Last night at the Club Prize Giving, we launched Auckland Chess 2025, our year book containing some of the best club games across a range of rating groups, as well as puzzles from games played throughout the year.
The PDF can be found below and a lichess study can be found here.
A big thank you to everyone who contributed or otherwise supported the book. We hope that you enjoy it!
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
Summer Rapid 1 1st : Tyler Rust
Summer Rapid 1 2nd : Alex Sha
Summer Rapid 2 1st : Ethan Ruoqing Chen
Summer Rapid 2 2nd : Alex Sha
Summer Blitz 1st : Sheldon Fan
Summer Blitz 2nd : Claytin Su
Autumn Rapid 1 1st= : Tyler Rust, Sheldon Fan
Autumn Rapid 2 1st : Sheldon Fan
Autumn Rapid 2 2nd : Tyler Rust
Autumn Blitz 1st= : Cici Yu, Alex Sha
Winter Rapid 1 1st : Tyler Rust
Winter Rapid 1 2nd : Khang Bui
Winter Rapid 2 1st : Tyler Rust
Winter Rapid 2 2nd : Ethan Ruoqing Chen
Winter Rapid 3 1st : Alex Sha
Winter Rapid 3 2nd : Tyler Rust
Spring Rapid 1 1st= : Ethan Ruoqing Chen, Jordan Carter
Spring Rapid 2 1st : Sheldon Fan
Spring Rapid 2 2nd : Cici Yu
Gallery:
Congratulations to all our prizewinners!
I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
We are resuming on Saturday 31st January. See you then. Alex
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
Gallery:
Great job to our winners. See you all next year! Alex
You don’t have to travel anywhere in January to be able to play serious rated chess! For the first time in years, we’re running a series of club events at the start of the calendar year.
Join us in the inaugural ACC Chess Festival 2026 – https://newzealandchess.nz/acc-chess-festival-2026/
Blitz on Jan 2 (9 rounds), Rapid on Jan 2-3 (7 rounds in two days), then Classical on Jan 3-11 (9 rounds, one game a day).
Congratulations to CM Leo Baker (left on the photo) who has become a new club champion at ACC, after a few years of domination by FM Alphaeus Ang. This year Leo is also club champion at North Shore CC, so he’s champ in two biggest clubs in Auckland!
Going into the last round of the 2025 Club Champs, only Leo and Preeyansh (right on the photo) were on 6.5/8. A few people were chasing on 6.0, including Alphaeus (who was beaten by Preeyansh in the previous round), so we could have just one or up to five co-champions. Leo seemed confident and said he’d need about 25 moves to win the game. It took only 21, but both spent a lot of time in hard calculation.
CM Hao Tang and CM Cohen Young shared 2nd= on 7.0/9.
Vega standings: https://www.vegaresults.com/vega/6227
Lichess broadcast: https://lichess.org/broadcast/acc-monday-nights-2025–club-championships/Qt0Cik91
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
Gallery:
Congratulations to our winners! See you again on November 16th for The ACC I Love Chess Rapid Tournament (November Edition).
The last event in the ACC Double Weekends series of this year will be held on Sept 6-7 and 13-14. In two consecutive weekends, you can get up to eight FIDE- and NZCF-rated classical games at the normal tournament time control of 90+30. Game times are 9:30 am and 2:30 pm on the days.
You can also be flexible and take any number of byes as long as you let us know in advance (before 9:00 am for the morning round, and before the last game of the morning round for the afternoon game).
Online registration link with all the information: https://newzealandchess.nz/auckland-double-weekends-september-2025/
The 2025 Club Championship is a 9-round Swiss event, FIDE- and NZCF-rated. The time control is 90+30. Registration is now open. Please use the TryBooking link from the Club Calendar page.
Vega page: https://www.vegaresult.com/vega/6227
If you have registered, your name will appear here within 24 hours. Please let us know if you have questions.
The August edition of the ACC Double Weekends will run on two consecutive weekends of August 16-17 and August 23-24. Register online here: https://newzealandchess.nz/auckland-double-weekends-august-2025/
Unlike Mondays, you can be more flexible here, and take as many byes as you need, as long as you let us know in advance. This is a great chance to get up to eight rated games with a standard 90+30 time control in just two weekends, without taking leave or travelling.
