Some Israeli and Jerusalem Gaming News

1. A new Chess club is opening in Jerusalem. Their website is here. Their first meeting is today at at 15.45 in the Matnas on Emek Refa'im 12 in the German Colony.

2. A Scrabble tournament in Tel Aviv:

Just over two weeks to go before the Tel Aviv Scrabble Club hosts its
first ever open Scrabble tournament. The tournament will take place on Wednesday, July 19th.

Players in the event will play in different divisions (according to level of play) one division consists almost exclusively of beginners and the experts among you will feel right at home in the expert division.

For further details.

The number of places in limited so please register as soon as you know whether you can come. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to email or phone at 077-8844013 (h) / 09-7781976 (w).

3. The annual Diplomacy Convention DipCon2006 is being planned. For further details contact Sharon Prober.

4. Go meets on the first Tuesday of every month (tomorrow night) in Jerusalem from 19.30+ Cafe Rimon, middle of Lunz Street, a pedestrian link between Ben-Yehuda and Yaffo. (City Centre). Contact person: Uli (Sam) Freed, 054-4925747.

5. ICON 2006, the Israeli sci-fi and roleplaying convention is already scheduled for the entire week of Hol Hamoed Sukkot, 9 - 13 October. As usual, the JSGC will be having a games day on one of those days.

Yehuda