Interschools Results (2020)

July 28th 2020 - Central Auckland Primary Championship, Auckland.
Results:
1st Hillsborough Primary A (Hunter Po'e-Tofaeono, Grayson Po'e-Tofaeon, Ayaan Vasudeva, Xabi Jenkyn-Jones)
2nd Mt Roskill Primary A (Pranav Shenoy, Anas Zara, Daksh Bhatt, Dean Saunders)
3rd Hillsborough Primary B (Nithya Anegondi, Xavier Nakatsuji, Daniel Stewart, Naitik Sharma)

Certificates for best board winners went to:
Board 1: Hunter Po'e-Tofaeono (Hillsborough)
Board 2: Grayson Po'e-Tofaeon (Hillsborough)
Board 3: Ayaan Vasudeva (Hillsborough) and Alexander Southgate (Marshall Laing)
Board 4: Srirama Nimmakayala (Freemans Bay) and Xabi Jenkyn-Jones (Hillsborough)
All these players won all their games.

Hillsborough and Mt Roskill Primary qualify for the National Finals

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100 children play in the 2020 Central Auckland Primary Championship at Ponsonby School.		Organiser Bob Smith presents a chess book to teacher Arran Connor for host school Ponsonby.
Certificates went to the top players on each board - left to right - Alexander Southgate (board 3 - Marshall Laing) Grayson and Hunter Po'e-Tofaeono, Ayaan Vasudeva, and Xabi Jenkyn-Jones (boards 1, 2 3, 4 Hillsborough) and Srirama Nimmakayala (board 4 Freemans Bay)		Bronze medal winners Hillsborough Primary B team - Nithya Anegondi, Xavier Nakatsuji, Daniel Stewart, and Naitik Sharma with coach Wayne McDougall
Silver medal winners Mt Roskill Primary - Pranav Shenoy, Anas Zara, Daksh Bhatt, and Dean Saunders.		Gold medal winners Hillsborough Primary A team - Hunter and Grayson Po'e-Tofaeono, Ayaan Vasudeva, and Xabi Jenkyn-Jones with organisers Bob and Viv Smith, and coach Wayne McDougall

July 30th 2020 - South Auckland Primary Championship, Auckland.
Results:
1st Holy Cross (Luke Do, Vince Abella, Laila Ofamo’ini, Long Ly, Pupi Muller)
2nd Puhinui A (Aryan Kumar, Troy Lee, Phoenix Wilson, Klara Yakoob, Noah Lee-Tukua)
3rd Papatoetoe East A (Tony Gao, Hamish Bycroft, Mahir Mudliar, Jaiansh Kumar, Rene French)

Certificates for best board players went to:
Board 1: Luke Do (Holy Cross) 5/6
Board 2: Henry Dang (Papatoetoe Central) 5/6
Board 3: Khian Hiakita-Tui (Clendon Park) 4.5/6
Board 4: Long Ly (Holy Cross) 6/6

Holy Cross Primary qualifies for the National Primary Finals

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72 children compete in the 2020 South Auckland Primary Championship at Everglade School		Organiser Bob Smith presents a chess book to Deputy Principal Judith Roberts for host school Everglade Primary
Viv and Bob with best board players - left to right - Long Ly (board4 Holy Cross), Khian Hiakita-Tui (board 3 Clendon Park), Henry Dang (board 2 Papatoetoe Central) and Luke Do (board 1 Holy Cross)		Bronze medal winners Papatoetoe East - Rene French, Jaiansh Kumar, Mahir Mudliar, Hamish Bycroft and Tony Gao with coach Glenn Tabor.
Silver medal winners Puhinui School - Noah Lee-Tukua, Phoenix Wilson, Klara Yakoob, Troy Lee and Aryan Kumar with their teacher Steve Pederson.		South Auckland Primary Champions Holy Cross School - left to right - Pupi Muller, Long Ly, Laila Ofamo'ini, Vince Abella and Luke Do.

