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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

Hi everyone, we are running our junior club this week on Friday 7th 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/

Auckland Chess Centre Double Weekends 2025 are a series of 5 over-the-board (OTB) chess tournaments with 8 rounds played over 4 days on two weekends.

Auckland Chess Centre (ACC) is having a series of OTB tournaments to be run throughout 2025, the Auckland Double Weekends (ADW). These tournaments will fill the gaps between months with long weekends when ACC’s big open tournaments are traditionally run. The main differences are:

• ADW events take four days over two normal weekends.
• ADW events are played using time control of 90 minutes plus 30 seconds increment that meets all FIDE requirements.
• Unrated players in ADW events do not have to play each other, which provides an opportunity for more players to get FIDE-rated quicker.

In 2025, ADW would be run on the following dates:

• 8th, 9th, 22nd, 23rd March 2025
• 10th, 11th, 17th, 18th May 2025
• 12th, 13th, 19th, 20th July 2025
• 16th, 17th, 23rd, 24th August 2025
• 6th, 7th, 13th, 14th September 2025

Players in each month’s ADW can play up to 8 classical games. Those who play in all 5 ADWs in 2025 may have up to 40 classical games at ACC this year. Welcome to play classical chess with us!

Hi everyone, just a reminder that our junior club meets on a Friday this week (Feb 7th at 5pm to 6:15pm) instead of our usual Saturday, due to a chess tournament (Waitangi Weekender) being held at our centre this weekend. If you can’t make it don’t worry, there will be an video recording available later. Alex