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Thanks
for visiting!
Welcome
to the homepage for the Miami University Chess Club! We are a slowly
growing
community of chess enthusiasts who encourage all to join our club and
participate
in matches. Chess players of all skills are welcome here.
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The Chess Club is hibernating as of
Fall 2008. If any MU student is interested in activating it,
please contact Dr. Clyde Brown, Political Science, (cbrown@muohio.edu).
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During
fall and spring semesters the Chess Club meets most Thursdays at 7:00
PM
in the SE nook of the Shirver Center Food Court. Players of all
strengths
are welcomed to attend the meetings, play games, and plan future events.
To
get email notification of meetings, contact:.
If
you have any questions, please contact the Faculty Advisor, Professor Clyde
Brown.
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Summer
2005 Highlight
The
MU Chess club presented "The Magic of Chess" at Hamilton's Lane Library
as part of a full-day's events celebrating the publication of "Harry
Potter
and the Half-Blood Prince" on July 16, 2005.
Spring
2004 Highlight
Hans Multhopp, FIDE Masster, provided
chess instruction
to club members and other interested chess players at four weekly
sessions
in Februrary and March 2004.Activites
included reviewing past games by grandmasters for strategic
principles
and tactical possibilities, examining recent games played on the
Internet
Chess Club by GMs and Hans, and several simuls.
Hans
at a Miami Chess event in 2001.
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Spring
2004 Highlight
Matt
Rosen, a Miami University undergraduate, is the 2004 Ohio Collegiate
Individual
Chess Champion. The Championship was held April 4 at
Ohio Wesleyan University.
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Spring
2003 Highlight
Grandmaster
Gregory Kaidanov (#1 ranked chess player in America in 2002) returned
to
Miami University for a second time to give a talk and play a 25-board
simultaneous
chess match on March 25 (Tuesday), 2003. He played MU Chess Club
members
and local players. (GM Kaidanov visted MU last in 2001 [see
below].
It was a great event! Kaidanov said about the 2001 simul, "I've
never
had such a crowd.")
His
visit is co-sponsored by the MU Chess Club and Havighurst Center for
Russian
Studies as part of the Center's 2003 St. Petersburg
Festival.
The first five "Grandmasters" were awarded their titles
by Russian Czar
Nicholas II because of their performance at the St. Petersburg
Tournament
of 1909. GMs Akiba Rubinstein, Siegbert Tarrasch, Jose Raul
Capablanca,
Frank Marshall and Emanual Lasker are shown (clockwise starting at
bottom
left) at the St. Petersburg Tournament of 1914.
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2003 Grandmaster
Visit Wrap-up: Grandmaster Gregory Kaidanov paid a second visit to
MU. The events have come and gone. All events were well
attended
(the talk by 55 people, the simul by 125+ in attendance with 25
players,
and the school visit by 20 students) and well received. All said
they had a good and enjoyable time, including GM Kaidanov.
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