The club, housed in the famous Gorky Sadan, Kolkata courtesy the then Soviet Union, and named after the former world champion, Alexander Alekhine, was launched by a few chess enthusiasts on 26th February 1976.
Since inception, the club took active role to strengthen Indo-Russian Friendship and is imparting the education on chess to young children and also started organizing different level of tournaments including schools' chess championships, world youth international, grandmasters' chess, rapid chess and many other events - it is a record that more than 200 grand masters took part in different events organized by the club at Gorky Sadan, Kolkata.
35th Anniversary of Gorky Sadan - The club celebrated it with a rapid Chess Tournament and The Secretary of the Club was invited at the presidium on 22nd April 2009 where His Excellency Mr V.I. Trubnikov, Ambassador of Russian Federation in India, Mr Rozovsky, Head of Science and Culture of Russian Federation in India, Mr Lazarev, Consul General of Russian Federation in Kolkata, Mr A. Mazirka, The Director of Gorky Sadan and other guests were present to share their experience and knowledge on The Russian Centre of Science and Culture in Kolkata at Gorky Sadan.
Details
of NK
BOSE Memorial Rapid Chess Tournament - July 2011
due to technical difficulties at playing venue, the
event is deferred till August 2011
exact date will be intimated soon
Earlier
Visitors
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Managing Director, Bengal Peerless Housing Development Corpn.
President
Alekhine Chess Club
On behalf of Alekhine Chess Club, I welcome all chess lovers to visit our web site. It is one of the oldest chess clubs in India promoting the game of chess since 1976
ALEKHINE CHESS CLUB & GOODRICKE NATIONAL CHESS
ACADEMY CONGRATULATE
VISHY ANAND
FOR WINNING THE WORLD CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP FOR THE 4TH
TIME
we fondly remember his active
participation in our various activities at Gorky Sadan, Kolkata
Our
Memories with GM Viswanathan Anand
CLICK THE LINK ABOVE TO SEE PICTURES
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Alekhine Chess Club regrets to announce the death of Florencio Campomanes, FIDE President from 1982 to 1995. He passed away at 1:30 pm on 3rd May 2010 in Baguio City, Philippines after a bout with cancer.
We fondly remember his august presence at our Asian Championship held at Gorky Sadan Kolkata
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Alekhine Chess Club regrets to announce the death of Grandmaster Vasily Smyslov, seventh World Chess Champion. He passed away on 27th March 2010 in Moscow. We fondly remember his participation in our Goodricke International Open Chess Tournament at Gorky Sadan, Kolkata.
Vasily Smyslov
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