4pm thru 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!
The 2025 Club Championship was completed and
the winner was Dr. Ken Tack! He finished undefeated at 3-0. Congratulations to
our tournament director, who can not only run our tournaments, but win them
too!
Thomas V. finished second and David W. finished
third. Thank you to all ten entries in our tournament.
We also held our drawing for the beautiful
wooden ebonized Russian chess set. To be eligible for the 2025 drawing, you had
to have played in our club tournaments to get in the drawing. One entry in the
drawing for every time you entered our tournaments.
The winner was Curt S. Congratulations to him!
And congratulation to our blog as we have
surpassed the 400,000 visitor mark to the blog! Now gaining on the incredible
half-million mark!
Now a little story that ……may or not be true.
You decide:
There is a rumor that the great world champion
made a confession on his deathbed to the nurse. He told her it all happened at
the great St. Petersburg tournament in 1914.
One night at mid-tournament, there was a knock
on Alekhine’s hotel room door. An old ragged Russian peasant demanded entrance
in order to give the world champion the great chess secret he had discovered.
Alekhine although full of doubt, decided for
his own amusement decided to see what this old man was babbling about. Alekhine
let the old peasant in and said, “Ok, let’s hear it and make it fast so I can
get my rest.”
The man said, “I have found a way for White to
checkmate Black in nineteen moves or less, regardless of what Black does.”
Alekhine after hearing this, begins to usher the old man out of his room, but
the peasant is persistent and insistent.
To end the matter, Alekhine sets up his
chessboard and plays the man. In eighteen moves, the world champion is
checkmated. Red-faced, they play again and Alekhine resigns on move seventeen
this time. A third time, repeats the world champion’s defeat in checkmate in
nineteen moves!
Aghast, Alekhine hustles the old man over to the great Capablanca’s room across the hall. The same scenario happens to Capablanca in
three straight games. Then the two chess greats play as a team discussing moves
for two more games and losing just the same!
After stating this to the nurse, Alekhine goes quiet. The nurse, after a long pause of silence, finally had to ask, “Then
what happened, sir?”
Alekhine said sadly but firmly, “Why we killed
him of course.”
