Peter Stuart Memorial, Auckland
24th-26th June 2022
Organised by North Shore Chess Club
Open Vega
1st 6/6 FM Alphaeus Wei Ern Ang
2nd equal 4/6 Ralph Hart
2nd equal 4/6 FM Leonard J McLaren
2nd equal 4/6 FM John Duneas
2nd equal 4/6 Kendrick Botong Zhang
Under 1900 3.5/6 Philli Park-Tamati
Under 1700 equal 3.5/6 Zachary Yu
Under 1700 equal 3.5/6 Timothy Huy Minh Ha
Reserve Vega
1st 5.5/6 Henry Vital
2nd equal 5/6 Victor Coen
2nd equal 5/6 Daniel P Johns
2nd equal 5/6 Philip Mukkattu
Under 1300 equal 4.5/6 Alexander Hanrui Pan
Under 1300 equal 4.5/6 Brillion Yan Jun Lau
Under 1200 equal 4/6 Srirama Vikhyath Nimmakayala
Under 1200 equal 4/6 Jerome Junqing Tao
Under 1000 3.5/6 Ethan Taoran Sun
Facebook photoalbum: NZChessNews
PGN files are in the Games section on Vega
Event website


Auckland Teams Arena June 2022
18th-19th June 2022
Venue: Auckland Chess Centre, 17 Cromwell Street, Mt. Eden, Auckland.
ACC webpage with the description of the series
Vega with details
Team standings:
The Knightmares (Po'e-Tofaeono Hunter, Grayson and Tyleah + Fergus Lee) - 15.5 pts
Mi Caissa, su Caissa (Timothy Ha, Mantra Bhatt, Daksh Bhatt) - 11 pts
The Morphians (William Liu, Luna Lu, Jacob Barry, Branden Li, Lisa Shi) - 10.5 pts
Individual winner - William Liu on 5.5/6



Summit Rookies/Junior Rapid, Auckland
12th June 2022
Venue: Alexandra Park, Epsom, Auckland.






U1800
1st Park-Tamati, Philli
2nd Mao, Daqi
3rd= Zhang, Charles
3rd= Liu, William
3rd= Sun, Nathan
3rd= Yue, Annie
Best U1200
Rehansi, D P Sayuni
Best U1000
Moffitt, Samuel
U1000
1st Xu, Huankai (Eden)
2nd= Lobo, Isaac
2nd= Chen, Xavier
2nd= Kichavadi, Grishma
2nd= Chen, Ashley
2nd= Zhou, Kevin
Best U500
Hettiarachchi, Buths
Best U200
Madhavan, Kugan
Vega: Open U1800 and Junior U1000
Otago Winter Rapid Open
12th June 2022
Venue: Otago Chess Club, 7 Maitland Street, Dunedin
Quentin Johnson reports, "The Otago Winter Rapid Open was held at the Otago Chess Club rooms on Sunday 12 June. Olefsandr Nedyhalov was top seed and won with 4.5/5 ahead of a big field of 32 players. There was a five-way tie for second on 4 points (including the U1600 grade winners) and the U1000 grade was shared by six players on 2 points."
1st Nedyhalov, Olefsandr
2nd= Johnson, Quentin; Suazo, Benedict; Paulsen, Jens; Familton, Gregory; Genet, Elijah
44th Trusts Chess Open, Auckland
4th to 6th June 2022
Venue: Te Pai Centre (opposite Quality Hotel Lincoln Green), Henderson, Auckland
A Tournament
1st= Ollie Archer, FM Robert Smith
3rd IM Russell Dive
4th= FM Leonard McLaren, Joshua Langford, Michael Sole
Grade one 1st= Hao Tang and Daqi Mao
Grade two 1st Kendrick Zhang
Grade three 1st Philli Park-Tamati
B Tournament
1st Harry Redwood
2nd Henry Vital
3rd= Philip Mukkattu, Weiyang Yu
Grade one 1st Roshan Gallage
Grade two 1st= Justin Wang, Emily Gan
Grade three 1st Mantra Bhatt
C Tournament
1st Charles Zhang
2nd Tracy Tang
3rd= Anderson Chen, Ariel Patdu, Luna Xu
Grade one 1st= Alex Pan, Oliver Zhao, Jacob Barry
Grade two 1st= Sarah Sun, James Tizard
Grade three 1st Luna Xu
Junior Tournament
1st Buthsara Hettiarachchi
2nd Max Xia
3rd= Jeremy Dong, Richard Liu, William Si
Under 10 1st= Jason Xie, Leo Zhang
Under 8 1st Jathin Somaraju
Under 8 2nd Tilden Wang
Vega links: A-Grade, B-Grade, C-Grade, Junior
Live game links were on Lichess and DGT Livecloud
The best game prize for the 44th Trusts Chess Open has gone to joint tournament winner FM Bob Smith for his round 5 win over Chris Burns. To quote the judge, GM Murray Chandler: "The beautiful sacrifice 22 Qxg7+! is well spotted, considering the black kingside appears so well defended. White swiftly regains his queen with a knight fork, and a pawn ahead duly wins the endgame."
Smith-Burns 1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Bf4 e6 4. e3 Bd6 5. c3 Bxf4 6. exf4 O-O 7. Bd3 b6 8. O-O Ba6 9. Bxa6 Nxa6 10. Qd3 Qc8 11. Nbd2 c5 12. a3 c4 13. Qe2 Nc7 14. Rfe1 Nce8 15. Ne5 Nd6 16. f3 b5 17. Ng4 Qd8 18. Qe5 Nfe8 19. Nf1 a5 20. Ng3 Qd7 21. Nh5 Nf5 22. Qxg7+ Nfxg7 23. Nhf6+ Nxf6 24. Nxf6+ Kh8 25. Nxd7 Rfd8 26. Nf6 b4 27. axb4 axb4 28. Kf2 Nf5 29. g4 Nd6 30. f5 bxc3 31. bxc3 exf5 32. Rxa8 Rxa8 33. Nxd5 fxg4 34. fxg4 f5 35. Re6 Rd8 36. Nf6 Kg7 37. Rxd6 1-0
Perhaps surprisingly Murray chose a B grade entry for an honourable mention: Justin Wang's first-round win over Karl Holdo "Black's promotion trick beginning 27...cxb3! is a killer. A known motif well worth remembering."
Holdo-Wang 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. c4 b6 4. e3 Bb7 5. Bd3 d5 6. O-O Bd6 7. b3 O-O 8. Bb2 Ne4 9. Nbd2 Nxd2 10. Qxd2 f5 11. c5 bxc5 12. dxc5 Bxc5 13. Bxg7 Kxg7 14. Qc3+ Rf6 15. Qxc5 Nd7 16. Qc3 c5 17. Be2 Qe7 18. Ne5 Nxe5 19. Qxe5 Rc8 20. Bf3 Qc7 21. Qxc7+ Rxc7 22. Rfd1 Rf8 23. Rac1 Rfc8 24. Rd3 Kf6 25. h3 Ba6 26. Rdc3 c4 27. Be2 cxb3 28. Rxc7 Rxc7 29. Rxc7 b2 30. Rb7 Bxb7 31. Bd3 Ba6 32. Bb1 e5 33. f3 e4 34. Kf2 Bd3 0-1
Kapiti Rapid
28th May 2022
Venue: Salvation Army, 41 Bluegum Rd, Paraparaumu Beach

