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The 2023 Merv Morrison Memorial will be held over the Labour Day weekend, as usual, 21-23/10. Register online at https://newzealandchess.nz/merv-morrison-memorial-2023/ — ACC venue has limited space and it’s more than half full now with early entries.

Hi guys, just a heads up we are starting next Saturday (Oct 14th). The schedule has been updated: https://www.aucklandchess.nz/saturday-night-junior-chess/

Due to the ACW tournament. We will resume next week.

It was an intense last round of the 2023 Auckland Interclub A-grade competition. ACC prepared a surprise for North Shore by bringing multi-time NZ and ACC club champion, FM Alexei Kulashko, to play on board 1, but NSCC brought their best team (when Daniel Wang was just board 5!) and beat ACC 4-2. However, ACC won the tournament on game points, with ACC, NSCC, and Summit all on 8 match points (SU beat NSCC, ACC beat SU, and NSCC beat ACC; all three won against other clubs). The tournament saw no draws — all matches were decisive. More on https://www.vegaresult.com/orion-trn/www2252/rankteam5.php

We’d like to thank all 12 players who played for ACC — FM Alphaeus Ang, Daqi Mao, WCM Isabelle Ning, Alan Winfield, Yolanda Chang, Jordan Lewis, Timothy Ha, Winston Weng, Sarah Sun, Hunter Po’e-Tofaeono, CM Alex Nagorski, and FM Alexei Kulashko. A special mention goes to WCM Isabelle Ning who won all five games in five appearances (including the important point in the last match), and FM Alphaeus Ang who scored 4 points in five games, with no losses. Team chess is great! Now let’s prepare for the B-grade Interclubs, junior Interclubs, and blitz later this year.

The 2023 Club Champs will start next Monday, the 21st of August. Entries are posted on https://www.vegaresult.com/vega/index.php?id=2435

Please check your name and let the captain know if you want to withdraw or play.

Upcoming classical weekenders at ACC are

Auckland Chess Weekend, August 26-27

Auckland Chess Weekend, September 23-24

Merv Morrison Memorial, October 21-23 (there’s a space limit)

Click the links to register online.

Due to the Auckland Chess Weekends tournament on Jul 22, we are starting a week later for Term 3 on the Jul 29.

Do you want to celebrate International Chess Day 20/7 or the month of July with chess? Auckland Chess Centre will be quite busy in July running classical chess events 🙂

Sunday, July 2 – Auckland Interclubs A-grade, round 2
Sunday, July 9 – Auckland Interclubs A-grade, round 3
Thu-Sun, July 13-16 – North Island Championships
Sat-Sun, July 22-23 – Auckland Chess Weekend July
Sunday, July 30 – Auckland Interclubs A-grade, round 4

There’ll be chess for everybody!

If you are an adult looking for a beginner-friendly, casual environment to play chess in Auckland, we recommend the Auckland Central Chess Club which meets every Wednesday night from 6 to 9 pm in Auckland CBD in the Ellen Melville Centre, 2 Freyberg Place.

When you are ready for the more challenging tournament games, please join our very popular Monday nights or our monthly series, Auckland Chess Weekends.

Juniors can join the Saturday Junior Night in ACC, please see the information posted at https://www.aucklandchess.nz/saturday-night-junior-chess/

We’ve moved the publishing of the ACC Winter Cup (and potentially, our future events, too) to VegaResult.com, please update your bookmarks https://www.vegaresult.com/vega/index.php?id=2299

Links to previous tournament Vega files are on https://www.aucklandchess.nz/monday-chess-night/2023-tournaments/