We've got two FREE online chess tournaments tomorrow, March 27! We'll be playing on the free international platform used by many of the world's best players, lichess.org. If you've never played on lichess, you will need to register for the website before entering our event.
US-Chess-rated players should register for the Angelo Sandrin Open We will email you a TOP-SECRET password to enter the event.
Nonrated players should register for the Albert Sandrin Reserve. You'll find the TOP-SECRET password on the registration page.
In both sections, you can play as many (or as few) games as you wish between 10 a.m and 2 p.m.
Technical difficulties? Ask Bill Brock between 9:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. via Zoom.
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See you tomorrow, and don't forget to wash your hands!
Results of our FIDE event email survey & announcing the December FIDE Futurity
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There will be four FIDE events in slightly over one month in Chicagoland, and none of them are CCA shows.
Two of them are ours:
Dec. 6-8
Chicago Chess Center December FIDE Futurity
Jan. 17-19
Bobby Fischer Memorial - sign up by Friday and save!
Updated Thursday: Skokie IM Eric Rosen, Chicago IM Angelo Young and Nicaragua's #1 player, FM Mauro Ampie, lead the list of 64 preregistrants for Saturday's Bobby Fischer Memorial. Look for your friends and your favorite over-the-board customers at this link.
It's going to be a fun event with prizes (all Plus-Score prizes are guaranteed, with $1,000 minimum gurantanteed in the top section), and a surprise or two, so why not play?
Register for the Fischer Memorial here: $60 in advance, $69 at the door, $11 extra if you are under 1700 and want to play in the Open Section.
And find out more about the Fischer Memorial here.
If you are rated over 900, you are ready to play in the Under 1800 section: the fastest way to improve is to play stronger players!
Suppose you're a young person who can't afford to play? If you live in the city of Chicago, you are age 18 or younger, you would like to play, but you don't have $60 to spare, please drop us a line (our email is info@chichess.org).Please note that we cannot handle requests like these at the door! (Special thanks to the Vince & Cynthia Berry Family Fund for making this offer possible.)
In keeping with the occasion, we will have some door prizes:
Agur, Elie. Bobby Fischer: His Approach to Chess.
Brady, Frank. Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Rise and Fall—from America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness.
Darrach, Brad. Bobby Fischer vs. the Rest of the World.
Edmonds, David, and John Eidinow. Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How a Lone American Star Defeated the Soviet Chess Machine.
Euwe, Max. Fischer World Champion.
Fischer, Bobby. My 60 Memorable Games.
Kasparov, Garry. Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors, Vol. 4.
Mednis, Edmar. How to Beat Bobby Fischer.
Pandolfini, Bruce. Bobby Fischer's Outrageous Chess Moves.
Plisetsky, Dmitry. Russians versus Fischer.
The photo above was taken during the famous game Fischer-Tal, Leipzing 1960. Bobby was only 17!