Peter Stuart Database

The Peter Stuart NZ Games Database

The NZ Games Database that was created and maintained by the late Peter Stuart has been under NZCF stewardship since April 2018.

Here is the latest update (6th May 2023, by CM Bill Forster) to the database in Chessbase (CBV) format and zipped PGN format.

There are now 57506 games, and 2265 of them are new as follows:

  • 2004-01-01 The Clash 2004 (Canterbury v Wellington Teams), Christchurch (1 game)
  • 2022-04-15 Wellington Open, Wellington Chess Club (144 games)
  • 2022-04-22 Auckland ANZAC Weekender, Auckland Chess Centre (30 games)
  • 2022-05-13 Arie Nijman Memorial, Christchurch (52 games)
  • 2022-06-03 Trusts Open-A 44th, Waitakere (60 games)
  • 2022-06-24 Peter Stuart Memorial Open, Auckland (71 games)
  • 2022-07-14 North Island Ch’p, Auckland (205 games)
  • 2022-07-29 Chennai Olympiad, Chennai (84 games)
  • 2022-08-18 New Zealand Senior Ch’p, Auckland (36 games)
  • 2022-09-29 Club Championships, Wellington CC, Wellington Chess Club (45 games)
  • 2022-10-04 South Island Ch’p, Invercargill (87 games)
  • 2022-10-08 South Island Rapid Ch’p, Invercargill (66 games)
  • 2022-10-15 Asian Seniors 50+ Ch’p, Auckland (75 games)
  • 2022-10-15 Asian Seniors 65+ Ch’p, Auckland (68 games)
  • 2022-10-22 Merv Morrison Memorial, Auckland Chess Centre (30 games)
  • 2023-01-02 New Zealand Major Open, Wellington (311 games)
  • 2023-01-02 New Zealand Open Ch’p, Wellington (185 games)
  • 2023-01-03 New Zealand Junior Ch’p, Wellington (104 games)
  • 2023-01-11 New Zealand Rapid Ch’p, Wellington (126 games)
  • 2023-01-14 Bob Wade Memorial Challengers 1, Howick, Auckland (42 games)
  • 2023-01-14 Bob Wade Memorial Challengers 2, Howick, Auckland (43 games)
  • 2023-01-14 Bob Wade Memorial Masters, Howick, Auckland (38 games)
  • 2023-01-20 ACC GM Shoker Simul +12 =2 -3, Auckland Chess Centre (17 games)
  • 2023-01-23 Oceania Zonal Open 2023, Melbourne, Australia (22 games)
  • 2023-01-23 Oceania Zonal Women 2023, Melbourne, Australia (16 games)
  • 2023-01-28 ACC Auckland Anniversary Weekender, Auckland Chess Centre (30 games)
  • 2023-02-03 ACC Waitangi Weekender, Auckland Chess Centre (30 games)
  • 2023-04-07 Wellington Open, Wellington Chess Club (177 games)
  • 2023-04-12 George Trundle Masters, Auckland (40 games)
  • 2023-04-21 ACC Anzac Weekender, Auckland Chess Centre (30 games)

Bill Forster writes, “Why the old game from 2004?, well Craig Hall recently found that one in a dusty spot in the Canterbury Chess Club and there’s an amusing story behind Arie Nijman’s win over Russell Dive. I’ve added some colour commentary to that effect to the start of the game as follows:

“The Puncher’s Chance”. In 2004 “The Clash” was organised, numerous community sports teams from Wellington visited Christchurch for Canterbury-Wellington team competition, on the same day as a big Ranfurly shield clash. Then as now Christchurch was the better rugby town, and Canterbury duly won. Then as now Wellington was the stronger chess city and we put a cricket score on the board. Canterbury didn’t go down without a fight though, and the cunning idea of putting feisty pensioner Arie Nijman on board 1 to go up against classy Wellington IM Russell Dive paid dividends. [“The puncher’s chance is a boxing idiom that indicates the improbable. In boxing, it specifically refers to a boxer who is out matched, still having the capacity to win, if they can land one or two clean heavy punches.” Jones (2007). This scoresheet was found and transcribed by Craig Hall in 2022. Introductory remarks by Bill Forster in 2023. Sadly I (Bill) cannot reconcile my rugby recollection with the firmly established rugby results of season 2004 (maybe 2003 or 2005?)]”

Here is the accompanying NZ Championship Crosstable history in PDF format and editable Open Document format updated through 2023.

For reference purposes, here is the final edition of the database published by Peter himself in 2017, in Chessbase (CBV) format and zipped PGN format.

Here are two ancillary files Peter included, a README and the NZ Championship Crosstable history updated through 2017.

Peter’s family graciously gave permission to NZCF to make this huge contribution to chess scholarship in New Zealand freely available to all. We are committed to keeping the project alive and aspire to the same meticulous attention to detail that characterised Peter’s work for so long.

Thanks to Michael Whaley and Michael Freeman for working with Peter’s family, and Helen Milligan for providing the most recent published version.