The Kingston Chess Club

The Kingston Chess Club is located in the picturesque City of Kingston, Ontario, Canada on the north shore of Lake Ontario at the head of the St. Lawrence River. Toronto is approximately 260 km to the west, Montreal is about 290 km to the east and Ottawa is about 175 km to the northeast. Enjoy your visit.

What's New

May 15, 2008: YouTube Parody

With the chess club breaking for the far too short summer season here in K-town, we thought you might be already casting about for some 64 square related distractions. Check out this hillarious parody of the infamous Fight Club:

April 26, 2008: 2008 Ontario Girls Chess Championships

Corinna Wan sent us the details on the annual Ontario Girls Championship:

Date: Saturday, May 17, 2008

Place: Fieldstone Day School, 2999 Dufferin Street, Toronto (Lawrence West Subway Station)

Sections: K to G.12 (13 sections)

Awards: Medal to top three in each grade. Certificate to medallists’ school.

Time control: Maximum one hour per game, G/30 if a clock is available.

Format: Swiss, Round Robin or Double Round Robin, depends on the number of participants in the grade. Playoffs for first place only. Cumulative tiebreakers will be used to determine the second and third places.

Ratings: Games are CMA rated www.chess-math.org

Schedule:
10:15-10:45 Check-in 1:30 3rd round
11:00 1st round 2:30 4th round/Playoffs
12:00 2nd round 3:30 5th round/Playoffs
1:00 Lunch 4:30 Awards

Souvenir: A T-shirt for players registered with payment before May 2.

Refreshment and Lunch: Pizza lunch, snacks and drinks will be provided.

Entry Fee: $28 per player (Non-refundable after May 2, 2008)

Registration: Pre-registration only. Please send form and cheque to “Seneca Hill Chess Club”, 30 Drysdale Crescent, Toronto, Ont. M2H 1M8 by May l2.

Confirmation: By email (or fax) once registration received.

For further details, please contact Corinna directly at: corinna.wan@utoronto.ca

April 24, 2008: Final Meeting of the Season: April 28, 2008

On April 28, the Junior Club will be holding its year end celebration party. Congratulations to all the young people who came out to play this year and an huge thank you to Harry, Sid, Yidi, Chris and all the parents and adult club members who offered their time and expertese to help out along the way. It was a good year indeed!

Also on April 28, the Club Executive will be holding its final meeting of the season. In addition to any of the usual housekeeping matters, the agenda includes a discussion on the possible relocation of the club to a less expensive site (yet to be found!). If anyone has something they wish the Executive to consider, please feel free to join us.

April 13, 2008: Club Championship UPDATED

We have updated the Tournament page with the results of the last round of the Club Championship. Conratulations to PETER SIBBALD 2007-2008 Kingston Chess Club Champion!. With his last round victory, Peter ensured his clear first finish.

April 13, 2008: Eastern Ontario Youth Chess Championship

We have posted the report including the medal winners as submitted by the amazing organizer Chris Hargreaves on the Juniors page. This year's event was perhaps the smoothest running tournament that we have ever seen! Thanks Chris!! Congratulations to all who participated and good luck to those moving on to the provincial championships in Toronto.

NOTE: NO CHESS MARCH 24

We have the results of round 4 and the pairings posted for round 5 on the Tournaments page. As always - refresh your page cache to ensure that you have the latest information.

February 9, 2008: Updates

We have updated the Tournament page with the results of the Quad\Hex\Quad. We congratulate Peter Sibbald for winning Quad #1, Chris Hargreaves for winning Hex #2 and John Lukezich for winning Quad #3. Well done!

January 18, 2008: Some Belated Thanks!

Harry sends along BIG Thanks to Peter Sibbald for the beautiful trophy that he made for the Junior club. They will enjoy competing for this beauty for years to come.

Harry also sends along a BIG Thanks to Sid Anjivel. Sid is now helping Harry by teaching and working with the younger children. The kids are indicating that they are learning a great deal from Sid.

January 3, 2008: Chess'n Math is going Green!

For those interested in receiving email updates of coming Junior events sponsored by Chess'n Math, please visit the Chess'n Math email list page

January 3, 2008: CFC Promises to Rate Tournament - on ChessTalk!

It seems that the good burghers on ChessTalk read the KCC website. Arguably not well, but it is a start. Rather than deal with the fact of Dixon's libelous poison, most are jumping all over the messenger yet again. Can you say, "One trial learning.", folks? Apparently some don't get it yet. We shrug. More on this later in the post...

