Manly chess club has moved to Harbord Diggers. However, several old members restarted a more social version of the club back at manly. Check out the links below.

Welcome to Manly Chess Club of the Manly-Warringah Rugby League Club.

We meet at 7:30 pm every Monday. New members are always welcome. Contact our Games Captain Martin van Elmpt or just come along on a Monday night.

Latest News - 2009

  • 18/08/2009 - The Spring tournament kicked of yesterday with a most impressive win by Colin Wills over Allan McGregor! Find all results and the draw for the next round here.
  • 17/08/2009 - Tonight we will start the Spring Tournament, it is still possible to enter if you haven't done so already. Please email Martin.
  • 17/08/2009 - Congratulation to Steffen Bayani who won the Manly Rapid Tournament, with Steve Vegh coming second.
  • 11/08/2009 - Next Monday is the start of the Manly Spring tournament Handicap Championship. There will be prizes for the winner, runner up, handicap winner and biggest upset of the tournament. Also, every week one board will play for a 10$ board prize! Please let me know if you want to play. There is room for postponements if you can’t make it every week, just let me know.
  • 06/06/2009 - The new ratings are here! Club Member's Ratings Gunbritt is in the top 20 women! Congrats!
  • 06/06/2009 - The Manly Winter Rapid Competition 2009 is well under way, current standings can be found here. It doesn't matter if you haven't played a game in this tournament yet, anyone can play anytime. We are also competing in the NSW Grade Matches with one Under 1600 and two Under 1400 teams. Results are mixed so far, they can be found here.
  • 20/05/2009 - Coming Monday 25 May we will start the Rapid Tournament, 2 games per night of 30 minutes each per game. no need to register, just come on the night and play. The Grade Matches will start as well, this year we have 1 under 1600 and 2 under 1400 teams. Good luck!
  • 20/05/2009 - Our 2009 Club Championships are almost finished. The C Grade was won by William Bower, and the B Grade by Steve Vegh. Congratulations. There are still games to be played in the A Grade. Full results will be published shortly.
  • 25/03/2009 - I managed to update the Tournament Results again. Tournament Results
  • 02/03/2009 - The latest on the Manly Club Championships can be found at Tournament Results
  • 01/03/2009 - The new ratings have now been calculated. Have a look, as there was quite a bit of movement again. Club Member's Ratings
  • 07/02/2009 - This Monday we will start the 2009 Club Championships. The draw and schedule for the event can now be found here. The A and B grade both have 12 participants, the C grade 8 for now but we are hoping to get a few late entries. Please be aware that the 2009 Club Program has changed somewhat as well, as we now play 11 rounds. Good luck to all!
  • 07/02/2009 - Congratulations to Vladimir Smirnov who won the 2009 Lightning Championships, and to Anton Smirnov and Michael Morris who came joined second! Full results can be found here.
  • 26/01/2009 - Surely Allan McGregor must have beaten the club simul record by scoring 9 out of 8! Well done, an incredible result. If you think that score is impossible, ask Steve Vegh.
  • 26/01/2009 - Have your games analysed by Fritz 11 and published on our website! Fritz is the standard and most powerful chess program used by every serious player to analyse their games. We will now have Fritz available every Monday to run through the games you just played, or you can give your games to Martin to be analysed and published on our website later. We would like to create a database, available for everyone, of interesting games played by our members. So please bring in your games and give them to Martin, it doesn't matter when and where you played them!
  • 26/01/2009 - This year we will run a 'ladder' tournament for players who don't have a game in one of our other tournaments or at social chess nights. The games played for this tournament will be 60 minute/game + 10 sec per move and will be rated by the ACF. So you can now always play a 'serious' game that counts towards your rating and the ladder tournament. All you need to do is find yourself an opponent and let Martin know on the night. Full details will be published shortly.
  • 26/01/2009 - The 2009 program can be found here. Tonight we have the simul, next week the club lightning championships. The week after that we start our Club Championships. Please let Martin know as soon as possible if you will play that tournament.
  • 26/01/2009 - Don't forget the Simul tonight with club champion Allan McGregor. Either play against him or see him taking on 8 of us!
  • 12/01/2009 - Just a quick update everybody: This week we will be finalising our clubprogram for 2009. I will publish it here as soon as possible, and of course we will have copies at the club, hopefully next week. next week will be free social chess, we will then have a simul and our club lightning competition, before we will start our Club Championships. We are looking forward to seeing you all again this year, and hopefully to welcome many more new members as well. We're of to a good start, welcome Nina who joined today! More information to follow shortly!
  • 10/01/2009 - Some photos from the Australian Open here . manly daily Tze Weng's Photos
  • 01/01/2009 - Schedule for the 2 events mentioned below: Friday 2 Jan: Registration from 11 am; Welcome Reception 12.00 pm; Round 1 at 1.30 PM. Sat 3 Jan: Round 2 at 11 am; Round 3 at 4 PM. Sun 4 Jan: Round 4 at 11 am; Round 5 at 4 PM. Mon 5 Jan: Round 6 at 11 am. Tues 6 Jan: Rest Day (Australian Open Lightning Championship on at 2 PM). Wed 7 Jan: Round 7 at 11 am. Thurs 8 Jan: Round 8 at 11 am. Fri 9 Jan: Round 9 at 11 am. Sat 10 Jan: Round 10 at 11 am. Sun 11 Jan: Round 11 at 11 am; Prize giving and closing at 4.30 PM. Entry fees: Open $170 (Adult), $130 (Concession); Under 1600 $125 (Adult), $100 (Concession). Lightning: $25 (Adult), $20 (Concession). If you wish to enter pleaae email Fred Schuetz, Chairman of the Organising Committee, on fred_schuetz@hotmail.com. Or call him on 0414 503 110.

