Rooty Hill Chess Club

2024 Awards Ceremony, AGM and club Blitz Tournament

🎉 Rooty Hill Chess Club is thrilled to present the return of the 2025 Sydney International Open! 🎉

🗓 Dates: Wednesday 23rd April – Sunday 27th April 2025
📍 Venue: Novotel West HQ, Conference Rooms 5 & 6
💰 Total Prize Pool: $16,600
🔥 Divisions:
Championships (NORM EVENT!!)
Challengers
Contenders
Blitz Event

This will be both a FIDE and ACF rated tournament and is in partnership with the 2025 Melbourne International Open and the 2025 Doeberl Cup, with special thanks to our Official Sponsors Jane Street!

👉 Entries open this Monday! Don't miss out on 9 rounds of classical chess action + blitz! 🏆
👉Register here: https://sio.rootyhillchessclub.org/registration/

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See you there!

With the conclusion of the Chess Olympiad in Budapest yesterday, Rooty Hill Chess Club begins its own Club Championships tonight at West HQ. While preliminary first round pairings are out, it's absolutely not too late to still join the tournament from round 2 onwards. Each division (A through to D) has players of similar rating level, so you will be up against similarly skilled players.

Reminder: you must be a member of the Rooty Hill Chess Club to play in the Club Championships.

You can access the link to register by logging in to the website using your member's login: https://www.rootyhillchessclub.org/wp-login.php

2024 Sydney Chess Championships

The 2024 Sydney Chess Championships starts this Saturday at 10am! Late entries are still open until Thursday, the 4th of July. With 187 registered players, this marks the largest tournament in both players and prize pool in NSW since 2020! ($13,250 in total prizes and 15 x Chess.com diamond memberships)

The upcoming Sydney Chess Championships will be broadcast on both chess.com and lichess (with a 15 minute delay), so you can follow the competition wherever you are.

To find the live games, please visit:

https://sydneychesschampionships.rootyhillchessclub.org/live-games/