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Princeton Collegiate Open- Princeton Wins 1st and 2nd!!!

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Meet the New Chess Club Officers!

We thank our retiring ‘emeritus officers’ for their hard work and great enthusiasm in running the club! Hats off to Atanas Petkov, Mike Sobin, and Gabe Frieden!

The Princeton Chess Club welcomes the new officers for 2012:
Co-Presidents: Jack Hutton and Ashutosh Thakur

Vice President: Ben Fisher

Treasurer: Andrew Ardito

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Puzzle and Compositions Blog started!!

Friends, we are happy to announce that the Chess Club Puzzles and Compositions Blog has started!! Check it out:

http://webscript.princeton.edu/~chess/2011/10/problem_blog_01/

You can access this page by clicking on the “Puzzles & Compositions” Tab on the Menu.

Folks, you better bookmark this page as there will be additions quite often!!

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Photos from the Elkies Lecture!

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Professor Elkies presenting lecture “Mathematics in Chess” (2011)

 

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2011 Chess Club Officers with Professor Elkies.

 

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  • We are excited to announce that a good friend of ours Rik Sengupta ’12 has kindly volunteered to start a Puzzle and Composition blog on the Princeton Chess Club website!
  • Also, we will be starting a Puzzle & Composition Corner during our weekly chess club meetings!
  • We are also proud to say that a famous Chess Problem Composer Gianni Donati will be attending our weekly meetings as well, so definitely catch hold of him if you are interested in Compositions.

 


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Mathematics in Chess & Daily Princetonian Coverage!

We received a great response for Mathematics in Chess Lecture by Professor Noam Elkies! Check out the Daily Princetonian Frontpage coverage of the lecture!

 

http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2011/10/06/28945/

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Noam Elkies: Mathematics in Chess

Princeton Chess Club Presents

“Mathematics in Chess”


Noam Elkies

Harvard Professor of Mathematics
Chess Problem Solving Grandmaster and World Champion

7:30pm, Oct 5th, 2011
Peyton 145

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First of the Weekly Princeton Chess Club Nights!

We will see you at Princeton Chess Club’s first meeting of the year! Campus Club from 7-9pm on Friday. There will be food and drinks! Come play blitz, bughouse, longer games, and other variants! You will get to meet other chess enthusiasts from undergrads and grad students to faculty and near-by residents!

We look forward to seeing you there!

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Chess Club @ Activities Fair

Please come and meet the Princeton Chess Club at the Activities Fair this Friday in Dillon Gym. We will have boards set up so you can play friendly games and don’t forget to add your name to our list so you can stay up-to-date about the chess club meets, tournaments, and other events will organize this year! We look forward to seeing you there!