Latest News - 2008

  • 31/12/2008 - Members are reminded that it is definitely not too late to enter the Australian Open Chess Championships or the norths cc Centenary Under 1600 tournament, both being played at our club from Jan 2 - 11, 2009. See the tournamant web site at http://www.nswca.org.au/AO2009/index.shtml. The organising committee of Fred Schuetz, Norman Greenwood, Martin van Elmpt and Jonathan Adams would love support from members who are available tomorrow (New Year's Day) from 1 PM to help set up for this major event. Note that this is the first time the Australian Open has been held in the NSW NOrthern Beaches area.
  • 31/12/2008 - Happy new year to all. The AGM and prize-giving was held as advertised. Chris Dimock was returned as President. Our Vice President is now Ruth Zalai. Norm Greenwood and Tom Accola were returned as Treasurer and Secretary respectively. Martin van Elmpt is our new Games Captain as well as continuing to serve as Webmaster. Steven Liu continues to be a committee member. (Jonathan Adams)
  • 28/11/2008 - One more round to go in our Spring Tournament, please find all the results here. Father and son Smirnov are dominating the tournament, while Anton and Martin are battling for the handicap prize. Next week we will have our AGM, don't forget!
  • 27/10/2008 - The standings of the Spring Tournament after round 5 and the draw for round six can now be found here.
  • 18/10/2008 - Last Monday manly played the second leg of the little board match against North Sydney. The score for te night was 10 - 9 for Manly, and the overall score for 2008 a fantastic 21.5 - 14.5!. A great result for Manly!
  • 18/10/2008 - The standings of the Spring Tournament after round 4 and the draw for round five can now be found here. Right now Martin van Elmpt is leading the overall, handicap and upset tournament. That can't be right!
  • 11/10/2008 - Monday 13 October we will play the second leg against North Sydney! Please let Norman Greenwood or Tze Weng Foong know if you can play, the more the better. Next Monday we will continue the spring tournament.
  • 07/10/2008 - Tibor Karolyi gave an excellent lecture (featuring his favourite Kasparov and Judit Polgar games - beauties!) and folowed up by achieving 100% in a 9 board simul. Well done Tibor!
  • 28/09/2008 - World famous chess trainer Tibor Karolyi will give a guest lecture talking about his encounters with Kasparovand the Polgar sisters, followed by a simul this Monday. Not to be missed!
  • 09/09/2008 - The results of the first round of the Spring Tournament and the draw for round two can now be found here.
  • 07/09/2008 - The Australian Open 2009 is coming our way! Follow this link here for all information, or ask Chris, Norman, Fred or Martin at the club. No excuse not to join this great chess event this year!
  • 07/09/2008 - This Monday we will start our Spring and Handicap tournament. Games are 90 minutes + 30 sec. per move per player.
  • 31/08/2008 - Keep Friday 7th November free as we will have our club dinner at "Say Yes" Restaurant in Narraweena. More information will follow.
  • 31/08/2008 - Tomorrow we will play the last four rounds of our Alegro tournament. Next week we will start the Manly 2008 Spring and Handicap tournament. Make sure you register with Tze Weng Foong if you haven't done so already.
  • 31/08/2008 - Last Monday night former NZ Champion and FM Dr Jonathan Sarfati did play a simultaneous blindfold exhibition against 8 members of our club. Sitting with his back facing his opponents, with no board for himself, and being blindfolded to top it up, he managed to win 6 of his games! Well done to Steffen Bayani and Steve Vegh who were the only two scoring a point. And of course well done to Jonathan and thanks to Jonathan Adams who organised it all.
  • 22/08/2008 - Next Monday night former NZ Champion and FM Dr Jonathan Sarfati will play a simultaneous blindfold exhibition at the club starting promptly at 7.45 PM. Spectators are very welcome. He will take on 8 club members rated below 1800. Jonathan Adams will facilitate the event.
  • 18/08/2008 - Tonight we will play round 5 to 8 of the Allegro Tournament. Don't worry if you missed last week, you can join in any time. Father and son Smirnov dominate the tournament so far.
  • 18/08/2008 - Congratulations to Steven Hern Liu who won the Rapid Tournament, Steve Vegh and Michael Dacic coming second and third. All results can be found here.
  • 11/08/2008 - Australia's top chess event comes to Northern Beaches!
