First Casual Chess Club Online Event
The first meeting of the online clubhouse will be held as an Arena tournament at 6PM on Thursday March,26th. Registration will open at 5 PM. You can register and join at any point until the event is concluded. The event will last from 6PM to 8PM. During that time chess.com will match members to play each other, taking into consideration how they’ve performed in the event prior to that point and who is available. Time control for each game will be G10.
You can enter the tournament by navigating to “play” then “Live Chess” on the left side bar. Then click “Tournaments” at the top of the right box where the game notation usually is. Then click our tournament, which will be named “LVCCC Online 1”, then join. Or you can just click this link directly to the event: https://www.chess.com/live#r=172947 . The event MAY also appear for members under the tournament section of the mobile app.
After the 2 hours, members are free to explore trying to challenge each other directly and otherwise get familiar with the platform if their hunger for chess has not been satiated for the day.
Winner’s Circle Speech: Thank you for this wonderful award. I could not have done it without the true sacrifice from others (literally). Thanks again! Casual Chess Club is the best! — Ed Magik (A.K.A. WesterlyWolf on Chess.com and lichess.org)
PS: I’m not sure why the event was named “LVCC Online 1” when this is the Casual Chess Club. “CCC Online 1” would have been a better fit, in my humble opinion.
Please use the chess.com Casual Chess Club chatroom to communicate with other online members.
Pete – Usually everyone is quiet during the games. I noticed that Ramsey disables chat once the games start with he as my opponent. So perhaps it’s better to post comments on this site here, as long as we don’t go off topic.
Did you now? The Las Vegas Chess Club is what Juan Jaragui’s club is called, back before the Casual Coffeehouse Chess Club came onto the scene. I think he still runs his club, but I’ve been so busy with this one that I just haven’t seen him in years. So yes, LVCC and CCC are 2 different things, like comparing Chevy to Ford.
I did not say “during the games”. Many folks new to clubs on chess.com are not aware that there is a chatroom dedicated to each club. Some sites have a messaging feature to let online members communicate in real time whenever they’re logged in, but chess.com only implemented this partially. You can of course chat with your opponent during a game, but outside of a game you need to use a chatroom. You can send an email type “message”, but that isn’t real time and depends on the recipient checking their messages. For those who want to communicate with their fellow club members who are online the chatroom is a useful feature.
Well that’s interesting, I have forgotten that in the 3 years I have been offline.
Also we need to make sure we are calling ourselves the Casual Chess Club for future reference – the Las Vegas Chess Center is Juan’s club, not affiliated with us. Yes we are IN Las Vegas, NO we are NOT affiliated with Las Vegas. This can generate lots of confusion.
Pete – I hope that one night you decide to challenge us on chess.com in one of our arenas, so you will have a trophy to show off. You know, we had at least 2 very strong players show up last Tuesday – yes I played them – yes I blundered and got whooped, badly. You would be well paired I’m sure, should you deice to join us next time, so you can beat them and post your own trophy here!!