Dear Chess Parents,
Please do not go to 91 Cordelia street West End
On Tuesday I saw a venue in West End and was perhaps a little over-enthusiastic about it. It seems my enthusiasm was not shared by all, in fact not enough to justify renting the venue for our Saturday Girls Club. Therefore this Saturday we will meet at our new Academy Venue [...]
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Change of Venue to Albert Street
Dear Chess Parents,
Please do not go to 91 Cordelia street West End
On Tuesday I saw a venue in West End and was perhaps a little over-enthusiastic about it. It seems my enthusiasm was not shared by all, in fact not enough to justify renting the venue for our Saturday Girls Club. Therefore this Saturday we will meet at our new Academy Venue [...]
Saturday Girls Club Venue
91 Cordelia Street West End
Since opening the Academy in May 2012 we have been looking for the perfect venue. Milton was not bad but not perfect. Our office in the city has parking issues and no green area. Musgrave park has everything!
This is the former clubhouse of the Brisbane Women’s Croquet Club and is now administered by the Wes [...]
Results Doubleroo First Sunday
We were actually not sure whether to have a tournament at all. After all we had to move out the next day. (We literally packed up the entire building right after the prizegiving. ) But then we decided to have one last event in our Milton academy. With very short notice I was worried how many players would even find it. But thankfully the ent [...]
“First Sunday” Junior Rap...
Dear Chess friends,
This weekend we are holding the second of our series of “First Sunday” junior rapid tournaments. Click here to download PDF. Please excuse the late notice but as we are in the process of moving we didn’t know which address to put 🙂
Our new venue is in the heart of the city. The playing hall is surrounded [...]
Australia Day Weekender
Chess Weekend
The Doubleroo Australia Day Weekender was conceived just a few weeks ago in a phone conversation with CAQ president Mark Stokes. I wanted to bend Mark’s ear about having a nine round, one round a week on Friday’s tournament. What about the Australian day he asked?
Sponsors
While Mark was in Sydney playing the A [...]
Australian Open Sensation
National News
Fifteen year old Bobby Cheng caused a sensation a few days ago by winning the Australian Open Chess Championship and the lightening. Although he originally hails from Australia’s far eastern Islands,
locally known as New Zealand, his major success since moving to Melbourne was winning the World U12 championship.
I must a [...]
The Australian adventures of Peter Lo...
The night before going home I gave a small talk to parents at the Doubleroo Chess Academy and to my surprise it was a rather decent turn out and I really did appreciate the warm nice reception.
In most countries where chess is rather low on the list of parent priorities for their children, I have found that the issues are very much the sam [...]
The inaugural Doubleroo “First ...
Opening Ceremony
With a difference! We had the honour of having our local member of parliament, Saxon Rice open the event. Our novel idea was to have our special guest play a few ceremonial moves against a cute harmless looking girl, eight year old Rachel Watkins, and then agree a draw. A great photo op. What is said about the best laid plan [...]
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