It would seem that there really is at least one warm body still alive and kicking at the CFC. The new Ex. Dir. has responded to Jordan Palmer's query about the unrated tournament with the following... also posted on ChessTalk.

Posted by Bob Gillanders on January 2, 2008, 21:46:04, in reply to "Wayne Coppin on his soapbox..." CFC Executive Director Miss ON

Yes there are still some warm bodies at the CFC.......

Thanks to Jordan for spotting the missing tournament, and thanks to Peter for submitting it again. It has been entered. Website should be updated on friday.

Bob

We thank Bob for his quick action. Those wondering about the status of the tournament now need not wonder any longer. :-)

Meanwhile, Jordan Palmer seems determined to keep stiring the pot over there on ChessTalk. We no longer post on that board but we do monitor it occasionally. Check it out for yourselves, folks.

We figure that sooner or later the chess community will realize that attacking the messenger will not neutralize the Dixon poison. Meanwhile, Dixon continues to make a mockery of us all. If the folks on ChessTalk are offended by the libel, then deal with it by dealing with Dixon. Attacking the messenger is a misdirected waste of energy. We will continue to report on this shame of Canadian chess until it stops... or more likely until the chess community decides it has had enough and shows the courage or responsibility to deal with the actual source. - Wayne A. Coppin

January 2, 2008: Frank Dixon's libel is about to hit the web... big time!

The following request is going out to selected Queens alumni and staff. Perhaps this initiative will prompt the Queens University administration to investigate. With any luck it may also finally put an end to the libelous poison from Frank Dixon:

To whom it may concern:

The following post appeared the day after Christmas on the most popular Canadian chess discussion board on the web. Note the wild accusations about Queens University and faculty. This outrageous breech of the university Code of Ethics demands a decisive response.

We suggest that you forward this irresponsible post to everyone you know at Queens U. Dixon is the same person who spent over a year libeling the Kingston Chess Club and its Executive. When the proof was offered that refuted Dixon's libel, he refused to recant and continues his irresponsible behaviours to this day.

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Posted by Frank Dixon Email on December 26, 2007, 22:27:37, in reply to "Re: Chess administration" WikiChess Editor Kingston ON

And incidentally, for those who would like to see me go away with my criticism, I have earned the right to criticize incisively, and constructively, by contributing positively in many ways to Canadian chess for a very long time. So, get used to it! I'm in the process of cracking the biggest scandal in the history of Queen's University, and I have some very high-salaried people there feeling quite squeamish these days (the ones that haven't been fired yet, that is), through spotting some really serious problems, namely a gigantic, long-running coverup. So, I'm having a major impact there.
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December 30, 2007: Peter Sibbald reports that the CFC seems to have lost his submission of the tournament report for the Kingston Fall Open (AKA the Kingston Pig) (AKA the Kingston Whig Standard).

Apparently this news was discovered when Jordan Palmer posted on ChessTalk that the event had not been rated and perhaps had not been submitted. We have no idea why Mr. Palmer would not have simply contacted TD Peter Sibbald directly before engaging in such speculation.

Peter wishes to assure all Kingston Chess Club members that the tournament was correctly submitted, on time, with the correct fees.

Apparently follow up enquiries by Peter, regarding the status of the cheque covering the rating fees, have simply been ignored. Peter indicates that the report has been submitted a second time to the CFC and we remain hopeful that there is still a warm body left somewhere in the CFC that might actually respond to member requests. We will keep readers posted as more info is made available.

While we are on the topic of the CFC failures to respond - your webmaster was promised way back in October by CFC President Hal Bond that the lingering stench of the Frank Dixon libel would be addressed. We are still waiting for this long overdue promise to be fulfilled.

Meanwhile, Mr. Dixon, ever the loon, has now visited more of his psycho-inspired libel on Queen's University. In a post on ChesssTalk dated December 26, 2007, Mr. Dixon unbelievably wrote the following:

"And incidentally, for those who would like to see me go away with my criticism, I have earned the right to criticize incisively, and constructively, by contributing positively in many ways to Canadian chess for a very long time. So, get used to it! I'm in the process of cracking the biggest scandal in the history of Queen's University, and I have some very high-salaried people there feeling quite squeamish these days (the ones that haven't been fired yet, that is), through spotting some really serious problems, namely a gigantic, long-running coverup. So, I'm having a major impact there."

If that sounds a little familiar to readers of this website, it should. This is the same lunatic who spent literally years behind the scenes libeling the reputations of your webmaster, Peter Sibbald and the Kingston Chess Club with outrageous allegations of "the greatest scandal in the history of Canadian chess". When we literally proved those allegations were false, Dixon refused to recant his libel and the CFC has to date refused to deal with the outrage.

