The Adult Improvers will be starting up again from Tuesday, Feb 3 at 7pm.
Our first session will start with a guest lecture from Elena (Helen) Moshakova, an adult improver who recently won the NZ Major Open 2026.
For more information about our programme this year, see our Adult Improvers Page.
Our first Monday night tournament of 2026 will be the Summer Cup (Feb 2 – Mar 16), seven rounds of 60+30 games.
Registration has started on Jan 8, at 9:00 am. Please use the link https://www.trybooking.com/nz/events/landing/18343 — and as usual, if you have travel plans or exams that will force you to skip 3 or more rounds, please consider not registering to give space to others.
The full calendar for the year is still being updated at https://aucklandchess.nz/calendar, but we already published the dates for the long weekenders, starting with Auckland Anniversary (Jan 24-26) and Waitangi Weekender (Feb 6-8). Please follow the calendar link to register for those.
Registration is already available for the open tournaments at the Auckland Chess Centre. Please use the links to each event to register.
Jan 24-26, Auckland Anniversary Weekender
Feb 6-8, Waitangi Weekender
Apr 25-27, Anzac Day Weekender
May 30-Jun 1, King’s Birthday Weekender
Oct 24-26, Merv Morrison Memorial
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
To Register: Please email Alex at mcr.flw@hotmail.com or message him via Wechat ID: CrystNovA . As he may not be available to return your TXT message.
More information is available by request.
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).
