Hi everyone, The I Love Chess Holiday Program Summer 2026 starts on Monday 19th January to Friday 23rd January. The poster and details are as follows:
The I Love Chess Holiday Program Summer 2026 Dates: Jan 19th to Jan 23rd Time: 9AM to 3PM each day Venue: Auckland Chess Centre, Mt Eden Lecturer: CM Alex Huang Levels: Club Player (Mon to Wed), Advanced (Thurs and Fri) Cost: $50 for each day
More information is available by request.
If you would like to register, please let me know in advance. Cheers. Alex
Hi everyone, it’s been a wonderful year with our students learning, having fun enjoying playing and improving at chess. Today we celebrate their achievements. Here are the list of all the awards given out today:
The ACC Junior Club Prizegiving 2025 Winners:
Player of the Year: Tyler Rust Most Valuable Player: Sheldon Fan Most Improved Player: Ethan Ruoqing Chen Most Improved Player: Cici Yu Most Improved Player: Reddington Chen
Hi everyone, Here are the results and photos from our tournament yesterday.
The ACC I Love Chess Rapid Tournament November 16th: Winners: 1st Tyler Rust 5.5/6 2nd Vihaan Bala 5.0/6 3rd= Fiona Li (by Tiebreak), Reddington Chen, Oliver Mok, Jordan Carter & William Moore 4.0/6 Grade Prizes: U-800 Aaryan Mohan (by Tiebreak) 3.0/6 U-500 Zach Inverarity 2.0/6 U-200 Jordan Carter 4.0/6 Full Results:Link
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Great job to our winners. See you all next year! Alex
Hi everyone, It was a very early morning (due to Daylight Saving) and our dedicated young chess players all gathered here to play some rapid chess. Here are the results and photos:
The ACC I Love Chess Rapid Tournament (September Edition) Date: September 28th 2025 Time Control: 15+5 Rounds: 6 Main Organiser: The Sky Dragon Chess Club Referee/Arbiter: National Arbiter Alex Huang Winners: 1st Eric Chen 5.0/6 2nd= Pragyan Shashidhara & Gideon Goh 4.5/6 Grade Prizes: U-800: William Moore U-500: Riyansh Mehta U-200: Bruno Krzeczkowski Full Results:Link
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Congratulations to our winners! See you again on November 16th for The ACC I Love Chess Rapid Tournament (November Edition).
The ACC I Love Chess Rapid Tournament (July Edition) Date: 6th July 2025 Time Control: 15+5 Main Organiser: The Sky Dragon Chess Club Referee/Arbiter: National Arbiter Alex Huang Winners: 1st Maksim Korolev 6.0/6 2nd= Aleksei Korolev, Asher Kirschbaum 5.0/6 4th Robin Xiao 4.5/6 5th= Ethan Tai, Amy Hawke, Minh Nguyen, Mitchell Wang 4.0/6 Grade Prizes: Best U-800: Khang Bui 3.0/6 Best U-500: Adishanker Menon 3.0/6 Best U-200: Benjamin Ng 3.5/6 Full Results: https://www.vegaresult.com/vega/5105
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Congratulations to our winners! See you again on September 28th for The ACC I Love Chess Rapid Tournament (September Edition).
Hi everyone, we are running our junior club next week on Friday 21st March at 5:00pm to 6:15pm instead of the usual Saturday session. This is due to a clash with a chess event held at our chess centre this weekend. If you are unable to make it to our Friday session, there will be a video recording available online later after the session.
Hi everyone, here’s an update about the junior chess tournaments that we ran last year. We are going to continue with running these this year in 2025.
The ACC I Love Chess Rapid Tournaments 2025 will be running on Apr 20th, Jul 6th, Sep 28th and Nov 16th. All dates are on a Sunday during the school holidays (except Nov 16th, which is during Term 4). If you would like to enter please let me know. Here is the entry form:
Hi everyone, we are running our junior club this week on Friday 7th March at 5:00pm to 6:15pm instead of the usual Saturday session. This is due to a clash with a chess event held at our chess centre this weekend. If you are unable to make it to our Friday session, there will be a video recording available online later after the session.
Hi everyone, just a reminder that our junior club meets on a Friday this week (Feb 7th at 5pm to 6:15pm) instead of our usual Saturday, due to a chess tournament (Waitangi Weekender) being held at our centre this weekend. If you can’t make it don’t worry, there will be an video recording available later. Alex