July 31st 2020 - Central Auckland Intermediate Championship, Auckland.
Results:
1st Auckland Normal A (Oscar Qin, Jacob Yuan, Michael Ma, Jerry Dai, Zi Hao Lin)
2nd ACG Parnell A (Felix Xie, Allen Weng, Ethan Zhang, Lanjun Liu)
3rd Waikowhai A (Isaiah Tan, Alex Howes, Hayden Kemp, Hamish Thomson)

Certificates for the best players on each board went to:
Board 1: Victor Coen (Ponsonby) and Felix Xie (ACG Parnell) 6/6
Board 2: Mantra Bhatt (Mt Roskill) and Martell Herrera (St Peters) 6/6
Board 3: Ethan Zhang (ACG Parnell) 5.5/6
Board 4: Moriel Dabre (St Peters) 5.5/6

Auckland Normal Intermediate and ACG Parnell have qualified to represent Central Auckland at the National finals.

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21 teams compete in the Central Auckland Intermediate Championship at Mt Roskill Intermediate School under the watchful eye of Bob Smith, Arbiter..		Crucial round 3 match starts in good humour between ACG Parnell (left) and Auckland Normal (right). Felix Xie plays Oscar Qin.
Best board scores - left to right - Martell Herrera (board 2 St Peters), Mantra Bhatt (board 2 Mt Roskill), Victor Coen (board 1 Ponsonby), Ethan Zhang (board 2 ACG Parnell), Felix Xie (board 1 ACG Parnell) and Moriel Dabre (board 4 St Peters)		Auckland Central Intermediate Champions - Auckland Normal – left to right - Oscar Qin, Jacob Yuan, Michael Ma, Jerry Dai, Zi Hao Lin
Silver medalists ACG Parnell – left to right - Felix Xie, Allen Weng, Ethan Zhang, Lanjun Liu with coach Alex Huang		Bronze medalists Waikowhai Intermediate - left to right - Isaiah Tan, Alex Howes, Hayden Kemp, Hamish Thomson with teacher aide Jimmi Zulaika.

August 1st 2020 - Otago and Southland Secondary Championship, Dunedin.
Qualifiers:
Logan Park High School (Otago)
James Hargest College (Southland)

August 4th 2020 - East Auckland Intermediate Championship, Auckland.
Results:
1st Somerville Intermediate A (Lucas Xiao, Tejasvi Kichavadi, Jay Zhao, James Chen)
2nd Bucklands Beach Intermediate A (Pasindu Jayawickrama, Wesley Lau, Sunny Liu, Chris Wang)
3rd Bucklands Beach Intermediate B (Justin Cui, Jerry Qiu, Krrish Sunil Dath, Emily Chan)

Certificates for best board players went to:
Board 1 Michael Lu (Somerville D) 5.5/6
Board 2 Tejasvi Kichavadi (Somerville A) 5.5/6
Board 3 Jay Zhao (Somerville A) 6/6
Board 4 James Chen (Somerville A) 6/6

Somerville Intermediate qualifies for the National Intermediate Finals

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61 students compete in the East Auckland Intermediate Champs at Bucklands Beach Intermediate School.		Co-organiser Viv Smith presents a best board certificate to >Michael Lu, board 1 for Somerville. His team mates also top scored on their boards - left to right James Chen (bd4), Jay Zhao (bd3), and Tejasvi Kichavadi (bd2)
Winners Somerville Intermediate A team left to right - teacher Mark Barlow with James Chen, Jay Zhao, Tejasvi Kichavadi, and Lucas Xiao.		Four Bucklands Beach Intermediate teams from the host school, half of them wearing their bronze and silver medals.

August 4th 2020 - East Auckland Secondary Championship, Auckland.
Results:
1st Macleans College A (Jasmine Zhang, Terry Shen, Oliver Dai, Devon Patabendige)
2nd St Kentigern College B (Ethan Liu, Eric Liang, Yuke Chan, Nico McKinlay)
3rd St Kentigern College A (Daniel Huang, Nathan Xu, Alex Young, Alan Chen, Jann Schmiedel)

Certificates for the best players on each board went to:
Board 1 Jasmine Zhang (Macleans A) 5.5/6
Board 2 Terry Shen (Macleans A) 6/6
Board 3 Roger Yang (Macleans B) 6/6
Board 4 Nico McKinlay (St Kentigern B) 5.5/6

