Hamilton Chess Club

Winter (A) results are below. Winter (B) starts next week

Graham and Hilton ran a successful Waikato Schools’ regional tournament on the weekend to decide the representatives to attend the upcoming National event. Four club members constituting Hamilton Boys’ A team will lead off for the high school section. It is noteworthy that the Hamilton Boys B team consists entirely of club players also.

Waikato Regional Interschools Qualifiers
4^th August 2019, Hamilton Boys’ High School
High School Section
1^st           Hamilton Boys’ High School ‘A’
(Eushin Kang, Michael Lin, Max Stephens, Nathanael Loy)
2^nd          Hamilton Boys’ High School ‘B’
3^rd           St Paul’s Collegiate School
Hamilton Boys’ High School ‘A’ qualify for the National Finals.

Intermediate School Section
1^st           Southwell School intermediate ‘B’
(Isaac Li, Stanley Lin, Rachael Ronowicz, Daniel Shen, Jerry Zhou)
2^nd          Peachgrove Intermediate School ‘A’
3^rd           Southwell School Intermediate ‘A’
Southwell School Intermediate ‘B’ qualify for the National Finals.

Primary School Section
1^st           Southwell School Primary ‘A’
(Alex Ko, Ryan Wang, Leyu Zeng, Adi Manda)
2^nd          Hukanui Primary School ‘A’
3^rd           Hillcrest Normal School ‘A’
Southwell School Primary ‘A’ qualify for the National Finals.

During the recent Waikato Open the club website had a surge in traffic, with 217 views on the Saturday and 239 views on the Sunday as shown in the adjacent graph. The website has now had over 111000 hits since it was developed.

Club ratings have been updated including the just completed rapid. Graphs of ratings have also been updated. See if you have gone up or down.

We will switch to a series of two Winter rapids next week, 3 games per night over two nights with time control 20 + 0. Dont be late. Guests and new members welcome