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ACC Junior Club Prizegiving 2024

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

Gregory Borsh was our winner of the Most Valuable Player award for 2024.
Amy Hawke won the award for Most Consistent Player for 2024.
Tyler Rust won the Most Improved Player of 2024.
Sheldon Fan also won the award for Most Improved Player of 2024.
Leo Swash was another player who won the Most Improved Player award for 2024.


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

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

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

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

CM Isabelle Ning wins the Merv Morrison Memorial

CM Isabelle Ning won the 2024 Merv Morrison Memorial with a score of 5.5/6 ahead of a big group of strong players. FM Alphaeus Ang finished second on 5.0/6. CM Kendrick Zhang, CM Alex Huang, Daqi Mao, Matthew Ashton (Hawkes Bay) and Swiss player Hassan Roger Sadeghi all shared 3rd place on 4.5/6.

The Merv Morrison Cup for U1800 players was shared between Daniel Winsley, Brogan Powlesland, Timothy Ha, Martin Zhou and Ryan Hwang. Only some were available for photos, and Daniel certainly had the best pictures with the trophy!

New Zealand Chess News has many photos from the event — please use the links https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=NZChessNews&set=a.977618974397094 and https://newzealandchess.nz/merv-morrison-memorial-2024/ for all information about the event.

Lecture Recordings Available From ACC Junior Club Tutorials

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!

The ACC I Love Chess Rapid Sunday 10th November

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 10th 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

The ACC I Love Chess Rapid Friday 4th October

Hi everyone,

It’s been so long since the time we used to run junior rapid chess tournaments here at the Auckland Chess Centre, before the year 2020 when COVID hit us. In July 2024 last school holiday, I have rebooted an entirely new series of junior chess tournaments called ‘The I Love Chess Rapid Tournaments’. At first the idea is just to invite all of my chess students (and invited players) to see how many would be interested, and run the tournament as a training ground. It was a last minute decision, as I only planned the tournament about a week or two prior. We had around 30 entries and the kids really enjoyed it. One kid she told me at the end of the tournament: “Alex, I think you should run more chess tournaments”. I believe she is right. For those interested, here are the results from The I Love Chess Rapid July: https://www.vegaresult.com/vega/index.php?id=4024

I would like to invite you all to come along to play at our junior chess tournament starting on Oct 4th.

The ACC I Love Chess Rapid Tournament (October Edition)
Date: Friday 4th October 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 1:30pm
Cost: $20 per player

Entry Form: Link
Entries: Link

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

Regards,
Alex Huang
National Arbiter & Tournament Organiser