Ben Hague and Kapiti Club president Gordon Lyall
Open / A-grade
1st - 5½ - FM Ben Hague
2nd = 5 - IM Russell Dive
2nd = 5 - Michael Sole
B Grade
1st - 4½ - Josh Langford
2nd - 4 - Nicholas Winsley
C Grade
1st - 3½ - Cohen Young
2nd = 3 - Jun Lee
2nd = 3 - Lucas Qu
Junior
1st Gold Medal - Thomas van der Hoorn
2nd Silver Medal - Joshua Langford
3rd Bronze Medal - Nicholas Winsley
Junior u14
1st Gold Medal - Ollie Archer
2nd Silver Medal - Lucas Qu
3rd Bronze Medal - Eashan Mavaram
Leading Kapiti Player - Flora Paul Trophy - Ross Jackson
This was the 28th running of the annual Kāpiti Rapid. The tournament drew a good field of 40 players with an average rating of 1670, see Vega crosstable. A report on the day including photos will be available soon on the Kāpiti Chess Club website.
Auckland May Weekender, Auckland
21st-22nd May 2022
Venue: Auckland Chess Centre, Mt Eden, Auckland
1st CM Felix Xie - 26.5 (8.5 blitz, 9 rapid)
2nd FM Alphaeus Ang - 24 (8 blitz, 8 rapid)
3rd Daniel Wang - 19 (6 blitz, 6.5 rapid)
Prize distribution:
Open
1st 26.5/27 CM Felix Xie
2nd 24/27 FM Alphaeus Wei Ern Ang
3rd 17.5/27 CM Alex Nagorski
Under 1800
1st 19/27 Daniel Wang
2nd 18/27 Daqi Mao
3rd 16.5/27 WCM Isabelle Yixuan Ning
Under 1600 and above 1400
1st 17.5/27 Justin Zhide Wang
Under 1400 and above 1300
1st 13.5/27 Duncan McDonald
Under 1300
1st 15/27 Mantra Bhatt
Blitz Vega and Rapid Vega / Event webpage
Some photos on NZChessNews
Arie Nijman Memorial, Christchurch
13th-15th May 2022
Venue: Canterbury Chess Club, 9/27 Tyne Street, Addington, Christchurch.
1st CM Felix Xie - 5.5/6
2nd FM Stephen Lukey - 5.0/6 (and 2022 All Canterbury champion)
3rd Zachary Yu - 4.0/6
U2000 - Hamish Gold, U1700 - Connor Tunnicliffe, Under 16 - Kendrick Zhang.
Vega pages and consolidated PGN
Some photos on Facebook
Summit Rookies/Junior Rapid, Auckland
15th May 2022
Venue: Alexandra Park, Epsom, Auckland.
U1800
1st Park-Tamati, Philli 5.5/6
2nd Wang, Justin Zhide 5/6
3rd= Kichavadi, Tejasvi 4.5/6
3rd= Zara, Baraa 4.5/6
3rd= Zhao, Oliver 4.5/6
3rd= Lau, Brillion Yan Jun 4.5/6
Best U1250
Sun, Wanyao Sarah 4/6
Best U1150
Li, Olivia 3.5/6
U1000
1st Jiang, Patrick Di 6/6
2nd= Sarmad, Zane 5/6
2nd= Zhou, Kevin 5/6
2nd= Fu, Grace 5/6
Best U550
Xie, Mason Zixuan 4.5/6
Best U200
Hussain, Aarib 3/6
Vega: U1800 (FIDE and NZCF rapid rated) and U1000 (NZCF rapid rated).
Facebook photo album
ChessPower Junior Masters
26th-30th April 2022
C-Grade
1st Tane Waiwai 8/9
2nd Charles Zhang 7.5/9
3rd Qixuan Liang 6.5/9
D-Grade
1st Kyan Choi 7/7
2nd= Elvin Sun, Tilden Wang 5/7
Event webpage (A and B grades were not played this year)
Photo album
Auckland ANZAC Weekender 2022
23rd-25th April 2022
Venue: Auckland Chess Centre, Mt Eden, Auckland
Open
1st 5.5/6 CM Felix Xie
2nd= 4.5/6 Hao Tang
3rd= 4/6 CM David Cilia Vincenti
3rd= 4/6 WCM Isabelle Yixuan Ning
3rd= 4/6 FM John Duneas
Under 1800 FIDE
(Open 2nd=) 1st= 4.5/6 Hunter Po'e-Tofaeono
(Open 2nd=) 1st= 4.5/6 Philli Park-Tamati
(Open 3rd=) 3rd= 4/6 Daniel Wang
(Open 3rd=) 3rd= 4/6 Karl Holdo
(Open 3rd=) 3rd= 4/6 Timothy Ha
Under 1600 FIDE
1st= 3.5/6 Grayson Po'e-Tofaeono
Under 1400 FIDE
1st= 3/6 Alex Coates
1st= 3/6 Eric Fan
Under 1200 FIDE
1st 3/6 Luna Xu
Links:
Vega with pairings/standings/reports
Facebook photos: album 1 by NZChessNews, album 2 by AKLChess
Event website
Lichess broadcast (top 5 boards each round)
New Zealand Women’s Chess Championship 2022
17th-20th April 2022
Venue: Green Bay High School Library, Green Bay, Auckland
Open
1st WFM Vyanla Punsalan - 7.0/7
2nd= WCM Isabelle Ning and Weiyang Yu - 5.0/7
4th= WCM Nadia Braganza and WFM Vivian Smith - 4.0/7
Grade 1 (U1800 NZCF)
Eva Lourenco, Charlotte Ray, Yolanda Chang and Lauren Ng - 3.5/7
Grade 2 (U1400 NZCF)
Alida van der Walt and Alice Wei - 3.5/7
Reserve
1st Marelize van der Walt - 6.5/7
2nd Emma Thorburn - 5.5/7
3rd Luna Lu 5.0/7
Grade 1 (U1000 NZCF)
Rekha Chandragiri and Srimathie Dissanayake - 4.0/7
Grade 2 (U700 NZCF)
Sundeia Lomberg and Emma Kwok - 4.0/7
Vega link with standings and games
Facebook photos
The Championship was dedicated to Helen Courtney – an ex Waitakere CC member and 3 x NZ Women’s Olympiad rep who died in 2020. Helen’s family and friends generously sponsored the tournament.
Wellington Open, Wellington
15th-17th April 2022
Venue: Wellington Bridge Club
A grade
1st Nic Croad 5.5/6
2nd= Russell Dive, Ollie Archer 5/6
4th Josh Langford 4.5/6
B grade
1st Matthew Ashton 4/6
2nd= Henry Zaslow, Philli Park-Tamati, Brent Perrin 3.5/6
C grade
1st Justin Zhide Wang 4/6
2nd Nathan Rose 3/6
3rd= Leo Malcolm, Liam Hunt, Edison Yang 2.5/6
Junior
Felix Xie, Ryan Winter, Thomas van der Hoorn, Kendrick Botong Zhang 4/6
Useful links:
Vega pairings and results
Tournament games in PGN
Lichess studies: round 1, round 2, round 3, round 4, round 5, round 6
Facebook photo album - many people in masks
Bill Forster's editorial - Wellington Open Impressions
Summit Rookies/Junior Rapid, Auckland
10th April 2022
Venue: Alexandra Park
U1800 (Vega)
1st: Emily Gan, 6/6!
2nd= Oliver Zhao, 5/6
2nd= Justin Wang, 5/6
Best U1250: Richard Liu, 3.5/6
Best U1000: Max Xia, 3/6
U1000 (Vega)
1st: Arush Gupta, 5.5/6
2nd: Xavier Chen, 5/6
3rd=: Ethan Tai, 4.5/5
3rd=: Jayden Huang, 4.5/5
3rd=: Ryan Gao, 4.5/5
Best U550: Veda Chen, 4/6
Best U200: Luna Lu, 4.5/6
Summit Online Rookies/Junior Rapid, Auckland
6th March 2022
Venue: Online, Tornelo
Tournament link: Tornelo.
U1800
1st=: Alexander Coates
1st=: Ryan Hwang
1st=: Justin Zhide Wang
U1000
1st: Xavier Chen
2nd: Alex Wang
3rd=: Brian Li
3rd=: Ryan Gao
Summit Online Rookies/Junior Rapid, Auckland
13th February 2022
Venue: Online, Tornelo
Tournament link: Tornelo.
U1800
1st: Eric Mironov
2nd: Wanyao Sarah Sun
3rd: Tejasvi Kichavadi
U1000
1st: Great Boyou Lau
2nd: William Si
3rd: Alex Wang
129th NZ Chess Congress, Christchurch
January 2nd-12th 2022
Championship
1st and New Zealand Champion FM Daniel Gong 7.5/9
2nd CM Felix Xie 7/9
3rd= IM Anthony Ker, FM Nic Croad 6/9
Major Open
1st Euan McDougall 7.5/9
2nd Karl Holdo 7/9
3rd Kian Dharmasena 6.5/9
Rapid
1st IM Russell Dive 8/9
2nd= WCM Isabelle Ning, CM Felix Xie, Michael Sole 7/9
Lightning
1st CM Felix Xie 8.5/9
2nd FM Daniel Gong 8/9
3rd IM Russell Dive 7/9
Junior Championship
NZ joint junior champions - Ollie Archer, Gavith Dharmasena 6/7
Girl Champion - WCM Isabelle Ning 5/7
U16 Ollie Archer 6/7
U14 Isabelle Ning 5/7
U12 Emily Gan, William Rui Liu, and Ryan Hwang 4/7
U10 Justin Zhide Wang 4/7
U8 Leo Yitao Lian 3/7
All tournament results are on Vega: Championship, Major Open, Rapid, Lightning, NZ Junior, Canterbury Open.
Organisers: Canterbury Chess Club.
Venue: Riccarton Park, 165 Riccarton Racecourse Road, Sockburn, Christchurch
Prize fund: $10,000 Update 13th July - increased from previous $8000
Main events: 9 rounds over 9 days (January 2nd-10th), followed by Rapid and Lightning (January 11th and 12th).
Seven Round NZ Junior and Age Group championships and a Canterbury Open are scheduled
during the mornings of seven days of the main tournaments so that keen players can play two significant tournaments at once.
Entry form here.
South Island Championship, Christchurch
December 8th-11th 2021 (postponed from October 13th-16th)
1st CM David Cilia Vincenti 4.5/6
2nd= Briene Membrere, Nick Cummings, FM Stephen Lukey 4/6
Nick Cummings and Stephen Lukey are South Island residents and therefore South Island Champions.
Tournament report here.
Venue: Canterbury Chess Club, 9/27 Tyne Street, Addington, Christchurch.
Format: 8 round Swiss, 2 rounds per day, time control 90+30, NZCF & FIDE-rated where possible.
Organised by Canterbury Chess Club, contact Craig Hall, Email: canterbury@chess.org.nz.
Entry form available here.
Follow on Vega here.
South Island Rapid Championship, Christchurch
December 12th 2021 (postponed from October 17th)
1st= Brent Perrin, Briene Membrere 5/6
3rd= McNabb, Matthew McNabb, Ryan Koo 4.5/6
Venue: Canterbury Chess Club, 9/27 Tyne Street, Addington, Christchurch.
Format: 6 round Swiss, time control 25+5, NZCF & FIDE-rated where possible.
Organised by Canterbury Chess Club, contact Craig Hall, Email: canterbury@chess.org.nz.
Entry form available here.
Follow on Vega here.
Summit Junior Rapid, Auckland
December 12th 2021
Open
1st= Francisco Nascimento, CM Lucas Xiao, William Rui Liu, Max Xia 5/6
U1000
1st Oscar Cui 5.5/6
2nd= Patrick Jiang, Laura Yang 5/6
This tournament is being held online. Here is a
Tournament Link.
There are two 6 round 15+5, Open and U1000 divisions.
The open division players need to use an external camera.
Venue: 99B Gillies Ave, Epsom, Auckland.
Two divisions: Open (FIDE and NZCF rapid rated) and U1000 (NZCF rapid rated).
Format: Six-round Swiss, 15mins+5 secs.
Organised by Summit Chess Club, contact Ying Wang, Email: ywang@outlook.co.nz.
Follow on Vega: Open,
U1000.
Entry form available here.
NZ Open Seniors Online Championships, Online
November 26th-28th 2021 (Originally scheduled as OTB September 17th-19th)
1st= FM Bob Gibbons, CM Hilton Bennett 5/6
3rd Anthony Carpinter 4/6
Pos NAME Rtg T Fed Pts | 1 2 3 4 5 6 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Gibbons, Robert E 2083 FM NZL 5.0 | +B8 +W7 =BYE =W2 +B4 +W6 2 Bennett, Hilton P 2056 CM NZL 5.0 | +W11 +B4 +W6 =B1 +W3 =B5 3 Carpinter, Anthony L 2239 NZL 4.0 | =BYE =BYE +B5 +W7 -B2 +W9 4 Taylor, Richard 1954 CM NZL 3.5 | +B14 -W2 +B12 =W5 -W1 +B11 5 Spiller, Paul S 2030 CM NZL 3.0 | +W12 =B6 -W3 =B4 =W8 =W2 6 McIntosh, Andrew D 1781 NZL 3.0 | +W10 =W5 -B2 =B9 +W7 -B1 7 Gold, Hamish R 1883 NZL 3.0 | +W9 -B1 +W14 -B3 -B6 +W12 8 Joel, Chris (W) 1859 NZL 2.5 | -W1 =B9 +W10 =BYE =B5 -- 9 Hooton, Barry R 1597 NZL 2.5 | -B7 =W8 =B11 =W6 +W12 -B3 10 Metge, J Nigel 2044 NZL 2.0 | -B6 -W12 -B8 =BYE =W11 +BYE 11 Kerr, Grant 1798 NZL 1.5 | -B2 -W14 =W9 =B12 =B10 -W4 12 Cooper, Nigel 1770 NZL 1.5 | -B5 +B10 -W4 =W11 -B9 -B7 13 Guico, Leonides (W) 1971 NZL 1.0 | =BYE =BYE -- -- -- -- 14 Booth, Anthony J (W) 1599 NZL 1.0 | -W4 +B11 -B7 -- -- --
A PGN download is available here.
The NZCF tournament page which was a convenient portal for viewing the tournament is here.
Full results on Vega.
This tournament was originally planned as the official NZCF Senior Champs, but was played online instead in response to a Covid restrictions. There was no prize money and a reduced entry fee of $25, and no official ratings. The tournament was played in a spirit of friendship with no need for the normal rules surrounding cameras etc. Rating was Lichess only and optional.
Format: 6 round Swiss, over 3 days.
Eligibility: Players must be born before 1972.
Time control: 90 mins plus 30 sec per move.
Intl Arbiter: Bruce Pollard.
Online director: Timothy Ha.
Hosted by the Howick-Pakuranga chess club, contact Paul Spiller email: PaulSSpiller@outlook.com.
Entry Fee: $25 per player. Club Account for payment – BNZ 02 0168 0091321 01 Please state Name & NZSenior
This original entry form still has some useful information, where it conflicts with this calendar notice, the calendar notice is more up to date.
Entries and payments will still be administered by HPCC treasurer Ludi Zhang.
Summit Online U1800 & Junior Championships, Online
November 21st 2021
U1800
1st Francisco Nascimento 6/6
2nd= Emily Gan, Alice Wei, Justin Wang, Alexander Coates 4.5/6
Junior
1st Leo Xiao 6/6
2nd Adele Zhou 5.5/6
3rd= Maxwell Tu, Bruce Ay, Luna Xu 5/6
Two online tournaments, U1800 (FIDE or NZCF) and Junior, on Tornelo.com
The format is 6 rounds Swiss, 25 minutes + 5 seconds. Unrated. First round will start at 10am.
Players need to register on Tornelo website.
This is the Tornelo tournament link.
Please check all the details here.
Eastern Asia Youth Online Chess Championship
September 24th-3rd 2021
A total of 49 New Zealand players competed in this online tournament. Many NZL players achieved a plus score including WCM Isabelle Ning 6.5/9 U12 Girls, Justin Wang 6.5/9 U10 Boys, and Daqi Mao 6/9 U10 Boys. This results page includes all results of all NZL players from all groups in all rounds.
Asian Women's Online Championship, Online
August 23rd-26th, 2021
WFM Vyanla Punsalan scored 4/9 and Emily Gan scored 3/9 in the Asian Women's Online Championship.
FIDE Online Olympiad, Online
August 27-29th, 2021
NZL played in Division 3A.
Here is the 9 round 10 team, round-robin schedule. Note than NZ time is 12 hours ahead of UTC, so our games are
quite conveniently scheduled for 8pm, 9pm and 10pm on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
The player pairings appear here immediately before each round.
Our team is ably captained by the tireless Timothy Ha and comprises Allen Fan, Dylan Piwari, Sophia Feng, Yolanda Chang, Oliver Picken, Isabelle Ning, Felix Xie, Ryan Winter, Anya Thurner, Emily Gan, Alex Coates and Ritika Joseph.
Timothy has provided links for following the NZL action as follows; Here is a final PGN of New Zealand games and here are our final results;
Player | SRI | NEP | JPN | MAS | IPCA | THA | KOR | TPE | FIJ | Sum | |
Boards 1-2 Open |
Fan, Allen Chi Zhou | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 1.5/6 | |||
Piwari, Dylan Tama | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1/3 | |||||||
Xie, Felix | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3/5 | |||||
Winter, Ryan | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5/4 | ||||||
Boards 3-4 Women |
Feng, Sophia | 0 | 0.5 | 0.5/2 | |||||||
Chang, Yolanda | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0.5/5 | |||||
Thurner, Anya | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0.5/6 | ||||
Gan, Emily | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2/5 | |||||
Boards 5 U20 Open |
Picken, Oliver | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 1/6 | |||
Coates, Alex | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1/3 | |||||||
Boards 4 U20 Girl |
Ning, Isabelle Yixuan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 1 | 1 | 2.5/7 | ||
Joseph, Ritika | 1 | 1 | 2/2 | ||||||||
NZL | Total | 1/6 | 2.5/6 | 0.5/6 | 1/6 | 1/6 | 1/6 | 2/6 | 2.5/6 | 4.5/6 |
FIDE Cadets and Youth Rapid World Cup, Online
August 1st - August 31st, 2021
The first stage of the tournament is complete. The following sections included NZ players.
Open U10 Open U12 Open U16 Open U18 Girls U10 Girls U12 Girls U14
Here is a NZL overview (kind of - the normally reliable chess-results website is a little confusing on this occasion).
Five different age groups (U10, U12, U14, U16, U18) and two sections, Open and Girls. Participants must have been age qualified on January 1st 2021. So for example U10 participants must have been under 10, i.e. had not yet reached their 10th birthday, at the start of this calendar year. NZCF may select up to three participants in each group and section, so up to 3 x 5 x 2 = 30 players in total.
The tournament has two stages, 10 round Swiss tournaments in the first stage (through August 20th), then a knockout stage for a limited number of qualifying players.
More details are available on the FIDE Calendar here.
Summit Junior Rapid, Auckland
August 8th 2021
Open
1st Justin Wang 6/6
2nd Francisco Nascimento 5/6
3rd= Victor Coen, William Liu, Brillion Lau, Sophia Feng 4.5/6
Best U1300 Annie Yue 4/6
Best U1200 Pranav Shenoy 4/6
U1000
1st Richard Liu 7/7
2nd= Bosco Jin, Sam Lin, Kyan Zhang 6/7
Best U500 1st Claire Gu 5/7, 2nd Isaac Gu 5/7
Best U200 1st Jeremy Xu 5/7, 2nd Luna Xu 4.5/7
Venue: Lyell Creek Lounge, Alexandra Park, Greenlane
Two divisions: Open (FIDE and NZCF rapid rated) and U1000 (NZCF rapid rated).
Format: Six-round Swiss, 15mins+5 secs.
Organised by Summit Chess Club, contact Ying Wang, Email: ywang@outlook.co.nz.
U1000.
Full results on Vega: Open,
U1000.
Entry form available here.



