Springfield Chess Club of Springfield, Missouri

Check out Dana Mackenzie's profile of 2020 U.S. Blind Champion Jessica Lauser, now live at the New York Times!

Congrats to Lenderman!

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Congratulations to Brian Rude on winning the SMCC Fall Online Quick tonight and thank you to all the players who participated.

Take a look at the club's newest YouTube video from Jared Bray. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r_bCpLsYcCg

News from Joplin: I hope everyone is doing well, with everything that has been going on this year. I wanted to share the last event of the year with you; due to circumstances, this will be an online event this year to help support the Joplin Public Library Chess Club and Children's Department. We're hoping that things may be able to get back to normal sometime soon and the club at the library will be able to begin meeting again next year. See below for the event information.... Also, some Joplin players have started a new project that we hope to grow over the next few years and have started a non-profit 501c(3) to support chess in the area. We have a Facebook page created (though nothing is on it as of yet) so if you're on Facebook, and you want to give it a pre-emptive like, we hope to have some things up in the near future. https://www.facebook.com/FourStatesChess Our aim is to support chess in MO, AR, KS and OK, with a specific focus on SW MO, NW AR, SE KS and NE OK. We will also be putting up a simple website soon as well; currently the domain just goes to a page on the Joplin Chess site.

The tournament is now open to join. We begin at 7:30. https://www.chess.com/live#t=1821919

Here is a reminder for the SMCC Fall Online Quick tournament on Friday December 4. It will be a USCF online rated Swiss. It is scheduled for 5 rounds of G/15 inc/2. It will begin at 7:30 Central. Free entry. It will be held on our club's rated page on Chess.com. The link is below. If you are not already a member of the online rated club, please join ahead of the tournament so that I have time to verify that your USCF membership is active. If you include your name and/or... USCF number it will speed things up. https://www.chess.com/club/springfield-chess-club-uscf-rated An hour before the tournament you can click on Play then Live Chess. If you have joined the club, you'll see "SMCC Fall Online Quick" listed and you can join it.

Take a look at NM Bob Holliman's commentary for Week 6 as Missouri prepares to win a playoff spot in the 2020 States Chess Cup playoffs. Thank you to Week 6 players NM Roman Kozelov, NM Ken Jones, Nathaniel Fast, and Asish Panda for another win. https://cleverchess.wordpress.com//10/18/the-final-countd/

The new Club's affiliate Certificate as we finalize the renaming of the Club.

A simple reminder that the Club does NOT meet on Friday evenings at the Southside Senior Center during while it is closed to the public due to the Covid pandemic. The Club will notify when everyone here when that changes. Meanwhile, please support the Southside Senior Center (donation via mail or in person) and join the club on Chess.com as well as support for the Missouri State University Club on Chess.com and their Club which meets on Monday evenings in the Student Union starting at 7pm. Please visit their website and our archival site listed here. http://www.spfdmochessclub.org https://missouristate.campuslabs.com//organizat/chess-club

Take a journey through the history of chess and see the best chess players over time. The X-axis represents the year and Y-axis represents Elo estimated by accu...racy as calculated by Chess.com/analysis. This visual representation allows you to see when players like Bobby Fisher, Garry Kasparov, Magnus Carlsen, and Jose Capablanca performed across history. Data and Methodology: https://www.chess.com//vi/the-best-chess-players-over-time

Check out the Club's YouTube channel!

Brian and Jared played two games online and Matthew Pratt helped with the discussion of the games on our newest YouTube video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8xQT00p0yw

Six or eight hours of YouTube fun from the Springfield, MO. Chess Club for the socially distanced chess player. https://cleverchess.wordpress.com//states-chess-cup-centr/

We're late in noting this, but better late than never!

A bit of history and yes the Club is still alive. We will meet again on Fridays once the pandemic is over and it is safe to do so. In the meantime, check out our YouTube channel. Visit Missouri State University's club on Monday nights at the Student Union, masks are required! Or visit lichess or chess.com where members of both clubs play.

Great win for Missouri tonight in the State's Chess Cup versus a tough Oklahoma team. Kozelov (4.0), Jones (3.5), Fast (3.5), and Panda (2.0) played for Missour...i. Thank you to all the players and to Isaiah Gadson for doing commentary. Missouri wins 13.0-3.0 and takes our second match point. See more

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