Street Chess

Street Chess Street Chess is a weekly chess event held in the centre of Canberra. Join us under the trees outside King O'Malley's in City Walk.

Street Chess is held every Saturday from 11am to 3pm.

Street Chess 3 January 2026 - CM Hui Li, Miles Patterson 6/7. Olaoluwa Fasakin 5.5. Dhyan Nair , Andy Luyen 4 BOBH 35 pl...
03/01/2026

Street Chess 3 January 2026 - CM Hui Li, Miles Patterson 6/7. Olaoluwa Fasakin 5.5. Dhyan Nair , Andy Luyen 4 BOBH
35 players to welcome in 2026. The two winners were held to last round draws, resulting in a tie.

Street Chess 27 December 2025 - Harry Press 6.5/7 , FM Fred Litchfield 6, WFM Alana Chibnall 5.5. Deepen Kumar 4 BOBH32 ...
27/12/2025

Street Chess 27 December 2025 - Harry Press 6.5/7 , FM Fred Litchfield 6, WFM Alana Chibnall 5.5. Deepen Kumar 4 BOBH
32 players for the last Street Chess of 2025. A number of distant visitors including Vijay Boyapati(US) Rupert Jones (UK/PNG) and Alana Chibnall (VIC)

ACT Rapid Championship 2025 20 December 2025 - CM Hui Li 6/7, Oladoyin Fasakin, Thomas Eleutherios, Padma Gyalpo, FM Mic...
20/12/2025

ACT Rapid Championship 2025 20 December 2025 - CM Hui Li 6/7, Oladoyin Fasakin, Thomas Eleutherios, Padma Gyalpo, FM Michael Kethro 5.5. Dhyan Abhilash, Ethan Li, Dante Miller, Andrew Wang 3.5 Under 1200.
47 players took part in the ACTCA end of year event. Congratulations to Hui Li for winning the title for the first time

Btw Street Chess will be running next Saturday (27th December)

Street Chess 6 December 2025 - CM Hui Li 6/7, FM Fred Litchfield, Charles Huang, Olamide Fasakin 5.5. Jack Lee, Glenn In...
06/12/2025

Street Chess 6 December 2025 - CM Hui Li 6/7, FM Fred Litchfield, Charles Huang, Olamide Fasakin 5.5. Jack Lee, Glenn Ingham 4 BOBH

29 players for the first event of the new ratings period. And a toastie 34 degrees as well

Street Chess 29 November 2025 - CM Hui Li 7/7, Nicholas Lee, Matt Radisich 5.5. Teng Yang 4.5 BOBH34 players. Indoors du...
29/11/2025

Street Chess 29 November 2025 - CM Hui Li 7/7, Nicholas Lee, Matt Radisich 5.5. Teng Yang 4.5 BOBH

34 players. Indoors due to tricky Canberra weather. And a reminder, if you want the tournament to finish on time, turn up earlier than 11:05

Street Chess 15 November 2025 - CM Hui Li 7/7, Thomas Gatzen-O'Keefe 6, Sanat Hegde, Victor Braguine, Teng Yang, Prakars...
15/11/2025

Street Chess 15 November 2025 - CM Hui Li 7/7, Thomas Gatzen-O'Keefe 6, Sanat Hegde, Victor Braguine, Teng Yang, Prakarsha Paudel 5. James Madoc 3.5 BOBH

36 players today, including more than a few newcomers. *** There will be no Street Chess on the 22nd November. Head down for the Vikings Weekender instead ***

09/11/2025

Street Chess 8 November 2025 - Thomas Eleutherios 7/7, Owen MacMullin, Victor Braguine, Oscar Herrmann, Teng Yang, Lee Forace, Charles Huang, Padma Gyalpo 5. Vaibhav Sharma, Carlos Ortega, Alex Economos 4 BOBH
39 players, mainly juniors. Apart from the winner, all the other prize winners went home with a few coins, some non matching shirt buttons and pocket lint.

Street Chess 1 November 2025 - FM Fred Litchfield 6.5/7, CM Hui Li 5.5, Harry Johnson, Jerry Cheng, Larry Cheng, Matt Ra...
02/11/2025

Street Chess 1 November 2025 - FM Fred Litchfield 6.5/7, CM Hui Li 5.5, Harry Johnson, Jerry Cheng, Larry Cheng, Matt Radisich 5. Max Mao, Sahasra Selva , Jack Lee 4 BOBH
34 players in what looked to be a tough event. Thank you to Miles for running today's tournament

02/11/2025

Street Chess 25 October 2025 - Jerry Cheng 5.5/7, Victor Braguine, Owen MacMullin, Nivin Vinothkumar 5. Carlos Ortega 5 BOBH
20 players, although a competing chess event caused a number of juniors to be elsewhere

Street Chess 18 October 2025 - FM Fred Litchfield, Miles Patterson, Nicholas Lee 5.5 Andy Luyen 4.5 BOBH 41 players toda...
18/10/2025

Street Chess 18 October 2025 - FM Fred Litchfield, Miles Patterson, Nicholas Lee 5.5 Andy Luyen 4.5 BOBH
41 players today, no doubt lured by the great weather. A pair of last round upsets saw a rare 3 way tie for first

Street Chess 11 October 2025 - FM Fred Litchfield 6.5/7, Roger Farrell 5.5, Larry Cheng, Thomas Eleutherios 5. Lachlan S...
11/10/2025

Street Chess 11 October 2025 - FM Fred Litchfield 6.5/7, Roger Farrell 5.5, Larry Cheng, Thomas Eleutherios 5. Lachlan Smart, Lee Forace 3.5 BOBH

23 players on a windy spring day. An occasional gust did send some pieces flying

Street Chess 4 October 2025 - Harry Press, CM Hui Li 6/7, Thomas Eleutherios, Jordan Brown, Masaki Horikawa 5. Charles M...
04/10/2025

Street Chess 4 October 2025 -
Harry Press, CM Hui Li 6/7, Thomas Eleutherios, Jordan Brown, Masaki Horikawa 5. Charles McDonald 4.5 BOBH.
A very strong field for the October FIDE rated event. The quality of chess was somewhat diminished by a nearby religious group signalling the end times with loud and repetitious wailing.

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City Walk, Canberra City
Canberra, ACT
2600

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11am - 3pm

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