  • 11/08/2008 - Tonight we will start the first 4 rounds of the Club Allegro Championship [15 minutes per game]. We will have 12 rounds in total. The Blind Simul event will take place August 25. On September 8 we will start our Spring Tournament and Handicap Championship.
  • 07/08/2008 - The Manly Winter Tournament is proceeding well. Check out the latest results! Congratulations to our U 1800 and U 1600 Grade matches teams who both put up very creditable performances. Particular congratulations to Jack Mejzini who won a Board prize for the U 1800.
  • 23/06/2008 - HMS Pinafore 2008 - Those of you who have been wondering where Jonathan Adams has been, wonder no more! He has been acting and singing in a Gilbert and Sullivan show put on by FAMS. Check it out!
  • 11/06/2008 - Report from Norman from Tuesday: ''The Dragon was well and truly slain tonight by the Manly U1800 Team as the following results show:
St George Saints 0.5 Manly 3.5
Bd 1 Robert Kovacs 1660 v David Webster 1790 0 - 1
Bd 2 Chris Waterman 1603 v Tze Weng Foong Draw
Bd 3 Kole Murgoski 1613 v Jack Mejzini 1607 0 - 1
Bd 4 Tom Tomas 1603 v Norman Greenwood 1515 0 - 1''
The U1400 team didn't do quite as well, you can see their results and all the other teams here.
  • 06/06/2008 - Last Monday we played the first two rounds of the Club Winter Tournament, rounds 3 and 4 will be played next Monday. At the same time Manly has three teams playing in the NSWCA Grade Matches. You can see here how we are doing. Good luck to all who are playing for Manly in the coming matches!
  • 02/06/2008 - The new ratings have now been calculated. Have a look, as there was quite a bit of movement again. Club Member's Ratings
  • 29/05/2008 - Next Monday we will start the Club Winter Tournament. We will play two rounds per night of 30 minutes per person each. It doesn't matter if you miss some rounds, but of course your chances of getting a good result will increase the more rounds you can play. All you need to do is show up on the night and you can play in the tournament.
  • 19/05/2008 - All the results of the Manly Chess Club Championships 2008 are now in and the final standings can be found at Tournament Results. Tonight Manly will play the first games in the NSWCA Grade Matches, while Dejan Antic continues his coaching.
Manly Chess Club Championships 2008 Top 3
Grade A
1.Allan McGregor8½ (9)
2.Martin Lakeland6½ (9)
3.Chris Dimmock, Steven Hern Liu5 (9)
Grade B
1.Tze Weng Foong8 (9)
2.James Burt7½ (9)
3.Martin van Elmpt, Norman Greenwood5½ (9)
Grade C
1.Anton Smirnov6½ (8)
2.Colin Wills, Arno Vogelman, Michael Dacic5 (8)
  • 08/05/2008 - Yesterday Manly beat North Sydney 11½-5½ in the first of the little board matches this year! That is not a typo, Manly had a great night away at North Sydney beating them 11½-5½! First win in 4 years! Hey, the coaching may be paying off!
  • 07/05/2008 - Congratulations to Tze Weng Foong for winning Grade B of the Manly Chess Club Championships 2008 with an impressive 8 out of 9 with no losses. Full results (bar a few more catch up results) are at Tournament Results
  • 04/05/2008 - This Tuesday Manly will play against North Sydney in the first of this year's Little Board matches. We are still looking for more Manly players, please let us know tomorrow that you can make it as well!
  • 04/05/2008 - The results of the catch up games played last Monday for the Club Championships can now be found at Tournament Results. Tze Weng Foong and James Burt are still battling for the Grade B top spot, with only 1 more game for them to go. Last Monday we played the Fischer Random Tournament, results can be found here. Vlad Smirnov won this tournament with 4 out of 4, followed by Steffen Bayani and Anton Smirnov with 3 out of 4. Well done! This Monday we will play a few more catch up games, social chess, and don't forget the coaching by Dejan Antic!
  • 23/04/2008 - Congratulations to new members Allan McGregor, the winner of Grade A with a round to spare, and Anton Smirnov who has won Grade C of the Manly Chess Club Championships 2008. There are still a number of postponed games to be played, and Grade B hasn't been decided yet. Tze Weng Foong is leading, but James Burt and Martin van Elmpt are still in the race as well. Postponed games will be played the coming weeks. We will continue to run the Amicable Tournament until our Club Winter Tournament starts at 2 June. Other upcoming events are the NSW Grade Matches, Dejan Antics coaching, the Little Board Match against North Sydney and of course there is always social chess. Check the Club Program for a full schedule. And good luck for those playing the remaining games in the Championships.

