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Deep Thinkers · 9 Jul 2026

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Rapid Championship When: 14th of July 7pm 10pm Registration: No later than 6:…

Deep Thinkers · 21 Jun 2026

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Blitz Warmup When: 23rd of June 7pm 10pm Registration: No later than 6:50pm f…

Deep Thinkers · 14 Jun 2026

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Round Robin Rapid When: 16th of June 7pm 10pm Registration: No later than 6:5…

Deep Thinkers · 5 Jun 2026

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Winter Rapid When: 2nd and 9th of June 7pm 10pm Registration: No later than 6…

Deep Thinkers · 28 May 2026

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Winter Rapid When: 2nd and 9th of June 7pm 10pm Registration: No later than 6…

Deep Thinkers · 22 May 2026

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Blitz Tournament When: 26th of May 7pm 10pm Registration: No later than 6:50p…

Deep Thinkers · 18 May 2026

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Graded Classical Tournament Final Round When: 19th of May 7pm 10pm Registrati…

Deep Thinkers · 10 May 2026

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Graded Classical Tournament Round 4 When: 12th of May 7pm 10pm Registration:…

Deep Thinkers · 2 May 2026

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Graded Classical Tournament Round 3 When: 28th of April 7pm 10pm Registration…

Deep Thinkers · 25 Apr 2026

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Graded Classical Tournament Round 2 When: 28th of April 7pm 10pm Registration…

Deep Thinkers · 20 Apr 2026

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Graded Classical Tournament When: 21st of April 7pm 10pm Registration: No lat…

Deep Thinkers · 11 Apr 2026

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Rapid Tournament When: 7th & 14th of April 7pm 10pm Registration: No later th…

Deep Thinkers · 5 Apr 2026

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Rapid Tournament When: 7th & 14th of April 7pm 10pm Registration: No later th…

Deep Thinkers · 29 Mar 2026

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Freestyle 960 Tournament When: 31st of March 7pm 10pm Registration: No later…

Deep Thinkers · 18 Mar 2026

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Blitz Tournament When: 24th of March 7pm 10pm Registration: No later than 6:5…

Deep Thinkers · 12 Mar 2026

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Rapid Tournament When: 17th of March 7pm 10pm Registration: No later than 6:5…

Deep Thinkers · 6 Mar 2026

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Rapid Tournament When: 10th of March 7pm 10pm Registration: No later than 6:5…

Deep Thinkers · 27 Feb 2026

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Classical Tournament When: 3rd of March 7pm 10pm Location: Wollongong Collegi…

Deep Thinkers · 19 Feb 2026

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Classical Tournament When: 24th of February 7pm 10pm Location: Wollongong Col…

Deep Thinkers · 14 Feb 2026

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Classical Tournament When: 17th of February 7pm 10pm Location: Wollongong Col…

Deep Thinkers · 6 Feb 2026

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Classical Tournament When: 10th of February 7pm 10pm Location: Wollongong Col…

Deep Thinkers · 29 Jan 2026

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Classical Tournament When: 3rd of February 7pm 10pm Location: Wollongong Coll…

Deep Thinkers · 25 Jan 2026

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Classical Tournament When: 27th of January 7pm 10pm Location: Wollongong Coll…

Deep Thinkers · 15 Jan 2026

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Rapid Tournament Second and Final Week When: 20th of January 7pm 10pm Locatio…

Deep Thinkers · 8 Jan 2026

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Rapid Tournament When: 13th and 20th of January 7pm 10pm Location: Wollongong…

Deep Thinkers · 4 Jan 2026

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Blitz Tournament When: 6th of January 7pm Location: Wollongong Collegians Aud…

Deep Thinkers · 26 Dec 2025

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. No Chess Club December 30th We will be returning on the 6th of January or the…

Deep Thinkers · 21 Dec 2025

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Wollongong Chess Club Christmas Party The final event of the year will take p…

