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21.01.2022 2017 ANU Open will have Michael Pettersson MLA taking part in the Under 1600 event. This is the first time a sitting member of the ACT Legislative Assembly will take part in an official chess tournament in the ACT. Further details of this historic entry are at https://drive.google.com/open

21.01.2022 2018 ACT Rapidplay Championship - This Saturday (22nd December) 11am City Walk, Canberra City. 7 round swiss. 15 minutes per player per game. $10 adults, $5 juniors, big prize pool on offer.

21.01.2022 ACT Chess Association is running the 2019 ACT Teams Rapid Championship on Sunday 22 September at Campbell High School. Please wait for a post with more information (or check your email if you're on the mailing list)!

21.01.2022 Next event: ACT Championship - A FIDE rated Swiss with 9 rounds over 5 days (2 weekends). Both IM Junta Ikeda and IM Andrew Brown are confirmed entries. More information via the website: https://sites.google.com/site/actchessassociation/home

21.01.2022 While the ACTCA is running events on chess.com, there is now an opportunity for swiss events on Lichess as well. To avoid duplication the Lichess events will be fast time limit tournaments. If you are a Canberra player (past or present) and wish to join click here https://lichess.org/team/actca-fast-chess-club

20.01.2022 Next event - 2016 ANU Chess Festival from 29 July to 3 August! The ANU Chess Festival incorporates the ANU Teams Blitz (29 July), the ANU Open and ANU Minor (30-31 July) and the ANU Schools Championships (Primary and Secondary).

19.01.2022 The ACT Chess Association now has a new website: www.actchess.com.au . It still is missing a lot of content that our other website has, but I am hoping to get it updated over the next week.

16.01.2022 Reminder that the ACT Championship starts next Friday (8 March)! This 7 round 90+30 Swiss event is both FIDE and ACF rated and generally attracts a good range of players of all abilities so come and play! Also the March 2019 ACF ratings were released today and should be available on the ACF website in the next few days.

16.01.2022 The ACT Chess Championship is currently in progress (12-14 February and then 20-21 February) at Campbell High. Results can be followed here: http://chess-results.com/tnr207218.aspx?lan=1&art=0&wi=821 and the games will be available to download.

15.01.2022 Next event - 2017 ANU Open and ANU Minor on 29/30 July. These events are both 7 rounds with a time control of 60 + 10. See the ACTCA website for details and register online via vesus.org to help with a smooth running of the event.

12.01.2022 Congratulations to Lalit Prasad, WFM Megan Setiabudi, Yutta Mantoro and Donghoon Shin from Willis and Friends (but not Willis) also known as the ANU Chess Society who took out the 2019 ACT Teams Rapid Championship on 18/28. Second place and the Larko Cup winners were Belconnen Chess Club on 17/28. A very closely contested event all day, with 6(!) teams within 2 points of the leaders and the lead kept on changing all day.

11.01.2022 Congratulations to local FM and IA Shaun Press on his massive outright second place at the Oceania Zonal held in Guam last week representing Papua New Guinea. An enormous effort! Shows that arbiters can still (occasionally) play good chess He will be the Chief Arbiter of the ACT Championship next week so you can congratulate him there Also congratulations to local junior Albert Winkelman who has just been awarded the ACF Arlauskas Medal for the Under 16 Australian Player of the Year. Albert has been getting home schooled so he is able to travel and focus on his chess development, and has ratings and results have showed the dedication he has put into the game.

10.01.2022 The 2017 ACT Chess Championship is currently being held at Campbell High School. 31 players are participating with the top seeds being IM Junta Ikeda and IM Andrew Brown. Results and Live Games can be found via the links here: http://tournaments.streetchess.net/actchamp2017/

09.01.2022 Don't forget to register for the 2019 ANU Open at http://vesus.org/festivals/2018-anu-open/ 28&29 July 2019 ANU Schools of Art, Childers St, Acton Over $3000 in prizes with $1000 1st prize in the Open Section... Latest entries include WFM Alana Chibnall, Fred Litchfield, Willis Lo and Josh Walker

08.01.2022 The ACT Chess Association is organising online tournaments for players from each of the local chess clubs. Tonight's event (4 May 2020) is a 9 round blitz G5m starting at 7:00pm on chess.com. The ACTCA especially invites players from the Tuggeranong Chess Club to take part, as Monday is their normal club night. Click on https://www.chess.com/live#t=1214725 between 6pm and 7pm to register

07.01.2022 How did you or your child go in this years Doeberl Cup? With an impressive amount of entries, this year was extremely competitive in every section. Congratulations to IM James Morris for winning this year's premier edition.

07.01.2022 For my chess playing friends - The ACT Chess Association has been running online events for the last 2 months. I have been doing summaries of these tournaments ...on twitch.tv You can find them at https://www.twitch.tv/shaunpress/ I am also producing some basic teaching videos for the ACT Junior Chess League which are available at https://www.youtube.com/user/shaunp64 See more

06.01.2022 Another reminder about the ACT Teams Rapid event coming up this Sunday 22 September! Please if you are wanting to play then register your team to me by COB Thursday. If you are keen on playing, and have a team, please register! If you want to play but can't find a team, please message me. On Wednesday I will pull together this list of players and try to put them into similar strength teams (with priority given to who had registered first). Please let me know! Unfortunately, w...e only have two teams entered so far. If I do not have 8 teams by Thursday I will be postponing the event to a later date :( Flyer: https://sites.google.com//2019%20ACT%20Teams%20Rapid%20fly

06.01.2022 A public service announcement from Street Chess

05.01.2022 Online Live Chess Tournament on Chess.com ACTCA Monday Blitz 30 March 2020 Arena Starts 7:00pm... Free to join - click the link below https://www.chess.com/live#r=175451

05.01.2022 Last reminder to enter yourself or your kids into the Vikings Weekender held at Erindale Vikings Club, the u1600 event has a generous $500 first prize guaranteed

05.01.2022 Next event - ACT Rapid Championship on 17 December. It will be played in the beer garden at King O'Malley's in Garema Place Civic where street chess is held from 10:45am to 3pm. Time control is 15 minutes each per game. The entry fee is $10 which can be paid on the day and there will be a large number of prizes. See you there!

04.01.2022 2017 ACT Rapidplay Championship - 16 December 2017 Hosted by Street Chess 11am City Walk, Canberra City (10:45am for registrations) 7 round swiss, G/15m time limit... Entry fee $10, $5 under 18 $100 1st prize, with around $350 in total prizes.

03.01.2022 Congratulations to IM Junta Ikeda for winning the 2016 ACT Championship on 8.5/9!

01.01.2022 The ACT Chess Association is now organising online events! - As a service to local chess players, the ACT Chess Association is organising regular events at chess.com These events run on Monday 7:00pm, Tuesday 7:00pm and Thursday 7:00 pm. To register for these events go to the ACTCA webpage www.actchess.org.au and follow the instructions on the front page. NB These events are open to all ACT players (and not just ACTCA members). There are also video summaries of these tournaments, with analysis, at https://www.twitch.tv/shaunpress/videos