Welcome
The Wellington Chess Club meets every Thursday evening (excluding January) at the Wellington Bridge Club, 17 Tinakori Road Thorndon. The Junior club is at 6:30pm, senior competition starts at 7:30pm
Please don't park at the Bridge Club, there's plenty of parking on Thorndon Quay (under the motorway) just a short walk away (free in the evening only).
What's Hot Right Now
NZCF asks all players to register in the new NZCF players database using this form.
The Club Champs is all but complete. The Swiss tournament has already finished, and the final round of the round robins will be played on Thursday 12th December.
The 11th and final round of the Swiss was played on 5th December. Congratulations to joint winners Yigit Saglam and Zachary Thirkell.
1st= Yigit Saglam, Zachary Thirkell 8/11
3rd= Eushin Kang, Lucas Qu, Elliot Grant 7.5/11
See the tournament webpage. for all the details including an almost complete collection of the games. Thanks to Azra Saglam and Aidan Malcolm for helping (a lot) with game entry.
The North Island Rapid Championship is now complete after 70 players competed in a very successful event. Anthony Ker is the new North Island Rapid Champion after a dominant 6/6. Full results, live board information, pairings and other Vega information on the Tournament webapge.
There are some simple National Interschools results here on a dedicated page.
Get well soon Arthur! In the meantime the acting club captain is Aidan Malcolm aidan.malcolm@outlook.co.nz, thanks to Aidan for stepping up in our time of need.
Thanks as always to the regular game submitters, John Marney, Eric Ulm, Andrew Brockway, Leo Hupert, Aidan Malcolm, Michael Ashe, Ian Sellen, Ryan Winter. We don't try to get 100% game coverage any more (it's too much work. If you want your games recorded in the club records, submit them. Or failing that, play good games with clear handwriting!
We have played (and won!) our first Bledisloe Cup Online Hybrid match, against Hawkes Bay (and our second versus Canterbury).
Games Database - Here is the Wellington Games Database, through the end of 2023: PGN
What's Coming Up
We wrap up the club championships, then look forward to Congress in Auckland!.