Wellington Chess Club

Tournaments 2024

North Island Championship

North Island Championship 2024

This tournament now complete, it ran over Easter March 29th-April 1st at Wellington College. Congratulations to IM Anthony Ker for a dominating 8/8 performance to win the event.

Prizewinners:

1st Anthony Ker, 8/8
2nd= Russell Dive, Layden Loke, Ollie Archer, Justin Wang, Luke Chang 6/8

U1800
1st= Leo Malcolm, Emily Gan, Ziyi Huang 5.5/8
4th= Dion Wilson, Jacob Barry, Ziyu Huang, Oscar Cui, Karthik Sethuramalingam, Geoffrey Gunawan 5/8

Results: Cross table

PGN (195 games so far, there maybe some more, but a complete set proved to be a step too far this year) comprises DGT boards, emailed games and some other games: PGN

Vega: Home page.

Live links (15 minute delay).

Pairings: Round 1, Round 2, Round 3, Round 4, Round 5, Round 6, Round 7, Round 8

The Entry Form (PDF) has full details of the tournament Entry Form.

Prize Fund: $2000
Open: 1st $600, 2nd $350, 3rd $250, 4th $150
U1800: 1st $300, 2nd $200, 3rd $100, 4th $50
(Players can only win one prize)