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The starting time for Wednesday nights is 7:45pm.
The main contact is Helen but please copy your emails to Daniel Johns
and Taylor Sussex to cover any periods when one of us is away.
Helen Milligan, email heligan@heliganchess.nz.
Daniel Johns, email danieljohns59@outlook.com
Taylor Sussex, email taylor.sussex1@gmail.com
The Schedule is available via the Menu link.
The Club Championships started on 18th June (7:30pm); we have abandoned
the attempt to run a round-robin, as the majority of our strongest
players cannot commit to all the games. So, the event is a 9-round
swiss, with two half-point byes available if applied for in advance
(anyone who does not show up on the night will get zero). No half-point
byes for the last round. Please, always send apologies or requests to
the three people listed above.
Follow on Vega: Club Championship.
Taylor has input the games and made them available on lichess - see
2025
Club Championship games
This was a runaway success for Junqing Jerome Tao with 9/9 !
2nd Patrick Di Jiang 6.5/9
3rd= Antonio Krstev, Taylor Sussex, Srirama Nimmakayala, and Lucas Hoang
6/9
Full results on Vega: Winter
Lightning.
1st= CM Justin Wang & Jerome Tao
3rd= Patrick Jiang & Neil Gunn
Full results on Vega: Rapid 2nd
leg.
1st Leo Baker with 4.5/5
Full results on Vega: Autumn
Tournament.
Taylor has input the games and made them available on lichess - see
2025
Autumn Tournament games
No sooner had Justin Zhide Wang achieved the rating to register his CM
title than he carried off the top prize in the South Island's Arie
Nijman Memorial event!
ACA is holding an interclub tournament at Auckland Chess Centre.
There are 4 divisions; A-Grade, B-Grade, Junior and Blitz, taking place
over weekends in late May/early June
If you are interested in representing NSCC at this, please email Helen,
Daniel and Taylor.
More details here: 2025
ACA Interclubs Schedule
1st= CM William Rui Liu and Sai Vivan Karthikeya Somaraju 5.5/6
3rd CM Zachary Yu 4.5/6
Full results on Vega: Rapid
Championship, 1st Leg.
A stunning result for Vera Xu (on the right in the photo) in Serbia!
On 19th March 2025 we held our AGM. The committee is as follows:
President: Helen Milligan
Secretary: Daniel Johns
Treasurer: Neil Gunn
Club Captain: Taylor Sussex
Committee Members: Ting Liang, Elena Moshakova, & Dante Soriano
Daniel Johns was awarded Life Membership of the club, for
his long and outstanding service.
The informal unrated Blitz event held after the AGM (and while the new
committee held its first meeting) was won by the last player standing,
Max Strivens.
1st= Leo Baker and Jerome Tao 5.5/7
3rd Antonio Krstev 5/7
Full results on Vega: Summer Cup.
Leo Baker scored a big win, sharing first place at this event, and
since the co-winner was Indian, ended up as part of a colourful article
on the Chessbase India website!
Link
to the Chessbase India article
At the NZ Congress in Auckland in January, quite a few of our members
had fine performances, but none more so than our veteran star Ceferino
'Jun' Isaac, who was joint first in the Major Open Championship! He was
seeded 15th but finished on 7.5/9, tied with Alexander Hanrui Pan of
Howick-Pakuranga CC.
1st Wei (William) Jiang 8/9
2nd Max Strivens 7.5/9
3rd William Rui Liu 7/9
Full results on Vega: Summer
Lightning
Junior Champion (Trophy)
1st= Nolan Hu & Charlie Yang
3rd Ji Hu Park
Summer Cup (Trophy)
William Rui Liu & Isambard Thomas
Winter Tournament
FM Alphaeus Ang
Spring Tournament
Antonio Krstev
Most Improved Player (Trophy)
Isaac Gu
Fischer-Random Champion
Justin Zhide Wang
Rapid Champion (Trophy)
Justin Zhide Wang
Lightning Champion (Trophy)
FM Felix Xie
Club Championship
C-Grade (Trophy)
Oliver Sun & Nancy Liang
B-Grade (Trophy)
Srirama Nimmakayala, Dante Soriano & Elena Moshakova
A-Grade (Trophy)
FM Alphaeus Ang
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| Joint Junior Club Champions Nolan Hu and Charlie Yang | Justin Zhide Wang |
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| Justin Zhide Wang | Dante Soriano |
This year we will continue to NZCF- and FIDE-rate as many events as
possible. This applies to the Lightning Championship, all the legs of
the Rapid Championship, and all the standard-rate events, ie Summer Cup,
Autumn and Spring Tournaments, and the Club Championships. Players MUST
be paid-up members of the North Shore Chess Club in order to take part
(yes, it is OK to be a member of other clubs in addition). Players who
are not NZ residents or citizens must have FIDE ID from their home
country.
In 2025 the following will still apply:
If you have had Covid recently, then we recommend that you do not
return to chess club until your RAT test is negative. Let's keep
everybody safe.
Please scroll down to see membership fees and our bank details.
North Shore CC now has a presence on LiChess. If you wish to represent NSCC in NZCF or other online events, please register: North Shore Chess Club - Auckland NZ team.
Membership fees can be paid direct to the club's bank account, ASB
123008-0301266-00.
The current fees are $85 for full membership, $55 for schoolpupil (ie a
junior who is playing on Wednesday nights), and $35 for Junior Club only
(ie a junior who attends only on Friday nights).
The North Shore Chess Club was founded in 1956 and has been supporting chess on the North Shore and the Auckland region since that date.
From our new premises in the Takapuna War Memorial Hall, we hold our
club nights every Wednesday, from early January through until mid
December. Organised tournament play starts at 7.30pm. If you would like
to know more, please contact the Club President, Helen Milligan, details
listed below, or just turn up!
We also run a junior night on most Fridays, starting at 7pm.
North Shore CC, postal address c/o Helen Milligan, 3/7 Owens
Road, Devonport, Auckland 0624. Meets Wednesdays 7.30pm, at Takapuna
War Memorial Hall, 7 The Strand, Takapuna (see map, below).
Junior club: on Fridays from 7:00pm.
President and Contact: Helen Milligan, email heligan@heliganchess.nz.
Secretary: Daniel Johns, email danieljohns59@outlook.com.
Interesting games will be added to this play-through applet.