Greenville Chess Club - Greenville, SC

Greenville Chess Club History

The Greenville Chess Club was first founded over forty years ago as a casual club. In the mid 1990s, largely under the direction of Wayne Williams, the GCC began regularly holding official USCF-rated tournaments, though it had held an occasional rated event before. Since then, the GCC has been the place to go in upstate SC for competitive chess, holding on average about a dozen rated tournaments each year (comprising both slow and quick events).

Greenville Chess Club Constitution (opens a .pdf)

Past GCC champions by year:

1996 - Wayne Williams
1997 - Ed Babinski*
1998 - Tim Hurley
1999 - Tim Rankin
2000 - Wayne Williams
2001 - Wayne Williams
2002 - Sohrab Saharkhiz
2003 - Klaus Pohl
2004 - Sohrab Saharkhiz
2005 - Klaus Pohl
2006 - Wayne Christensen
2007 - Wayne Christensen
2008 - Wayne Christensen, Michael Anderson
2009 - Petar Jotev
2010 - Tim Rankin
2011 - Klaus Pohl, Gene Nix

*Winner of the "GCC Multi-Class Invitational" which took place in late 1997; there was no "GCC Championship" tournament that year.

The Greenville Chess Club is an affiliate of the U.S. Chess Federation.

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