2024 Byron Capital Darling Downs Open
Registrations Open for the Australian Chess Championships 2024
The websites for the Australian Championships and the Australian Junior Championships are now at
Australian Chess Championships 2024
Australian Junior Chess Championships 2024
Please note: The Classic Major and Minor are now full 11-round tournaments, each to be held concurrently with the Championship events.
ACF Newsletters
World Youth U14, U16, U18 Championships 2023
Applications for Australians to participate in the World Youth U14, U16, U18 Championships 2023 have just opened and close on August 16.
The ACF Official 2023 Australian Representative International Junior Chess Tournaments Register is available here…
Any inquiries can be sent to either Australian Junior Chess Coordinator, Hughston Parle, at hughstonparle@gmail.com OR to Assistant Australian Junior Chess Coordinator, Henry Slater-Jones, at henryslaterjones@gmail.com.
FIDE – Inspiring more girls to play chess!
IM Anastasia Sorokina and WGM Dana Reizniece-Ozola visit Melbourne – hold master-classes for girls.
Anastasia Sorokina, Belarusian chess player, Women’s International Master and FIDE coach, and Dana Reizniece-Ozola, Latvian chess player, former Minister of Finance of Latvia and FIDE Managing Director, are visiting Melbourne. Leonid Sandler, President of Chess Victoria , says that this visit will help popularise chess, especially among girls.