Clubs (scholastic clubs are in red)
Albany Chess Club
Contact: Joe Schanz, jschanz@nycap.rr.com
The Albany Chess Club meets Wednesdays at 7:00 p.m. at the Friends Meeting House
of Albany on 727 Madison Avenue.
Club membership is $25/year.
The annual organizational meeting is 11/8/06.
The Club Championship is a round robin (G/90) one-game-per-week tournament that
starts on 10/4/06.
In the spring, the club schedules team matches with other local clubs in the Capital District Chess League. Play in the League tournament is free to club members.
Athens Catskill Scholastic Chess Club
Contact: Doug Pneuman athenschess@cs.com
Meets in Athens, NY 12015, at the D.R. Evarts Library on 80 Second Street on Tuesdays at 6 PM for beginners and intermediate players.
Ballard Scholastic Chess Club
Contact: Fred Volkman fvolkman@nycap.rr.com
Meets in Wilton Mondays 3:15 - 4:15 For beginners in grades K-5
Ballard Elementary School
300 Ballard Rd.
Wilton, NY 12831
Coxsackie Scholastic Chess Club
Contact: Thomas & Susan Pacuk spacuk@mhcable.com 518-731-8946
During school year on Tuesday & Thursday 3:15 - 5:15
Coxsackie Elementary School
24 Sunset Blvd.
Coxsackie, NY
Greenwich Chess Club
Contact: John Hartnett, truhart2@verizon.net
The Greenwich Chess Club meets Thursday nights in the Community Room of the Greenwich Free Library.
Meetings begin at 7:00 PM.
Players of all ages and strengths are invited to attend. Remember that the best way to improve is by playing! So come in for a casual game, or a free lesson, or to hear about what is happening in the chess world from the local level to the international level.
From the Nothway (I 87): Take Exit 14 off the Northway. Follow signs for Rte. 29 East through Schuylerville into Greenwich.
The library is right on Rt. 29 (Main Street) in the Village of Greenwich. It is about 1/2 mile past the McDonalds. The Library is on the right side of the road at the intersection with Academy St. There is parking behind the building and in the Evergreen Bank lot right next door. (About 30 minutes east of Saratoga.)
Guilderland Chess Club
Contact: Philip Sells, sellsp@mindspring.com
The chess club meets Fridays from 6:30-8:30 PM at the Guilderland Public Library, 2228 Western Ave (Rte 20), Guilderland, NY.
Players of all ages and skill levels are encouraged to attend. Casual chess playing and lessons provided. Please bring set and board if you have them.
Hilltowns Chess Club
Located in Berne, NY, the Hilltowns CC meets at the Berne Reformed Church every first and third Thursday of the month at 7pm. A donation is appreciated for the use of the facility.
Kings Knight Chess Club
Contact: Ken Evans, Evanschess@aol.com
332 Circle Drive
Hurley, NY 12443,
845-331-8186 ,
We are a small group of chessplayers who gather on Wednesday evenings from 7:00 to 10:00 at the Rosendale Cafe (Main Street) south of Kingston. There are all levels, mostly adults, but a few kids from time to time. Lots of casual chess, no formal tournaments at this time. In the summer we organize a chess program for kids at the Kingston Library and meet Tuesday and Wednesday mornings in July and August.
Margaretville Chess Club
The Margaretville Chess Club has resumed meetings in town for summer 2006.
We now meet Tuesday evenings at 6:30, in the basement of the Methodist Church, on Church St. in Margaretville. Enter at side of building, from the parking lot.
All, including beginners, are welcome. No dues or USCF.
Margaretville is located about 42 miles West of Kingston on NYS Rte. 28.
For more info, contact Tom Delehanty, tdelehanty@catskill.net , 845-586-2054.
Make the Right Move
Make the Right Move serves the Greater Capital District area, providing learning, equipment, and tournament play to schools and clubs, parents and coaches.
Contact:Brother John McManus, 153 Benkard Ave., Newburgh, NY 12550. E-mail: brjohn@juno.com 212 729-7060
Saratoga Staunton Chess Club
Contact: Alan LeCours, alecours1@hotmail.com
Meetings: The Saratoga Chess Club meets every Sunday evening at 7:30 p.m. at the Saratoga Springs United Methodist Church, Fifth Avenue at Henning Road in Saratoga Springs, NY 12866. The club's annual meeting will be on 9/17/06 at 7 p.m., and the next week, 9/24, there will be a Blitz Championship Tournament (game in 5 minutes).
Club Championship: The Club Championship is an annual round robin (G/105), one-game-per-week tournament that starts in early October.
Other Activities: In the spring, the club schedules team matches with other local clubs in the Capital District Chess League. Play in the League tournament is free to club members.
During the spring and summer, about every second month, a lecture is conducted one evening by one of the area's better players on a specific opening variation. Then a three-round "thematic" tournament is held 1-2 weeks later, where each game starts with the same opening line.
Visitors & New Members: Visitors are always welcome and casual games are usually possible, even during club events. The spring and summer thematic lectures and tournaments are open to members and non-members alike. To become a member, annual dues are just $8.
Directions: From Exit 14 of the Northway (I-87), turn towards Saratoga, onto Union Ave. At light, turn right onto Henning Rd. Go to Fifth Ave. and the United Methodist Church is on your left.
Schenectady Chess Club
Contact: Bill Townsend, wtownsen@nycap.rr.com
The Schenectady Chess Club is this area's oldest chess organization, tracing its
roots back nearly a century. Players of all ages and strengths are welcome. We
meet Thursday nights at 7:30PM.
Club membership is $36/year.
The annual organizational meeting is 9/21/06. The Club Championship is a round
robin (G/90) one-game-per-week tournament that starts on 10/5/2006. Club members
play for free.
Club members play free in the Amateur Team tourney in February and in the Capital
District Chess League tournament in the spring.
Directions: The club is easily reachable from the North, via Balltown Road/Route
146 or from the south via Van Vranken Avenue. The Community Center is a little
over a mile from where Balltown meets Aqueduct, and about the same distance from
the Schenectady City Limits, where Aqueduct turns into Van Vranken Avenue.
