Month: November 2024

2-12 January 2025 @ Waipuna Hotel & Conference Centre – Auckland Be a part of New Zealand’s premier chess festival! Events include: The NZ Championship entries include Hungarian GM Gabor Nagy, Chinese FM Yining Chen, Brazilian IM Herman van Riemsdijk and NZL titled players IM Anthony Ker, IM Russell Dive

The New Zealand Chess Federation is currently upgrading it’s IT systems and as part of this project there will be a database of players, arbiters, officials, trainers and clubs (and probably others). We encourage you to add your information to this database to enable us to provide the best service

Paul Spiller is proud to announce the final field for this IM Norm event to be held at the Waipuna Hotel & Conference Centre from 13-19 January 2025. This event has been made possible through sponsorship from the Middle Game Foundation and FIDE’s Planning & Development Commission. The 5 players

The 2024 New Zealand Women’s Chess Championships were held from 9-11 November at the Chinese Presbyterian Church in Auckland – hosted by the Auckland Central Chess Club. The Chief Organiser was Stuart Vogel, with IA Bruce Pollard as Chief Arbiter. Congratulations to Sarah Sun, our new NZ Women’s Chess Champion!

Ladies and girls, just a reminder that this national championship starts this weekend – Saturday 9 to Monday 11. Entries close : 8 November 2024 at 8pm Current entries here: https://www.newzealandchess.co.nz/tournaments/bp/2024/wwwNZWomenOpen2024/ Please note that there is now just one section, no Reserve section, just the championship.