Author: Alex Huang

I Love Chess Rapid Tournament
Apr 20th Results:

Winners:
1st Vihaan Bala 6.0/6
2nd= Ethan Tai & Maksim Korolev 5.0/6
4th= Aleksei Korolev, Claytin Su, Dylan Sun & Amy Hawke 4.0/6

Grade Prizes:
Best U800: Dylan Sun
Best U500: Riyansh Mehta
Best U200: Pragyan Shashidhara

Easter Raffle Winner (Book Prize): Mario Huang

Full Results: https://www.vegaresult.com/vega/5104

Our next event is on Sunday 6th July. Hope to see you there! Alex

Hi everyone, we are running our junior club next week on Friday 21st March at 5:00pm to 6:15pm instead of the usual Saturday session. This is due to a clash with a chess event held at our chess centre this weekend. If you are unable to make it to our Friday session, there will be a video recording available online later after the session.

Term 1 Schedule: https://www.aucklandchess.nz/junior-club/

Hi everyone, here’s an update about the junior chess tournaments that we ran last year. We are going to continue with running these this year in 2025.

The ACC I Love Chess Rapid Tournaments 2025 will be running on Apr 20th, Jul 6th, Sep 28th and Nov 16th. All dates are on a Sunday during the school holidays (except Nov 16th, which is during Term 4). If you would like to enter please let me know. Here is the entry form:

Cheers. Alex

Hi everyone, we are running our junior club this week on Friday 7th March at 5:00pm to 6:15pm instead of the usual Saturday session. This is due to a clash with a chess event held at our chess centre this weekend. If you are unable to make it to our Friday session, there will be a video recording available online later after the session.

Term 1 Schedule: https://www.aucklandchess.nz/junior-club/

Hi everyone, just a reminder that our junior club meets on a Friday this week (Feb 7th at 5pm to 6:15pm) instead of our usual Saturday, due to a chess tournament (Waitangi Weekender) being held at our centre this weekend. If you can’t make it don’t worry, there will be an video recording available later. Alex

We have published the (draft) schedule for Term 1. The dates are correct but however not completely confirmed due to the dates of our internal chess events (ABR and ADW chess tournaments held here at the ACC) are yet to be established. Same as last year, when there is a clash between the session and an internal tournament, we will run that session on a Friday (instead of Saturday) for that week.

We are starting on Saturday 1st February. I have opened the sign-ups via Trybooking. The cost is $40 per term.

Schedule: https://www.aucklandchess.nz/junior-club/
Sign-ups via Trybooking: https://www.trybooking.com/nz/VML

Hi everyone, we have just finished our prizegiving tonight. Here are the list of prize winners and some photos to share.

Prizegiving Awards:
Most Valuable Player – Gregory Borsh
Most Consistent Player – Amy Hawke
Most Improved Player – Tyler Rust
Most Improved Player – Sheldon Fan
Most Improved Player – Leo Swash

Spring Rapid – 1^st= Place Khang Bui 5.0/6
Spring Rapid – 1^st= Place Claytin Su 5.0/6
Spring Rapid – 1^st= Place Gregory Borsh 5.0/6

Blitz Night 1 – 1^st= Place Amy Hawke 3.0/3
Blitz Night 1 – 1^st= Place William Moore 3.0/3
Blitz Night 1 – 3^rd= Place Sheldon Fan 2.0/3
Blitz Night 1 – 3^rd= Place Adithya Anegondi 2.0/3

Queenless Battles – 1^st Place Amy Hawke 6.0/6
Queenless Battles – 2^nd Place Gregory Borsh 5.0/6
Queenless Battles – 3^rd= Place Tyler Rust 4.0/6
Queenless Battles – 3^rd= Place Brooklyn Sun 4.0/6
Queenless Battles – 3^rd= Place Claytin Su 4.0/6

Blitz Night 2 – 1^st Place Tyler Rust 5.0/6
Blitz Night 2 – 2^nd= Place Amy Hawke 4.0/6
Blitz Night 2 – 2^nd= Place Sheldon Fan 4.0/6

Thank you for coming to our prizegiving. I wish you all a great holiday. We will resume on Feb 1st 2025. Merry Xmas and Happy New Year! Love from Alex.

Hi everyone, we started to form a collection of lecture recordings (three and counting) from our ACC Junior Club tutorial sessions. All available on YouTube. We decided to put it into a single playlist (updateable). Check out our latest recording:

Auckland Chess Centre Junior Club Term 4 Lesson 2 What is Strategy? – CM Alex Huang (Oct 25th 2024): Link

Full Playlist: Link

The playlist has been added to our Junior Club page.

Have a great weekend!

Hi everyone, a friendly reminder we are running The ACC I Love Chess Rapid Tournaments (November Edition) on Sunday 10th November. This is the last one for this year, and we are running it on a Sunday, while avoiding the December holidays where people may have their own family plans. We have added an additional prize for Best U200 for this tournament, as we will transition into a new format for next year. Once again I would like to invite you all to play at our event. As usual, it is open to all junior players from our Auckland Chess Centre, juniors from The Sky Dragon Chess Club, students of I Love Chess and all invited players.

The ACC I Love Chess Rapid Tournament (October Edition)
Date: Sunday 10^th November 2024
Venue: Auckland Chess Centre, 17 Cromwell Street, Mt Eden
Restrictions: Juniors only (Under 18)
Rounds: 6 rounds, NZCF Nationally rated
Time Control: 15+5
Schedule: Tournament starts at 9:30am and to finish by 1:45pm **
Cost: $20 per player

Entry Form: Link
Entries: Link

**Please note that last time our tournament finished slightly later at 2PM (than the advertised 1:30PM), but only one game was still fighting on by around 1:45PM. Players can go once they finish their last game, without waiting for prizegiving if they wish to.

If you would like to register, please let me know as soon as possible. Thanks.

Regards,
Alex Huang
National Arbiter & Tournament Organiser

We are running our junior club this week on Friday. This is due to the Merv Morrison Memorial chess tournament running this weekend at our chess centre.