Rating News Period 4 2025

By Rowan Wood Twenty-two standard rated tournaments have been processed involving 481 players and 1884 games. The open tournaments are New Zealand Women’s Championship, New Zealand Senior Championship, Merv Morrison Memorial and Wellington Capital Classic. The club tournaments are Auckland Championship and Spring, North Shore Spring, Howick-Pakuranga Booth Shield, Waitakere

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2026 Commonwealth Chess Championships – Sri Lanka – Selection for NZL places open

Commonwealth Chess Championship 2026   The Chess Federation of Sri Lanka on behalf of FIDE and The Commonwealth Chess Association cordially invite your Federation to participate in the Commonwealth Championship 2026 to be held from 16th to 26th May 2026 at Kaluthara, Sri Lanka. Regulations: https://calendar.fide.com/event_files/12932/CCC2026_Regulations.pdf Each Commonwealth country is eligible

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FIDE Social Chess Storytelling Challenge

FIDE Social Chess Storytelling Challenge New Zealand’s Evguenia Charomova won the Social Commission Choice Award for her video Checkmate Autism and the Power of Chess (producer/co-director Evguenia Charomova, director Carlos Vintimilla) Congratulations! The video can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly-SkJNxTnQ This initiative received a total of 56 entries, including 43 grassroots

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