Open 1st Justin Wang
Open 2nd Francisco Nascimento
Open 3rd= Victor Coen, William Liu, Brillion Lau and Sophia Feng



Open Best U1200 Pranav Shenoy
U1000 1st Richard Liu
U1000 2nd= Kyan Zhang and Sam Lin (absent Bosco Jin)

U1000 Best U200 Jeremy Xu
Northland Open, Whangarei
July 31st-August 1st 2021
Results will hopefully be available in due course.
Venue: Henderson Reeves, 96 Bank Street, Whangarei Central.
Six-round Swiss, 30 minutes per player per game, 3 games per afternoon from 12.30pm
Free entry, koha welcomed to buy more chess sets for Whangarei Chess Club.
Online entry via the <a href=https://whangareichess.wordpress.com/">club website.
Poppies Bookshop Chess Challenge, Howick
July 24th 2021
Venue: Poppies Bookshop, 83 Picton St, Howick.
A six game blitz match between NZ rapid champion Felix Xie and CM Oliver Picken. This promotional event
celebrates FIDE International Chess Day. Co-sponsored by the Howick Business Association and Howick-Pakuranga
Chess Club.
Organiser Paul Spiller.
Felix Xie won the last game to win a close and exciting match, final score 3.5-2.5.

Noses to the window as Oliver Picken (Black) faces Felix Xie under the watchful eye of Dr Tony Booth
George Trundle, Auckland
July 10th-18th 2021
Masters
1st IM Paul Garbett 7/9
2nd FM Alphaeus Ang 6.5/9
3rd= FM Mike Steadman, CM David Cilia Vincenti 5.5/9
Qualifiers
1st CM Richard Meng 7.5/9
2nd CM Alex Nagorski 6/9
3rd= CM Hilton Bennett, FM Robert Gibbons 5.5/9
Reserves
1st Aaron Ziwen Wang 8/9
2nd Zachary Yu 6.5/9
3rd= Simon Lyall, WCM Nadia Braganza 5/9
Talents
1st Lucas Barnett-Harris 7/9
2nd= Emily Gan, David Junyang Zhu 6.5/9
Venue: Auckland Chess Centre, 17 Cromwell Street, Mt Eden, Auckland.
Format: Nine round robin, 90mins+30 secs with an extra 30mins at move 40, FIDE and NZCF rated.
The George Trundle is one of the jewels in the crown of New Zealand chess.
The luxuriant format is four individual nine round, ten player, classical round robin tournaments
with an ideal one round per day, starting at 2pm, schedule.
The four tournaments are known as the Masters, Qualifiers, Reserves and Talents.
The entry fee is $100, only 40 players can be accommodated, get your entry in early.
More details on the tournament website https://newzealandchess.nz/george-trundle-2021/
Normalised crosstables for this tournament will be archived in the tournament archives (so far only the Masters grade).
Summit Junior Rapid, Auckland
July 11th 2021
Open
1st Justin Wang 5/6
2nd= Daniel Wang, Tejasvi Kichavadi 4.5/6
Best U1300 Oliver Zhao 4/6
Best U1200 Mantra Bhatt 3.5/6
U1000
1st Harvey Zhang 5.5/6
2nd= Bosco Jin, Max Xia, Mini Nguyen, Grishma Kichavadi 5/6
Best U500
William Si, Ethan Sun 4.5/6
Best U200
Zi Yao Wang
Venue: 99B Gillies Ave, Epsom, Auckland.
Two divisions: Open (FIDE and NZCF rapid rated) and U1000 (NZCF rapid rated).
Format: Six-round Swiss, 15mins+5 secs.
Organised by Summit Chess Club, contact Ying Wang, Email: ywang@outlook.co.nz.
Full results on Vega: Open,
U1000.
Entry form available here.



Open 1st Justin Wang
Open 2nd= Daniel Wang and Tejasvi Kichavadi
Open Best U1200 Mantra Bhatt and Best U1300 Oliver Zhao



U1000 1st Harvey Zhang
U1000 2nd= Grisham Kichavadi, Max Xia, Minh Nguyen and Bosco Jin
U1000 best U500 William Si and Ethan Sun

U1000 best U200 Zi Yao Wang
Auckland Girls’ Chess Championship, Auckland
July 2nd 2021
Venue: Mt Albert War Memorial Hall, 751-761 New North Rd, Mt Albert
Time 9:00 am to 2:30 pm.
Format: Three separate 6 round tournaments in age groups: Over 12, Under 12 and Under 10 years.
Time Control: 15 minutes plus 5 seconds per move for each player.
Prizes: Age group titles awarded for Under 18, 16, 14, 12, 10, 8, and 6 (at least 3 players required in each group for a title/medal).
Trophies and medals for place-getters, plus participation certificates for all players.
This is part of an NZCF initiative to encourage girls to try chess in an all-girl environment, organised by the Waitakere Chess Club with the support of the Auckland Chess Association.
Download entry form here.
See also
the tournament website.
Crosstables are available as a spreadsheet download or as Swiss Perfect HTLMs for the separate sections:
Open Section, Under 12, Under 10.


