Dayton Chess Club (http://www.daytonchessclub.com/)
STAKES CHESS #9 with details at www.daytonchessclub.com/2007Calendar.htm on the date of September 22nd and our regular Friday Nite Quick Event (G/25) Thematic – a Ruy Lopez Exchange is on this Friday (Sept 14, 2007)
FINALLY please pass this information to anyone who might be interested. If you have any questions or comments please feel free to email me.
Cheers!
Riley D. Driver
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Nice looking chess club!
I’ve played in tournaments at the Dayton chess club roughly a dozen times or so, and have had a wonderful time.
The club owns a medium-sized building in downtown Dayton. It’s not luxurious, more like a college dorm, but contains everything a chess tournament player could need- except, perhaps, some reasonably healthy food.
It has two levels. The upper level contains, at the back, a lounge- with chairs, sofas, tables, chess related artwork, and a small library of books and magazines scattered about. The “front desk” doubles as a small snack bar which sells pizza, hot dogs, ice cream, candy, chips etc. In the front are skittles playing tables. In the middle is an assortment of chess books and chess items for sale. Sometimes a small boom box will be emitting classical or new agey sounds. During tournaments, people mill about on the upper level analyzing games and playing blitz and bughouse and munching on Doritos.
The lower level is the playing hall, with room for roughly 100 players and two bathrooms. The walls are decorated with chess related artwork and posters from old tournaments and matches.
Riley Driver runs the place with friendliness and competence, but takes quiet, polite conditions in the playing hall very seriously.
Tournaments at the DCC are varied, from regular 5 round swisses at long time controls (the Ohio Chess Congress), to Team Tournaments (the Midwest Ohio Team Chess Festival) to one day, 1-hour time control mini-swisses “The Survivor Stakes”, to thematic tournaments where the opening is dictated (such as “The Evans Gambit” tourney). The schedule is very full and most events are well attended and draw people within a 200+ mile radius.
I’ve enjoyed my time at the DCC.
Brad Hoehne
Wow. From the look of that sign I doubt the club qualifies as “little,” and the comment above would seem to confirm that.
Very impressive. I’ll have to stop in next time I’m in Dayton.