UNLV Chess Club

Chess club spring 2012

2012-01-22T20:15:00.000-08:00

Hello chess friends

Chess club will begin again this Thursday. This semester, the club will be held once a week, on Thursday, from 6-8 to allow people who have a busy work schedule to have some time to play. There will be 10 meetings this semester:

1/26 Student union (SU) 222

2/9 SU 222

2/16 SU 222

2/23 SU 209

3/8 SU 222

3/29 SU 222

4/12 SU 222

4/19 SU 222

4/26 SU 222

5/3 SU 222

Due to a lack of room availability, there will be no club on the following dates:

2/2

3/1

3/15

3/22

4/5

Play is open to both UNLV students/faculty/staff as well as outside individuals. Materials will be provided, but if you want to bring your own, be my guest.

no chess club 11/18

2011-11-18T08:29:00.000-08:00

there will be no chess club 11/18. The club will resume tuesday 11/22

no chess club 11/8

2011-11-08T13:38:00.000-08:00

chess club is cancelled on 11/8/11

Free online chess tournament Sunday Nov 6

2011-11-01T10:59:00.001-07:00

ICC is hosting a free online tournament this Sunday, Nov. 6. The details are below

1) This is a collegiate tournament, but it is also an individual tournament. This means players will represent the university but will compete individually for prizes, i.e, no four person teams all playing at the same time as in many team tournaments.

2) This tournament is completely FREE. ICC costs money usually, but they are giving away free membership for the duration of the tournament until Dec. 1st I think.

3) the structure is 5 rounds, game 15 + 5 second per move, starting at 11AM pacific. This is the day we turn clocks back, remember, and the tournament starts at 11 after the time change.

let me know if you would like to play so I can get an idea of our representation

more info can be found at

http://www.chessclub.com/activities/CCLinfo.html

questions go to

billscotty@chessclub.com

No chess club 10/21

2011-10-21T10:00:00.001-07:00

There will be no meeting of chess club on 10/21, the club will resume Tuesday the 25th

no meeting 9/23/11

2011-09-23T10:00:00.000-07:00

Just a reminder that we have no room for Friday Sept. 23, and thus no meeting. The club will resume next Tuesday

no chess Friday 9/2

2011-09-02T10:28:00.001-07:00

No chess today, 9/2/11, going out of town, will start up again next Tuesday

guide to what we are going Fall 2011

2011-08-28T13:45:00.000-07:00

Below is a guide to week-to-week happenings at chess club, we will be studying openings, endgame theory, and basic elements to the game and positional play(see explanation in previous post)

Chess meetings

Aug 30,

Sept, 6, 9, 13, 16, 20, 27, 30

Oct 4, 7, 11, 14, 18, 25

Nov 1, 4, 8, 15, 18, 22, 29

Dec 2, 6

No meeting on 9/2, 9/23, 10/21, 10/28, 11/11, 11/25, 12/9

23 meetings for the fall semester

Tuesday: Openings

Friday: Endgame and positional play

15 meetings on Tuesday

8 meetings on Friday

Chess Openings essentials, E4 openings:

All italics openings are to do at home, since we won't have time for all during meeting hours.

Kings gambit (quick); Latvian at home

Four knights Philidor defense (quick)

Giucco piano (quick); Scotch gambit (quick) Petroff defense (quick)

Italian (quick) Ponziana opening (quick)

Ruy lopez 2-3 weeks, Two knights defense (quick)

Pirc defense Alekhine defense (quick)

Caro-kahn Evans gambit (quick)

French 2-3 weeks

Sililian 2-3 weeks

Silman’s complete Endgame book: Work way through starting with p. 213

Nimzowitsch's My system:

1 element a week for 8 weeks (do two one week)

Positional play chapters Spring semester

chess club times and meeting room

2011-08-25T19:11:00.000-07:00

For the fall 2011, chess club will be held Tuesday and Friday from 2:30-4

rooms will change a little during the semester, here is the breakdown

Aug 30-Sept 20 Student Union room 205

Tuesday Sept 27th room 213

Friday Sept 30th room 205

Tuesday Oct 4th room 207

Friday Oct. 7th room 218

Tuesday Oct. 11th room 205

Friday Oct 14th room 211

then up through Tuesday Nov 15th room 205

Friday Nov 18th room 211

then 205 again through Tuesday Dec 6, which is the last meeting of the season

see post below for how the chess club will be organized this year, and tell your friends, we need members

match against ASU

2011-06-10T09:11:00.000-07:00

On June 9, the UNLV chess club visited south point casino, the home of the national open, and played a match against Arizona State's chess club, who had 7 players come down to play in the big tournament. We represented ourselves well, playing two G15 rounds, going 2-2 in round 1 and 3-1 in round 2. Thanks to all that played for us and thanks to Jeff at ASU for making this match possible.

New Club Details

2011-06-05T16:05:00.001-07:00

For the upcoming academic year, Fall 2011, I want to try something different. We have just received new materials for the club: four new chronos clocks, and six chess books. The books are broken down this way: a complete course on opening strategy, 1 book on endgames, and Nimzovich’s My System, which deals mainly with middle and endgame strategy.

It has been my experience that simply playing casual chess, while lots of fun, is not as helpful as studying the game in depth, and for any of those genuinely wishing to improve their game, there really is no substitute for hard work. That’s why the majority of club time will now be spent learning new opening theory, new middlegame and endgame technique, and improving tactics. The last 20-30 minutes of club time will be spent applying the days learning with 2-3 blitz games.

For tactics specifically, there are several good computer programs out there that actually make tactics kind of fun. The best I think is the chess.com mobile app, which is on iphone/ipod/ipad and probably android as well. Also, ideachess.com has unlimited free tactics as well.

Also, UNLV is now certified to hold USCF rated tournaments again, so we will plan to have one, probably next spring.

So tell your friends about the revamped UNLV club and let’s try to build up our membership a little.

The club will start up again this Fall when school starts.

rooms for chess club

2011-03-21T21:11:00.000-07:00

I suppose it would help if I told you the room

Tuesday March 22 SU 224
Friday March 25 SU 222
Tuesday March 29 SU 205
Friday April 1 SU 211

chess club meeting

2011-03-21T21:04:00.000-07:00

next meeting will be Tuesday march 22, then Friday march 25

the following week meetings will be Tuesday March 29 and Friday April 1

2011-02-27T18:31:00.000-08:00

next club meeting Tuesday March 1st SU 205
then Friday March 4th SU 213

both 2-4 PM

Next club meeting

2011-02-21T12:10:00.000-08:00

the next chess club meeting will be Friday February 25th at Student Union 222. 2-4 pm.

Upcoming Tournament

2011-02-04T12:13:00.000-08:00

This sunday is the first round of an ONLINE team tournament. It appears to be FREE in all respects. It is run through ICC (look them up), probably the best internet chess website there is, and I think they are offering free memberships to team participants while the tournament is going, which means you don't have to pay anything to download the software and have an account as you normally would. 4 rounds, game 60, and all through the month of Feb, except some holiday, and the last round is March 6 I think. Every round is on Sunday at noon, our time, except round 1 which is at eleven. I think this would be a nice, easy way to start our team tournament history as a club. If I play, and I would like to, we need three other players. Give it some thought and let me know if you want to play, and we can talk about it Friday also if you come to the meeting at 1.
www.collegechess.org
Gabriel