230 girls compete in the 21st Auckland Girls’ Chess Championship 2021 at Mt Albert War Memorial Hall. The stage was used for the first time to accommodate the large number.
Over 12 Section winners with organisers Viv and Bob Smith. Players from left to right: 2nd= Sophia Su (Macleans College), Sylvia McDougall (Mt Roskill Grammar), Champion Overall Nadia Braganza (Carmel College) and 2nd= Tyleah Po’e-Tofaeono (St Cuthbert’s College)


Under 18 medallists: 1st= Sophia Su (Macleans College) and Sylvia McDougall (Mt Roskill Grammar) with 3rd place Evita Land (Rangitoto College)
Left to right, 3rd = Under 16: Saasha Ghadiali (Epsom Girls’ Grammar), Celia Chanwong (Mt Roskill Grammar), Anika Pattni (Macleans College), Emma Thorburn (Hauraki Plains College), Amber Neilinili (One Tree Hill College) and Artemis Shuang (Diocesan School for Girls)


Left to right 2nd = Under 14: Cherry Rui Chen Wang (Takapuna Normal Int) and Charlotte Ray (Diocesan School for Girls) with winner Tyleah Po’e-Tofaeono (St Cuthbert’s College)
3rd = Under 12: Annie Yu (St Kentigern College), Emily Gan (Milford School), Grace Fu (Point View School), Nicole Xiaoyin Zhao (New Windsor School) and Weiyang (Cadence) Yu (Diocesan School for Girls)


On the right Under 8 Champion Sandra Hou (Sancta Maria Catholic Primary) plays white against Brooke Phillips (Hingaia Peninsular School)
3rd = Under 10: Vonara Pathiranage (Willow Park School), Alice Wei (Upper Harbour Primary School), Annie Zi Yue Ye (Sunnyhills School), Alyssa Wanru Yuan (St Cuthbert’s College), Adele Zhou (St Cuthbert’s College), Abigail Thomas (Mt Roskill Primary). Missing Claire Gu (Willow Park School) and Sandra Hou (Sancta Maria Catholic Primary)



Under 16 champion Nadia Braganza (Carmel College) with runner-up Renae Ghadiali (Epsom Girls)
Under 12 Champions: Sophia Feng (ACG Sunderland) and Sarah Sun Carmel College)
Under 10 Joint Champions: Tracy Tang (Botany Downs School) and Lauren Ng (Diocesan School For Girls)