Dixon is now turning his poisoness insanity on former CFC Executive Director David Gordon:

"After several examples and instances of not submitting Canadian FIDE-rated events to FIDE on time for rating in their updates which are done every three months, and having this problem repeatedly discussed on bulletin boards, at the CFC Annual General Meeting in Ottawa in July, 2007, and in Governors' Letters during the past 18 months, David Gordon, who came onto the job in July 2006, proved to be unable to correct this problem, which cost the CFC unnecessary untold amounts in late fees to FIDE. Yet he certainly kept cashing his CFC paycheques on schedule, and playing more tournament chess during his term than any CFC Executive Director in history.

I have never before seen such glaring incompetence in any Canadian organization, chess or otherwise. It would be comical if it were not so serious. This guy has been laughing at all of us, flaunting his disrespect.

An appropriate nickname would be "Mr. Faux Pas".

If it were up to me, I would work through Federation channels to ban David Gordon from CFC-rated chess in Canada for a minimum of five years, for actions damaging to the Canadian chess community, and sue him on behalf of the Federation to recover those extra fees to FIDE, plus interest and court costs."

Live by the sword, die by the sword. Your webmaster thinks that the damage done by Frank Dixon to the Canadian chess community has been so great over the past 5 or 6 years that a lifetime ban would not be inappropriate in this case.

It is surely obvious to all by now that your webmaster's predictions that Dixon's loony-tunes behaviours would only get worse and would eventually be visited upon others in the CFC and the Canadian chess community have been realized. We advised years ago on how to stop this but we were scorned, laughed at, accused of over-reacting and ultimately ignored. We have suffered greatly from Dixon's libel and have no intention of rejoining the CFC until this libel is properly addressed. Let us hope that Queen's U. authorities get wind of his most recent libel on ChessTalk and finally sue this poisonous irresponsible paranoid into silence as he so richly deserves. - Wayne A. Coppin, KCC webmaster

December 20, 2007: We have posted a new game (with notes by WACy) on the Juniors page that we received from Benjamin, one of our newest KCC Junior Club members. It is a fantastic effort and hopefully it will inspire all our Juniors to equally good efforts of their own.

November 17, 2007: We have posted the results of the first round of the 2RR Quad event on the Tournament page.

November 10, 2007: We have posted the results of the Kingston Fall Swiss Open on the Tournament page. Congratulations to the winner Peter Sibbald!

October 27, 2007: We have added a brand new PGN game viewer to view all the club games online. It is a free flash based utility that should impress most of you. Go to the Archives page and check it out!

October 24, 2007: We have posted the results of the Junior 2007 Fall Swiss Tournament on the Juniors page. Thanks, Harry! We remind all our Junior Club members that Harry and Wayne will be giving a simul on Monday October 29. This is always a fun event for all. See you there.

October 20, 2007: The recent problems experienced with this site seem to have been resolved. We are now able to update the site again and the new Freewebs server seems to be faster. A new Terms of Service agreement with our excellent hosts this year will allow us to offer even more resources to our members. Please refresh your browser cache to see the latest updates on all our pages. We will continue to update the site as the information is forwarded to us. Thanks for your patience, folks! Enjoy the visit.

October 6, 2007: We have updated the Juniors page and the Tournament page with information provided by Harry and Peter.

October 1, 2007: The London, UK press is announcing that former world chess champion Garry Kasparov was last night selected to be the candidate for the Other Russia party; a coalition of liberals, Leftists and nationalists. It remains to be seen if Kasparov will actually manage to get his name on the ballot but the nomination is a necessary first step.

September 23, 2007: Welcome back to the Fall Session of the 2007 - 2008 chess season. We have historically given the web site a facelift to help kick off the coming year of family oriented chess fun and this year the tradition continues. We hope you will enjoy our new look and find it easy to navigate. Should you have any suggestions for improving the site or just want to drop us a line, feel free to send us an e-mail (the bottom link on the Menu to your left). Please note that we anticipate a week or so to complete the renovations. Thanks for your patience.

As most of you know, your Executive has taken some extraordinary steps to ensure the return to the club of your webmaster. The initiative was greatly appreciated and we are pleased to be back. Thanks go out to everyone who has expressed their understanding and support over the past year. It is probably fair to say that we are all looking forward to turning the page and meeting again in friendly competition over the chess board.
(Wayne A. Coppin, webmaster)

"Ponder and deliberate before you make a move. Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt." - Sun Tzu