Mark your calendars! If you’re in Auckland in January, join ACC and participate in the inaugural ACC Chess Festival 2026! It runs from Jan 2 to Jan 11, three FIDE- and NZCF-rated events, blitz, rapid, and classical. More details to be published on https://newzealandchess.nz/acc-chess-festival-2026/
Please use the TryBooking link on the club calendar to register for the Winter Cup. It’s a 9-round Swiss tournament from June 16 to August 11. If you plan to take more than 3 byes due to exams or travelling, please consider NOT registering to give space to others. An exception is given to those who represent NZL in international events. They need practice at ACC.
If you can’t play on Mondays, you can still play in the ACC Double Weekends series, which will run in July, August, and September this year.
The list of Winter Cup players who have registered is here https://www.vegaresult.com/vega/5844
FM Alphaeus Ang won the Autumn Cup on 6.5/7, conceding only a draw to Preeyansh Roul, who came second on 5.5/7 together with Yanbo Jin. Full standings are on https://www.vegaresult.com/vega/5184
The Autumn Rapid is our next Monday night event on May 26 and June 9. We are closed on the public holiday, June 2. Please register via TryBooking – the link is on top of our Calendar and Tournament sections.
The ACC Double Weekends (ADW) series resumes in May, two consecutive weekends of 10-11 and 17-18 May, when you can get up to 8 classical FIDE- and NZCF-rated games at 90+30 time control. You can also take any number of byes, just let us know in advance, or at the right times during the ADW 
Register online here https://newzealandchess.nz/auckland-double-weekends-may-2025 .
I Love Chess Rapid Tournament
Apr 20th Results:
Winners:
1st Vihaan Bala 6.0/6
2nd= Ethan Tai & Maksim Korolev 5.0/6
4th= Aleksei Korolev, Claytin Su, Dylan Sun & Amy Hawke 4.0/6
Grade Prizes:
Best U800: Dylan Sun
Best U500: Riyansh Mehta
Best U200: Pragyan Shashidhara
Easter Raffle Winner (Book Prize): Mario Huang
Full Results: https://www.vegaresult.com/vega/5104
Our next event is on Sunday 6th July. Hope to see you there! Alex
If you’re travelling during school holidays, remember to let the captain know in advance of your absence. Round 3 of the Autumn Cup will be held on 14/4, and round 4 will be held on 28/4. We are closed on Easter Monday, 21/4.
We are also running double weekends in May, so please check our calendar https://aucklandchess.nz/calendar and register your spot.
FM Alphaeus Ang won the first ACC Double Weekends (ADW) event of March 2025 on 7.5/8, conceding only one draw to Justin Wang. Justin Wang, Markis Tew, and Maximilian Fang finished 2nd= on 5.5/8.
The double weekend model, an add-on to our Monday meets, proved convenient for more than 30 players to play comfortably on normal weekends with a slow time control like in big tournaments. The next event will be held in May (10th, 11th, 17th, 18th of May). If you want to play at ACC but are busy on weekdays, consider playing on weekends. There is currently no limit on the number of “byes” in the ADW, so you don’t have to play all 8 rounds, and yet it’s a great opportunity to get up to 8 rated games in just two weeks inside a calendar month and a FIDE rating period.
Registration details can be found here https://newzealandchess.nz/auckland-double-weekends-2025/
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.
Term 1 Schedule: https://www.aucklandchess.nz/junior-club/
Starting 7pm, Tuesday evenings at Auckland Chess Centre from March 11, we’re hosting the Adult Improvers Night!
We’ll have two groups – one group will be going through the legendary coursebook ‘Build Up Your Chess 1’ by Artur Yusupov, aimed at improving players with a rating between 1400 to 1650.
Build Up Your Chess 1 is a 24-lesson chess book, covering everything from tactics to endgames. As we work through the lessons, you will naturally find yourself thinking about more possibilities over the board.
The other group can help you analyse your over-the-board classical chess games. If there is time, the group will also look at higher-level games and look at themes that can help you improve your chess.
We hope to see you there!
For more information, see our Adult Improvers Night page or email Brogan at BPowlesland@hotmail.com
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:
Cheers. Alex