2nd = Under 8 Jemima Brown (Home Schooled) actually under 6!
Furthest travelled Ann Joseph from Rotorua (St Mary’s Catholic School) playing in the Under 12s.
PRIZE WINNERS
Open section (over 12 years old)
Champion Overall: Nadia Braganza (Carmel College)
2nd= Tyleah Po’e-Tofaeono (St Cuthbert’s College), Sylvia McDougall (Mt Roskill Grammar), Sophia Su (Macleans College)
Under 18 Champions: 1st= Sylvia McDougall (Mt Roskill Grammar) and
Sophia Su (Macleans College)
3rd Evita Land (Rangitoto College)
Under 16 Champion: Nadia Braganza (Carmel College)
2nd Renae Ghadiali (Epsom Girls’ Grammar )
3rd= Saasha Ghadiali (Epsom Girls’ Grammar), Celia Chanwong (Mt Roskill Grammar), Anika Pattni (Macleans College), Emma Thorburn (Hauraki Plains College), Amber Neilinili (One Tree Hill College), Artemis Shuang (Diocesan School for Girls)
Under 14 Champion: Tyleah Po’e-Tofaeono (St Cuthbert’s College)
2nd= Charlotte Ray (Diocesan School for Girls), Cherry Rui Chen Wang (Takapuna Normal Intermediate)
Under 12 years section
Under 12 Champions: 1st= Sophia Feng (ACG Sunderland), Sarah Sun (Carmel College)
3rd= Annie Yu (St Kentigern College), Emily Gan (Milford School), Grace Fu (Point View School), Nicole Xiaoyin Zhao (New Windsor School), Weiyang (Cadence) Yu (Diocesan School for Girls).
Under 10 years section
Under 10 Champions: 1st = Tracy Tang (Botany Downs School) and Lauren Ng (Diocesan School For Girls)
3rd= Vonara Pathiranage (Willow Park School), Alice Wei (Upper Harbour Primary School), Annie Zi Yue Ye (Sunnyhills School), Alyssa Wanru Yuan (St Cuthbert’s College), Adele Zhou (St Cuthbert’s College), Claire Gu (Willow Park School), Sandra Hou (Sancta Maria Catholic Primary), Abigail Thomas (Mt Roskill Primary)
Under 8 Champion: Sandra Hou (Sancta Maria Catholic Primary)
2nd= Under 8: Luna Xu (Royal Oak School), Carol Wang (Arahoe Primary), Kayal Naya (Albany School), Lisa Shi (St Cuthbert’s College)
Jemima Brown (Home Schooled), Karina Gu (Mt Eden Normal School)
Over 12 Rankings
1 | Nadia Braganza | U16 | Carmel College | 6 |
2= | Tyleah Po'e-Tofaeono | U14 | St Cuthbert's College (Epsom) | 5 |
Sylvia McDougall | U18 | Mt Roskill Grammar | 5 | |
Sophia Su | U18 | Macleans College | 5 | |
5= | Renae Ghadiali | U16 | Epsom Girls Grammar School | 4.5 |
Charlotte Ray | U14 | Diocesan School For Girls | 4.5 | |
Cherry Rui Chen Wang | U14 | Takapuna Normal Intermediate | 4.5 | |
8= | Safiya Saheb | U14 | Mt Roskill Intermediate | 4 |
Saasha Ghadiali | U16 | Epsom Girls Grammar School | 4 | |
Kelly Chen | U14 | Waikowhai Intermediate | 4 | |
Celia Chanwong | U16 | Mt Roskill Grammar | 4 | |
Anika Pattni | U16 | Macleans College | 4 | |
Evita Land | U18 | Rangitoto College | 4 | |
Emma Thorburn | U16 | Hauraki Plains College | 4 | |
Amber Neilinili | U16 | One Tree Hill College | 4 | |
Carol Chai | U14 | Elim Christian College | 4 | |
Maya Ali | U14 | Mt Roskill Grammar | 4 | |
Artemis Shuang | U16 | Diocesan School For Girls | 4 | |
19= | Emily Chan | U14 | Bucklands Beach Intermediate | 3.5 |
Rosie Yang | U14 | Farm Cove Intermediate | 3.5 | |
21= | Allie O'Callaghan | U14 | Waikowhai Intermediate | 3 |
Vaishnavi Pillai | U14 | Blockhouse Bay Intermediate | 3 | |
Dania Sadiq | U14 | Mt Roskill Grammar | 3 | |
Rohaj Atulya | U14 | Auckland Normal Intermediate | 3 | |
Claire Phillips | U14 | Rosehill College | 3 | |
Hayley Barber-Gray | U14 | Glen Eden Intermediate | 3 | |
Riley Edwards | U16 | Rangitoto College | 3 | |
Malinda Guan | U18 | Macleans College | 3 | |
Chandulee Jayawardena | U14 | Auckland Normal Intermediate | 3 | |
Grace Field | U18 | Diocesan School For Girls | 3 | |
Jasmine Barber-Gray | U16 | Green Bay High School | 3 | |
Iriss Ced | U18 | One Tree Hill College | 3 | |
Jaishree Jayanathan | U16 | Macleans College | 3 | |
Fatemeh Karimi | U16 | One Tree Hill College | 3 | |
Sheryl Cheng | U16 | Mt Roskill Grammar | 3 | |
36= | Sophia Liu | U18 | Macleans College | 2.5 |
Samantha Kavumbura | U14 | Howick Intermediate | 2.5 | |
38= | Chloe Wang | U14 | Wentworth College | 2 |
Joyce Wang | U16 | Mt Roskill Grammar | 2 | |
Cheyenne Kirkman | U14 | Waikowhai Intermediate | 2 | |
Mika Ting | U18 | Mt Roskill Grammar | 2 | |
Lily Pearce | U14 | Howick Intermediate | 2 | |
Karen Wang | U18 | Mt Roskill Grammar | 2 | |
Peyton Sass | U14 | Northcross Intermediate | 2 | |
Amie Mao | U14 | Mt Roskill Grammar | 2 | |
Sammi Long | U16 | Mt Roskill Grammar | 2 | |
47= | Meryln Seelam | U16 | One Tree Hill College | 1.5 |
Alana McEvoy | U18 | Macleans College | 1.5 | |
Abigail Moxon | U14 | Northcross Intermediate | 1.5 | |
50= | Ismay Ilisio | U14 | Waikowhai Intermediate | 1 |
Billie McNaughton-Smale | U14 | Northcross Intermediate | 1 | |
Marcy Timoteo | U18 | One Tree Hill College | 1 | |
Sylvia Yu | U14 | Northcross Intermediate | 1 |
Under 12 Rankings
1= | Sophia Feng | U12 | ACG Sunderland | 5.5 |
Sarah Sun | U12 | Carmel College | 5.5 | |
3= | Annie Yue | U12 | Saint Kentigern College | 5 |
Emily Gan | U12 | Milford School (Auckland) | 5 | |
Grace Fu | U12 | Point View School | 5 | |
Nicole Xiaoyin Zhao | U12 | New Windsor School | 5 | |
Weiyang (Cadence) Yu | U12 | Diocesan School For Girls | 5 | |
8= | Anya Gupta | U12 | Freemans Bay School | 4.5 |
Elyse Llewellin | U12 | St Paul's School (Massey) | 4.5 | |
10= | Selina Huang | U12 | Blockhouse Bay Intermediate | 4 |
Kavin Nila | U12 | Albany Junior High School | 4 | |
Ann Mariya Joseph | U12 | St Mary's Catholic School (Rot | 4 | |
Malaika Chand | U12 | Mt Roskill Primary School | 4 | |
Jashmitha Maddala | U12 | Pinehill School (Browns Bay) | 4 | |
Richelle Brinner | U12 | Waikowhai Intermediate | 4 | |
Joyce Xinyue Liu | U12 | St Cuthbert's College (Epsom) | 4 | |
Laura Yang | U12 | Sunnyhills School | 4 | |
Kaylie Chen | U12 | Takapuna Normal Intermediate | 4 | |
Varsha Babu | U12 | Mt Roskill Intermediate | 4 | |
Miumiu Jin | U12 | ACG Sunderland | 4 | |
Kimberley Loh | U12 | Hillsborough School | 4 | |
Hamna Khan | U12 | Royal Oak Intermediate School | 4 | |
Sofia Dimayuga | U12 | St Paul's School (Massey) | 4 | |
24= | Luming (Isla) Wang | U12 | Bucklands Beach Intermediate | 3.5 |
Shenya Jayamanna | U12 | Albany School | 3 | |
Cerisa Gu | U12 | St Cuthbert's College (Epsom) | 3 | |
Jeynee Charles | U12 | Mt Roskill Primary School | 3 | |
Felicia Chen | U12 | Northcross Intermediate | 3 | |
Isabella Lamban | U12 | St Dominic's Catholic College | 3 | |
Janeilla Ketata | U12 | Waikowhai Intermediate | 3 | |
Honey Waiwai | U12 | Howick Intermediate | 3 | |
Arene Kong | U12 | Hillsborough School | 3 | |
Lucy Rive | U12 | Northcross Intermediate | 3 | |
Sophie Herde | U12 | Northcross Intermediate | 3 | |
Chelsia Isreyanaa | U12 | Mt Roskill Primary School | 3 | |
Ranya Perera | U12 | Royal Road School | 3 | |
Janvi Bhardwaj | U12 | Royal Oak Intermediate School | 3 | |
Cher Huang | U12 | Northcross Intermediate | 3 | |
Selina Wu | U12 | Kohia Terrace School | 3 | |
Lyla Turner | U12 | Northcross Intermediate | 3 | |
Quinlee Malaque | U12 | St Paul's School (Massey) | 3 | |
Ysabella Nimo | U12 | New Windsor School | 3 | |
Lily Ross | U12 | Royal Oak Intermediate School | 3 | |
Olivia Kumar | U12 | Northcross Intermediate | 3 | |
45= | Riddhi Thakor | U12 | Auckland Normal Intermediate | 2.5 |
Jade Parata | U12 | Tkkm O Piripono Te Kura Whakah | 2.5 | |
Portia Liupuhi | U12 | Pukekohe Christian School | 2.5 | |
48= | Kathleen Kampitan | U12 | St Joseph's Catholic Onehunga | 2 |
Olivia Rose | U12 | Northcross Intermediate | 2 | |
Bella Steedman | U12 | St Paul's School (Massey) | 2 | |
Romy Jiang | U12 | Kristin School | 2 | |
Jaimie Harris | U12 | Waikowhai Intermediate | 2 | |
Felicia Tibbles | U12 | Good Shepherd School (Balmoral | 2 | |
Zoe Matchett | U12 | Howick Intermediate | 2 | |
Ellen Zhan | U12 | Pukekohe Christian School | 2 | |
Chelsea Simpson | U12 | Northcross Intermediate | 2 | |
Chloe Chen | U12 | Blockhouse Bay Intermediate | 2 | |
Brianna Fisher | U12 | Northcross Intermediate | 2 | |
Nicola Pretorius | U12 | Howick Intermediate | 2 | |
Ariana Paver | U12 | Northcross Intermediate | 2 | |
Silver Schwager | U12 | Howick Intermediate | 2 | |
62= | Haeyn Shin | U12 | Willow Park School | 1.5 |
Samadhi Samara Thunga | U12 | Bucklands Beach Intermediate | 1.5 | |
Georgina Flores | U12 | St Joseph's Catholic (Onehunga | 1.5 | |
Tilly Rotherman | U12 | Waikowhai Intermediate | 1.5 | |
66= | Ana Do Espirito Santo Maciel | U12 | Freemans Bay School | 1 |
Annabelle Louw | U12 | Pukekohe Christian School | 1 | |
Melodee Galiki-Sale | U12 | Tkkm O Piripono Te Kura Whakah | 1 | |
Arya Kaul | U12 | Auckland Normal Intermediate | 1 |
Under 10 Rankings
1= | Tracy Tang | U10 | Botany Downs School | 6 |
Lauren Ng | U10 | Diocesan School For Girls | 6 | |
3= | Vonara Pathiranage | U10 | Willow Park School | 5 |
Alice Wei | U10 | Upper Harbour Primary School | 5 | |
Annie Zi Yue Ye | U10 | Sunnyhills School | 5 | |
Alyssa Wanru Yuan | U10 | St Cuthbert's College (Epsom) | 5 | |
Adele Zhou | U10 | St Cuthbert's College (Epsom) | 5 | |
Claire Gu | U10 | Willow Park School | 5 | |
Sandra Hou | U08 | Sancta Maria Catholic Primary | 5 | |
Abigail Thomas | U10 | Mt Roskill Primary School | 5 | |
11= | Iynah Jung | U10 | St Paul's School (Massey) | 4.5 |
Ayuni Rajapaksha | U10 | Willow Park School | 4.5 | |
Chloe Birzin | U10 | Willow Park School | 4.5 | |
14= | Thanulya Perera | U10 | Willow Park School | 4 |
Luna Xu | U08 | Royal Oak School | 4 | |
Carol Wang | U08 | Arahoe School | 4 | |
Brooke Phillips | U10 | Hingaia Peninsula School | 4 | |
Kayal Naya | U08 | Albany School | 4 | |
Mallory Zhiqi Eng | U10 | Cornwall Park District School | 4 | |
Lainia Galiki | U10 | Piriponi | 4 | |
Thiseni Gayansa Wijesooriya | U10 | Sunnybrae Normal School | 4 | |
Katie Feng | U10 | ACG Sunderland | 4 | |
Eunji Kim | U10 | St Paul's School (Massey) | 4 | |
Lisa Shi | U08 | St Cuthbert's College (Epsom) | 4 | |
Sissi Jin | U10 | Cockle Bay School | 4 | |
Michelle Dong | U10 | Willow Park School | 4 | |
Jemima Brown | U06 | Home Schooled | 4 | |
Lucy Chen | U10 | Balmoral School (Auckland) | 4 | |
Mana Bhavihal | U10 | Hillsborough School | 4 | |
Gloria Young | U10 | Pigeon Mountain School | 4 | |
Karina Gu | U08 | Mt Eden Normal School | 4 | |
32= | Megan Chen | U10 | Point View School | 3.5 |
Sophia Henderson | U10 | Diocesan School For Girls | 3.5 | |
Xinyi Xu | U08 | Titirangi School | 3.5 | |
Julia Cudicio | U08 | St Joseph's Catholic School (O | 3.5 | |
Dani Ramirez | U10 | Freemans Bay School | 3.5 | |
Katie Zhang | U10 | Diocesan School For Girls | 3.5 | |
Mindi Gallage | U08 | Albany School | 3.5 | |
Catherine Li | U10 | Diocesan School For Girls | 3.5 | |
Sophia Lin | U08 | Remuera School | 3.5 | |
Zenobia Menzies | U10 | Diocesan School For Girls | 3.5 | |
Sahithi Somaraju | U08 | Point View School | 3.5 | |
43= | Adalyn Tao | U10 | Diocesan School For Girls | 3 |
Annie Luong | U10 | Freemans Bay School | 3 | |
Angelina Yiru Pan | U08 | Pigeon Mountain School | 3 | |
Ellie Wang | U10 | Bucklands Beach Primary School | 3 | |
Herahinekio Afemata | U10 | Piriponi | 3 | |
Jessica Zhang | U10 | Cornwall Park District School | 3 | |
Jasmine Chambers | U10 | Pigeon Mountain School | 3 | |
Felicia Shen | U10 | Pinehurst School | 3 | |
Apple Lu | U10 | St Cuthbert's College (Epsom) | 3 | |
Olivia Harvey | U10 | St Paul's School (Massey) | 3 | |
Kinsley Chen | U06 | Willow Park School | 3 | |
Gabrielle Xinyu Yan | U10 | City Impact Church School | 3 | |
Anne Dai | U08 | Epsom Normal School | 3 | |
Navayah Viane | U10 | Hillsborough School | 3 | |
Melissa Xu | U10 | Mellons Bay School | 3 | |
Lindsay Lingxi Wu | U08 | Cockle Bay School | 3 | |
Kahleena Arama-Schwalger | U10 | St Paul's School (Massey) | 3 | |
Miya Zhang | U10 | Diocesan School For Girls | 3 | |
Reeya Cui | U10 | Diocesan School For Girls | 3 | |
Tessa O'Callaghan | U10 | Hillsborough School | 3 | |
Alice Jung | U10 | Diocesan School For Girls | 3 | |
Queenllion Yunzhen Lau | U08 | Sancta Maria Catholic Primary | 3 | |
Cindy Wang | U08 | Diocesan School For Girls | 3 | |
66= | Patience Katipa-Nathan | U10 | Piriponi | 2.5 |
Yina Zheng | U10 | Willow Park School | 2.5 | |
Georgia Aholima | U10 | St Paul's School (Massey) | 2.5 | |
Ariel Fu | U08 | Point View School | 2.5 | |
Elizabeth Harkison-Merrick | U10 | Good Shepherd School (Balmoral | 2.5 | |
Moka Paonga | U10 | New Windsor School | 2.5 | |
Oshadhi Godakanda Arachchige | U10 | Manuka Primary School | 2.5 | |
Elsa Feng | U10 | Willow Park School | 2.5 | |
Bianca Mcpherson | U08 | Willow Park School | 2.5 | |
Mia Mishriki | U10 | Bayfield School | 2.5 | |
Dani Chen | U10 | Papakura Central School | 2.5 | |
Luna Zhang | U10 | Diocesan School For Girls | 2.5 | |
Lola Croucher | U10 | Hillsborough School | 2.5 | |
Nina McDonald | U10 | Good Shepherd School (Balmoral | 2.5 | |
80= | Monica White | U10 | Diocesan School For Girls | 2 |
Grace Gatland | U10 | St Paul's School (Massey) | 2 | |
Daniella So | U08 | Arahoe School | 2 | |
Grace Umezaki | U10 | Diocesan School For Girls | 2 | |
Helena Fu | U08 | Diocesan School For Girls | 2 | |
Louisa Brunton | U10 | Pukekohe Christian School | 2 | |
Ava Hodgson | U10 | Good Shepherd School (Balmoral | 2 | |
Vikki Wu | U08 | Remuera School | 2 | |
Kyrene Anunuevo | U08 | St Paul's School (Massey) | 2 | |
Mei Mei Li | U08 | Willow Park School | 2 | |
Hanaia Toilalo | U10 | New Windsor School | 2 | |
Hope-Neriah Vaega | U10 | St Joseph's Catholic School (O | 2 | |
Matilda Loh | U08 | Hillsborough School | 2 | |
Valentina Diaz Segares | U10 | Freemans Bay School | 2 | |
Baoyi Chen | U08 | Diocesan School For Girls | 2 | |
Liberty Clifton | U10 | Hobsonville School | 2 | |
96= | Ella Ng-Wong | U08 | Freemans Bay School | 1.5 |
Indie Mercer | U08 | Willow Park School | 1.5 | |
Hannah Merrick | U10 | Willow Park School | 1.5 | |
Cynthia Wu | U08 | Remuera School | 1.5 | |
Lily Stebbings | U10 | Willow Park School | 1.5 | |
Saeyi Jon | U08 | Freemans Bay School | 1.5 | |
102= | Olivia Wang | U08 | Diocesan School For Girls | 1 |
Michelle Qiao | U08 | Willow Park School | 1 | |
Madison Yeoman | U08 | Willow Park School | 1 | |
Gabriella Thomas | U08 | Mt Roskill Primary School | 1 | |
Isa Bains | U08 | Diocesan School For Girls | 1 | |
107 | Raegan Knight | U08 | Freemans Bay School | 0 |
Charlotte Peters | U08 | Freemans Bay School | 0 |
Upper Hutt Open, Upper Hutt Open
June 19th 2021
A Grade - 1st= Anthony Ker and Russell Dive, 4.5/6
B Grade - 1st Thomas van der Hoorn 5/6, 2nd Josh Langford 4.5/6
C Grade - 1st Ollie Archer 5/6, 2nd Cohen Young 4.5/6
Junior - =1st Lucas Qu, Adam Ord 5/6
Venue:Hutt International Boys School, Granville Street,Trentham
Format: 6 Round Swiss, rapid time control 25+5, NZCF rated.
A, B, C and Junior Grades.
All details on the entry form
Otago Winter Rapid Open, Dunedin
June 13th 2021
The Otago Winter Rapid Open took place on Sunday 13th June with 28 players
from Otago and Southland. First place was a 4-way tie between Quentin Johnson,
Ben Suazo, Romero Suggate and Richie Christie on 4/5. The U1700 Grade was a
5-way tie on 3 points and so was the U1300 Grade on 2 points.
Full results here.
Venue: Otago Chess Club, 7 Maitland Street, Dunedin.
Format: 5 Round Swiss, rapid time control 25+5, NZCF rated.
Tournament website.
Contact: Quentin Johnson, 021 156 6789, email otagochess@gmail.com.
Download entry form here.
Summit Junior Rapid, Auckland
June 13th 2021
Open
1st= Baraa Zara, Tejasvi Kichavadi 5/6
3rd= Anderson Chen, Sophia Feng, Lucas Barnett-Harris 4.5/6
Best U1320 Brillion Lau 4/6
Best U1200 Sarah Sun 3/6
U1000
1st Kyan Zhang 6/6
2nd= Leo Xiao, Ryan Wei, Max Xia, Grace Fu 5/6
Best U500 1st Richard Liu 4/6, 2nd William Si 3/6
Best U200 Joshua Gibbin 4.5/6
Venue: 99B Gillies Ave, Epsom, Auckland.
Two divisions: Open (FIDE and NZCF rapid rated) and U1000 (NZCF rapid rated).
Format: Six-round Swiss, 15mins+5 secs.
Organised by Summit Chess Club, contact Ying Wang, Email: ywang@outlook.co.nz.
Follow on Vega: Open,
U1000.
Entry form available here.