Macleans College qualifies for the National Secondary Finals

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8 secondary teams compete in the East Auckland Secondary Champs alongside the Intermediates at Bucklands Beach Intermediate School.		Macleans A team (left) vs Pakuranga College. Jasmine Zhang plays White against Ben Agnew on board 1.
Top board players - left to right - Jasmine Zhang (bd1) and Terry Shen (bd2) from Macleans A team, Roger Yang (Bd3) from Mcleans B, and Nico McKinlay (bd4) from St Kentigern B		St Kentigern A team with their bronze medals left to right Alan Chen,Alex Young, Nathan Xu, and Daniel Huang with teacher Hamish Wilde. (St Kentigern B - not pictured - won the silver medals)
East Auckland Secondary Champions - Macleans College in blue left to right Devon Patabendige, Oliver Dai, Terry Shen and Jasmine Zhang, and with teacher Danny Chang and organisers Bob and Viv Smith.

August 5th 2020 - West Auckland Intermediate Championship, Auckland.
Results:
The medal winning teams were:
1st ACG Sunderland (Yolanda Chang, Anya Thurner, Eric Mironov, William Zhang)
2nd Blockhouse Bay Intermediate A (Abraham Deng, Sean Liu, Anish Pal, Tarun Mudaliar)
3rd Glen Eden Intermediate B (Liam England, Hayley Barber-Grey, Gabriella Middleton, Jessica Kirby)

Certificates for best board players went to:
Board 1 Yolanda Chang (ACG Sunderland) 5.5/6                                                                                                            
Board 2 Anya Thurner (ACG Sunderland) 6/6
Board 3 Eric Mironov (ACG Sunderland) 6/6
Board 4 Tarun Mudaliar (Blockhouse Bay A) 6/6

ACG Sunderland and Blockhouse Bay qualify for the National Intermediate Finals in Mt Maunganui in September.

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85 students compete in the West Auckland Intermediate Championship at Kelston Boys High School.		ACG Sunderland vs St Dominics. Yolanda Chang plays White against Layne Almonte.
Board winners - left to right - Tarun Mudaliar (Bd4) from Blockhouse Bay, and Eric Mironov (Bd3), Anya Thurner (Bd2), and Yolanda Chang (Bd1) from ACG Sunderland.		Bronze medallists Glen Eden Intermediate B team Liam England, Hayley Barber-Grey, Gabriella Middleton, and Jessica Kirby
Silver medallists Blockhouse Bay Intermediate Teacher Sarah Tonge with Abraham Deng, Sean Liu, Anish Pal, and Tarun Mudaliar.		Winners ACG Sunderland - Yolanda Chang, Anya Thurner, Eric Mironov, William Zhang with their coach Christoph Thurner.

August 5th 2020 - West Auckland Secondary Championship, Auckland.
Results:
The medal winning teams were:
1st Avondale College (Xin Yng Liu, Rohit Mudaliar, Aanand Madhav, Justin Yang)
2nd Liston College (Alphaeus Ang, Charlie Bi, Paarth Dhyani, Nathan Ichwansjah)
3rd Massey High School (Bernie Cai, Caleb Stevens, David Pham, Michael Pham)

Certificates for best board players went to:
Board 1 Alphaeus Ang (Liston College)  5/5                                                                                                            
Board 2 Rohit Mudaliar (Avondale College) 5/5
Board 3 David Pham (Massey High) 4/5
Board 4 Nathan Ichwansjah (Liston College) 4.5/5

Avondale College qualifies for the National Secondary fnals in Mt Maunganui in September.

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Chief Arbiter Bob Smith oversees the Secondary section at the West Auckland Interschool Championships at Kelston Boys High School.		Bob presents a chess book for the host school library to Kelston teacher Kylee Williams.
Board winners - left to right - Nathan Ichwansjah (Bd4) Liston College, David Pham (Bd3) Massey High, Rohit Mudaliar (Bd2) Avondale College, and Alphaeus Ang (Bd1) fromListon College.		Silver medallists Liston College - left to right - Alphaeus Ang, Charlie Bi, Paarth Dhyani, and Nathan Ichwansjah with team manager Keong Ang.
Bronze medal winners Massey High School - left to right - Bernie Cai, Caleb Stevens, David Pham, and Michael Pham with teacher Paul Beach.		West Auckland Secondary Champions 2020 - Avondale College left to right - Xin Yang Liu, Rohit Mudaliar, Aanand Madhav, Justin Yang with teacher Sasha Rudland.

