Rating News 2024 Period 3
Twenty-three standard rated tournaments have been processed involving 431 players and 1782 games. The open tournaments are New Zealand Seniors, South Island and Canterbury Junior Championship. The club tournaments are North Shore Championship, Auckland Weekend July, August, September and Winter Cup, Summit Winter Cup, Papatoetoe Winter Cup, Mount Maunganui Main Events 5 and 6, Upper Hutt Championships, Kapiti Kingston Memorial, Wellington Autumn and Julian Mazur Memorial, Canterbury Eric Browne Shield and Otago Cleland Trophy.
Twenty-three rapid rated tournaments have been processed involving 672 players and 3177 games. The open tournaments are South Island, New Zealand Primary, Intermediate and Secondary Schools, Summit July, August, September and Otago Spring. The club tournaments are Auckland July and July Junior, North Shore Championship 3, Papatoetoe Spring, Kapiti Winter, Canterbury Junior July, August, Otago Championship 2 and Swiss.
Top Fifty: The top three standard rated players are unchanged with Alphaeus Ang on 2499 ahead of Alexei Kulashko 2456 and Ben Hague 2450. Nic Croad 2419 moves into fourth ahead of Roger Nokes 2415. There is no change in the top five rapid rated players. Alpaheus Ang is top on 2438 followed by Ben Hague 2407, Anthony Ker 2364, Russell Dive 2337 and Felix Xie 2324.