Open 1st= Baraa Zara and Tejasvi Kichavadi
Open 3rd= Sophia Feng (not shown Anderson Chen and Lucas Barnett-Harris)
Open best U1200 Sarah Sun and best U1320 Brillion Lau



U1000 1st Kyan Zhang
U1000 2nd= Grace Fu, Ryan Wei, Leo Xiao and Max Xia
U1000 best U500 Richard Liu and best U200 Joshua Gibbin
43rd Trusts Chess Open, Auckland
June 5th-7th 2021
A Grade
1st IM Brodie McClymont (Australia) 6/6
2nd= FM Daniel Gong, IM Russell Dive 4.5/6
B Grade
1st Allen Li 5/6
2nd= Henry Vital, Clinton Wells, Karl Holdo, Euan McDougall 4.5/6
C Grade
1st Xavier Willoughby-Ansell 6/6
2nd Justine Cortez 5/6
3rd Fergus Lee, Anderson Chen, Eric Mironov 4.5/6
Junior
1st Charles Zhang 6/6
2nd= Haoran (William) Zhang, Franklyn Zhang 5/6
Venue: Te Pai Centre, Cnr Lincoln Rd and Te Pai Place, Henderson, Auckland.
Format: Four 6 round swisses – A, B, C and Junior.
Time Control: 90 minutes each plus 30 seconds a move.
Prizefund: $4500 including $700 for the winner of the A tournament.
Entry fee: $60 for the A,B and C tournaments, $45 for the junior tournament, with a family discount of $5 each player.
More details on the entry form here.
Organised by Waitakere Chess Club.
Contact: International Organiser Bob Smith 0274786282 email caissa1530@gmail.com.
Full results on Vega:
A Grade
B Grade
C Grade
Junior.
Live boards here.
Chess Power SuperChamps, Auckland
May 30th 2021
A Grade
1st FM Allen Fan 6/6
2nd FM Daniel Gong 5/6
3rd Aaron Wang 4/6
B Grade
1st Jonathon Hookings 6/6
2nd= Nicholas McKinlay, Hayden Steele, Peter Zhou, Felix MacKenzie 4/6
C Grade
1st Matthew Kim 5.5/6
2nd Brillion Lau, John Nguyen 5/6
Organised by Chess Power in association with the Waitakere Chess Club
Venue: Eden Rugby Football Club, Gribblehurst Park, 225 Sandringham Road, Kingsland, Auckland
Eligibility: Restricted to players 18 and under.
Three 6-round swiss tournaments (grades A to C), NZCF & FIDE rapid rated where possible
Format: 6 round swiss, 25 minutes + 5 secs.
Details and Entry form here.
View the tournament flyer here.
Full results on Vega:
A Grade
B Grade
C Grade.
Kāpiti Rapid, Paraparaumu
May 29th 2021
Open / A Grade (over 1800)
1st Russell Dive 5½/6
2nd= Brian Nijman, Anthony Ker 5/6
B Grade (1400-1800)
1st = Andrew Brockway, Thomas Van der Hoorn, Joshua Langford, Brent Perrin 4/6
C Grade (Under 1400)
1st Mathieson Carlyle 4/6
2nd= Aidan Malcolm, Eric Zaslow 3½/6
Junior 14+
Gold: Ryan Winter 4½/6
Silver: Thomas Van der Hoorn 4/6
Junior Under 14’s
Gold: Kayden Loke 4/6
Silver: Zac Li 3½/6
Full results on Vega: Full crosstable, results by grade, results for juniors by age group.
Full report on the club website.
Venue: Salvation Army Hall, 41 Bluegum Rd, Paraparaumu.
Format: 6 round Swiss tournaments, NZCF Rapid Rated where possible.
Time Control: 25 Minutes each player plus 5 seconds increment per move.
Organised by the Kāpiti Chess Club. Contact Gordon Lyall, email gordon.lyall@outlook.com.
Full details on the Entry Form.
Auckland May Weekender 2021, Auckland
May 22nd-23rd 2021
1st FM Alphaeus Ang 22/27 (Rapid 7.5/9, Blitz 7/9, Rapid points count double)
2nd FM Mike Steadman 20/27 (6.5,7)
3rd= FM Daniel Gong 19.5/27 (6.5,6.5), Felix Xie 19.5/27 (7,5.5)
Full results on the Event website.
Format: Two Swiss tournaments, 9 rounds Blitz (3+2) and 9 rounds Rapid (25+5). FIDE and NZCF rated where possible.
Final standings determined by combining both tournaments scores, Rapid games have double value of Blitz games.
Only first 50 fully paid player entries accepted due to space constraints.
2021 Martin Sims Memorial, Palmerston North
16th May 2021
1st= Ryan Winter, Brian Nijman & Erwin Koestanto 5/6
Under 18 1st= Henry Zaslow and Kayden Loke 5/6
Full results on Vega: Open,
Under 18.
Venue: Takaro Bowling Club 2-14 Featherston St, Palmerston North.
Format: 6 round Swiss tournaments, NZCF Rapid Rated where possible.
Time Control: 25 Minutes each player plus 5 seconds increment per move.
Organised by Mark Noble, email ManawatuKnights@xtra.co.nz.
Entry form available here.
Summit Junior Rapid, Auckland
May 9th 2021
Open
1st Wiliam Liu 5.5/6
2nd Baraa Zara 5/6,
3rd= Emily Gan Victor Coen 4.5/6
Best U1250 Weiyang Yu 4/6
Best U1200 Brillion Lau 3.5/6
U1000
1st Leo Lian 6/6
2nd= Maxwell Xiao Anson Li 5/6
Best U700 Kohtaro Nozaki 4.5/6
Best U500 1st Emmanuel Marve 4.5/6, 2nd Richard Liu 4/6
Venue: 99B Gillies Ave, Epsom, Auckland.
Two divisions: Open (FIDE and NZCF rapid rated) and U1000 (NZCF rapid rated).
Format: Six-round Swiss, 15mins+5 secs.
Organised by Summit Chess Club, contact Ying Wang, Email: ywang@outlook.co.nz.
Full results on Vega: Open,
U1000.
Entry form available here.



Open 1st William Liu
Open 2nd Baraa Zara
Open 3rd= Emily Gan and Victor Coen



Open Best U1250 Weiyang Yu
Open Best U1200 Brillion Lau
U1000 1st Leo Lian



U1000 2nd= Maxwell Xiao and Anson Li
U1000 Best U700 Kohtaro Nozaki
U1000 Best U500 1st Emmanuel Marve

U1000 Best U500 2nd Richard Liu
Arie Nijman Memorial, Christchurch
May 7th-9th 2021
1st CM Edward Rains 5.5/6
2nd= FM Stephen Lukey, Gavith Dharmasena 4.5/6
U2000 1st= Kendrick Zhang, Ross Black, Andrew Masters, Karl Holdo 3.5/6
U1700 1st Kian Dharmasena 3/6
A games PGN is available here.
Venue: Canterbury Chess Club, 9/27 Tyne Street, Addington, Christchurch.
Format: 6 round Swiss, 1 round Friday evening, 3 rounds Saturday, 2 rounds Sunday, time control 90+30, NZCF & FIDE-rated where possible.
Organised by Canterbury Chess Club, contact Craig Hall, Email: canterbury@chess.org.nz.
Full results on Vega: here.
Entry form available here.
Chess Power Junior Masters, Auckland
April 27th - May 1st 2021
Group 1
1st= Peter Ladur, Anya Thurner 8/9
3rd Eric Mironov 7/9
Group 2
1st Pamiru Gallage 7/9
2nd Sean Wang 5.5/9
3rd Hayden Steele 5/9
JUNIOR MASTERS GROUP 1 1 17768JM Ladur, Peter unr W7 bye W8 W6 W9* D3 W4 D2 W5 8 36 2 16363JF Thurner, Anya AC 1812 W5 W7 bye W8 W6 W9* D3 D1 W4 8 36 3 17399JM Mironov, Eric AC 1219* bye W8 W6 W9* W4 D1 D2 W5 L7 7 4 17295PF Feng, Sophia AC 1305 W6 D5 W9* W7 L3 bye L1 W8 L2 5½ 5 16724JF Wang, Cherry Ruichen NS 1750* L2 D4 W7 bye W8 L6 W9* L3 L1 4½ 6 17344PM Tao, Junqing Jerome WT unr L4 W9 L3 L1 L2 W5 W7 bye L8 4 40 7 17082PF Zhou, Adele AC 1054* L1 L2 L5 L4 bye W8 L6 W9* W3 4 40 8 16790PM Zhou, Peter NS 1137* W9 L3 L1 L2 L5 L7 bye L4 W6 3 9 17524JM Nguyen, Bao Le Minh AC unr L8 L6 L4* L3* L1* L2* L5* L7* - 0
JUNIOR MASTERS GROUP 2 1 16844JM Gallage, Pamiru M G K 1012* W6 W7 W4 W8 - W9 L3 W5 W2 7 2 17772PM Wang, Sean unr W9 L3 D5 - W6 W7 W4 W8 L1 5½ 3 17771JM Steele, Hayden unr L5 W2 W6 W7 L4 W8 W1 L9 - 5 4 16926JM Kang, Bryan AC 974 - W8 L1 W9 W3 D5 L2 L6 W7 4½ 31½ 5 17187JM Wang, Christopher HP 1152* W3 - D2 L6 D7 D4 W8 L1 W9 4½ 31½ 6 17425JM Pal, Anish unr L1 W9 L3 W5 L2 - L7 W4 W8 4 7 17773JM Hayat, Yahya unr L8 L1 W9 L3 D5 L2 W6 - L4 2½ 8 17769PM Choi, Kyan unr W7 L4 - L1 W9 L3 L5 L2 L6 2 9 17770PM Bhatia, Maan unr L2 L6 L7 L4 L8 L1 - W3 L5 1
Organised by Chess Power in association with the Waitakere Chess Club
Venue: Eden Rugby Football Club, Gribblehurst Park, 225 Sandringham Road, Kingsland, Auckland
Eligibility: Restricted to players 18 and under.
Six 9-round round-robin tournaments (grades A to F), NZCF & FIDE standard rated where possible
Format: 10 player round robin, 1 hour 15 minutes + 30 secs.
Details and Entry form here.
View the tournament flyer here.
Auckland ANZAC Weekender 2021, Auckland
April 24th-26th 2021
Open
1st FM Alphaeus Wei Ern Ang 6/6
2nd= Daqi Mao, Xintong (Winston) Weng, Alex Nagorski 5/6
5th= CM David Cilia Vincenti, FM Michael V R Steadman, CM Edward Rains 4.5/6
Under 1800
1st= Daqi Mao, Xintong (Winston) Weng, Alex Nagorski 5/6
Under 1500 and Over 1200
1st= Matthew Chen, Lucas Barnett-Harris, Narasimhan Lakshmi Ravi, Alex Coates 3.5/6
Under 1200
1st= Charlotte Ray, Weiyang Yu, Annie Yue 3/6
Venue: Auckland Chess Centre, 17 Cromwell Street, Mt Eden, Auckland.
Format: 6 round Swiss tournament, time control 90+30, NZCF & FIDE rated where possible.
Only first 50 fully paid player entries accepted due to space constraints.
Full details and results via Event website.
Summit Junior Rapid, Auckland
April 18th 2021
Open
1st= Daqi Mao, Hunter Po'e-Tofaeono 5/6
3rd= William Rui Liu, Nicholas Xu 4.5/6
Best U1300 Weiyang Yu 3.5/6
Best U1150 Mantra Bhatt 3.5/6
U1000
1st Dexuan (Derek) Meng 6/6
2nd= Leo Lian, Maxwell Yu 5/6
Best U500 Richard Liu, Ethan Taoran Sun 4/6
Best U200 Ruofan Sun 4.5/6
Venue: 99B Gillies Ave, Epsom, Auckland.
Two divisions: Open (FIDE and NZCF rapid rated) and U1000 (NZCF rapid rated).
Format: Six-round Swiss, 15mins+5 secs.
Organised by Summit Chess Club, contact Ying Wang, Email: ywang@outlook.co.nz.
Full results on Vega: Open,
U1000.
Entry form available here.



