The New Zealand Chess Federation is pleased to announce the following teams in board order for the 2014 Tromsø Chess Olympiad: Open Team1. IM Puchen Wang2. IM Russell Dive3. FM Luke Li4. IM Anthony Ker5. FM Ben HagueNon-travelling reserves:...
IM Puchen Wang is champion of New Zealand
The 121st New Zealand Chess Congress was held on 2-12th January at the Alexandra Function Centre, Green Lane, in Auckland. The Congress consisted of New Zealand Rapid Championship (2-3 Jan), New Zealand Lightning Championship (3rd Jan), 121st New Zealand...
121st New Zealand Chess Congress
The 121st New Zealand Chess Congress is scheduled to take place on 2-12th January at the Alexandra Function Centre, Green Lane, in Auckland. Schedule: 2-3rd January – New Zealand Rapid Championship 3rd January – New Zealand Lightning Championship 4th-12th...
High honor for Vivian Joyce Smith
Posted at 9:41am Monday 03rd Jun, 2013 Vivian Joyce Smith of Mount Maunganui is made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to chess. Vivian Smith is a World Chess Federation women’s chess master who...
GM Chandler plans to buy a church
Chess champ plans to buy church MARNIE HALLAHAN Last updated 10:25 07/12/2012 An international chess champion wants to buy a North Shore church dogged with controversy and turn it into a national chess centre. Chess grand master Murray Chandler plans to...
New Zealand Junior Chess Championships
The New Zealand Junior Chess Championships were held from 2nd July to 7th July at St. Paul’s School, Auckland. The tournament was organised by Waitakere Chess Club. The Championships included a rapid tournament conducted on the first day in...
Chess queens square off in battle of wits
Chess queens square off in battle of witsBy Alexandra Ventura5:30 AM Thursday Jun 21, 2012 It is not every teenager’s idea of a thrilling pursuit, but for Nicole Tsoi, 15, chess is sending her to the other side of...
New Zealand teams for the Chess Olympiad 2012
New Zealand teams for the Chess Olympiad 2012 The New Zealand Chess Federation has announced the lineups for the World Chess Olympiad, which will be held in August in Istanbul, Turkey. Open team (in board order): IM Puchen Wang,...
A chess grand master can literally see the future.
A chess grand master can literally see the future.LEE MATTHEWSLast updated 07:36 25/02/2012 It’s not crystal-ball gazing; no fortune- telling hokum. What a chess grand master sees, spread out in the mind’s eye, is simultaneous visualisations of what’s going...
Grand Master coaches as he beats the lot
Grand Master coaches as he beats the lot 40 games of chess simultaneouslyLEE MATTHEWSLast updated 13:26 11/02/2012 Your brains would boil watching New Zealand chess correspondence Grand Master Mark Noble play 40 games simultaneously. Noble, though, doesn’t turn a...