The Summer Cup with be starting on Monday the 13th of February at the Auckland Chess Centre. It will run for seven rounds. Currently it is planned that there will be three or four 8-player rounds robin grades plus a Swiss for everyone else.
Entries must be in by Sunday if players wish to be in the Round-Robin grades and should be in for others to guarantee a place. Please text of email Simon to enter before the start of round one.
Current Entries (based of NZCF November list), the players in bold are those who are candidates to play up a grade. Draft Grade assigned is listed.
Vega Links: A Grade, B Grade, C1 Grade, C2 Grade, D Grade
2100+
- 2463 – A – Ben Hague
- 2428 – A – Alexei Kulashko
- 2414 – A – Bruce Watson
- 2331 – A – Paul Garbett
- 2328 – A – Mike Steadman
- 2302 – A – Alphaeus Ang
- 2255 – A – Daniel Gong
- 2183 – A – John Duneas
- 2181 – B – Gordon Morrell
- 2153 – B – Allen Fan
1600 – 2100
- 2059 – B – Paul MacDonald
- 2035 – B – Nathan Goodhue
- 1934 – B – Clinton Wells
- 1923 – B – Alex Nagorski
- 1923 – B – Tony Wang
1902 – C2 – Richard Taylor- 1901 – C1 – Keith Ward
- 1890 – C2 – Don Eade
- 1837 – B – Jasmine Zhang
- 1812 – C2 – Joy Qin
- 1797 – C1 – Simon Lyall
- 1778 – C2 – Tim Ha
- 1768 – C1 – Kate Song
- 1757 – C1 – Grant Burrows
- 1755 – C2 – Caroline Yan
- 1740 – C2 – Hilton Jacobs
- 1734 – C1 – Eric Wu
- 1714 – C2 – Everett Bishop
- 1651 – C1 – Virginia Milne
- 1640 – C1 – Sergiy Kozakevych
- 1631 – D – Andrew Michael
- 1622 – C2 – Stephen Peak
Under 1600
- C1 – Nicole Qin
- D – Oscar Qin
- D – Mathew Steadman
- D – Jacob Barry
- D – Louie Wei
- D – Wayne McDougall
- C2 – Euan McDougall
- D – Charlotte Wen
- D – Leo Li
- D – Rodney Li
- D – Sarah Yan
- D – Kimberley Yuan
- D – Neil Sonnekus
- D – Aaron Wang
- D – Ying Wang
- D – Jennifer Zhang
- D – Abraham Deng
- D – Kelvin Xiao
- D – Erica Hu
- D – Selena Hu
- D – Hugh Gao
- D – Felix Xie
- D – Oliver Picken (Swiss only)
- D – Renae Ghadiali
- D – Saasha Ghadiali
- D – Rosa Ryu
- D – Xinyang Liu
- D – Mike Steiner
- D – Uday Jain
- D – Yin Yang Lin (name to be be checked)
- D – Silei (name to be checked)
- D – Marcus Pooley
- D – David Xu
- D – Toby Zhang
- D – Isaac Yuan
- D – David Ansell
- D – Sylvia McDougall
- D – Gaurav Pahuja
- D – Daniel Morrin