132nd NZ Chess Congress well underway
Participants in the NZ Chess Championships along with organiser Paul Spiller and arbiters Craig Hall and Ying Wang.
After 4 rounds in the NZ Chess Championships and NZ major Open the leading players are:
NZ Chess Championships
3.5/4
GM Gabor Nagy
FM Alphaeus Ang
FM Felix Xie
IM Herman van Riemsdijk
IM Anthony Ker
FM Daniel Gong
3/4
FM Leonard McLaren
CM Ed Rains
Daqi Mao
Romie Lord Guerra
Yanbo Jin
Hayden Steele
FM Yining Chen
Vega Files here: https://newzealandchess.co.nz/…/wwwCongress…/pairs5.html
NZ Major Open
4/4
Hunter Po’e-Tofaeono
Buthsara Hettiarachchi
Paul Summers
Sai Vivan Karthikeya Somaraju
3.5/4
Neil Gunn
Patrick Di Jiang
These 6 square off against each other tomorrow at 2pm
Vega Files here: https://newzealandchess.co.nz/…/wwwCongress…/pairs5.html
The NZ Junior (school pupil and age group) Champs and NZ Junior U1000 Champs have had 3 rounds of 7 completed.
Leading scores:
NZ Junior (school pupil and age group) Champs
Vega files : https://newzealandchess.co.nz/tournaments/ch/2025/CongressJunior2025/wwwCongressJunior2025/
6 Players lead on 3/3
Jenre Angelo Fabay
Grayson Po’e-Tofaeono
Oscar Cui
Karthik Sethuramalingam
Zi Yao (Kelvin) Wang
Huankai (eden) Xu
NZ Junior U1000 Champs
Vega files here : https://newzealandchess.co.nz/tournaments/ch/2025/CongressU1000Junior2025/wwwCongressU1000Junior2025/
3 players are on 3/3
Junhao Wang
Eric Chen
Calvin Chen