A game to check out
By Kate Swan
January 23, 2010
IF YOU don’t care when you’re beaten at your own game by a nine-year-old, it shows you really love the game.
Sunbury resident Roye Burgess certainly loves chess.
He volunteers his time to run weekly clubs at Broadmeadows and Sunbury to fulfil his passion for the game.
“I have been retired for 18 months now and I wanted to play chess but there’s nowhere around here where you can go to play,” he said.
“When there’s nothing around, you create your own.”
Through discussions with Hume Council he started a club at the Broadmeadows Library in September.
Its popularity was immediate, with at least seven chess boards constantly in action from 4-8pm every Thursday.
“It is like a rotating door, incredibly popular,” he said.
“I have no doubt it will continue to run for years.”
He started the Sunbury Chess Club in 1985, which folded because people found it hard to attend regularly.
He now runs classes at Sunbury Library, which are successful with a younger crowd.
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“If you don’t care when you’re beaten at your own game by a nine-year-old, it shows you really love the game.”
Actually, it shows you should not be playing the game at all.