Welcome
The Wellington Chess Club meets every Thursday evening (excluding January) from 7:30pm at the Wellington Bridge Club, 17 Tinakori Road Thorndon.
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
The AGM is coming up on March 23rd (no Summer Cup round that night).
The first version of the 2023 edition of the Wellington Club Database is now available to download.
The Wellington Open is running over Easter and is open for entries! The dedicated tournament page and the easy to use Entry form are in place. Please show your support for this important tournament on our calendar.
The Summer Cup continues to attract big crowds, but some of the newcomers seem to have dropped out, often without letting us know (!??), as happens every year apparently (but still sadly). For now we will continue to re-pair people who it turns out don't have a game (their opponent hasn't shown up) 15 minutes or so after the commenement of the round. This has been working reasonably well, and saved many a player from showing up without getting a game. People who are AWOL will be more aggressively culled from the tournament from now on.
Please (please) let club captain Arthur Pomeroy art.pomeroy@vuw.ac.nz know if you are pulling out or not able to make any round. We do publish provisional pairings before the round, they are very much provisional though. Note that the games are all being published on the website as PGN and Lichess studies. This takes a lot of work, we don't guarantee to do this in-perpetuity. Please consider helping out by emailing in your game. And let us know if you appreciate this service!
Important!
With an influx of new players, it's important to remind players of some of the rules;
- Don't park on the premises, these parks are reserved for the Bridge Players on Thursday nights.
- Use the Chess Club tea and coffee at the back of the kitchen only.
- You can analyse upstairs (unless we have to move tournament games up there!), don't make noise in the foyer, it understandably annoys the Bridge players.
- Please turn off the clocks and put away your own equipment, help out with clearing up if you can.
Notice 1: The old website is still available as I migrate material to this new look website.
Notice 2: The first version of the 2023 edition of the Wellington Club Database is now available to download.
Notice 3: Follow up from Nicholas Barr about his ongoing research: This is an invitation for chess players with an ELO rating that is under 1400. I only require two more participants for my chess study (see blog and webpage below). If you could please share this invitation with chess club members and any other relevant people/groups that would be very much appreciated.
Cognitive Skill Studies and Chess - Chessable Blog
What's Coming Up
The Wellington Open is running over Easter and is open for entries! The dedicated tournament page and the easy to use Entry form are in place. Please show your support for this important tournament on our calendar.
The Kapiti Rapid is scheduled for May 27th, it is FIDE rated this year (for the first time). See the NZCF Calendar for details.
Congress 2023
Wellington Chess Club hosted the 130th New Zealand Chess Congress at our Wellington Bridge Club home base from January 2nd-12th. A successful congress has concluded! The Congress Page is still up with detailed congress information. Check the NZ Chess Federation Facebook for photos and stories.