By Rowan Wood Fourteen standard tournaments have been processed involving 251 players with 1108 games rated. The open tournaments are the New Zealand Championship, New Zealand Major Open, New Zealand Junior Open , Invercargill Open, Bob Wade Memorial, Hilton Bennett Memorial, Peter Weir Memorial, Arthur Pomeroy Memorial and Middle Game
Read MoreBy 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
Read Moreby Rowan Wood Twenty-three standard rated tournaments have been processed. The open tournaments are the North Island and South Island Championships. The club tournaments are Waitakere Autumn and Winter, Auckland Weekend July, August and September, Auckland Winter, North Shore Championship, Howick-Pakuranga Championship (A, B), Summit Championship, Papatoetoe Winter, Mount Maunganui
Read Moreby Rowan Wood Eighteen standard rated tournaments have been processed involving 409 players with 2835 games rated. The open tournaments are the New Zealand Championship, New Zealand Major Open, New Zealand Junior Open and Under 1000, Bob Wade Memorial, Hilton Bennett Memorial, Middle Game Challengers, Auckland Waitangi and Oceania Zonal.
Read MoreHappy New Year! In this issue, you will find reports on recent tournaments, contributions from guest writers, and more. To help us improve the magazine, we’d like to ask you to take five minutes to fill out the Google form hyperlinked in the content page. You can also sign up
Read Moreby Rowan Wood Twenty- standard rated tournaments have been processed involving 400 players and 1660 games. The open tournaments are New Zealand Women’s Championship, Merv Morrison Memorial and Southern Classic. The club tournaments are Auckland Spring and Championship and Spring, North Shore Spring, Howick-Pakuranga Booth Shield, Papatoetoe Championship, Mount Maunganui
Read MoreThe latest issue of Chess Aotearoa is out! It has been a whole year since we first began this magazine, and we would like to thank you, the readers, for your continuous support! In this issue, you will find Q&As with Olympiad team players, captains, and the head of delegation.Read
Read MoreFMs Felix Xie and Alexei Kulashko are joint NZ champions in the 2024 NZ Fischer-Random Championship. Senior champion – FM Leonard McLaren. Junior champion – CM Kendrick Zhang. Joint Women’s champion – Sarah Sun and WCM Luna Xu. The winner of the A-grade was IM Omer Reshef (Israel) and the
Read MoreTwenty-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
Read MoreTournament report by Gordon Lyall Wellington College justified their top seeding when they edged out Takapuna Grammar School to become this years national school champions. The key match up came in round 5, with both teams on maximum points, Wellington College prevailed with a solid 3-1 win. This was the
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