Open 1st= Daqi Mao, Hunter Po'e-Tofaeono
Open 3rd= William Liu and Nicholas Xu
Open Best U1150 Mantra Bhatt



U1000 1st Dexuan (Derek) Meng
U1000 2nd= Leo Lian and Maxwell Yu
U1000 Best U500 Ethan Taoran Sun (missing: Richard Liu)

U1000 Best U200 Ruofan Sun
Bob Wade Memorial, Auckland
April 10th 2021
A Grade
1st GM Gawain Jones 5.5/6
2nd FM Mike Steadman 5/6
3rd= FM Alphaeus Ang & Felix Xie 4.5/6
B Grade
1st Zachary Yu 5.5/6
2nd= Lim, Louis Lim, Euan McDougall, Hunter Po'e-Tofaeono, Anderson Chen 5/6
Venue: Howick Bowling Club, 33 Selwyn Road, Howick
A one day tournament on the date of the 100th birthday of the great New Zealand player Bob Wade 1921-2008.
Two Tournaments: Open and B Grade (under 1800). FIDE and NZCF rapid rated where possible.
Format: Six-round Swiss, 25mins+5 secs.
Entry form here.
Full results on Vega: Open U1800.
Dinner Invitation here.



A Grade 1st GM Gawain Jones
A Grade 2nd FM Mike Steadman
A Grade 3rd= FM Alphaeus Ang, Felix Xie



B Grade 1st Zachary Yu
B Grade 2nd= Anderson Chen, Hunter Po'e-Tofaeono, Euan McDougall and Louis Lim
Gawain Jones and Paul Spiller at the Celebratory Dinner
North Island Championships, Wellington
April 2nd-5th 2021
1st GM Gawain Jones 8/8
2nd= Felix Xie, Athula Kankanamge 6.5
4th= FM Scott Wastney, FM Daniel Gong, FM Michael Steadman, Gino Thornton 6
Daniel Gong was awarded Best Junior and Scott, Michael, and Gino shared the 4th= equal prize.
Felix Xie and Athula Kankanamge are North Island residents and so are joint North Island Champions for 2021.
B Grade
1st= Philli Park-Tamati, Simon Lyall 5.5
3rd Brent Perrin 5
C Grade
1st Nicholas Paetsch 5.5
2nd= Nicholas Winsley, Jamie Webster 4.5
Venue: Naumi Studio Hotel, 213 Cuba Street
Organising Club: Wellington Chess Club
Eight rounds of 90+30 classical chess, two rounds per day.
Full details on the entry form here.
Full results on Vega: here.
Asian U14 Online Championships
March 27th-29th 2021
Chess-Results official results Open Girls.
Open team: Oscar Qin / Kendrick Zhang / Baraa Zara / Sai Somaraju / Emily Gan
Round 1, Open - NZL vs Sri Lanka 'C' - 2.5 : 1.5
Round 2, Open - NZL vs Bangladesh Green - 1 : 3
Round 3, Open - NZL vs Mongolia Team 2 - 1.5 : 2.5
Round 4, Open - NZL vs Lebanon 'A' - 4 : 0
Round 5, Open - NZL vs Sri Lanka 'A' - 1.5 : 2.5
Round 6, Open - NZL vs Hong Kong - 2.5 : 1.5
Round 7, Open - NZL vs Thailand Team 1 - 0.5 : 3.5
Round 8, Open - NZL vs Maldives 1 - 3.5 : 0.5
Round 9, Open - NZL vs Malaysia Challengers - 1.5 : 2.5
Girls team: Isabelle Ning / Anya Thurner / Yolanda Chang / Sophia Feng / Ritika Joseph
Round 1, Girls - NZL vs Palestine - 3 : 1
Round 2, Girls - NZL vs Sri Lanka 'A' - 1 : 3
Round 3, Girls - NZL vs Malaysia Challengers - 2 : 2
Round 4, Girls - NZL vs Hong Kong - 1 : 3
Round 5, Girls - NZL vs Malaysia Avengers - 0.5 : 3.5
Round 6, Girls - NZL vs Thailand - 2 : 2
Round 7, Girls - NZL vs Bahrain - 3 : 1
Round 8, Girls - NZL vs Oman - 4 : 0
Round 9, Girls - NZL vs Sri Lanka 'B' - 2.5 : 1.5
Game links will be kept here (you can get PGNs and even animated GIFs from the links).
Oceania Zone 3.6 Championship, Hybrid Online
March 20th-28th 2021
Cross Table
Pos NAME Elo T Fed Pts | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Smirnov,Anton 2597 GM AUS 6.5 | * ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 Kuybokarov,Temur 2530 GM AUS 6.5 | ½ * 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 Croad,Nic 2316 FM NZL 5.0 | 0 0 * 1 1 1 1 1 4 Prudente,Elmer 1991 CM GUM 3.5 | 0 0 0 * ½ 1 1 1 5 Sikivou,Taione 1830 CM FIJ 2.5 | 0 0 0 ½ * 0 1 1 6 Dabuae,Thubalkain 0 NRU 2.0 | 0 0 0 0 1 * 1 0 7 Resture,Fred 1797 SOL 1.0 | 0 0 0 0 0 0 * 1 8 Salvadora,Angelo 1730 PLW 1.0 | 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 *
Playoff between GM Anton Smirnov (AUS) and GM Temur Kuybokarov (AUS)
25+10 Kuybokarov-Smirnov ½-½ 25+10 Smirnov-Kuybokarov ½-½ 10+10 Kuybokarov-Smirnov 0-1 10+10 Smirnov-Kuybokarov 0-1 5+3 Smirnov-Kuybokarov ½-½ 5+3 Kuybokarov-Smirnov ½-½ Armageddon Kuybokarov-Smirnov 1-0
Armageddon rules: Time control is White 5 minutes, Black 4 minutes, 2 second increment after move 60, Black has draw odds.
Playoff won by GM Temur Kuybokarov.
Latvian Rapid, Auckland
March 20th 2021
A Grade
1st GM Gawain Jones 6/6
2nd FM Alphaeus Ang 5/6
3rd= FM Allen Fan, Daniel-Ioan Runcan 4.5/6
Best U2100 Gino Thornton 4/6
Best U1900 Jasmine Zhang, Benjamin Lim, Oliver Dai, Isabelle Ning 3/6
B Grade
1st Daqi Mao 6/6
2nd Briene Membrere 5/6
3rd= Simon Lyall, Allen Li 4.5/6
Best U1500 Josh Little 4/6
Best U1600 Mathew Steadman 3.5/6
C Grade
1st Fergus Lee 5.5/6
2nd Emily Gan 5/6
3rd Ramin Etemadipour 4.5/6
4th= Baraa Zara, Weiyang Yu, Narasimhan Lakshmi Ravi, Zikun Kenneth Liu, Scott Smith,
Lucas Xiao, Hunter Po'e-Tofaeono 4/6
D Grade
1st= Junqing Jerome Tao, Brillion Lau, Charlotte Ray 5/6
4th George Guo 4.5/6
Organised by Howick Pakuranga Chess Club
Venue: Te Tuhi Centre of the Arts, 13 Reeves Road, Pakuranga, Auckland
Four 6 round Swiss tournaments (grades A to D), both NZCF & FIDE Rapid rated where possible.
Time Control: 25 minutes each player plus 5 seconds increment per move from move one.
Full Results on Vega: A Grade,
B Grade,
C Grade,
D Grade.
Entry form available here.



A Grade 1st GM Gawain Jones
A Grade 2nd FM Alphaeus Ang
A Grade 3rd= FM Allen Fan, Daniel-Ioan Runcan



B Grade 1st Daqi Mao
B Grade 2nd Briene Membrere
B Grade 3rd= Simon Lyall, Allen Li



C Grade 2nd Emily Gan
C Grade 3rd Ramin Etemadipour
D Grade Junqing Jerome Tao, Brillion Lau, George Guo, Charlotte Ray
Summit Junior Rapid, Auckland
March 14th 2021
Open
1st= Daqi Mao, Jay Zhao 5/6
3rd= William Liu, Lucas Barnett-Harris 4.5/6
Best U1300 Sai Vivan Somaraju 4/6
Best U1200 Anthony Hu 3.5/6
U1000
1st= Nicole Zhao, George Guo, Lucas Zhang, Brillion Lau, Charles Zhang 5/6
Best U600 Sarah Sun 4/6
Best U500 Maxwell Yu, Leo Lian 4/6
Venue: 99B Gillies Ave, Epsom, Auckland.
Two divisions: Open (FIDE and NZCF rapid rated) and U1000 (NZCF rapid rated).
Format: Six-round Swiss, 15mins+5 secs.
Organised by Summit Chess Club, contact Ying Wang, Email: ywang@outlook.co.nz.
Full Results on Vega: Open,
U1000.
Entry form available here.



