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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).
July 21, 2009.
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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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