Jerome Pirotais wins the 2017 Launceston Cup

Luwanna is the 2017 Glen Gibbs Award winner.

The Koshnitsky Medal is awarded annually to an individual who has made an outstanding lifetime contribution to the administration of chess in Australia

A wrap up of last weekends inaugural Tasmanian Transfer Tournament.

A short report on this year's August Masters.

A wrap up of the Tasmanian Rapid Chess Championships held in Devonport on the 23rd and 24th of July.

A wrap up of the recent Tasmanian Championships held in Burnie on the Queen's Birthday long weekend.

The 3rd Annual Tony Sturges Thematic Memorial and Blitz was held on on ANZAC day, exactly 3 years after Tony's passing.  A quick wrap up of all the happenings is here.

The Tasmanian Lightning Chess Championships were held in Launceston on the 12th of March 2016 during the Tasmanian Open. Watch footage of all the action on board one through the 11 round event with complete annotations of the games and a PGN as well.

The 2016 Candidates tournament finished a couple of days ago, and the whole chess world knows that Sergey Karjakin will be the challenger to Magnus Carlsen for the next World Championship, but how did it happen? Watch the analysis from GM Daniel King, download all the games in one PGN and see how Karjakin won.

A wrap up of the Tasmanian Open and Lightning Championships held on the Eight Hours Day long-weekend from the 11th to the 14th of March.

It is the end of an era as Tasmanian chess legend Richard Neville Ledger (Tasmanian Champion 1965, Tasmanian Lightning Champion 1978, and Tasmanian Open winner 1992) hands in his pen and announces that the latest issue of Chess: Tasmanian Records will be the last.

Continuing the series of "Chess Openings Explained", Jonathan Schrantz (1974 FIDE) from the Chess Club and Scholastic Centre of St Louis presents the Benko Gambit.

A wrap up of the HCC (Inc.) Royal Hobart Regatta Chess Extravaganza played between the 5th and 8th of February.

Over the past 2 weeks (Jan 15-31) the 78th Tata Steel tournament has been being played in Wijk aan Zee in the Netherlands.  This is a 13 round, round robin event featuring some of the best players in the world.  Grand Master and noted chess commentator Daniel King presents round by round analysis of the event.

Jonathan Schrantz (1974 FIDE) from the Chess Club and Scholastic Centre of St Louis presents one of his favourite openings, the Noteboom.

A short report of the recent Burnie Shines tournament held on the 24th and 25th of October.

The TCA is now calling for nominations for the Glen Gibbs Memorial Award.  Applications close at 5pm on Friday the 6th of November.