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Tacoma Chess Club
Location/
Address		 409 Puyallup Ave E, 2nd Floor in DTI Soccer Store Building - Across the street from Alfred's Cafe - Near Tacoma Dome Transit Center and down the street from Freighthouse Square.
City Tacoma, WA 98421
Parking Free parking available at Tacoma Dome Transit Center.
(Please read signs; not all spaces are available for free parking.)
Entry Building will normally be locked. For admission, please ring the bell.
Contact Gary Dorfner
Phone (253) 535-2536 or 253-627-3731
Meeting Times Wednesdays and Fridays from 7:15 PM until closing; also weekend events and casual play as announced.
Web Site
tacomachessclub.netfirms.com also tacomachessclub.org
 

TACOMA CHESS TIMES by Gary Dorfner

January 2012

The club has moved into a new room on the 2nd floor. It is a bigger room and it is quieter, no more train noise. We hope you will come down and check it out. Also try our new website in progress, tacomachessclub.org. Don't forget the Tacoma Open on Saturday January 28. On Friday Jan. 27 the club will be holding its annual membership meeting and election of officers. We have a number of important issues on the agenda: 1. Financial report; Mike MacGregor; 2. Membership, tournament, club activities; Gary Dorfner; 3. Library; Gary Dorfner and Dan Reisinger; 4. Chess club promotional booths; Gary Dorfner; 5. New club web page: Joseph Lazarus. We need to do long range planning for the entire year. We need as many of you to attend as possible so we can throw a number of ideas out on to the floor and get your thoughts and ideas on them. It is important to know what you the members want to see the club doing. We have a suggestion box on the desk by the door. Please write down any ideas and/or suggestions and put them in the box and the board will study them at each meeting. If anyone is interested in running for an office, please let us know. We also have some appointed offices we need to fill as well. We tried to do a number of things last year but a number of them did not work out because of lack of interest on the part of the membership. We need your help if we are going to be able to build our membership and our tournament attendance back up to what they once were.

November-December 2011

  • The Tacoma Chess Club Blitz Championship was held on 11/11/2011. There were 5 players in all. The winners were: 1st Peter Marriott and Paul Bartron, 5.5 each. Peter won the title when he beat Paul in a playoff match.
  • The TCC Sat. Fall Quads was canceled as only two players showed up.
  • Santa’s Quads were held at the club on 12/17. There were two quads, 4 players in Quad #1 and 7 players in Quad #2 (run as a Swiss). The winners were: Quad #1, 1st Dan Reisinger and Larry Anderson, 2.0 each; Quad #2, 1st Mike Mellott, 2.5, 2nd Bill Rogers and Robert Trippel, 2.0 each.
  • The Christmas Congress was held at the club on 12/17. It was to have been a two-day event but as there were only six players we had to change it to a one-day event. The winners were: 1st Murlin Varner $45.00, 2nd Nickola Pazderic was playing as an Economy player and was not eligible for prize money, 3rd James Wang.
  • TD for all of these events: Gary Dorfner. No one showed up for the TCC Novice Side Event.

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