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Congratulations to our member CM Justin Zhide Wang, who won both the
standard and rapid South Island Championships - though he doesn't get
the title of SI Champion!
1st JunQing Jerome Tao 5/6
2nd= Neil Gunn, Sunny Minh Nhat Truong, Tamoghna Reddy Degapudi, &
Lucas Zhang
Full results on Vega: Rapid
Championship, 3rd leg.
2026 North Shore Club Champion: CM Justin Zhide Wang
B-Grade Champions: Quinn Song & Sunny Minh Nhat Truong
C-Grade Champion: Eric Chen
D-Grade Champions: Oliver Junhao Xiao & John Pakenham
Full results on Vega: Club
Championships.
Taylor has kindly input the games and made them available on lichess -
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2026 Club Championship games
Congratulations to our member Elena Moshakova, who shared first place
in this event!
1st= Lucas Zhang & Oliver Sun with 7.5/9
3rd Sunny Truong 7
4th Tilden Wang 6.5
Full results on Vega: August
Blitz.
Congratulations to our members Ralph Hart (equal first, NZ Champion -
over 50) and Ceferino Isaac (outright first, NZ legends - over 80)!
1st Leo Chen 7.5/9
2nd Buthsara Hettiarachchi 7/9
3rd Antonio Krstev 6.5/9
Full results on Vega:
Winter Lightning.
1st= JunQing Jerome Tao, Lucas Zhang, & Antonio Krstev 5/6
Full results on Vega: Rapid
Championship, 2nd Leg .
1st Billy Heard 4½/5
2nd= Patrick Di Jiang, CM Yao Zen Markis Tew, CM Leo Baker, & CM Sai
Vivan Karthikeya Somaraju 4/5
Full results on Vega:
Autumn Tournament .
Taylor has kindly input the games and made them available on lichess -
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2026 Autumn Tournament games
1st Ralph Hart
2nd= CM Yao Zen Markis Tew, Daniel Johns, & Ryan Hwang
Full results on Vega: Rapid
Championship, 1st Leg.
Another stunning result for one of our club members! CM William Rui
Liu picked up the $2000 first prize outright against a very strong field
(which included quite a few other North Shore club members!). Here he is
pictured with the Wellington Club President, IM Russell Dive.
1st= Lucas Zhang, CM Justin Zhide Wang, & CM Yao Zen Markis Tew
4th CM William Rui Liu
Full results on Vega: Summer Cup.
Taylor has kindly input the games and made them available on lichess -
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2026
Summer Cup games
1st= CM Zachary Yu & CM Kendrick Zhang 8/9
3rd Sunny Minh Nhat Truong 6/9
Full results on Vega: Summer
Lightning.
2026 got off to a cracking start for our club, with several excellent
results at Congress in Invercargill. Star of the show was Elena
Moshakova who won her final game with a flamboyant sacrifice, and picked
up the Major Open title and trophy!
Junior Champion (Trophy)
1st Max Mo
Summer Cup (Trophy)
CM Leo Baker & JunQing Jerome Tao
Autumn Tournament
CM Leo Baker
Spring Tournament
JunQing Jerome Tao
Most Improved Player (Trophy)
CM Justin Zhide Wang
Fischer-Random Champion
CM Justin Zhide Wang
Rapid Champion (Trophy)
CM Justin Zhide Wang
Lightning Champion (Trophy)
FM Felix Xie
Club Championship
D-Grade
Raveen Maldeni
C-Grade (Trophy)
Aleksei Korolev
B-Grade (Trophy)
Christopher Xiang
A-Grade (Trophy)
CM Leo Baker
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| North Shore Club Champion: CM Leo Baker | Joint holder of the Summer Cup: CM Leo Baker |
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| Spring Tournament winner: JunQing Jerome Tao | Joint holder of the Summer Cup: JunQing Jerome Tao |
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| Junior Champion: Max Mo |