Chess Aotearoa – Vol. 4, No. 1

The latest edition of Chess Aotearoa is out! Fresh off the excitement of NZ Congress in Invercargill and Bob Wade Memorial Masters in Auckland, chess players already have plenty to look forward to in the next few months. Read on to find your usual reports and other announcements! Click here

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2026 World Schools Team Championship

The New Zealand Chess Federation is proud to announce that ACG Sunderland has been officially selected to represent New Zealand at the 2026 World Schools Team Championship’s Asian Continental Championships, which will take place in Almaty, Kazakhstan from 6–11 April 2026. Last year the championships had a large finals stage

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2026 Olympiad Teams Announced

The New Zealand Chess Federation is delighted to announce the national teams for the 2026 Chess Olympiad to be held in Samarkand in Uzbekistan in September later this year. Open Team (in board order) 1/ IM Felix Xie2/ IM Sravan Renjith3/ IM Tom Middelburg4/ FM Daniel Gong5/ FM Daqi Mao

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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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