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February 11th: WOCC USATE Teams Pre Tournament Meeting

Congratulations to 2024 West Orange Chess Club Champion Bilgen Sazci!

Extended Club Hours: Tuesdays from 6:00 PM to 10:30 PM!

Home of the 2011 United States Amateur Team East Champions!

Home of the 2020-21 Garden State Chess League Champions!


Club meets every Tuesday from 6:00 PM to 10:30 PM (view Calendar (under the Events tab) for our schedule).

Location:

Toby Katz Community Center 

650 Pleasant Valley Way
West Orange, NJ 07052

Please also check out our Member page, Club page (Group) and Blog on Chess.com. Below are the links to those pages:

http://www.chess.com/members/view/WestOrangeChessClub 

http://www.chess.com/groups/view/west-orange-chess-club

http://www.chess.com/blog/WestOrangeChessClub


We also have a Facebook page which can be viewed by clicking on the link below:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2239424179432376/

Please note that you need a Facebook account in order to access the club’s Facebook page.


And finally please check out our page on Lichess linked below and join the team:

https://lichess.org/team/west-orange-nj-chess-club

This page/team will hold game events and analysis on occasion, likely on nights when the club is unexpectedly closed or maybe even on non club meeting weeknights or weekends. And in addition a Zoom chatroom may be set up to make it more like an in person club meeting. Click https://westorangechessclub.com/west-orange-chess-club-page-team-on-free-website-lichess-2/ for more information.


For more club information please contact Club President John Hagerty via email at buickchess@gmail.com or by landline phone at 973-736-3433 between the hours of 10:00 AM and 9:00 PM.

For tournament information please contact Chief Tournament Director Steve Lorimor via email at sdlorimor@comcast.net or by phone at 908-286-0720 (voice or text).


The club can be contacted via email at wochessclub@gmail.com.


Club Yearly Membership Dues Structure

Regular Membership: $10

West Orange Resident Membership: $5

Junior Membership (under age 18): $5

Senior Membership (age 50+): $5


Club Officers (all re-elected for 2025)

President – John Hagerty

Vice President – Lev Zilbermintz

Treasurer – Andrew Chan

Secretary – Bryan Cohen

Officer at Large – Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay

Note: Secretary Bryan Cohen and Officer at Large Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay switched positions for 2025 and were each elected into those new positions.

Click https://westorangechessclub.com/reason-for-2025-wocc-officer-switch-secretary-officer-at-large/ for the reasons behind the above noted officer switch.


Other Club Positions

Chief Tournament Director – Steve Lorimor

Director of Player Development – Andrew Chan

WOCC GSCL Team Captain – Andrew Chan

Director of WOCC USATE Teams – Andrew Chan

Webmaster – Rutul Patel


The Tournament Results page (under the Events tab) will contain the results of whatever slow time control tournament the club has running at the time. These results will remain on that page until the next slow time control tournament.