Dejan coaching at Manly
  • 22/04/2008 - Grandmaster Dejan Antic will be coaching members of our club again starting Monday 5 May. As the first 4 sessions were a great success we have booked another 4 sessions with him. Cost: $15.00 per one-hour session, payable on the night. A press release about Dejan coaching members of our club can be found here.
  • 16/04/2008 - All the results of the eight round of the Club Grade Championships and the draw for the final round can now be found at Tournament Results.
  • 11/04/2008 - All the results of the sixth and seventh rounds of the Club Grade Championships and the draw for the next round can now be found at Tournament Results. Don't forget to put your name down for the NSW Grade Matches if you are intending to play against the other clubs.
  • 19/03/2008 - All the results of the fifth round of the Club Grade Championships and the draw for the next round can now be found at Tournament Results. Don't forget that next Monday we play postponed games and social chess. Round 6 will be played Monday 31 March. Happy Easter!
  • 15/03/2008 - All the results of the fourth round of the Club Grade Championships and the draw for the next round can now be found at Tournament Results.
  • 05/03/2008 - All the results of the third round of the Club Grade Championships and the draw for the next round can now be found at Tournament Results.
  • 02/03/2008 - The new ratings have now been calculated. Have a look, as there was quite a bit of movement. Club Member's Ratings
  • 26/02/2008 - All the results of the second round of the Club Grade Championships and the draw for the next round can now be found at Tournament Results.

Amicable Championships?
  • 21/02/2008 - Besides the 2008 Club Grade Championships we are also playing the 2008 Amicable Championships. Anyone can play a game any time in that tournament. We play 2 rounds every night of 45 minutes per person each. Ideal for new or casual members, those who finish their games early, who don't have an opponent on the night and those who do not play in the rated tournament. Big thanks for Tze Weng organizing this every Monday while playing his games in the club championships!!!
  • 21/02/2008 - The 2008 Club Championships are under way! It was a little hectic start last Monday with Tom, Colin and Martin setting up all the boards, Tze Weng and David organizing the Amicable Tournament in the other room, and Norman looking after the membership renewals. It was also good to see quite a few new faces, in all grades. Welcome to those new members and good luck to everyone in the various tournaments. All results, next Monday's draw and the crosstables can now be found at [Tournament Results]]. Remember to contact your opponent if you can’t make it on the night, and to organize catching up those games. Two evenings have been scheduled for postpones games, if you need other alternatives please contact Tze Weng. The latest program can be found at Club Program. Good luck!
  • 17/02/2008 - The final results of the Club Lightning Championships are now available under Side Bar/Tournament Results. Congratulations to Jonathan Adams who won the tournament with 9 points out of 12!
  • 17/02/2008 - The draw for the first round of the Club Championships can now be found in the Side Bar/Tournament Results. You will also find the standings of the Club Amicable Championships.
  • 17/02/2008 - Please look at the revised Club Program for the latest schedule, including some further coaching from Dejan Antic in May and a Blind Simul in August.
  • 09/02/2008 - Please note that due to Dejan Antic lectures the Club Championships will not start until Monday 18 February. The program is now updated as well. This monday there will be one more lecture and social chess. Sorry for the confusion.
  • 03/02/2008 - Click here for membership subscription notice.
  • 03/02/2008 - Added the Rules of Play for Club Championships and Spring Tournament
  • 02/02/2008 - Sorry guys that I took so long to process the pictures I took during Pocket Knight night but here they are, enjoy! {Tze weng Foong} Update:04/02/08 Pictures back on line.
  • 29/01/2007 - Yesterday we played the first 6 rounds of the Lightning Championships, the standings can be found under Tournament Results. It was also the second night of coaching by Dejan Antic. He will continue his very valuable lessons next week, feel free to join for $15.00 for a one-hour session.
  • 26/01/2008 - Next Monday Grandmaster Dejan Antic will have his second coaching session. A press release about Dejan coaching members of our club can be found here. We will also play rounds 1 to 6 of our lightning championship.
  • 19/01/2008 - A table with the ratings of our members can now be found here.

