Rating News Period 1 2026
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 Challengers. The club tournaments are North Shore Summer, Summit Summer, Waitakere Summer, Papatoetoe Summer and Kapiti Kingston Memorial.
Twenty-three rapid tournaments have been processed involving 478 players with 2227 games rated. The open tournaments are New Zealand Championship, Latvian (A – D), Summit February and March (Open, U1600, U1000), Auckland Academy March (A, B), Bay of Plenty (A, B), Hawkes Bay Open (A, B) and Otago Autumn. The club tournaments are North City Knights Summer, Canterbury Summer, February and March Junior and Otago Allan Chang Memorial.
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