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 starting again in 2025 on 29 Janaury and social play on Tuesdays 1pm to 4pm began again on Tuesday 11 February - Email otagochess@gmail.com for more information The curent event on the 2025 Calendar is the 2nd leg of the club standard championship, which started on 10 September, followed by the FIDE-rated Richard Sutton Trophy starting on 29 October. The South Island Championship and Rapid took place on 24-28 September The second leg of the Club Standard Championship started on 10 September with two grades under the rules. The Perpetual Handicap for 2025. The leader in the Standard is Zeke Stewart on +94, followed by Bob Clarkson on +65, with Jonno Christie on +64. The winner in the Rapid was John Armstrong on +87, followed by Jonno Christie 2nd on +75, with Mark Edwards 3rd on +74. The leader in the Blitz Perpetual Handicap for 2025 is Mark Edwards on +75, followed by Jacob Christie on +48, with Zeke Stewart on +45. The third Blitz tournament toward the Blair Freeman trophy took place on 3 September with 10 players. Elliot Munro secured first place with 6½/7. Second was Ben Suazo on 6, with Tyne Grant third on 4½ points - see final crosstable - See News. The second leg of the Club Rapid Championship ended on 27 August. there were three grades under the rules. With a number of games unable to be completed the Senior Championship was won by Quentin Johnson, the Intermediate Championship shared by Hamish Gold and Ezekiel Stewart, and Junior Championship by John Armstrong. The Otago Under 20 championship was held on 23 August, with a decent field of 25 players from Oamaru and Dunedin. Henry Le won the the JJ Marlow trophy with 5½/6. Second went to defending champion Alexander Sun and Hilarie Guan on 5 points. Hilaries also won the best girl prize. With Henry Le and Hilaries Guan taking the major prizes, the U16 prize was shared by Eshaan Atre and Caleb MacDonald on 4½ points. The U13 prize was shared by Hugh Walker and Michael Nguyen on 4 points. The Team prize was shared by Waitaki Boys' HS 1 (Paul Gudoy, Rundell Pelayo and Sean Balbalin) and Logan Park (Eshaan Atre, Tyne Grant and Roshan Ashraf) Teams on 11 points. See Final crosstable and team scores - See ODT article - See News. The Otago Under 13 championship was held on 9 August, with a healthy field of 30 players from Oamaru, Queenstown, Invercargill, and Dunedin. The runaway winner was Okitha Babaranda on 7/7. Samantha Coleman was seond on 5½ and also took the best female prize. Artus Point and Tomide Adebowale tied for third on 5 points, along with Angus Slabbert, who took out first in the U11 section. Second equal in the U11 were Alezxander Christie, Jonas Robertson and Frederik Osborne on 4 points. The team prizes went to the John McGlashan team of Tomide Adebowale, Hugh Walker and Chuli Yan for the U13 on a combined 12½ points and to the George St team of Angus Slabbert, Max Yao and Muaaz Bin Asrar for the U11 on a combined total of 12 points. See Final crosstable and team scores - See News. The July 2025 NZCF ratings are out - check out the full list on the NZCF Ratings page. 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 - Email otagochess@gmail.com for more information The Dunedin Junior Chess Academy (a separate business that operates from the clubrooms) is running for term 4 from Friday 17 October to Friday 5 December |
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This site was last updated on 2 October 2025 |
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