133rd NZ Chess Congess Update

January 6, 2026 NZCFadmin

NZ Champs (5 Rounds)

GM Daniel Fernandez (England) leads on 4.5, followed by IM elect Felix Xie (NZ) and GM Jacek Stopa (Poland) on 4

NZ Major Open (5 Rounds)

Ethan Harrison (USA/NZ) & Jesse Harrison (USA/NZ) lead on 4.5, followed by Ting Liang (NZ), Aidan Malcolm (NZ) and Martin Zhou (NZ)

NZ Junior & Age Group Champs (overall results, 4 rounds)

NZ’s Richard Jingjie Liu leads outright on 4, followed by Jin Tan (NZ) and Ethan Harrison (USA/NZ) on 3.5.

Invercargill Open (2 rounds)

Quentin Johnson, Hamish Gold and Rama Miriyala all on 2/2 head the pack.

All the results can be found here: https://www.vegaresults.com/vega/index.php?id=6310

The event field is a drop down menu, use that to switch between tournaments.

More photos here https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1EBoFfE6BY/

The NZ Lightning Champs are on Sunday morning (11th) and the NZ Rapid Champs are on Sunday afternoon and Monday (11th and 12th). Entries are still open.