Due to the Auckland Chess Weekends tournament on Jul 22, we are starting a week later for Term 3 on the Jul 29.
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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
Update: We have our own casual Thursday night now! See Adult Improve Night page
Old text: 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 Wednesday 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?
ACC Winter Cup starts on Monday 19/6 – please check your names
ACC Winter Cup (9 rounds, FIDE- and NZCF-rated, single-grade accelerated Swiss) starts on Monday, 19/6. Please check your registration here https://www.vegaresult.com/vega/index.php?id=2299 and let the captain know if you’re forgotten or if you want to skip this tournament. Thanks!
Auckland Interclubs A-grade starts on 18/06
The Auckland Chess Association is resuming interclub matches, starting with the A-grade. The first match is on the 18th of June, so please contact Timothy ASAP, if you want to represent ACC.
Full schedule and more details on https://chessauckland.nz/2023-aca-a-grade-interclubs/
| Start Time | Day | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.15pm | Sunday | 18th June 2023 | A-grade round 1 |
| 6.15pm | Sunday | 2nd July 2023 | A-grade round 2 |
| 6.15pm | Sunday | 9th July 2023 | A-grade round 3 |
| 6.15pm | Sunday | 30th July 2023 | A-grade round 4 |
| 6.15pm | Sunday | 20th August 2023 | A-grade round 5 |
Saturday Junior Night cancelled on King’s Birthday Weekend, resumes Jun 10th
We are closed for this week. Resuming next week on June 10th.
Autumn Rapid – 29/5 and 12/6
Autumn Rapid will be run over two nights — tomorrow, Monday, 29/5, then two weeks later, Monday, 12/6. The club is closed during the King’s Birthday weekend.
We’ve added club members who signed up in the club last Monday and some who contacted the captain later. Other members can join the event in the club on the night.
Please note that we’re expecting players to have paid the club fee to continue playing after this Rapid event. Please contact the captain if you have questions about that.
https://www.aucklandchess.nz/vega/2023/wwwACCAutumnRapid/playersname.html