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  • 2025 DCC Tribute to Martin Luther King

    ...at any DCC tournament you will find competition.  

    A tribute is a statement intended to show gratitude, respect, and admiration. Today, countless people would express exactly that when speaking of Martin Luther King. The Denver Chess Club naming a chess tournament in his honor is a small thing compared to what he did for countless people of color. Racism was once accepted as perfectly okay, particularly in the southern states. Rural... Read more >>

    1/22/2025 at 3:09pm Views: 3,922

  • DCC December 2024 Report

    The DCC is looking forward to bigger and better in 2025.

    I'd like to start this year end DCC report by acknowledging the enormous contributions to the DCC that Chris Peterson and Dean Clow made. What they did, in my opinion, has resulted in the Denver Chess Club becoming one of the best chess clubs anywhere.  Mr. Peterson created the DCC webpage to practice his self taught coding skills. Then showed the page to a tech company... Read more >>

    12/29/2024 at 2:08pm Views: 6,642

  • DCC November 2024 Report

    The heading photo is DCC President, Earle Wikle. Who needs two computers to do everything he does for the DCC.

     DCC Tuesday night attendance has been slipping, quite possibly due to the 10 dollar entry fee. Some justification is due to rising DCC expenses, which are not unlike the rising prices of everything else. Last year the church board wanted to raise the rent to 600 dollars a month. Mainly thanks to Pastor Sheri Admiraal an agreement was reached to remain at 500 dollars through 2024, with the... Read more >>

    11/29/2024 at 1:37pm Views: 13,193

  • DCC October 2024 Report

    ... but especially the players at both locations.

    The heading photo is an attempt to show the social aspect of the DCC before the round starts.The DCC October tournaments were confusing to me. I admit to being easily confused. Anyone who has played me over the board knows this :-) Normally the October Thursday night tournament would have been five rounds, but since the DCC avoids scheduling a round on a national holiday, the last round... Read more >>

    11/1/2024 at 12:09pm Views: 20,148

  • DCC 2024 Fall Classic Report

    I will certainly not complain about a record registration of 134 players...

    NM Chris Peterson's Best Game selection, along with some other games, has been added to the Games Section.  When the Denver Chess Club was thinking about adding a weekend tournament to our yearly calendar - in addition to the MLK and the Denver Open - long time DCC player Randolph Schine came up with the perfect name for the event: The DCC Fall Classic. We have... Read more >>

    10/16/2024 at 7:45am Views: 32,846

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