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We have started planning for the 20th Anniversary of the Club! This is an incredible milestone for the Club. We have been serving the MetroWest Boston chess community for 20 years as of June 2003. We are now averaging 70 players every week, are the largest Club in New England, and won the USCF Club of the Year for 2002. Our success is the result of hard work and dedication going back 20 years.

We are committed to highlighting the efforts of the people that started and nurtured the Club from it's beginnings, to the present day. Fred Harvey and Mary Murphy have teamed up to interview people as far back as Carl Garfield to capture as complete and accurate of a history as possible. This history will be made available on the website when complete. We will also be writing an article for USCF Chess Life for their August 2003 issue.
   
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At The Start - the Club opening
  Archive A collection of items centered around the clubs opening in 1983

Anniversary

  Archive Anniversary Celebrations with Photos and Media Coverage

Charter, Bylaws, Minutes
  All documents relating to the governance, past and present of the organization are kept together in the Governance area of this web site.  There you will find all the records that are available including the original charter.  Here is the link to the Governance area

Club Printed Publications
  Archive The Pawn Storm was the clubs first printed publication.
  Archive ChessWatch was the clubs second incarnation of a printed Newsletter
  Archive Open/Lines was the clubs third incarnation of a printed Newsletter
  Archive Game Bulletins were collections of games from Club play prior to the advent of computers
    Online Newsletters

Awards
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Event Schedules
  Archive Event Schedules published through the years

ChessLife Articles
  Archive Chess Clubs
  Archive Forty Years at the Top, Part 1 - John Curdo as subject of article, Larry Eldridge is the author
  Archive Forty Years at the Top, Part 2 - John Curdo as subject of article, Larry Eldridge is the author

Historical Write-Ups
  1985 Historical Retrospective
1989 Historical Retrospective
  2003 Historical Retrospective - after winning the 2002 USCF Club of the Year
  PDF Stanley Crowe, whom we have named one of our events after
  Archive Announcements and other correspondence regarding special events

Home Page
  PDF The Classic look of the home page almost right from its creation in July 1997 through March of 2003

Members
  Archive Various items regarding the make up of the membership through the years.

Newspaper
  Archive Articles about the club from area news papers

Pre-History
  PDF 1974 Square 67 Chess Club Newsletter with members
PDF 1974 Square 67 Chess Club Charter
Interview Pre-history interview with Carl Garfield
Interview Pre-history and early history interview with Jack Martin
Interview Pre-history and early history interview with Bill McAllister
Interview Early history interview with Menno Koning
Interview Early history interview with Alan Beck

Presentations
  PowerPoint Presentation to the the Senior Center 2005-09-12

Press Releases
  Archive A collection of Press Releases from the early days of the club

Special Events
  Archive Coverage of Special events such as Team matches and Simuls

Tournament Flyers
  Archive An exhibit of some tournament flyers through the years
 
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