Auckland Chess Association has announced that the Interclub matches will have two grades in 2021. The time control for A and B grade is 75m+30s. Matches are held on Sunday nights (of the dates below), 6:30 pm, at Alexandra Park, Lyell Creek Lounge (upstairs).
A Grade (NZCF 1800+) – 11 April, 2 May, 16 May, 30 May, 20 June, 27 June
Round 1: Howick-Pakuranga – Auckland; North Shore – Waitakere; Summit – Papatoetoe
Round 2: Auckland – Papatoetoe; Waitakere – Summit; Howick-Pakuranga – North Shore
Round 3: North Shore – Auckland; Summit – Howick-Pakuranga; Papatoetoe – Waitakere
Round 4: Auckland – Waitakere; Howick-Pakuranga – Papatoetoe; North Shore – Summit
Round 5: Summit – Auckland; Papatoetoe – North Shore; Waitakere – Howick-Pakuranga
B Grade (NZCF under 1800) – 4 July, 25 July, 3 August, 15 August, 12 September, 19 September, 26 September
Junior Interclub: 31 October
Lightning Interclub: 14 November
Please let the captain know if you want to play in the Interclub matches, especially because the A-grade team has to be announced before April 10. Thanks.
We need 6 main players plus 6 reserves for each team. Let’s win again 🙂
A-team so far (rating values are NZCF)
- Ang, Alphaeus (2393)
- Steadman, Mike (2307)
- Fan, Allen (2287)
- Duneas, John (2266)
- Thornton, Gino (2201)
- Huang, Alex (2126)
- Nagorski, Alex (2012) – reserve
- McDougall, Euan (1963) – reserve
- Ning, Isabelle (1947) – reserve
- Park-Tamati, Philli (1898) – reserve
B-team (we need to defend our trophy, could be 4th year in a row)
- Ravi, Narasimhan Lakshmi (1765) (tbc)
- Deng, Abraham (1744) (tbc)
- Chang, Yolanda (1742) (tbc)
- Wang, Joe (1734) (tbc)
- Peak, Stephen (1688)
- Zara, Baraa (1665) (tbc)
- Sriram A (1621) (tbc)
- Treanor, Scott (1618) (tbc)
- Burrows, Grant (1579) (tbc)
- Gao, Hugh (1550) (tbc)
- Sonnekus, Neil (1509) (tbc)
- Chen, David (0)
Junior team (quite far to plan, but there’s some interest already)
- Yue, Annie
Lightning team