2026 Commonwealth Chess Championships – Sri Lanka May 16-26 There are still some official spots available after the intitial seleciton process. Applications for THESE CATEGORIES ONLY have been reopened for 3 days: Women, Junior Girl (U20), Girls U8, Girls U10, Girls U12, Girls U16, Girls U18, Open U14, Open U18

Kia ora clubs, Hope everyone has enjoyed their long weekend! Apologies for the long email that follows, but this is important information (for most clubs at least). The main request is for clubs to start registering club members with NZCF, which means getting their agreement/consent if you haven’t already, and

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

The NZCF Council would like to remind all players, organisers and clubs of the following decisions made in recent months and the implications thereof. Note that as per the NZCF Rating Regulations section 6.4, if Mr Keong Ang or Mr Timothy Ha plays in or acts as an organizer, arbiter

World Youth Chess Championships (U14, U16, U18) – Montesilvano, Italy – 14 to 27 June 2026 FIDE, the Italian Chess Federation and UniChess invite all national chess federations to participate in the World Youth Chess Championships 2026 in Montesilvano, Italy. The event will be held from June 14 (official day of

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

Tomorrow sees the final round in this series of round robin tournaments. Bob Wade Memorial Masters (9 rounds) GM Michael Adams is in the lead on 6/8, half a point clear of GM Daniel Fernandez on 5.5. They face each other in the final round. Full results and pairings Pairings

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