Welcome
The Wellington Chess Club meets every Thursday evening (excluding January) at the Wellington Bridge Club, 17 Tinakori Road Thorndon. The Junior club is at 6:30pm, senior competition starts at 7:30pm
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
We have finally secured arrangements for the Wellington Open. Contrary to a previous report, it is actually at the Bridge Club. Easter Sunday is not available at the Bridge Club, so we are playing the third day on Monday instead.
The Summer Cup started with a great showing on February 6th. It's not too late to join if you want to avoid missing out
We have a new website location. The website itself isn't changing, but it will be easier to tell people where it is on the web. Instead of borrowing space in a subdirectory of a defunct website (the old location nzchessmag.com/wellingtonchessclub) the new website is at wellingtonchess.club. That's right .club. How cool is that?
At Congress we collected the Bledisloe Cup after winning our two online matches last year. This makes us officially New Zealand's champion chess club, don't let anyone tell you different.
Individually, Russell Dive was again joint New Zealand Rapid Champion and Kayden Loke was New Zealand Junior Champion.
We kicked off the new year with a good crowd showing up for a casual blitz tournament on the evening of January 29th. Ollie Archer emerged victorious from the others in the final group (Ryan Winter, Cohen Young, Thomas van der Hoorn, Luke Chang, Ian Sellen, Layla Timergazi, Matthew Keith).
Club captain Aidan Malcolm aidan.malcolm@outlook.co.nz will be arbiting and playing in the Summer Cup, procedures for registering and playing in the tournament are on the Summer Cup Page.
Games Database - Here is the Wellington Games Database, through the end of 2023: PGN, update for 2024 coming soon.
Arthur Pomeroy
Arthur Pomeroy, our club captain, passed away on January 7th. Arthur has been very ill in recent months. He faced his situation with great courage and good humour. RIP Arthur. For more information please see this updated post on NZCF.