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Sunday, January 25th, 2009

Spring 2009!

Players,
Now that our schedules are beginning to cohere, let’s work some chess into the mix!
This week, I host:
Wednesday January 28th, 2009
3:00pm-6:00pm*
SUB1 Game Room (703-993-2864)
*Really, chess club goes as late as it needs to so..
P.S. Any and all absences will be considered as forfeits.
P.P.S. If Wednesday won’t work for you consistently please write me back!

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

Mason Gazette

We got some great press on the Mason homepage.
Check it out!

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

Mason Chess victorious against Kazan University!

Mason Chess hosts friendly International match against Kazan University
The champion Russian International Master Lenar Murzin, and mathematics students Maxim Galiev, and Albert Davletov traveled from Naberezhnye Chelny last week to compete.
The two teams met on stage Sunday evening in the Johnson Center Bistro for a friendly match.
Mason Chess’ winning combination was comprised of Mathematics PhD [...]

Friday, September 12th, 2008

Fall 08 Schedule

Players,
Club meetings will take place Wednesdays begnning at 1pm outside of the Gameroom in SUB1. Equipment will be provided, and all are welcome. See you there!

Friday, December 7th, 2007

GMU Chess Team

GMU has a chess team that competes in the DC Chess League. This winter season (Oct – May) our team is off to a 2-0 start! For the complete results and schedule, visit http://www.dcchess.net/Current/CurrentStandingsAndResults.html
Match 1:

GMU B
2½–1½
Man Bear Pig, Inc.

(12463155) S. Daniels
1–0
1753 (13250463) J. Bennett

(12986905) J. Bode
0–1
1750 (12950190) [...]

Friday, November 30th, 2007

GMU-UVA Corr Match

status of the GMU-UVA Corr Match
GMU-UVA
1. e4 c5
UVA-GMU
1. d4
send move suggestions to georgemasonchess@yahoo.com please also suggest a conditional move or two so this gets done by the end of the school year.

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

Executive Board 2007-2008

The Executive Board for 2007-2008 is as follows:

Jeff Brown
President
Andy Samuelson
Vice President
Jonathan Bode
Team Captain
Teddy Wilkinson
Treasurer
Nick Kinney?
Secretary
To reach any of us, simply e-mail gmuchess@gmu.edu. We’ll get it, and we’ll get back to you.

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

Call for Instructors

Players,
We have the means to employ a contingent of you as chess instructors this year. Qualified instructors are paid very well for teaching elementary school students to play chess. We are looking for students who:
-Have good interpersonal skills
-Will attend regularly (this is a job, not a Club meeting)
-At least know the rules of the game [...]