August 6th 2020 - West Auckland Primary Championship, Auckland.
Results:
The medal winning teams were:
1st Arahoe A (Selina Huang, Justin Wang, Jeremy Tao, Darren So, Carol Wang)
2nd St Pauls A (Darius Krishna, Matteo Ortiz, Unaloto Ahio, Xavier Haynes)
3rd New Windsor (Nicole Zhao, Noah Leman, David Brown, Karthik Padma)

Certificates for best board players went to:
Board 1 Selina Huang (Arahoe A), 6/6. Sophia Feng (ACG Sunderland) and Lucas Zhang (Matipo) also scored 6/6 for perfect score certificates
Board 2 Justin Wang (Arahoe A) 5/6
Board 3 Jeremy Tao (Arahoe A) 6/6
Board 4 Krish Reddy (Blockhouse Bay A) 6/6. Xavier Haynes (St Pauls A) also scored 6/6

Arahoe, St Pauls and New Windsor all qualify for the National Primary Championship in Mt Maunganui in September.

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126 children compete in the West Auckland Primary School Championship at Henderson North School		Arahoe A vs Blockhouse Bay A in the final round. Selina Huang plays white against Isaac Hydes.
Top board players - left to right - Bd4 Krish Reddy (Blockhouse Bay A) and Xavier Haynes (St Pauls A), Bd3 Jeremy Tao (Arahoe A), Bd2 Justin Wang (Arahoe A), Bd1 Selina Huang (Arahoe A), Sophia Feng (ACG Sunderland) and Lucas Zhang (Matipo)		Bronze medalists New Windsor - left to right - Nicole Zhao, Noah Leman, David Brown, and Karthik Padma with teacher Cheryl Thomas
Silver medalists St Pauls A - Darius Krishna, Matteo Ortiz, Unaloto Ahio, and Xavier Haynes with teacher Tom McGuire.		Gold medal winners Arahoe A - players left to right - Selina Huang, Justin Wang, Jeremy Tao, Darren So , and Carol Wang, along with organiser Bob Smith , Teacher Megan Connelly, John Francis from Waitakere Chess Club, Victor Wang coach, and Viv Smith.

August 6th 2020 - Canterbury Secondary Championship, Christchurch.
Results:
1st Christ’s College
2nd Christchurch BHS
3rd St Andrew’s College

Christ’s College qualifies for the National Secondary Championship in Mt Maunganui in September.

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August 7th 2020 - Canterbury Intermediate Championship, Christchurch.
Results:
1st Cobham
2nd Christchurch South
3rd Ladbrooks

Cobham qualifies for the National Secondary Championship in Mt Maunganui in September.

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August 7th 2020 - Canterbury Primary Championship, Christchurch.
Results:
1st Avonhead
2nd St Mark’s
3rd Waimairi

Avonhead qualifies for the National Secondary Championship in Mt Maunganui in September.

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August 7th 2020 - South Auckland Secondary Championship, Auckland.
Results:
The medal winning teams were:
1st King's College A (Winston Weng, Darrick Pan, Kimberly Yuan, Nathaniel Masfen-Yan)
2nd Papatoetoe High A (Liyork Liao, Kevin Guan, Anuj Semwal, Fergus Lee)
3rd King's College B (Robin Teng, Sam Tingey, Dimitri Gallage, Owen Bao)

Certificates for best board players went to:
Board 1 Winston Weng (King's College A) 6/6
Board 2 Darrick Pan (King's College A) 6/6
Board 3 Phuong Do (Papatoetoe C) 6/6
Board 4 Nathaniel Masfen-Yan (King's College A) 6/6

King’s College qualifies for the National Secondary Championship in Mt Maunganui in September.

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18 teams compete in the South Auckland Secondary Championship at Papatoetoe High School.		Viv Smith presents a chess book to teacher Masina Po'e-Tofaeono for host school Papatoetoe High.
Best board players - left to right - Board 4 Nathaniel Masfen-Yan (King's College A), Board 3 Phuong Do (Papatoetoe C), Board 2 Darrick Pan and Board 1 Winston Weng (King's College A)		Bronze medallists King's College B - team manager Harry Wichman with Dimitri Gallage, Sam Tingey, Owen Bao and Robin Teng.
Silver medallists Papatoetoe High A - teacher Masina Po'e-Tofaeono with Kevin Guan, Fergus Lee, Anuj Semwal and Liyork Liao.		Gold medallists King's College A - Nathaniel Masfen-Yan, Kimberly Yuan, Darrick Pan, and Winston Weng with team manager Harry Wichman.

