Welcome
The Wellington Chess Club meets every Thursday evening (excluding January) at the Wellington Bridge Club, 17 Tinakori Road Thorndon.
Please don't park at the Bridge Club, there's plenty of parking on Thorndon Quay (under the motorway) just a short walk away (free in the evening only).
What's Hot Right Now
Our annual Chess960 tournament, a bit of a light hearted diversion for three weeks, starts on Thursday 10th. Elliot Grant (co - club captain) sets out the details;
Hello everyone,
Our next tournament is Chess960 (otherwise known as Fisher Random) which will start next week.
The tournament is a rapid tournament using the time control 25+5 (25 minutes starting time and 5 seconds increment after every move) and will run for three weeks from the 10th of July to the 24th of July. There will be six rounds in total, two rounds per night.
In case people were not aware, Chess960 is a variant of chess where the position of the pieces on the back rank (i.e. the king, queen, knight, bishop and rook) are randomised but symmetrical. There are a few constraints to this such as having a dark squared and light squared bishop. If there is any confusion on the rules around castling for example, we will explain it on the first night.
To register for the Chess960 tournament email wellingtonchessnz@gmail.com by 6:00pm on Wednesday the 9th. Note that you can join the tournament on the night or in a later week but it would be a great help to get registrations in as soon as possible.
Byes
Just like other tournaments, byes are available. If possible I would like to ask that people get their byes in before Wednesday at 7:00 pm for the club nights on the Thursday. This is so that we can have the byes entered and draw done for the first round prior to the night to ensure things run as smoothly as possible.
However, things can obviously change and happen at the last minute. Therefore, I will still take bye requests on the Thursday but will ask that people send an email as soon as they can.
Please let me know (at the email address above) if you have any issues or questions.
The Arthur Pomeroy Memorial Cup finished on Thursday July 3rd. Full results coming soon
The Rapid Champs is over, congratulations to winner Nic Croad (7/8), half a point clear of Anthony Ker.
The Junior Chess Club has restarted. It's on Thursdays at 6:30pm.
The Wellington Open is over.
Games Database - This isn't very hot sadly. Your webmaster / games editor is (just back from) holiday, he'll get onto this when he gets home. In the meantime here is the Wellington Games Database, through the end of 2023: PGN.