The Summer Cup was the first tournament in the Auckland Chess Centre calender for 2017. A total of 77 players players across 5 grades played 7 rounds during February, March and (for one game) April.
Vega Links: A Grade, B Grade, C1 Grade, C2 Grade, D Grade
A Grade
1st Bruce Watson on 5.5
2nd= Alexei Kulashko and Ben Hague on 5.0
B Grade
1st= Gordon Morrell, Allen Fan and Nathan Goodhue on 4.5
C1 Grade
1st Keith Ward on 6.0
2nd Kate Song on 4.0
3rd= Nicole Qin, Eric Wu on 4.5
C2 Grade
1st Everett Bishop on 5.0
2nd Joy Qin on 4.5
3rd= Hilton Jacobs, Stephen Peak on 4.0
D Grade
1st Xinyang Liu on 6.0
2nd= Wayne McDougall, Aaron Wang on 5.5
4th= Andrew Michael, Rodney Li, Ying Wang on 5.0