Deep Thinkers · 15 Dec 2025

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Round Robin Rapid Chess 16th of December Time Control: 15+10 Number of rounds…

Deep Thinkers · 7 Dec 2025

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Rapid Chess 2nd and 9th of December Time Control: 15+5 Number of rounds: 4 2…

Deep Thinkers · 29 Nov 2025

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Rapid Chess 2nd and 9th of December Time Control: 15+5 Number of rounds: 4 2…

Deep Thinkers · 21 Nov 2025

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Random Opening Night This Week 25/11 Time Control: 10+5 Number of rounds: 5 1…

Deep Thinkers · 15 Nov 2025

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Final Round of Graded Spring Classic This Week 7pm start. 5 weeks total. 60 m…

Deep Thinkers · 9 Nov 2025

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Round 4 of Graded Spring Classic This Week 7pm start. 5 weeks total. 60 minut…

Deep Thinkers · 1 Nov 2025

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Round 3 of Graded Spring Classic This Week 5 weeks total. 60 minutes + 30 sec…

Deep Thinkers · 27 Oct 2025

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Round 2 of Graded Spring Classic This Week 5 weeks total. 60 minutes + 30 sec…

Deep Thinkers · 19 Oct 2025

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Graded Spring Classic Starting This Week October 21st 5 weeks 60 minutes + 30…

Deep Thinkers · 12 Oct 2025

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Round Robin Rapid This Week October 14th Players are separated into groups of…

Deep Thinkers · 5 Oct 2025

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Our Club Rapid Championship continues for one more week 7/10 Our Club Rapid C…

Deep Thinkers · 26 Sep 2025

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Our Club Rapid Championship continues for two more weeks 30/9 and 7/10 Our Cl…

Deep Thinkers · 21 Sep 2025

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Our Club Rapid Championship starts this week 23/9 Our Club Rapid Championship…

Deep Thinkers · 13 Sep 2025

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Freestyle chess also known as Chess 960 this Tuesday 16/9 One night only. It…

Deep Thinkers · 7 Sep 2025

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Our new Club Champion Well done to Greg Kurrell for winning our Club Classic…

Deep Thinkers · 31 Aug 2025

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Club Championships Back to having a single leader. Can Greg hold on against E…

Deep Thinkers · 26 Aug 2025

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Updated Pairing We have had an adjustment to the pairing This will effect maj…

Deep Thinkers · 24 Aug 2025

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Club Championships We have a four way tie at the top of the competition. Beva…

Deep Thinkers · 18 Aug 2025

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Club Championships After four round of our club championship we have a sole l…

Deep Thinkers · 4 Aug 2025

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Club Championships Our club championships have been running smoothly. We are…

Deep Thinkers · 12 Jun 2025

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Autumn Classic Tournament We are four round into our Autumn Classic tournamen…

Deep Thinkers · 4 May 2025

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Holiday Rapid Tournament Our Holiday Rapid Tournament attracted six junior to…

Deep Thinkers · 13 Apr 2025

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Classic Results We recently finished our six round classic tournament and we…

Deep Thinkers · 16 Mar 2025

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Accelerated Pairing Classic We are now half way through our Classic tournamen…

Deep Thinkers · 24 Feb 2025

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. February Tournaments We ran a blitz tournament on February 4th. This attracte…

Deep Thinkers · 2 Feb 2025

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. January Round Robins To round off the school holidays we held our mini round…

Deep Thinkers · 27 Jan 2025

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Summer Holiday Rapid The last two weeks have seen us play eight rounds of rap…

Deep Thinkers · 12 Jan 2025

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. New Year Blitz Tournament On Tuesday night we welcomed members back with a bl…

Deep Thinkers · 27 Nov 2024

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Round Robin Rapid A huge success with our first time running a tournament lik…

Deep Thinkers · 24 Nov 2024

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Upcoming Rapid Tournaments Coming up on 26th November we have a one week roun…

