Chess Federations and Associations
Northern California Chess Clubs
Other Recommended Chess Websites
FPAWN BLOG: February 2008 – current
NEWSLETTERS: January 2005 – August 2007
CALCHESS CHESS BIOGRAPHY: Everything
you ever wanted to know about me and more!
CALCHESS PHOTO ALBUM: Photos from various chess tournaments taken by fpawn.
2007 CalChess Scholastics: Six pages of photos from San Mateo.
2007 National High School Championship: Three
pages of photos from Kansas City.
2005
Sacramento Chess Championship: Five pages of photos from July 4th
weekend.
2005 National Open: Two pages of photos from June in Las Vegas.
2004
CalChess Labor Day Championship: Three pages of photos from September in San
Francisco.
2003 North
American Open: Photos from December in Las Vegas.
2003 Western States Open: Photos from October in Reno.
Michael Franett Memorial: IM norm tournament hosted by the Mechanics'
Institute during January 2005.
Setting a Chronos clock for increments
Mark
Pinto International: IM norm tournament hosted by the Mechanics'
Institute during July 2004.
2004 Sacramento Chess Club team championship: Won
once again by The TactiTals.
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Fpawn Blog: My personal chess blog. |
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The Week In Chess: Weekly chess E-zine. |
Daily Dirt: Daily chess blog. |
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MonRoi: Relaying of major tournaments. |
Susan Polgar’s blog: News and opinions. |
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USCF - United States Chess Federation
CalChess - Northern California Chess Association>
Continental
Chess Association: Organizes big money tournaments across the
country.
U.S. Championship: Organized
and sponsored by the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis.
Southern California Chess Federation: Our
neighbors to the South.
Nevada
Chess: Our neighbors to the East.
Mechanics'
Institute Chess Club: One of the oldest chess clubs in the nation is
in San Francisco.
Sacramento
Chess Club: The longtime home club of the fpawn. Meets on
Wednesday nights.
UC
Davis Chess Club: New local club meets weekly upstairs at the
Memorial Union
Stanford
Chess Club: New website with pictures of chess on the Farm.
Meets on Sunday afternoons.
Bay Area
Chess: Runs adult and scholastic tournaments in the
South Bay Area.
Burlingame
Chess Club: Premiere club of the San Mateo Peninsula. Meets
on Thursday nights.
Kolty
Chess Club: Premiere club of the South Bay. Meets on Thursday
nights.
Sun
Chess Club: South Bay club organized by a student of
mine! (now inactive)
ChessDryad: History of Northern California Chess, pictures from tournaments,
and a lot more.
Calgames Database: Collection of over 20,000 local
games from ChessDryad.
CalNorth
Youth Chess: Premiere site for local scholastic chess news
and events.
Chess City: Large
instructional website by active chess author FM Eric Schiller.
Success
Chess: Program in Fremont and South Bay that hosts
scholastic tournaments.
Berkeley
Chess School: The oldest local program, based in Berkeley.
Academic
Chess: Scholastic programs in San Francisco and San
Jose.
Internet Chess Club: The best chess club in cyberspace with 30,000 members and many Grandmasters.
PlayChess.com: Hosted
by software distributor ChessBase.
Free Internet
Chess Server: The best of many free chess playing websites.
Other
Recommended Chess Websites
ChessBase:
Premiere site for chess analysis and database software for advanced players.
ChessCafe:
Large online vendor of chess equipment, books, and software.
Chess Informant: Publisher of Grandmaster openings analysis.
New In Chess: Best chess magazine
covering world events with heavy Grandmaster annotations.
ChessLab online database:
Two million games available at your fingertips, updated weekly.
ChessBase
online database: An online version of ChessBase game database.
ChessEbook: Online tactics training with over 5000 problems!
Encyclopedia of Chess Information:
You got any questions?
Bill Wall's
Chess Site: Excellent site with hundreds of chess links.
University of Pittsburgh Chess Club:
Large online chess archives.
rec.games.chess.misc:
Miscellaneous chess newsgroup.
rec.games.chess.politics:
Chess politics newsgroup.