The Chess Club Annual General Meeting takes place on Thursday 6th September, 7.45pm at The Cricket Pavilion. It is one of the few club nights each year where not much chess gets played!
We are set to decide how many teams to field in Kent competitions and the structure of our club competitions.
Monday, 27 August 2007
World Chess Championship to start soon.
The World Chess Championship is set to start in a few days time. The newly re-unified undisputed world chess title is held by Vladimir Kramnik of Russia (shown left), a title he won less than year ago, winning a 12 game match against the then world-ranked number one, Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria). However, Kramnik has held a version of the world title since beating Garry Kasparov (Russia) in 2000, a title he defended against Peter Leko (Hungary) in 2004.
This year the World Championship is to be held in Mexico City, and is in tournament format. After this year, the World Championship will return to the traditional match format.
Eight players have qualified to play in Mexico, (name, country, Elo rating, world ranking below):
Viswanathan Anand, India, 2792, 1st
Vladimir Kramnik, Russia, 2769, joint 2nd
Alexander Morozevich, Russia, 2762, 4th
Levon Aronian, Armenia, 2761, 5th
Peter Leko, Hungary, 2738, 8th
Peter Svidler, Russia, 2736, 9th
Boris Gelfand, Israel, 2733, 13th
Alexander Grischuk, Russia, 2717, 16th
Current favourites are Kramnik and Anand. 13th September is the first day of play and results can be followed on http://www.chessmexico.com/
Sunday, 19 August 2007
Come and join us! New members welcome!
Snodland Chess Club always welcomes new people, whether you are 8 years old or 80, a complete beginner or experienced player.
The new chess "season" is about to begin, so now is a great time to come and visit us!
We play lots of friendly games as well as competitively in the Kent leagues. We can provide free coaching for beginners and we are happy to give lots of advice to new players.
So, come along and see if you can increase your brainpower! Details of how to find us are on the right hand side of this page.
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