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The starting time for Wednesday nights is 7:45pm. The club
re-opens on 21st January.
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
Please, always send apologies or requests to the three people listed
above.
The Draft Schedule for 2026 is available via the Menu link; you can
also download a copy here: 2026 Draft
Schedule.
Membership fees for 2026 are unchanged at $85 for adult, $55 for
schoolpupil (ie a junior playing on Wednesday nights) and $35 for a
Junior Club member (Friday nights).
As usual, all players in our events must be paid-up members of North
Shore Chess Club.
There is a new rule for 2026, imposed by NZCF.
ALL PLAYERS MUST ALSO BE INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS OF THE NEW ZEALAND CHESS
FEDERATION INC (NZCF). You may join NZCF through any club but we
recommend you join through our club – we charge no additional fee for
this, and all you need to do is fill in and sign the form we provide.
Download the application form here: pdf
version of NZCF Individual Member application form.
North Shore offers its heartiest congratulations to our members who
won medals and titles in Brisbane!
(Note that some of the following still need to make the necessary rating
before they can claim the new titles).
FM Felix Xie: Gold in the under-20 Open, with the IM title and a
GM norm!
WCM Luna Yuexiu Xu: Silver in the under-18 Girls, with the WFM
title.
CM Kendrick Botong Zhang: Gold in the under-16 Open, with the FM
title and an IM norm.
CM William Rui Liu: Silver in the under-16 Open.
Fiona Chenxi Li: Silver in the under-8 Girls.
Other kiwis also had great results but are not currently members of
North Shore CC.
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 |
1st= Young and Old (Jerome Tao and Neil Gunn) and Zugzwangs (Daniel
Johns and Taylor Sussex)
3rd= Clock Tower (Sunny Truong and Ayaan Bhatia) and Yellow Cheese
(Oliver Sun and Tilden Wang)
5th We Choose (Cynthia Zhang and Patros Panos)
Full results on Vega: Bughouse
Blitz.
1st FM Felix Xie 8/9
2nd= CM Justin Zhide Wang & CM Kendrick Botong Wang 7/9
Full results on Vega: Lightning
Championship.
Held at our Friday night Junior Club.
1st Max Mo 8/9
2nd Kevin Wang 6/9
3rd= Reyansh Saini, Zehao (Howard) Liu, & Adishankar Menon 5/9
Full results on Vega: Junior
Club Championship.
1st CM Justin Zhide Wang 5.5/6
2nd CM Zachary Yu 4.5/6
Full results on Vega: NSCC
Fischer-Random Championship.
1st CM Justin Zhide Wang 5.5/6 - also winning the overall Rapid
Championship for 2025
2nd= Rex Xiaoyu Chen, Patrick Di Jiang, Minh Nhat (Sunny) Truong, &
Tim Riley 4.5/6
Full results on Vega: Rapid 4th
leg.
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!
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.
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.
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 7.45pm. 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 7.45pm, 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.