1 to 1.5 hrs. in length. Sometimes homework is assigned.

In-person classes are held at 918 Bathurst on Monday evenings from 5:00 to 9:30 PM. Online classes

currently run on Tuesday evenings.

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We run several special events throughout the year.

Our next upcoming events are the:

2023 Toronto Open

2023 Toronto Women's Closed Championship

ACC Hallowe'en Rapid

Smaller events may include our Hallowe'en Rapid and guest GMs/WGMs or other titled players participating in simuls in our casual play area. We also organize and run larger events including GTCL and OCA tournaments. We periodically run GM/IM norm events (e.g. our recent Canadian Transnational Chess Championship).

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Women's Chess

The Toronto Women's Chess Club (TWCC) meets on the second Monday of each month at ACC. We welcome women and girls of any age or skill level to attend. At each meeting, ACC's Resident WGM Anna Burtasova delivers a chess lecture, followed by casual play.

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Above: "The Great Hall" at 918 Bathurst St.

Useful Information

VOLUNTEERS WANTED

On a typical Monday evening, we have 100+ people attending the club. It takes us a couple of hours to setup the club on those evenings and maybe half that time to do the teardown. Volunteers reduce setup and teardown times dramatically.

We encourage our members and visitors to help us with setup and teardown. If everyone takes a turn at helping, we all benefit!

High school students can help our local chess community and satisfy their volunteer hours requirements.

Read more (Our Contact Us page)

Read more (Volunteer Toronto)

ACC SPECIAL EVENTS FOR 2023

Annex Chess Club is hosting 9 important chess tournaments in 2023. Mark your calendar!

See our SPECIAL EVENTS page for more info including individual event flyers. ACC members receive discounts for most events.

TORONTO BLITZ (Mon. Aug 14, ACC) *

- 7-double round BLITZ (3|2); 100 players

TORONTO OPEN ( Sep 2 - 4, St. Casimir's Parish Hall)

- 6-round SWISS in 4-5 sections (90|30); 200+ players

TORONTO WOMEN'S CLOSED (Sep 18 - Nov 13, ACC) *

- 7-round SWISS (90|30); 20+ players

ACC HALLOWE'EN RAPID (Mon. Oct 30, ACC)

- 5-round RAPID (15|5); 80 players

GTCL CUP TEAM RAPID (Mon. Nov 27, ACC) *

- 5-round TEAM RAPID (15|5); 125+ players

* = Greater Toronto Chess League (GTCL) awarded bids.

ABOUT OUR NEW SYSTEM

In 2023, we installed a new online system with the following key features:

automated ACC membership processing and renewals;
a built-in registration system for ACC classes and special events;
an online store that we use for CFC memberships;
pricing discounts for non-member "contacts";
even better pricing discounts for ACC members;
logging of all contacts and members by email address to make future transactions easy;
a flexible and automated email delivery system for news, student homework and renewals
simple password recovery;
an integrated website.

World Chess News

TORONTO HOSTS 2024 CANDIDATES

Toronto will host the 2024 FIDE Candidates and Women's Candidates Matches, scheduled for April 3-25, 2024, with a prize fund of EUR 750,000 (approx. $1.1 Million CDN).

It will be the first time in chess history that both events will be held at the same time and venue, and also the first time that the Candidates Tournament will be held in North America.

Read more (FIDE News Post)

ACC IN THE NEWS

View two articles about ACC's memorable 2022 Ontario Open, the first post-Covid-19 chess tournament in Ontario. An interesting story with some fascinating players and some great chess analysis.

• ACM_027 (A Very Special CDN Chess Event)

• ACM_029 (An Array of Tough Challenges)