August 7th 2020 - South Auckland Intermediate Championship, Auckland.
The coronavirus and a compressed school calendar led to the unusual situation where only one school entered this year.
The Gardens Intermediate School entered two teams, who agreed to play in the Secondary Championship.
Its first team finished a meritorious 6th out of 18 teams (playing on top board in the final round!)

So the Intermediate medal winners were:
1st The Gardens School A (Tu Tran, Arthur Chu, Zachariah Laufiso, Kenichi Senoo, Minh Nguyen)
2nd The Gardens B (Emily Drake, Rocky Liu, Tiago De Castro, Shreya Harakh, Ashlee Shaw)

The Gardens is the South Auckland Intermediate Champion and qualifies for the National Intermediate finals.

Gold medal winners - The Gardens A team - Team manager Chris van Tonder with Tu Tran, Arthur Chu, Kenichi Senoo, Zachariah Laufiso and Minh Nguyen (in front)		Silver medallists - The Gardens B team - Chris with Shreya Harakh, Tiago De Castro, Rocky Liu, Emily Drake and Ashlee Shaw.
South Auckland Intermediate Champs Garden A take on the eventual winners of the Secondary competition Kings College A

August 7th 2020 - Wellingon Intermediate Championship, Wellington.
Results:

Place  Name                  Match     1    2    3    4    5    6    Game   (tie-
                             Points                                  Points  break)
1      Newlands              11.0     9:+  3:+  8:+  2:=  6:+  7:+   20   
2      Hutt Intermediate A   10.0     6:+  7:+  4:+  1:=  3:=  8:+   17   
3      Raroa A               9.0     11:+  1:-  5:+  4:+  2:= 10:+   18.5 
4      Thorndon              8.0      5:+ 10:+  2:-  3:- 13:+ 12:+   16   
5      HIBS B                8.0      4:- 15:+  3:- 12:+ 14:+ 13:+   13.5 
6      SWIS A                7.0      2:- 12:+ 14:+  7:=  1:- 15:+   16   
7      HIBS A                7.0     15:+  2:- 10:+  6:= 11:+  1:-   13   
8      Raroa B               7.0     12:= 13:+  1:- 14:+  9:+  2:-   12   
9      Hutt Intermediate B   6.0      1:- 11:= 13:+ 15:+  8:-  0:=   11.5 
10     St Brigids            6.0     14:+  4:-  7:- 13:+ 15:+  3:-   11   
11     SWIS B                5.0      3:-  9:= 12:=  0:=  7:- 14:+   9    
12     Plimmerton A          3.0      8:=  6:- 11:=  5:-  0:=  4:-   7    
13     Plimmerton D          1.0      0:=  8:-  9:- 10:-  4:-  5:-   7    
14     Plimmerton C          1.0     10:-  0:=  6:-  8:-  5:- 11:-   5    
15     Plimmerton B          1.0      7:-  5:-  0:=  9:- 10:-  6:-   3.5  

15 teams compete in the Wellington Intermediate Championship (plus 14 secondary teams)		From left Newlands, Hutt Intermediate A and Raroa A

August 7th 2020 - Wellingon Secondary Championship, Wellington.
Results:

