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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/

SJN resumes next week on Jul 1st.

The June edition of the Auckland Chess Weekend series will be run this Saturday and Sunday, 24-25/06. Register online at https://newzealandchess.nz/auckland-chess-weekend-june-2023/

More info about the whole series: https://www.aucklandchess.nz/auckland-chess-weekends/

Why travel very far when you can get an intense tournament experience at home at a very low cost?

ACC Winter Cup (9 rounds, FIDE- and NZCF-rated, single-grade accelerated Swiss) starts on Monday, 19/6. Please check your registration here https://www.vegaresult.com/vega/index.php?id=2299 and let the captain know if you’re forgotten or if you want to skip this tournament. Thanks!

The Auckland Chess Association is resuming interclub matches, starting with the A-grade. The first match is on the 18th of June, so please contact Timothy ASAP, if you want to represent ACC.

Full schedule and more details on https://chessauckland.nz/2023-aca-a-grade-interclubs/

Start Time	Day	Date
6.15pm	Sunday	18th June 2023	A-grade round 1
6.15pm	Sunday	2nd July 2023	A-grade round 2
6.15pm	Sunday	9th July 2023	A-grade round 3
6.15pm	Sunday	30th July 2023	A-grade round 4
6.15pm	Sunday	20th August 2023	A-grade round 5

We are closed for this week. Resuming next week on June 10th.

Autumn Rapid will be run over two nights — tomorrow, Monday, 29/5, then two weeks later, Monday, 12/6. The club is closed during the King’s Birthday weekend.

We’ve added club members who signed up in the club last Monday and some who contacted the captain later. Other members can join the event in the club on the night.

Please note that we’re expecting players to have paid the club fee to continue playing after this Rapid event. Please contact the captain if you have questions about that.

https://www.aucklandchess.nz/vega/2023/wwwACCAutumnRapid/playersname.html

Hi everyone, our junior club is cancelled this week due to the Auckland Chess Weekends tournament. We will resume next week on May 27th.

Last week we had about 34 junior players attend our first junior night of this term. It was pretty packed for a junior night. They all had a great time. We’ve updated the term schedule here: https://www.aucklandchess.nz/saturday-night-junior-chess/