Open 1st= Daqi Mao, Jay Zhao
Open 3rd= William Liu
Open 3rd= Lucas Barnett-Harris



Best U1300 Sai Vivan Somaraju
Best U1200 Anthony Hu
U1000 1st= Brillion Lau, Nicole Zhao, George Guo, Lucas Zhang, Charles Zhang


Best U600 Sarah Sun
Best U500 Maxwell Yu, Leo Lian
Otago Autumn Rapid Open, Dunedin
March 7th 2021
Quentin Johnson reports;
The Otago Autumn Rapid Open took place on Sunday 7 March and was NZCF
rated this year. This was enabled by the change in NZCF policy making
less of a barrier to casual players, who made up more than half the big
turnout of 30 players ranging from from Invercargill to Oamaru.
Ben Suazo of Dunedin and Atlas Kerr of Invercargill shared 1st place on 4½/5 ahead of Qi-Le Kong-Lim and Quentin Johnson both of Dunedin equal third on 4.
Hamish Gold won the U1600 grade on 3½ ahead of a 4-way tie for 2nd on 3 between Julien Soler, Daniel Bell (both Invercargill), Naoki Kozakai (Dunedin) and Greg Familton (Oamaru).
Corbin Fraser (invercargill) and Sen Macmaster (Oamaru) shared 1st in the U1200 grade on 2½.
Full Results on Vega here.
Venue: Otago Chess Club, 7 Maitland Street, Dunedin.
Format: 5 Round Swiss, rapid time control 25+5, NZCF rated.
Tournament website.
Contact: Quentin Johnson, 021 156 6789, email otagochess@gmail.com.
Download entry form here.


Fen McIntosh and Noah Oseki - photo Aya Oseki
Corbin Fraser and Irene Cheng - photo Aya Oseki


Corbin Fraser moving against Shannon Davie - photo Aya Oseki
Alison Latwan playing Romero Suggate - photo Aya Oseki


Jonathan Rapsey watching Matthew Sterk playing Edward Sarfas - photo Aya Oseki
Quentin Johnson and eventual co-winners Ben Suazo and Atlas Kerr (at top of frame) - photo Aya Oseki
16th Bay of Plenty Rapid, Tauranga
February 27th 2021
A-Grade
1st FM Alphaeus Wei Ern Ang 5/6
2nd= FM Daniel Gong, Nunilon III Fulo (Best Bay of Plenty Player) 4.5/6
B-Grade
1st Scott MacLeod 6/6
2nd= Isabelle Ning, Briene Membrere 5/6
Junior-Grade
1st= Yuchen (Daniel) Shen, Topia White, Justin Zhide Wang 4.5/6
Organised by the Mount Maunganui RSA Chess Club.
Venue: Bay of Plenty Masonic Centre – 33 Hairini Street, Hairini, Tauranga.
One of New Zealand's most popular annual Rapids.
Six rounds of 25+5 rapid, in three different tournaments; A (1800 and above), B and Junior. FIDE and NZCF rated where possible.
Tournament brochure here.
Tournament website, including detailed results here.
9th Hawke's Bay Rapid, Napier
13th February 2021
A Grade
1st FM Daniel Gong 5/6
2nd Felix Xie 4.5/6
3rd FM Bob Smith 4/6
B Grade
1st Briene Membrere 6/6
2nd Kayden Loke 5/6
3rd Finley Duncan 4.5/6
C Grade
1st Justin Wang 6/6
2nd Jeevanjot Singh 5/6
3rd= Amanjot Singh, Angus Potter 4/6
Organised by Hawke's Bay Chess
Venue: Greenmeadows East Community Hall, 83 Tait Drive Taradale, Napier.
Three separate (A,B, Junior grades), six round Swiss rapid 25+5 tournaments, NZCF and FIDE rated where possible.
Over $1400 prize fund ($1200 cash plus award winning Hawkes Bay wines).
Full Results on Vega: A Grade,
B Grade,
Junior Grade.
Full details on the entry form here.
Kasparov Chess Foundation University Cup, Online
February 6th-7th 2021
A free online event for university teams. The event website is here. A Victoria University of Wellington team (Ryan Winter, Michael Sole, Nicholas Heyworth, Ben Bryant) competed despite a very hostile time zone and posted a solid mid table performance, 64th from 125, see the final standings here. NZ Games PGN here.
Auckland Waitangi Weekender 2021, Auckland
February 6th-8th 2021
Open
1st= FM Alphaeus Ang, FM Allen Fan 5.5/6
3rd= FM Bob Smith, FM John Duneas 4.5/6
Under 1800
1st= Kendrick Botong Zhang, Isabelle Yixuan Ning 4.5/6
3rd= Oscar Shu Xuan Qin, Terry Shen, Hao Tang 4/6
Under 1500 and Over 1200
1st= Baraa Zara, Matthew Chen 3/6
Under 1200
1st Emily Gan 3.5/6
2nd Harry Redwood 3/6
Venue: Auckland Chess Centre, 17 Cromwell Street, Mt Eden, Auckland.
Format: 6 round Swiss tournament, time control 90+30, NZCF & FIDE rated where possible.
Full details and results on the Event website.
Summit Junior Rapid, Auckland
February 7th 2021
Open
1st Daqi Mao 5.5/6
2nd Tejasvi Kichavadi 5.0
3rd= Josh Little, Grayson Po'e-Tofaeono, Sophia Feng, Oliver Zhao 4.0/6
Best U1200 Duncan McDonald 3.5/6
U1000
1st Charles Zhang 6.0/6
2nd= George Guo, Sarah Sun 5.0/6
Best U500 Emmanuel Mavre, Marcus Daiyan Yu, Maxwell Yu 4/6
Venue: 99B Gillies Ave, Epsom, Auckland.
Two divisions: Open (FIDE and NZCF rapid rated) and U1000 (NZCF rapid rated).
Format: Six-round Swiss, 15mins+5 secs.
Organised by Summit Chess Club, contact Ying Wang, Email: ywang@outlook.co.nz.
Full results on Vega: Open,
U1000.
Entry form available here.



Open 1st Daqi Mao
Open 2nd Tejasvi Kichavadi
Open 3rd= Josh Little, [absent Grayson Po'e-Tofaeono], Sophia Feng, Oliver Zhao



U1000 1st Charles Zhang
U1000 2nd Sarah Sun, George Guo
U1000 best U500 Emmanuel Mavre, [absent Marcus Daiyan Yu], Maxwell Yu
Auckland Anniversary Weekender 2021, Auckland
January 30th-February 1st 2021
Open
1st= FM Alphaeus Ang, Romie Lord Guerra, FM Michael Steadman 5/6
Under 1800
1st= Timothy Huy Minh Ha, Euan McDougall 4.5/6
3rd= Daqi Mao, Kendrick Zhang, Isabelle Ning, Aaron Wang, Simon Lyall, Allen Li 4/6
Under 1500 and Over 1200
1st Kenneth Liu 4/6
2nd Baraa Zara 3.5/6
Under 1200
1st= Matheson McEwen, Ahmad Khawaja, Jack Collinson, David Junyang Zhu 3/6
Venue: Auckland Chess Centre, 17 Cromwell Street, Mt Eden, Auckland.
Format: 6 round Swiss tournament, time control 90+30, NZCF & FIDE rated where possible.
Full details and results on the Event website.
20th Bay of Plenty Chess Open Invitational, Tauranga
January 16th 2021
A Group
1st FM Alphaeus Wei Ern Ang 3/3
2nd Felix Xie 2/3
B Group
1st Ar John Guan 3/3
2nd Hao Tang 2/3
C Group
1st= Thomas Gothorp, Ariel Patdu 2/3
D Group
1st Ryan Hwang 3/3
2nd Duki Stojanovic 2/3
E Group
1st Harry Redwood 2.5/3
2nd= Cole Wright, Horacio Miranda 2/3
Organised by the Mount Maunganui RSA Chess Club and Tauranga RSA Chess Club.
Venue: Tauranga RSA, 1237 Cameron Road, Greerton, Tauranga.
Three rounds, time control 50 minutes plus 30 second increment, standard rated, groups of four to six players.
Tournament brochure here.
Tournament website here.
128th NZ Chess Congress, Palmerston North
January 2nd-12th 2021
Results and grades prizes (photos below)
NZ Championship
1st FM Nicolas Croad 7.5/9
2nd FM Ben Hague 6.5/9
3rd= Felix Xie, IM Anthony Ker, FM Leonard McLaren 6/9
Under 2000 Hao Tang 5/9
Full Results on Vega here.
NZ Major Open
1st Clinton Wells 7/9
2nd= Alan Winfield, Dion Charles, Karl Holdo 6.5/9
Under 1700 Joshua Langford 6/9
Under 1400 Jonathon Hookings 5/9
Full Results on Vega here.
NZ Rapid Championship
1st Felix Xie 8/9
2nd Russell Dive 7.5/9
3rd Ralph Hart 7/9
Under 2000 Hilton Bennett 6/9
Under 1700 Hao Tang & Kendrick Zhang 6/9
Under 1400 Zikun Liu 5/9
Full Results on Vega here.
NZ Lightning (Blitz) Championship
1st IM Anthony Ker 8.5/9
2nd FM Ben Hague 7.5/9
3rd IM Russell Dive 7/9
Under 2000 Nigel Metge 5/9
Under 1700 Daqi Mao, Winston Weng & Kendrick Zhang 6/9
Under 1400 Baraa Zara 5/9
Full Results on Vega here.
NZ Junior Championship
1st Joshua Langford 6/7
2nd Winston Weng 5.5/7
3rd= Daqi Mao, Isabelle Ning, Kendrick Zhang, Euan McDougall, Paul He & Thomas Van der Hoorn 5/7
School Pupil Champion Josh Langford 6/7
School Pupil Girls Champion Isabelle Ning 5/7
U16 Champion Josh Langford 6/7
U16 Girl Champion WCM Nadia Braganza 4/7
U14 Champion Paul He 5/7
U12 Champion Kendrick Zhang & Isabelle Ning 5/7
U12 Girls Champion Isabelle Ning 5/7
U10 Champion Daqi Mao 5/7
U10 Girls Champion Tracy Tang 3.5/7
U8 Champion Sai Somaraju 3/7
Full Results on Vega here.
Manawatu Open
1st Ben Hague 6/7
2nd Hao Tang 5/7
3rd Dion Charles 4.5/7
Full Results on Vega here.
Manawatu 128 Championship
1st Ben Hague 11/12
2nd Ryan Winter 10/12
3rd Emily Gan 7.5/12
Full Results on Vega here.
Consolidated PGN files: NZ Open,
Major Open,
Rapid.
Organised by the Manawatu Knights Chess Club on behalf of the NZ Chess Federation.
Sponsored by the Copthorne Hotel and the Kasparov Chess Foundation
Organisers: Mark Noble & Jack James. The annual Congress features events for players of any age and any nationality – overseas participants welcome.
Main events are 9 rounds over 9 days, plus two days of Rapid and Blitz events.
Entry form here.
The photos below are all courtesy of Simon Lyall


Championship, 1st and New Zealand champion FM Nic Croad 7.5/9, with son Arthur
Championship, 2nd FM Ben Hague 6.5/9


Championship, 3rd= IM Anthony Ker, FM Leonard McLaren, Felix Xie 6/9
Major Open, 1st Clinton Wells 7/9


Rapid, 1st Felix Xie 8/9
Junior Championship, 1st Joshua Langford 6/7

Normally there are no rabbits in New Zealand chess, but this is an exception
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