Place  Name                  Match     1    2    3    4    5    6    Game   (tie-
                             Points                                  Points  break)
 1     HIBS A                12       8:+  6:+  2:+  4:+  5:+  9:+   19.5
 2     Wellington College A  10      12:+  7:+  1:-  3:+  4:+  6:+   18.5
 3     Naenae College A      8        6:- 14:+ 11:+  2:-  8:+ 12:+   12.5
 4     Hutt Valley High      7        5:+ 10:+  6:=  1:-  2:- 13:+   15.5
 5     Wellington College B  7        4:-  9:= 12:+ 10:+  1:- 14:+   14.5
 6     Wellington High       7        3:+  1:-  4:=  7:+ 10:+  2:-   13.5
 7     Scots College         7        9:+  2:-  8:=  6:- 13:+ 11:+   12
 8     Tawa College A        6        1:- 13:+  7:=  9:=  3:- 10:+   13
 9     St Patricks A         6        7:-  5:= 14:+  8:= 12:+  1:-   12.5
10     Rongotai A            4       11:+  4:- 13:+  5:-  6:-  8:-   6.5
11     St Patricks B         3       10:- 12:=  3:- 13:= 14:=  7:-   9
12     HIBS B                3        2:- 11:=  5:- 14:+  9:-  3:-   8.5
13     Naenae College B      3       14:+  8:- 10:- 11:=  7:-  4:-   7
14     Rongotai B            1       13:-  3:-  9:- 12:- 11:=  5:-   5.5

14 teams compete in the Wellington Secondary Championship (plus 15 intermediate teams)		From left HIBS A, Wellington College A and Naenae College A

November 10th 2020 (twice postponed due to Covid, so too late for Nationals)
                     - East Auckland Primary Interschool Championship, Auckland.
Results:
1st Point View A (Lucas Wang, Dean Yu, Vivian Somaraju, Harvey Zhang)
2nd King’s School A (Eric Fan, Andrew Li, Bryan Kang, Miller Lyons)
3rd Cockle Bay School (Maxwell Xiao, Matthew Chan, Kyan Zhang, Grishma Kichavadi)

Certificates for best board players went to:
Board 1: Charles Zhang (Owairoa Primary) 6/6
Board 2: Andrew Li (King’s School) 6/6
Board 3: Vivian Somaraju (Point View School) 5.5/6
Board 4: Mel Hou (Point View School) 5.5/6

The competition was closely contested, with no fewer than four teams tied on match points for third.
It took two tie-breaks to separate Cockle Bay and Willowbank School, with the latter missing out on a
bronze medal by just 0.4 of a point on the second tie-break.

100 children compete in the East Auckland Primary Championship at Point View School under the watchful eye of Chief Arbiter Bob Smith.

Top board players - left to right - Mel Hou (bd4) and Vivian Somaraju (bd3) from Point View School, Andrew Li (bd2) from King's School and Charles Zhang (bd1) from Owairoa Primary.		Gold medal winners Point View A team - left to right - Lucas Wang, Dean Yu, Vivian Somaraju and Harvey Zhang with their coach Ellen Wei.
Silver medal winners King's School - left to right - Maxwell Xiao, Matthew Chan, Kyan Zhang, and Grishma Kichavadi with coach Ewen Green.		Bronze medallists Cockle Bay - left to right - Maxwell Xiao, Matthew Chan, Kyan Zhang, Grishma Kichavadi

September 26th-27th 2020 - NATIONAL INTERSCHOOLS FINALS, Mt Maunganui.
Venue: Mount Maunganui College, 565 Maunganui Rd, Mount Maunganui
Organiser: Bob Smith. Phone 0274786282 / email caissa1530@gmail.com.


Full Results;

Primary
1st Pigeon Mountain School; Zikun Kenneth Liu, Anthony Hu, Alexander Pan, Annie Yue
2nd Hillsborough School; Hunter Po'e-Tofaeono, Grayson Po'e-Tofaeono, Ayaan Vausdeva,Xabi Jenkyn-Jones, Nithya Anegondi
3rd Pinehurst School; Nicholas Xu, Jerry Yang, Shuntaro Nozaki, Ivan Wu, Richard Zheng

Board medals for the top scorers on each board:

Board 1; 6.5/7 Isabelle Ning (Kristin School)
Board 2; 6.5/7 Kendrick Zhang (Kristin School)
Board 3; 7/7 Alexander Pan (Pigeon Mountain)
Board 4; 7/7 Annie Yue (Pigeon Mountain)

