Hamilton Chess Club
The Hamilton Chess Club, founded in 1982, is located in Hamilton in central New Jersey.
The Club meets Monday (sometimes Wednesday) evenings from 7:30 pm till 10:30 pm in the Switlik Park Pavilion. (Formerly we met in the McManimon Building.) Men, women, and children are all welcome. Events are held throughout the year. Results of recent events are posted on a separate web page. Skittles are played every week. Dues is $10 per year. Chess sets, boards, clocks, and light refreshments are provided.
USCF membership is not required to join the club. USCF membership is required to participate in the Saturday Quads.
The Tournament Director is Ed Sytnik.
The menu symbol (three horizontal lines) in the upper left corner, or the following links, may be used to navigate to the Club Champions, Directions & Map, Recent Results, Saturday Quads, and Schedule of Events web pages.
Dragan Milovanovic displays the trophy he won for becoming the 2017 Club Champion.
Announcement(s)
Sometimes the Saturday Quads dates published in Chess Life are not correct. Please go by the dates on this website.
Weekly meetings are in the Switlik Park Pavilion in Yardville from 7:30 to 10:30 pm. Enter the park from Fisher Place.
Maintenance is ongoing at our former meeting site, the McManimon Recreation Center. We will return to our old meeting site some time in 2024, maybe.
Gavin McNay is the 2024 Club Champion.
2023 Winter Quads results:
Dan Landau, 1st place,
Josh Hill, 2nd place, and
James Clark, 3rd place.
2023 Turkey Shoot Out results:
Josh Hill, 1st place,
Dan Landau, 2nd place, and
Phil Hepler and Vedran Nazor, tied for 3rd place.
Switlik Park Pavilion location:
To visit the hidden Diversions web page click on the Queen symbol in the bottom left corner of this web page.
Each year the Hamilton Chess Club enters a team in the U. S. Amateur Team East Tournament held during Presidents' Day weekend in Parsippany, NJ.
Several members of the Club play as a team in the Garden State Chess League. The Hamilton Chess Club team has won first place in six of the last eight years.
Diversions
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