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Boylston Chess
Historic tables and bookcases
Dear BCC friends,
As we continue with our move to our new Boston site (very close to the
original Boylston location!), we need to sell some our beautiful
historic tables as well as our wood bookcases with glass doors.
Please let me know if you are interested in giving at least one of our tables or bookcases a new home.
$300 or best offer for 6’ table
$150 or best offer for bookcase
- Natasha
natasha.christiansen@
Historic chess tables
Dear BCC friends,
As we transition to our new space in Boston,
we need to sell some of our beautiful historic chess tables.
Please let me know if you are interested in giving at least one of our
tables a new home.
$300 or best offer for 6’ table,
$200 or best offer
for 3’ table.
-Natasha
natasha.christiansen@
Call for Tournament Directors ...
More TOURNAMENT DIRECTORS needed!
The Boylston Chess Club
Needs Your Help
We urgently need
more tournament directors (TDs)
to keep offering
a wide variety of tournaments
each month.
Our small core group of currently active TDs
is stretched quite thin, and
we cannot run as many events
at our beautiful new site
as we would like
due to insufficient (wo)manpower.
Please consider becoming
a certified USCF tournament director,
if only to act as an assistant TD from time to time.
The certification process is
extremely straightforward:
.
1) Read the USCF rulebook
("USCF Official Rules of Chess"),
available at the club or online,
e.g., on Amazon
2) Fill out and return the following form
to the USCF: Form
Parents,
please consider helping out as a TD
occasionally to keep the tournaments
we all enjoy running smoothly.
For example, perhaps you can help direct
while your child plays
to help support the club's contributions
to scholastic chess.
Finally, whether or not you choose to become a tournament director - please consider serving as a liaison to the USCF, to deal with the formalities of running USCF Grand Prix tournaments and/or to post our tournaments on the US Chess website online to raise awareness nationwide of our tournaments.
Please feel free to contact us or any other TD if you have any questions. We look forward to working with you.
Natasha Christiansen
Stephen Gradijan
| Date | Saturday, November 19, 2022 |
| Event Format | 3SS |
| Time Control | G/60 d5 |
| Sections | One section |
| Entry Fee | $20, $35 for non-BCF members; $5 more if registering onsite after online registration closes at 10:00am, 11/19/2022 |
| Prizes | None; all proceeds will benefit the club |
| Registration | 10:00am - 10:15am (onsite) |
| Round Times | 10:30am, 1:30pm, 4:00pm |
| Description | Open to players rated at least 1800, either live rating or November supplement. |
| Entry List | Current Pre-Registration List |
| Date | Friday, November 18, 2022 |
| Event Format | Double round (one game with each color) Swiss |
| Time Control | G5/d0 |
| Sections | Based on participants |
| Entry Fee | $10 for members, $15 for non-members |
| Prizes | Based on entries |
| Description | Our regularly-scheduled Friday Night Blitz event is back! We'll play six double rounds (one game with each color) with a G/5 time control, no delay and no increment. Doors open at 7:30pm, first round starts at 7:45pm. Afterwards, what happens happens... This is a US Chess Federation rated event. USCF membership is required for all players. Please visit the US Chess Membership site to join or renew. |
| Entry List | Current Pre-Registration List |
| Date | Friday, November 11, 2022 |
| Entry Fee | $130 for Open, $40 more for players <2100. $20 more after 11/1 |
| Round Times | 10:00am & 3:30pm each day |
| Description | Registration for players rated at least 2100 for the Open Section Overall tournament details here: Boylston Chess Circus and Spectacle |
| Entry List | Current Pre-Registration List |
| Date | Friday, November 11, 2022 |
| Event Format | 6SS double round Swiss |
| Time Control | G/5, d0 |
| Sections | Open and U1900 |
| Entry Fee | $25 for members, $35 for non-members |
| Prizes | $$1000 Guaranteed |
| Registration | Register up the last minute |
| Round Times | First round 8:00pm, subsequent rounds ASAP |
| Description | Big money! Big Prizes! I love it! Step out from under the Big Top, and play in November's Big Money Blitz! Six round double swiss, G/5, no delay. GMs and IMs play free. Register for your chance to tame these lions! Prizes: Open Section: $400-$200-$100 Top Under 2300 $75 Top Under 2100 $75 U1900 Section: $100-$50 |
| Entry List | Current Pre-Registration List |
| Date | Friday, November 4, 2022 |
| Event Format | 6 double-round swiss |
| Time Control | G/5, d0 |
| Sections | Based on participants |
| Entry Fee | $10 for members, $15 for non-members |
| Prizes | Based on entries |
| Registration | Doors open at 7:30pm |
| Round Times | First round at 7:45pm, rest ASAP |
| Description | Our regularly-scheduled Friday Night Blitz event is back! We'll play six double rounds (one game with each color) with a G/5 time control. Doors open at 7:30pm, first round starts at 7:45pm. Afterwards, what happens happens... Stop by and see the progress as we continue to build out the club! This is a US Chess Federation rated event. USCF membership is required for all players. Please visit the US Chess Membership site to join or renew. |
| Entry List | Current Pre-Registration List |
| Date | Tuesday, November 8, 2022 |
| Event Format | 6SS, 1 lichess game per Tuesday night set up by individual challenge |
| Time Control | Open: G/60 + 10 sec, U1900: G/45 + 5 sec |
| Sections | Open & U1900 (Unrated); accelerated pairings may be used |
| Entry Fee | $40, $25 for BCF members |
| Prizes | Open: $120-$80 based on 10 players; U1900: Trophy to 1st Place |
| Registration | Deadline 11/29/2022 @ 6 PM |
| Round Times | Tuesday at 6:30 PM unless two players agree to reschedule |
| Description | Contact info: TD Nick Sterling. E-mail: boylstonchess@gmail.com. Text/cell: 781-733-0849. If I do not have your e-mail and cell phone # already, please send those to me in case we have to contact each other. If I do not have your lichess Username, please send that to me or include it in the comments in your Registration. For Round 1, Pairings will be posted on Tuesday just after 6 PM on the Boylston CC website. The cutoff time for registration in time to play a Round is Tuesday at 6 PM. Any players who register subsequent to 6 PM will be skipped until the following week's Round. Each Round begins at 6:30 PM except for games whose start times were agreed in advance to be changed. Rating with USCF will be delayed by 72 hours after the completion of the tournament to give lichess time to ensure Fair Play was observed in all games. Players must join Zoom and Share their Screens or show their play areas in their camera views. The link will be sent to players by e-mail. Players with scores of at least +2, or in contention for a prize, may, at the TD's discretion, be required to provide at least two separate camera views on Zoom. Players must be current Members of USCF for the OPEN SECTION ONLY, not the U1900. |
| Entry List | Current Pre-Registration List |
