• Tournaments at the Rochester Chess Center
• On most Saturdays, RCC has a kids tournament at 10am-1:00pm, USCF-rated G/30. EF: $5.00.
  The Open Kids/Adult is three rounds (2:00pm, 4:00pm, and 6:00pm), Swiss USCF-rated G/60 (same day), EF: $12.00.
• Chess Camp (chesscamp.pdf) runs during July and August. Activities and Registration.pdf
• Chess League, starts in September, lasts ten weeks, and plays Mondays at 7:00pm. USCF-rated G/90, EF: $25.00.
• A Blitz Tourney (5-minute chess) is held on the last Friday of each month, at 7:00pm. EF: $12.00

Another great place to play chess is the Legacy Senior Community, located at 300 Cranberry Landing Drive, Rochester, NY 14609.

• From 590 North, exit at Norton Street, turning left, and watch for Cranberry Landing on your right, the second street beyond the overpass. The Community Center is immediately to your right as you pull in. If you see a stoplight (at Pardee) you went too far.
• From 104 eastbound, exit at Culver Road. Turn right onto Culver and then left at the light at Norton. Pass the light at Pardee and watch for Cranberry Landing on your left - a small street, but with a sign. The Community Center is to your right as you pull in.
• From the city proper, go northbound on Culver and turn right onto Norton street. Then follow as from 104 eastbound. From 104 westbound, exit at Culver and turn left onto Culver. Then follow as from 104 eastbound.

When you enter the Community Center, sign in at the desk with the Concierge. The chess room is to your left.

The Community Chess Club has announced the acquisition of a building in downtown Rochester, Minnesota, an area with a more understanding tax environment. The concourse has shops, restaurants, and a health bar. One hundred and fifty individual units will house chessplayers at a room rate of $5.00 USD per day. Extended stays are OK, provided that your CCCR, RCC, and USCF memberships are current, and that your USCF rating doesn't decrease by more than fifty points in any three month period.

The present occupancy rate is 75%, and consists of businesses renting office space at premium prices, which defrays our costs. But chessplayers have exclusive use of seven floors for skittles, bughouse, serious tournament play, or just lounging around and eating pizza. No smoking, no alcohol, no drugs, no religion. Use of the sauna, steam room, jacuzzi, and wifi-ready recreation area is included.

Demographic projections show that a proposed Las Vegas-style Nightly Chess League (NCL) will draw a weekly total of a thousand (1000) players, Monday through Friday. It'll be played in three sections: open, under-1800, and unrated. We believe that an upscale clientele will prefer our events to bar and restaurant scene in recessionary times. It's the tiered-top building, just left of the large rectangular structure in the center of the photo.

(- brandon furtwangler 04/01/2009)

Mike Lionti's encouragement was instrumental in the progress of this site. I unabashedly cribbed and scraped content from the CCCR web site. We help each other, sharing ideas and exploring possibilities. His site's content is rapidly improving. I wish him the best!

Photo Credits: Thanks to Shelby Lohrman of the Rochester Chess Center, who donated a dozen or so digital images. Thanks again to Mike Lionti who generously allowed me to use the pictures he took of the 2006-7 Marchand Open.

Chess: Thanks to FIDE Master Igor Nikolayev for his time and chess expertise in submitting interesting annotated games, as well as photos from his active chess career.

Graphics: Thanks to Dick Raas of Photosource, Inc. for help and advice in color selection and layout. Eric Jaimes (professional webmaster) contributed a gradient background.

Jonathan Cleek, Adam DeSantis, Abraham Glasser, Isay Golyak (FM), Eric Jaimes, Charles Kelly III, Ray Licata, Mike Lionti, Shelby Lohrman, Dave Love, Igor Nikolayev (FM), Jack Oleksyn, Matt Parry (NM), Dick Raas.

The pgn parser used here is MyChessViewer 2.2 Chess Viewer Deluxe chesstempo pgn-viewer. I also use a free chess diagram generator from Chess Videos ChessImager. The player's table is sorted by Stuart Langridge's sorttable, DataTables, a jQuery plugin. The photo slideshows are run on code from BarelyFitz Designs, Lytebox 3.2, , FloatBox, prettyPhoto. The tooltip mouseovers are qTip driven. Hyphenation is by hyphenator. The navigation menu is uvumi, Free CSS Drop-Down Menu Framework, Superfish.

There is no more voodoo navigation menu here, other than simple links. This page uses the Perfect 'Double Page' 2 Column Liquid Layout by Matthew James Taylor. View more website layouts and web design articles.

Thanks also to Jimmy Ruska whose website continues to generally entertain and inform about novel webpage technologies and advancements.

This is a Microsoft-free web site. Not a single line of code was written here using any Microsoft product. Instead various flavors of Linux were used, mostly Debian and its derivatives. Since the internet itself runs on Linux, a web developer's rig should also run on Linux.

All are open source or GPL. You can have them for free and use them however you choose.

A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, and does not feel threatened that others are able and good. For he has a proper self-assurance in the knowledge that he belongs to a greater whole, and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed.