Due to the ACW tournament. We will resume next week.
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ACC won the Auckland Interclubs A-grade!
It was an intense last round of the 2023 Auckland Interclub A-grade competition. ACC prepared a surprise for North Shore by bringing multi-time NZ and ACC club champion, FM Alexei Kulashko, to play on board 1, but NSCC brought their best team (when Daniel Wang was just board 5!) and beat ACC 4-2. However, ACC won the tournament on game points, with ACC, NSCC, and Summit all on 8 match points (SU beat NSCC, ACC beat SU, and NSCC beat ACC; all three won against other clubs). The tournament saw no draws — all matches were decisive. More on https://www.vegaresult.com/orion-trn/www2252/rankteam5.php
We’d like to thank all 12 players who played for ACC — FM Alphaeus Ang, Daqi Mao, WCM Isabelle Ning, Alan Winfield, Yolanda Chang, Jordan Lewis, Timothy Ha, Winston Weng, Sarah Sun, Hunter Po’e-Tofaeono, CM Alex Nagorski, and FM Alexei Kulashko. A special mention goes to WCM Isabelle Ning who won all five games in five appearances (including the important point in the last match), and FM Alphaeus Ang who scored 4 points in five games, with no losses. Team chess is great! Now let’s prepare for the B-grade Interclubs, junior Interclubs, and blitz later this year.

2023 Club Champs starts on 21/8 – please check entries
The 2023 Club Champs will start next Monday, the 21st of August. Entries are posted on https://www.vegaresult.com/vega/index.php?id=2435
Please check your name and let the captain know if you want to withdraw or play.
Upcoming tournaments: ACW August & September; Merv Morrison Memorial
Upcoming classical weekenders at ACC are
Auckland Chess Weekend, August 26-27
Auckland Chess Weekend, September 23-24
Merv Morrison Memorial, October 21-23 (there’s a space limit)
Click the links to register online.
Saturday Junior Night Starts Jul 29
Due to the Auckland Chess Weekends tournament on Jul 22, we are starting a week later for Term 3 on the Jul 29.
A busy July for ACC

Do you want to celebrate International Chess Day 20/7 or the month of July with chess? Auckland Chess Centre will be quite busy in July running classical chess events 🙂
Sunday, July 2 – Auckland Interclubs A-grade, round 2
Sunday, July 9 – Auckland Interclubs A-grade, round 3
Thu-Sun, July 13-16 – North Island Championships
Sat-Sun, July 22-23 – Auckland Chess Weekend July
Sunday, July 30 – Auckland Interclubs A-grade, round 4
There’ll be chess for everybody!
Casual chess for adults in Auckland CBD
If you are an adult looking for a beginner-friendly, casual environment to play chess in Auckland, we recommend the Auckland Central Chess Club which meets every Thursday night from 6 to 9 pm in Auckland CBD in the Ellen Melville Centre, 2 Freyberg Place.
When you are ready for the more challenging tournament games, please join our very popular Monday nights or our monthly series, Auckland Chess Weekends.
Juniors can join the Saturday Junior Night in ACC, please see the information posted at https://www.aucklandchess.nz/saturday-night-junior-chess/

ACC Winter Cup on VegaResult
We’ve moved the publishing of the ACC Winter Cup (and potentially, our future events, too) to VegaResult.com, please update your bookmarks https://www.vegaresult.com/vega/index.php?id=2299
Links to previous tournament Vega files are on https://www.aucklandchess.nz/monday-chess-night/2023-tournaments/
Saturday Junior Night cancelled Jun 24 due to ACW, resumes Jul 1
SJN resumes next week on Jul 1st.
Auckland Chess Weekend June edition will be held on 24-25/06
The June edition of the Auckland Chess Weekend series will be run this Saturday and Sunday, 24-25/06. Register online at https://newzealandchess.nz/auckland-chess-weekend-june-2023/
More info about the whole series: https://www.aucklandchess.nz/auckland-chess-weekends/
Why travel very far when you can get an intense tournament experience at home at a very low cost?