The Otago Chess Club
7 Maitland Street, Dunedin, New Zealand
New Zealand's oldest incorporated society
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The Otago Chess Club7 Maitland Street, Dunedin, New Zealand
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The Otago Chess Club meets on Wednesday evenings, 7:00pm at 7 Maitland Street, Dunedin and social play on Tuesdays 1pm to 4pm begins again on Tuesday 13 February - Email otagochess@gmail.com for more information The Tournaments page has the following upcoming event:- The current event on the 2024 Calendar is the second leg of the club Standard Chapionship starting on 11 September, with the Richard Sutton Trophy starting on 23 October. The second leg of the Club Standard Championship started on 11 September February with two grades under the rules. The Perpetual Handicap for 2024. The leader in the Standard is Tyne Grant on +90, followed by Mike Weeks on +75, with Connor Morrison on +66. The Rapid Handicap Champion for 2024 is Tony Chiwuzoh on +69, followed by Jonno Christie second on +65, with Alexander Sun third on +53. The leader in the Blitz is Connor Morrison on +51, followed by Ryan High on +50, with Tony Chuwizoh on +37. The 4th Blitz tournament toward the Blair Freeman trophy took place on 4 September with 10 players. New member Tony Chuwizoh showed he is a fiend at blitz, winning with 6½/7 ahead of Ben Suazo on 6 and Quentin Johnson on 5 points. - see final crosstable - See News. The Otago Spring Rapid Open 2024 was held on 1 September June with 20 players from Christchurch to Invercargill. Top seed Alex Nedyhalov secured first place on 5½/6 after beating second and third seeds Ben Suazo and Quentin Johnson and drawing with Tyne Grant. Second went to Johnson on 5 points and third was shared by Yony Chuwizoh and Hamish Gold and Jonno Christie on 4 points. The Under 1500 grade was shared by Samuel Mitchell and Mark Griffin Edwards on 4 points. See final crosstable - See News. The Otago Under 20 championship was held on 24 August, with a decent field of 33 players from Oamaru and Dunedin. Alexander Sun won the the JJ Marlow trophy with 5½/6. Second went to Avadhoot Brahme and Samuel Mitchell on 5 points with Tyne Grant 4th on 4½. The Avadhoot also won the U16 prize, with second shared by Eashaan Atre, Thisun Kuruppuarachchi and Noah Wilson on 4 points. The U13 prize went to Conor Kerr on 4 points with Caleb McDonald second on 3½. Hilarie Guan won the best girl prize on 3 points and the University of Otago Team of Alexander Sun, Naoki Kozakai and Leo Malcolm won the team prize. See Final crosstable and team scores. The second leg of the Club Rapid Championship started on 14 August with three grades under the rules. The C Grade was won by new member Tony Chuwizoh with a perfect 6/6 score. Several games were not completed in the A and B Grades. Ben Suazo has won the Senior Championship, Oscar Lobb has won the Intermediate Championship and Jonno Christie the Junior Championship. The Otago Under 13 championship was held on 10 August, with a large field of 38 players from Oamaru, Queenstown, Invercargill, Balclutha and Dunedin. There was a 4-way tie for first on 5/6 between Samantha Coleman, Caleb MacDonald, Okitha Babaranda, and Blake Friedrich. prizes in the U11 category went to Alex Lai on 4½ and Laxmithaa Rasakanthan and Ray Zhang on 4 points. Prizes in the U9 section went to Dean Coleman and and Xanthe Nuttall on 3 points. The tea prize went to the Oamaru Intermediate team of Caleb MacDonald, Yahya Mir and Fynn Still on a combined 11½ points. See Final crosstable and team scores. The Swiss Rapid ended on 7 August. This year it was in an arena format with one swiss-paired round each night followed by players playing whoever they wanted. Iain Lamont won convincingly with 5/5. See Final crosstable and rating performances - See News. The Cleland Trophy ended on 24 July. Iain Lamont took the trophy for 2024 with an unbeaten 5/6, ahead of top seed Quentin Johnson, who he beat in round 5, on 4½. Third was shred by Alexander Sun, Hamish Gold and Tyne Grant on 4 points. See final crosstable and rating performances - See News. The 3rd Blitz tournament toward the Blair Freeman trophy took place on 10 July with just 6 players, as many were away at the South Island Championship. Former member Robert Wansink returned to show he had lost none of his blitz skills, winning with 5/5 ahead of Iain Lamont and Ben Suazo on 3½ - see final crosstable - See News. The July 2024 NZCF ratings are out - check out the full list on the NZCF Ratings page. The 2024 Otago Secondary School Teams Championship was held on 22 June at Logan Park High School Library with 15 teams from 10 schools taking part from Oamaru and Dunedin. Play was a single tournament with two prize sections for Intermediate and Primary teams. The trophy was won by The Logan Park High School B team, who upset their A team 3-1 in round 4, with 6/7 match points. Second were the King's High School team on 5½ and The Logan Park A team were 3rd on 5 match points. See final crosstable and full individual results. The Monday Chess Group (MCG) is open to anyone on Lichess - Join the Otago Chess Club Team and you can enter the next event starting Mondays at 7:30pm The 2024 Otago Primary and Intermediate School Teams Championship was held on 15 June at Trinity Catholic College Library with 17 teams from 14 schools taking part from Oamaru, Alexandra, Queenstown, Balclutha, Invercargill and Dunedin. Play was a single tournament with two prize sections for Intermediate and Primary teams. The Intermediate trophy was captured by Oamaru Intermediate with 6½/7 match points, followed by John McGlashan College on 5½ and DNI A 3rd 4½ after countback. The Primary trophy went to George Street 1 on 5 match points, followed by George Street 2 on 4½ and Maori Hill on 4 points. See final crosstable and full individual results - See News. Samuel Mitchell has designed a new look Otago Chess Club website - Take a look. This will be gradually updated and then take over from the current website. The catalogue of the Club's library of over 600 items is available - see Library For links to other chess sites including free chess training resources, visit the favourite links page of the club wiki. The Otago Chess Club meets on Wednesday evenings, 7:00pm at 7 Maitland Street, Dunedin and social play on Tuesdays 1pm to 3pm, which is in recess now and begins again in February - Email otagochess@gmail.com for more information The Dunedin Junior Chess Academy (a separate business that operates from the clubrooms) is running for term 3 from Friday 2 August to Friday 20 September |
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This site was last updated on 3 October 2024 |
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