News
ACA Auckland Interschools
Finals
Secondary: Auckland Grammar School
Intermediate: Murrays Bay Intermediate
Primary: Pinehurst
Full results on Orion: Secondary;
Intermediate;
Primary.
Meetings
Minutes of committee meetings are available here (as pdf downloads):
AGM Minutes
Committee meeting, March
18th
Committee meeting, June
10th
Committee meeting, August
26th
ACA Lightning Teams
The winner was Howick-Pakuranga CC (left to right: Martin Dreyer,
Ben Hague, Daniel Gong & Ewen Green).
Team scores: Howick-Pakuranga 52½, Auckland CC 48, North Shore 39½,
Papatoetoe A 16, Papatoetoe B 4.
Best player scores: Ben Hague 15½/16, Ewen Green & Alexei Kulashko
14, Paul Garbett 13.
More photos can be found on the NZ Chess News Facebook page (no login
required): NZ Chess
News.
Thanks to NZ Chess News for putting up a Vega version: Lightning
Teams
Jenkins Trophy Match
Howick-Pakuranga CC challenged the holders, North Shore CC, at the
beginning of the season. Subsequently they presented a request to ACA
to reduce the number of boards to 12. This was declined. On the night,
H-P turned up with the full complement (on paper) of 20 boards,
including 8 titled players (to North Shore's 2), and out-rating NS on
team average and on a majority of boards. Nevertheless, North Shore
held on to the Jenkins Trophy, 13-7.
Thanks to NZ Chess News for putting up a Vega version with games
play-through and download: Jenkins
Trophy Match
Download the games here (pgn
file).
More photos can be found on the NZ Chess News Facebook page (no login
required): NZ Chess
News.
| HOWICK-PAKURANGA | NORTH SHORE | ||
| 1 | FM Ben Hague 2495 | 1 : 0 | IM Paul Garbett 2333 |
| 2 | FM Leonard McLaren 2337 | 0F : 1F | Ralph Hart 2276 |
| 3 | FM Daniel Gong 2320 | 1 : 0 | Jeffrey McCrone 2141 |
| 4 | FM Martin Dreyer 2263 | ½ : ½ | Paul McAvoy 2100e |
| 5 | FM Ewen Green 2250 | 1 : 0 | Ceferino Isaac 2083 |
| 6 | CM Benjamin Lim 2063 | 0 : 1 | David Evans 2069 |
| 7 | WFM Jasmine Zhang 2039 | 0 : 1 | Antonio Krstev 2067 |
| 8 | CM Paul Spiller 2038 | ½ : ½ | Neil Gunn 1990 |
| 9 | Terry Shen 1978 | 1 : 0 | Daniel Johns 1969 |
| 10 | Andrew Janisz 1947 | 0F : 1F | Philip Hair 1894 |
| 11 | Raj Balakeyan 1922 | 0 : 1 | Arnold van den Heuvel 1873 |
| 12 | Oliver Dai 1890 | ½ : ½ | Winston Yao 1860 |
| 13 | Leyton Hackney 1744 | 0 : 1 | CM Richard Meng 1842 |
| 14 | Anthony Power 1661 | 0 : 1 | Andrew Li 1668 |
| 15 | Anthony Booth 1621 | 0 : 1 | Alex Pakholjuk 1572 |
| 16 | Connor Hackney 1545 | ½ : ½ | Paul Kamberi 1563 |
| 17 | David Nie 1494 | ½ : ½ | Allen Li 1546 |
| 18 | Daniel Qiu 1377 | ½ : ½ | Stephen Jones 1515 |
| 19 | Ying Wang 1312 | 0 : 1 | Jeffrey Yu 1385 |
| 20 | Ryan Dukeson 1307 | 0 : 1 | Kendrick Zhang 1337 |
| 7 : 13 |
Auckland B-Grade Interclubs
There was a tense battle in Round 3, because it was just possible for Howick-Pakuranga CC to overtake Auckland Chess Centre and win the event. The critical moment arrived when Winston Weng of ACC (pictured with the trophy) beat Scott Smith of Papatoetoe CC, giving ACC too many points to be caught. So Auckland Chess Centre are the winners of the B-Grade Interclubs for 2018.
Round 3
Papatoetoe CC 3-3 Auckland Chess Centre
North Shore CC 1-5 Howick-Pakuranga CC
The B-Grade Interclubs event is for teams of players rated under 1800 on the NZCF rating list. We decided to keep using the March list, as the July list came out on the morning of the first round and it would have been a bit cruel to send home those players who have now gone over 1800!
Round 1
Howick-Pakuranga CC 1-5 Auckland Chess Centre
Papatoetoe CC 3-3 North Shore CC
Round 2
Auckland Chess Centre 5-1 North Shore CC
Howick-Pakuranga CC 5-1 Papatoetoe CC
Full results on Orion: B-Grade Interclubs
Lots of photos from Rounds 1 and 3 can be found on Facebook (no login required): NZ Chess News.
Auckland Junior Interclubs
A very closely contested event ended in victory for the North Shore A
team, aided by North Shore B (in third) who held up the opposition!
The Auckland Red team finished second.
Full results on Orion: Junior
Interclubs.
Lots of photos on Facebook (no login required): NZ
Chess News.
Auckland Interschools Finals
The winners of the Interschools events in the Auckland region (East, West, South, Central, North Shore) are invited to take part in the Auckland Finals. These will be held in three sections, Primary, Intermediate and Secondary, on Wednesday 26th September, at the Auckland Chess Centre. More details and Orion links can be found on our Calendar page.
A-Grade Interclubs
Top board battles, AC (left) versus HP
In the third and final round on June 10th, Howick-Pakuranga narrowly
beat Auckland Chess Centre, 3½ to 2½. That left both teams equal first
on 12 gamepoints each. North Shore CC could have joined them in first
place by beating Papatoetoe 6-0 but faltered at the last and only
managed 5½-½.
The 2018 A-Grade Auckland Interclubs Champions are Howick-Pakuranga CC
and Auckland Chess Centre. They share the Peter Stuart Memorial
Trophy.
Full results on Orion: A-Grade
Interclubs
In the second round on May 20th, Auckland duly wiped out Papatoetoe 6-0, but Howick-Pakuranga, huge favourites on rating, lost 2½-3½ to North Shore.
The first round of the Auckland A-Grade Interclubs took place on May
6th. Four teams are competing for the Peter Stuart Memorial Trophy.
Auckland managed to beat North Shore, just, with the score 3½-2½.
Howick-Pakuranga were more emphatic with a 6-0 victory over
Papatoetoe. The next round is on May 20th (see our Calendar for more
information).
Top board games, NS v AC
AGM
The Annual General Meeting on March 18th confirmed Helen Milligan as President of ACA, with John McRae as Vice-President, Daniel Johns as Secretary, and Tingling Wei as Treasurer.
The AGM was followed by a committee meeting and the Minutes of both
are available here (as pdf downloads):
AGM Minutes
Committee meeting
Dates of Interclub matches were set and can be found on our Calendar
page. Pairings are also available.
Peter Stuart, RIP
At our first meeting of 2018 we observed a minute's silence for our departed friend and colleague, then had the sad duty of nominating someone to take over his position of President of ACA until the AGM in March.
As a fitting memorial to his long and dedicated service, we agreed to name the A-Grade Interclub trophy after him - it will henceforth be the Peter Stuart Memorial Trophy.
A Memorial Service to celebrate the life of Peter Stuart will be held at the Chapel of Forrest Funeral Services, 8 Glen Road, Browns Bay on Monday 19th February 2018 at 11 am. Everyone is welcome.
