The Friendly Club!
The St George Chess Club prides itself on a diverse membership with a range of chess abilities. We foster a social atmosphere for players of all ages and abilities.
The club runs regular internal club competitions and participates in interclub tournaments. More information about the activities can be found from the calendar.
Club Games: 7:30pm Tuesday nights, Prince Edward Rooms, St George Leagues Club, 124 Princes Highway, Kogarah NSW
News
Chess at the Zoo: Larks and Ostriches Rule the Roost after Round 1
The Teams Challenge Tournament kicked off last Tuesday, with a strange assortment of beasts doing their best to demonstrate some skill at the game of chess.
Ten animal-themed teams, each with five critters, are involved in a round-robin style battle for survival, in games of 75 minutes per player, with an increment of 10 seconds. It was a night of many upsets, resulting in mostly very uneven results: only one contest was balanced with Charles’ Cheng Chickens losing to Aaron’s Aagaard Aardvarks 2-3. Most dominant were Lagarez’s Leko Larks and O’Donoghue’s Olafsson Ostriches, who both scored 4.5/5.
All the results and pairings are now up on the Results page.
Intense Dragon-Fire Reported at Northern Sydney Chess Venue
Last Tuesday night, St George Chess Club won the first leg of the annual two-match contest against our traditional rival, Norths Chess. Travelling across the dark waters of Sydney Harbour, fifty Dragons landed in Cammeray, with the highest rated forty players paired against the Norths champions. It was a comprehensive victory to St George 23-17, appreciably more impressive than our one-point away match win from 2024. Last year, Norths came back to win the second home leg, also by a single point, thus leading to the first tie in this 38 year competition.
But can Norths come back against a six-point deficit? History tells us we cannot rest on our laurels – in 2011 Norths were 7 points down after the first leg, but won the second leg by 11 points to hold onto the John Kellner/Terrey Shaw Memorial Trophy. Come November we will welcome Norths to St George, so keep honing your chess skills, Dragons! Many thanks to Charles Zworestine for his hard work in drawing together such an excellent team! Full results, including boards 41-50, can be viewed here.
Upcoming Events at St George & elsewhere
2025 Gosford Winter Rapid: Saturday June 28
Hop on the train north for a day of FIDE-rated rapid chess (7 rounds, 15 mins per player plus 10 secs per move). Full details are here.