Online Chess Tonight and for future Mondays AND Fridays while we’re still stuck at home from 5pm – 8pm

As a reminder, we will not be meeting at the library or Brahan Springs Rec Center until we’ve been given the all-clear. Please let anyone know who may not be technically savvy enough to have email access.

References: The Nashville Chess Center just sent something like this out and saved us some typing. The following is heavily plagiarized from their email blast. I don’t think they’d mind.

We hope everyone is having a good time inside! Could there be anything better to do than strengthen your chess during the COVID-19 quarantine? Obviously, we hope everyone is safe and healthy and this all passes and we can be back at the board face-to-face before long, but in the meantime, we will be utilizing Chess.com to keep our chess community together continuing to grow and improving. 

Here is a “HOW TO?” on joining the community. Please do that first and we will be releasing a schedule of events soon! 

STEP 1: Make a Chess.com account – it is free!  MAKE A CHESS.COM ACCOUNT FOR FREE!

STEP 2: LOGIN! 

STEP 3: Go to the Menu bar that is on the left hand side of the browser  – CLICK ON “CONNECT” (It looks like little, white message bubbles)  

STEP 4: When you drag the cursor over the “CONNECT” menu – it will bring us a sub-menu that says “CLUBS” (It has two little emoji guys) 

STEP 5: Type in “Huntsville Chess Club” and request to be added to the group. I have made the group private now and will be cleaning it up to ensure we do not get any inappropriate ads or folks on the page. 

STEP 6: On that same, original menu bar – Go to “LIVE CHESS” and mess around with and become acquainted with the site. It is not that hard.  

FINAL STEP: BE SAFE AND HAVE FUN! SEE YOU ONLINE! If you can get a group together to play a Chess.com tourney or team match, please do! 

My username on chess.com is patrickc3000. Please contact me there with any questions/suggestions or email us at huntsvillechessclub@gmail.com.

USCF Rated Online Play

FYI – Real rated play (blitz and quick only) available Monday night on chess.com. You just join the USCF club, verify your identity to the admins, and you’re good to go. Real USCF rated play Mondays at 5pm and 10 pm, Wednesday’s at 7 pm, Fridays at 7 pm, and Saturday’s at 1 pm. Look me up on chess.com. My ID is SrorrimDnaEkoms.

Thomas (the other Thomas)

Tournament Cancellations / Postponements

AL State Scholastic tournament postponed to May 2nd.

Caesar Chess tournaments scheduled for March 21st and 28th have been cancelled.