Community Chess Club of Greater Rochester, New York, modified Jul 22 2010 20:57:02 America/New

About the Community Chess Club of Rochester

Harris, Fred 1911 - Nikolayev, Igor 2367

(The games page was last modified on July 27, 2010.) The CCCR is USCF Affiliate A6000220 and meets on Wednesday evenings (except holidays) from 7:00pm to 11:00pm at the Rochester Chess Center, 221 Norris Drive, Rochester, NY 14610 (585) 442-2430 (map and schedule). Rates: CCCR membership dues are $25.00 annually. Officers: Donald Stubblebine, President; Doug Spencer, Vice-president; Mike Lionti, Treasurer.

We play a USCF-rated game every Wednesday at 7:30pm. The time control (TC) is game in 80 minutes. The entrance fee (EF) is $3.00 for CCCR members and $4.00 for non-members per meeting, and newcomers play for free. USCF membership is required. Continental Chess Association rules are observed at our tournaments. (more)

Sets and boards are provided. If your game finishes early, and time and TD permit, you can play another rated game. Always report the game result to the TD, or post it on the pairing sheet. Yes, even if you lost.

Chess website scheduled to terminate

It's been a blast working on this website, especially with the great FM Igor Nikolayev supplying gamescores. I've succeeded in a limited sense as an unofficial CCCR alternative site webmaster. I've promoted this site in large part by airing the dirty laundry of others. I'd like to apologize for operating a web site bearing an organization's name without authorization or permission and kill this unnecessary and obnoxious website. That which, by rights, belongs to the real Community Chess Club of Rochester should not adorn my site's masthead or address bar. I will therefore give serious thought to directing jaguarpc to terminate and discontinue hosting it in two days.

After August 1, 2010 in an act of contrition I'll consider donating the "communitychessclub.com" domain name to the actual CCCR. I'll remove all original content from this site (that which CCCR doesn't want) so that the new owners can start fresh. A gift to the CCCR of $2500.00 would defray start-up costs for hosting on a new web server. Such a donation should also allow them to pay their webmaster a well-deserved monthly stipend for at least a year. And as the days dwindle down to a precious few, let us delete this errant bookmark in our lives and return to the old CCCR. Enough already. Let the healing begin.

Grandmaster Kenneth Rogoff

American chess grandmaster Kenneth Rogoff grew up a mile from the Rochester Chess Center. His comments on his chess career and chess games are available. The Boylston Chess Club Weblog has an Up Close & Personal story.

He was chief economist of the International Monetary Fund from 2001 to 2003, and is now an economist at Harvard University. His views on the current (2008) financial crisis and other financial matters are widely aired on National Public Radio and the BBC Radio World Service. His economic insights appear regularly in Newsweek, New York Times, and The Financial Times. He served as an economics adviser to the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, U.S. Senator John McCain.

In 2010 he co-authored This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly with Carmen M. Reinhart, reviewed by the New York Times Business and Economy section. Elsewhere he writes of the imminent Chinese Property Collapse and wonders, "Can Good Emerge From the BP Oil Spill?"

On April 27, 2010 the National Academy of Sciences announced the election of 72 new members, including Professor Kenneth Rogoff of Harvard’s Department of Economics. Professor Rogoff will join the Academy’s 2,097 active members as advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine.

501(c)(7) status for clubs

"If your club is organized for pleasure, recreation, and other similar nonprofitable purposes and substantially all of its activities are for these purposes, it should file Form 1024 to apply for recognition of exemption from federal income tax." -Uncle Fed.

Incorporating under IRS code 501(c)(7) as a Social & Recreation Club would allow the your club to handle monetary transactions in a bank account specifically for that purpose. (addendum). Running the finances through an officer's personal checking account is unacceptable. The IRS doesn't like organizations paying out monies to individual members ("private inurement" or "private benefit") unless that is their charter. But there is a way out. Club officers should read and understand IRS Publication #557, page 48 and file the proper forms. Failure to comply means that you don't have a club.

Obtain an employee id number (ein)
Create and sign an organizational document (bylaws)
Seek status as an unincorporated association under IRS 503(c)(7)

The local IRS Office is located at 255 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14604. Hours are Monday - Friday 8:30am-4:30pm. Telephone (585) 263-5840. They take walk-ins, but they don't give tax advice over the telephone. For IRS tax advice: Personal: 1-800-829-1040. Business: 1-800-829-4933.

If a club meets at a public library and collects no membership dues or fees, then a club constitution or bylaws is not required. But once such a group starts taking in money, things change. That group must be run openly and the members are entitled to have a say in its affairs. This includes having and adhering to a set of bylaws.

Legacy Senior Community Chess Club

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.

DFL 10/20/2008

CCCR buys building in Rochester

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 the 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.

Prisoners need chess sets, too.

The Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary is a high security prison housing male inmates in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania and houses approximately 1,500 inmates. An adjacent satellite prison camp houses minimum security male offenders. The Lewisburg Penitentiary was opened in 1932. This penitentiary is one of four federal prisons in the county and ten prisons within Union County and the adjacent counties.

Lewisburg Penitentiary has housed many infamous criminals, such as Jimmy Hoffa, John Gotti, Whitey Bulger, Leonard Peltier, Alger Hiss, Robert Lee Johnson, John Wojtowicz, Henry Hill, Angelo Sepe, Paul Vario, Thomas DeSimone, Robert Thompson, Wilhelm Reich, Samuel Roth, Carl Upchurch, and Bayard Rustin. The prison is known for its "Mafia row," or the G Block, a maximum security wing which houses many Mafiosi.

The facility also lacks a chess club. Could we consider donating $100.00 worth of chess sets and boards from the Rochester Chess Center to inmates in various Lewisburg prisons for inmates interested in forming a chess club?