Hamilton Chess Club

Esandi joins brother Lasen and dad Euchira as the clubs newest member.

The final crosstables are below. We will have another Winter Cup starting next week. Numbers in each division will depend on how many turn up on the night.

Knights

Bishops

Winter Cup (1 ) is being run in two divisions. Crosstables at the half way point are below. We had a bit of a late start last night, but hope to be underway by 7:15 next week. Don’t be late

Knights Division

Bishops Division

Congratulations to Milton who takes the title of Club Rapid Champion 2018 with a score of 5.5 out of 6. We start the Winter Cup next week. Don’t be late.

You can check out photos from the open here

This is the tentative Round Six Pairing for the top ten boards, subject to change on the night if people dont turn up.

Open Division
1^st           Ben Hague                          (Auckland)                          5
2^nd =      Michael Steadman          (Auckland)                          4.5
Russell Dive                        (Wellington)
Grade I
1^st           Nathan Goodhue             (Auckland)                          4
2^nd =      Bob Gibbons                      (Auckland)                          3.5
Hilton Bennett                  (Hamilton)
Grade II
1^st           Luis Duran Rubalcava      (Hamilton)                          3.5
2^nd –       Josia Vickers                       (Mt Maunganui)               3
Juni Aguilar                         (North Shore)
Winner of Len Whitehouse Memorial Trophy for best Waikato player:
Graeme Spain                                    (Te Awamutu)                   4

Under 1800 Division
1^st           Michael Lin                         (Hamilton)                          5.5
2^nd =       Lara Heppenstall              (Hamilton)                          4.5
William Crombie              (Hamilton)
Grade I
1^st           Kendrick Zhang                 (North Shore)                    4
2^nd =      Gary Judkins                       (Hamilton)                          3.5
Jeffrey Yu                            (Auckland)
Ying Wang                           (Auckland)
Grade II
1^st           Joel Crombie                      (Hamilton)                          3
2^nd          Tracy Liu                               (Auckland)                          2.5
Vraj Dhankee                     (Waitakere)
Winner of William Lynn Cup for best Hamilton Junior:
Michael Lin                                         (Hamilton)                          5.5

We have 52 registered players for the open compared to 47 last year and 48 the year before. You can follow progress for the Open here and the U1800 here

We have fifty registered players for the open compared to 47 last year and 48 the year before. You can follow progress for the Open here and the U1800 here

Daniel Loy has joined his older brother as the newest member of the club. Welcome Daniel.

We are in recess for the school holidays. Club nights resume 24 July

Alex Hall and Joshua Walker are the clubs newest members. Welcome

We are currently part way through the annual club rapid championship. The format is one game per night over six weeks with time control 30 minutes, plus 10 seconds increment per move from move one. Hamilton Chess Club Special Rules, and the usual rules about awarding byes will apply. Note that this is a member only event, so if you are not a member check out the calendar for when new prospective members can come along and play

The astute among you will notice the hit counter at the top left of the webpage has been getting teasingly close to 100,000 hits over the last few weeks, and has now clocked over registering 100028 as this post goes up. The first post was made by Scott 0n 21/02/2011 which was 2675 days ago, so over that time we have averaged 37 hits per day. The average is a little inflated however, as we took several thousand hits with this Hamilton based international chess scandal that even made the front page of chess base

The club rapid kicked off last night. This years’ time control is a little longer than previous at 30 minutes plus 10 seconds. We have 34 players participating. The cross table after round one is below. Special mention to newcomer Joseph Hall who had winning chances against William Lynn. Eventually things simplified to a pawn and rook endgame and Joseph had to settle for a draw.

Games kick off at 7:30 next week but be there by 7:15 so we can do the draw. Do let Ian know if you won’t be playing as you can take a bye