Club champs round one last night. Twenty seven players turned out, a few less than 2015 when we had 31 and a definite improvement on 2014 (23) and 2013 (19). Two games went down to the wire: Murray v Hilton, and Graham v Lara. Round 2 next week. Remember that clocks will be started as soon as I do the draw, whether you are there or not. Also, let Ian know if you are not going to be there as you will be awarded a bye. Crosstable so far is below. Club ratings have been updated.
| 1 | Richard Dare | 1.0 | +W15 |
| 2 | Hilton Bennett | 1.0 | +B16 |
| 3 | Graham Nolan | 1.0 | +W17 |
| 4 | Prashant Mistry | 1.0 | +B18 |
| 5 | Stefan Wagner | 1.0 | +W19 |
| 6 | Milton Severinsen | 1.0 | +B20 |
| 7 | Sivaram Manoharan | 1.0 | +W21 |
| 8 | Ian Kennedy | 1.0 | +B22 |
| 9 | David Whiting | 1.0 | +W23 |
| 10 | Gary Judkins | 1.0 | +B24 |
| 11 | Christopher Symon | 1.0 | +W25 |
| 12 | Richard Jackson | 1.0 | +B26 |
| 13 | Chirag Doshi | 1.0 | +W27 |
| 14 | Jenny Xiang | 1.0 | +BYE |
| 15 | Matt Crombie | 0.0 | -B1 |
| 16 | Murray Tuatini | 0.0 | -W2 |
| 17 | Lara Heppenstall | 0.0 | -B3 |
| 18 | Joel Crombie | 0.0 | -W4 |
| 19 | Sean Clark | 0.0 | -B5 |
| 20 | Jeff Xiang | 0.0 | -W6 |
| 21 | Shilong Yang | 0.0 | -B7 |
| 22 | Jarvis Xiang | 0.0 | -W8 |
| 23 | Dhusar Chatterjee | 0.0 | -B9 |
| 24 | Adam Hasan-Stein | 0.0 | -W10 |
| 25 | Cooper Quinn | 0.0 | -B11 |
| 26 | Finlay Buckell | 0.0 | -W12 |
| 27 | Matthys Joubert | 0.0 | -B13 |
Hamilton Chess Club 
Hello there chess people
who ever is interested in playing chess i am keen to play games with them as playing chess once a week is not enough for me and playing on the internet gets repetitive quickly whoever is keen to meet and play chess pm me so we can arrange a time or place my email address is richarddare@hotmail.co.nz use in the email title playing chess so i know you are keen to play chess I am mostly free all day every day so if you want to get better in chess contact me
Thanks
Richard Dare (Ranked 1# in the club)