Canberra Club Season begins for 2009

With the summer break over, most of the Canberra chess clubs are restarting for the year. For those not familiar with Australia's capital city, it has a population a little over 300,000, and supports 4 chess clubs, and 3 junior clubs.
Here are the meeting details for each of the evening clubs

• Tuggeranong Chess Club - Monday nights 7:00 pm Tuggeranong Vikings Rugby Union Club, Rucardo St Wanniassa
• ANU Chess Club - Wednesday nights 7:30 pm Asian Studies Building - off Childers St, Australian National University
• Canberra Chess Club - Wednesday nights 7:30 pm - City Club, Garema Place, Canberra City
• Belconnen Chess Club - Fridays nights 7:30 pm - Belconnen Community Centre, Belconnen

There is also Street Chess, which meets every Saturday 11:00am outdoors at City Walk, Canberra City.

The ANU Chess Club got off to a good start with 20 players taking part in the opening night lightning tournament. First prize was shared between Lee Forace and Miles Patterson who scored 7/9 ahead of a strong field.