Happy New Year 2025! We reopen the club with a Waitangi Blitz on Monday Feb 3, then the Waitangi Weekender will be run from Feb 6 to Feb 9, on Thursday Feb 6, then Saturday and Sunday Feb 8-9. The Summer Cup starts on Feb 10 and will run for 7 rounds.
The Waitangi Weekender is an open tournament, please register for it on New Zealand Chess News.
The Waitangi Blitz and Summer Cup are Monday club events. Please register at https://www.trybooking.com/nz/events/landing/14420 (bookmark this page for the year, too).
The blitz event is FIDE-rated, with 9 rounds of 3+2 blitz. The Summer Cup is FIDE- and NZCF-rated, with 7 rounds of classical chess over 7 weeks starting from Feb 10. The time control is 60+30, we’re trialling out this format to see if parents and schoolchildren will have a better time, going home earlier by at least 30 minutes.
We recommend not registering if you know in advance that exams or travel plans will make you skip more than 1/3 of the rounds, to give space for somebody else. Summer Cup has 7 rounds, so that’s skipping 3 rounds. Taking byes due to sickness or emergencies is OK. The policy is about prior knowledge of plans. This policy also doesn’t apply to those who represent NZL in international events. They need practice, and ACC is one of the best places to find it 🙂
If you hold any of these titles – FM/IM/GM, or WFM/WIM/WGM, and want to play, you can play for free without registration via the link above. Only write us an email so we can reserve a spot for you before all spots run out. This applies to all club events (except the opens – AklAnniv, Waitangi, ANZAC, Merv).
The full calendar of club events on Mondays and other days, like ABR, ADW (btw, what is ADW, why not ACW?) and other events to be added there soon — https://aucklandchess.nz/calendar