Grandmaster Dejan Antic
  • 16/01/2008 - Next Monday January 21 Club Champion (many times over) Mark de Groen will take on all-comers in a simultaneous exhibition at the club. This will start right after the first coaching session by Dejan Antic, no later then 8:30.
  • 15/01/2008 - A reminder that coaching by Grandmaster Dejan Antic begins on Monday, 21 January at 7:30 for those with a rating of 1500 +. Cost: $15.00 per one-hour session, payable on the night. Call Chris Dimock on 9221-8390 if you have not yet registered your interest. (And congratulations to Dejan for winning the 2008 Australian Open !). You can follow this link for a collection of Dejan Antic's chess games: http://www.chessgames.com/player/dejan_antic.html

News from 2007

  • 20/12/2007 - Congratulations to Michael Morris and Jimmy Burt who won the 2 final divisions of the "Pocket Knight" rapid chess at our Christmas party on Monday night. Michael had an 100% record for the whole night. Participants were initially split into 2 groups to establish and A Grade and a B Grade. The club will now break until 7 January when we will be open again for friendly games.
  • 11/12/2007 - At last night's AGM the following Committee was elected for the 2007-2008 year:
    President: Chris Dimock,
    Vice President: Gordon Struk,
    Secretary: Tom Accola,
    Treasurer: Norman Greenwood,
    Games Captain: Tze Weng Foong,
    Webmaster: Martin van Elmpt,
    Committee members: Ruth Zalai, Alex Papp (Junior Representative), Martin Lakeland and Steven Liu.
    Positions of Leagues Club rep and Publicity Officer to be decided by the committee (which meets 14 January). Note that Gordon Miller, Jonathan Adams and Jacob Graham were unavailable for re-election.
    Coaching by GM Dejan Antic at 7pm at the club starts 21 Jan.
    Subscription stayed the same at $15 per member– a new surcharge for non-members of NSWCA was passed - if we did not accept it no tournaments at the club could be rated.
  • 11/12/2007 Congratulations to Arno Vogelman who has won the Spring Handicap Tournament and to Jacques Horringa who has won the Biggest Upset prize.
    We hope to see you all at the Christmas party next Monday night 17 Dec. We will be playing a fun variant of chess called “pocket knight”, with probably a 15-15 time limit (depending on number of players).
  • 07/12/2007 - Congratulations to Steffen Bayani who has won the Spring Tournament by a clear point. Second and third places are still in doubt with Jack Mejzini a certain placegetter on 7.0 points. There is a mathamatical possibility that any one of Tze Weng Foong and Steven Liu on 6.0 points with a game in hand, Gordon Struk on 5.5 with a game to play and James Burt, Chris Dimock, Jonathan Adams and Norman Greenwood all on 5.0 with a game to play can end up a placegetter. Where possible, postponements will be played after the AGM on Monday 10 December.

    In the Handicap Section Steffen Bayani leads with 8.0 Handicap points from Jack Mejzini 7.5 points but, as Open Section winners, both are ineligible for a Handicap Prize. As a result the Handicap winner on 7.5 Handicap points is likely to be Arno Vogelman (1223) who has a lower rating than Martin Van Elmpt (1359) also on 7.5 Handicap points although George Varda (1194) on 7.0 Handicap points has a game to play and can supplant Arno.

    At the moment Jacques Horringa has the biggest Upset win and is unlikely to be overtaken.

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