Deep Thinkers · 17 Nov 2024

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Open Classic Brendan is leading the tournament with a full point ahead of sec…

Deep Thinkers · 8 Nov 2024

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. End of Year Calendar Open Classic Louis brought his A game and had an advanta…

Deep Thinkers · 3 Nov 2024

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Open Classic Round 3 is sure to be an exciting one as one of our newest playe…

Deep Thinkers · 26 Oct 2024

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Open Classic Lots of exciting games from our open swiss as we welcome some ve…

Deep Thinkers · 21 Oct 2024

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Spring Graded Classic Starting 22/10 The debut of our Graded Classic will hav…

Deep Thinkers · 13 Oct 2024

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Blitz Championship 15th October This week we will be having our blitz champio…

Deep Thinkers · 29 Sep 2024

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Congratulations Jay As our new 2024 Classic Champion With an impressive score…

Deep Thinkers · 20 Sep 2024

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Pressure is on for Jay This week is the final round of our classic championsh…

Deep Thinkers · 13 Sep 2024

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Leaders Battle The time has come for Jay and Chayne to battle it out this Tue…

Deep Thinkers · 6 Sep 2024

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. No More Perfect Scores Further fireworks on board 1 with a round of applause…

Deep Thinkers · 1 Sep 2024

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Classic Championship Underway We're crossing the halfway point and we already…

Deep Thinkers · 11 Aug 2024

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Rapid Champs Results Congratulations to Jordan Morris who won the Rapid Champ…

Deep Thinkers · 4 Aug 2024

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. One More Week Rapid Champs This Tuesday 6th August is our last three rounds o…

Deep Thinkers · 22 Jul 2024

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Wollongong Club Championships Begin This coming week begins our series of clu…

Deep Thinkers · 15 Jul 2024

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. School Holiday Rapid Our school holiday rapid got underway last week with 29…

Deep Thinkers · 7 Jul 2024

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Wollongong Chess Club Committee Our AGM last week ran smoothly and I a commit…

Deep Thinkers · 30 Jun 2024

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Classic Tournament Our Classic tournament concluded on Tuesday night. Congrat…

Deep Thinkers · 24 Jun 2024

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Current Tournament Classic Going into the last round of the classic this week…

Deep Thinkers · 9 Jun 2024

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Current Tournament Classic We have had two rounds of our Random Pairing Class…

Deep Thinkers · 2 Jun 2024

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Current Tournament Classic Our Random Paired Classic tournament is underway.…

Deep Thinkers · 26 May 2024

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Back to Classic Come join us this week for our classic tournament. Please arr…

Deep Thinkers · 19 May 2024

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Completed Tournament Rapid Our recent Rapid tournament was a huge success wit…

Deep Thinkers · 12 May 2024

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Current Tournament Rapid One week left and we have our sole leader Chayne lea…

Deep Thinkers · 5 May 2024

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Current Tournament Rapid We are currently one week into a three week rapid. W…

Deep Thinkers · 28 Apr 2024

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. ANZAC Rapid With 77 participants the inaugural Wollongong Chess ANZAC Rapid O…

Deep Thinkers · 22 Apr 2024

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. ANZAC Rapid Our ANZAC Rapid tournament is right around the corner A reminder,…

Deep Thinkers · 7 Apr 2024

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Deep Thinkers · 31 Mar 2024

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Deep Thinkers · 24 Mar 2024

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Completed Tournament Top seed, Ngoc Hai, went on to win our Rapid March with…

Deep Thinkers · 17 Mar 2024

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Current Tournament This pairing is highly likely to change as we expect more…

Deep Thinkers · 10 Mar 2024

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Tournament Results After 6 rounds of our classic we have the results. Congrat…

Deep Thinkers · 3 Mar 2024

Find out all about what the Wollongong Chess Club is up to. Current Tournament Our current tournament is a classic tournament with a time…