The Livingston County Chess Club meets every Monday night between 4pm and 10pm
at the Buffalo Wild Wings in the Green Oak Mall in Brighton, MI.
Stop in for some friendly chess, good food and 'refreshments'.
Everyone of all ages and playing strength are welcome to attend. And free lessons to all beginners!
In addition, tonight our free to enter Action Tournament. The time limit is 30 minutes! No delay or increment. So be on your toes!
And as always, we have our on-going Ladder Tournament where you try to move up the Club Ladder to get a shot at replacing the person at the top. That is currently Curt S!
Hope to see everyone at the Club tonight!
To close, here are some interesting chess facts:
Grandmaster Reuben Fine played 9 consecutive tournaments and only lost one game in that span! His opponents were the Who's-Who of chess at the time;
Capablanca, Botvinik, Alekhine, Dr. Lasker, Euwe, Bogoljubow, Flohr, Spielmann, Tarkower, Vidmar, Marcozy, Kashdan, Keres, Reshevsky and Dake! The game he lost was not to any of these great players!
At the St. 1909 Petersburg tournament, Wilhelm Cohn made 44 conscutive queen moves against Gersz Salwe. But that was nothing, because back in 1882 in the London Championship James Mason made 72 consecutive queen moves against Captain MacKenzie.
A grandmaster who shall go nameless, wrote over 20 books on chess and chess openings, once was checkmated in 11 moves.
Francois-Andre Philidor never played the Philidor's Defense that bears his name.
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