Primary full Vega results

18 teams from across the country compete in the National Primary Championship at Mount Maunganui College.		Aoi Marioka of Thorndon Primary (left) bumps elbows with Lincoln Chapman of Pillans Point at the end of their game, won by Lincoln.
Primary arbiter Viv Smith oversees games from behind her mask		Thorndon team wins a spot prize book for their school library. Left to right Aio Marioka, Karthik Sethuramalingam, and Reuben Bean
Board medal winners – left to right – Annie Yue (bd4) and Alexander Pan (bd3) from Pigeon Mountain, and Kendrick Zhang (bd2) and Isabelle Ning (bd 1) from Kristin School		Arahoe School team with their spot prize – left to right – Selina Huang, Darren So, Justin Wang, and Jerome Tao
Bronze medallists Pinehurst School – left to right - Nicholas Xu, Jerry Yang, Shuntaro Nozaki, and Ivan Wu, with team manager Tina Lindsay		Silver medallists Hillsborough Primary, left to right - Hunter Po'e-Tofaeono, Grayson Po'e-Tofaeono, Ayaan Vausdeva, Xabi Jenkyn-Jones, and Nithya Anegondi, with team manager Wayne McDougall.
National primary champions for 2020 – Pigeon Mountain School – left to right - Zikun Kenneth Liu, Anthony Hu, Alexander Pan, Annie Yue, with team manager Bill Hu.

Intermediate
1st Takapuna Normal; Matthew Chen, Eddie Kim, Yitian Chen, Rui Chen Wang, Bevis Jiang
2nd Auckland Normal; Oscar Qin, Jacob Yuan, Michael Ma, Jerry Dai, Zi Hao Lin
3rd ACG Parnell; Felix Xie, Allen Weng, Ethan Zhang, Lanjun Liu

Board medals for the top scorers on each board:

Board 1; 7/7 Oscar Qin (Auckland Normal)
Board 2; 6/7 Arthur Chu (The Gardens School)
Board 3; 6/7 Eric Mironov (ACG Sunderland)
Board 4; 6/7 Lanjun Liu (ACG Parnell)

Intermediate full Vega results

National Intermediate Champions 2020 –Takapuna Normal – left to right - Matthew Chen, Eddie Kim, Yitian Chen, Rui Chen Wang, and Bevis Jiang		Silver medallists – Auckland Normal Intermediate – left to right - Oscar Qin, Jacob Yuan, Michael Ma, Jerry Dai, and Zi Hao Lin
Intermediate bronze medallists - ACG Parnell – left to right – Lanjun Liu, Allen Weng, Ethan Zhang, and Felix Xie,		Intermediate board medal winners – left to right – Lanjun Liu (bd4) from ACG Parnell, Eric Mirinov (bd3) from ACG Sunderland, Arthur Chu (bd2) from The Gardens School, and Oscar Qin (bd1) from Auckland Normal.

Secondary

1st Auckland Grammar A; Daniel Gong, Allen Fan, Aaron Wang, Francisco Calvalcanti
2nd Westlake Boys; Richard Meng, Jeffery Yu, Pridiyathon Kulchayodom, Kevin Shen Su
3rd Hamilton Boys; High Eushin Kang, Michael Lin, Max Stephens, Nathanael Loy

Board medals for the top scorers on each board:

Board 1; 7/7 Daniel Gong (Auckland Grammar A)
Board 2; 6.5/7 Michael Lin (Hamilton Boys High)
Board 3; 5.5/7 Max Stephens (Hamilton Boys High)
Board 4; 7/7 Francisco Calvalcanti (Auckland Grammar A)

Secondary full Vega results

14 teams compete for the National Secondary Championship 2020 in Mount Maunganui High School’s library		National Secondary Champions 2020 – Auckland Grammar – left to right - Francisco Calvalcanti, Aaron Wang, Allen Fan, and Daniel Gong, with team manager Travis Moore
Silver medallists Westlake Boys High - from left to right - Kevin Shen Su, Pridiyathon Kulchayodom, Jeffery Yu and Richard Meng, with team manager Nick Owen		Bronze medal winners - Hamilton Boys High – left to right, Eushin Kang, Nathanael Loy, Michael Lin, and Max Stephens,
Board medal winners – left to right - Francisco Calvalcanti (bd4) from Auckland Grammar A team, Max Stephens (bd3) and Michael Lin (bd2) from Hamilton Boys High, and Daniel Gong (bd1) from Auckland Grammar A.		Daniel Gong from Auckland Grammar presents a bottle of wine that he brought back from the 2018 Chess Olympiad in Batumi, Georgia, to Chief Arbiter Bob Smith