The Scarborough Chess Club

We are a volunteer-run chess club located in the Scarborough area of Toronto. Founded in 1960, the Scarborough Chess Club is proud to be one of the longest running community-based chess clubs in Canada.

Affiliated with the Chess Federation of Canada, we welcome players of all ages and strengths. Open for casual play as well as regular Chess Federation of Canada-rated tournaments, the club provides chess pieces, boards and clocks for all games.

Crosstables for tournaments, starting with the 2006-07 Club Championships, can be found on the Results page.

For more information about the Scarborough Chess Club please feel free to contact us at info@ScarboroughChessClub.ca.

Back in the early summer of 2009, Scarborough Chess Club member Yuanling Yuan launched an innovative program called Chess in the Library. The idea was to promote chess -- Blitz, casual play, CFC-rated games -- at a grass roots level in libraries. Yuanling envisaged the program as a chess incubator, starting with Saturday programs at one site, the Brookbanks library at 210 Brookbanks Drive, in June 2009. The program gained the support of a dedicated group of volunteers and has since spread to two other Toronto Library branches (the Pleasant View Library at 575 Van Horne Avenue and the Maria A. Shchuka Branch at 1745 Eglinton Ave. West). The program has been an enormous success. To learn more about the program, visit the Chess in Library web site or Yuanling's blog. The SCC is proud to see such an innovative program come from one of our members.

On Thursday, February 18, 2010, Grandmaster Alexei Shirov played a simultaneous exhibition at the SCC. It was a considerable honour to have a player of Grandmaster Shirov's abilities at the SCC and it was a great night for all involved -- the 25 participants and many spectators present.  Shirov's final score was: +17 -2 =6.  Zaidun al Ganabi and John Hall were victorious.  Alex Rapoport, William Rutherdale, Rune Pedersen, Erwin Casareno, Pepin Manalo and Arkadiy Ugodnikov managed to hold on for draws. Our thanks go out to Grand Master Shirov for a truly spendid evening of chess.

As of Thursday, January 7, 2010, the Scarborough Chess Club has a new home.  The Jack Goodlad Centre has been a great place to play chess but growing membership numbers meant that we were going to run out of space.  Our new address is:

Birkdale Community Centre
1299 Ellesmere Road
Scarborough, Ontario, Canada

Our new home will provide excellent playing conditions and the room for our membership numbers to grow.  For a map to our new location, please visit our "Location" page.

For the second year in a row, the SCC is featuring a Grand Prix series.  Scoring for the series rewards participation, performance and upset results. The winner of the 2009-10 Grand Prix will take home a prize of $200. Prizes will be awarded all the way down to 4th place. Here's the breakdown:

For complete rules for the Grand Prix competition and standings, visit our SCC Grand Prix page.

When Are We Open?

The club is open on Thursday evenings. Doors open at 7:00 p.m. and tournament play starts at 7:30 p.m. The club is closed Christmas day, New Year's Day and for the months of July and August. Our next Annual General Meeting is Thursday, September 2, 2010. For more details on upcoming events, please see our Events page. Also check out our crosstables and tournament results.