Pairing of round 1, at 19:30 of 14/11/2018
| Bo. | Fed | Origin | White Player | Pts | IDW | Result | IDB | Pts | Black Player | Origin | Fed |
|---|
| 1 |  NZL | NS | Evans, David J | (0) | 1 | ½ - ½ | 11 | (0) | Yu, Jeffrey | NS | NZL |
| 2 | NZL | NS | Chen, Matthew | (0) | 10 | ½ - ½ | 2 | (0) | Johns, Daniel P | NS | NZL |
| 3 | NZL | NS | Hair, Philip I | (0) | 3 | 0 - 1 | 13 | (0) | Winsor, Brian M | NS | NZL |
| 4 | NZL | NS | Shen Su, Kevin | (0) | 15 | ½ - ½ | 4 | (0) | Isaac, Ceferino | NS | NZL |
| 5 | NZL | NS | Pakholjuk, Alex | (0) | 5 | 1 - 0 | 16 | (0) | Liu, Lucas | NS | NZL |
| 6 | NZL | NS | Bean, Alan | (0) | 14 | 1 - 0 | 6 | (0) | Li, Andrew | NS | NZL |
| 7 | NZL | NS | Kamberi, Paul | (0) | 8 | 0 - 1 | 7 | (0) | Manoharan, Sivaram | NS | NZL |
| 8 | NZL | NS | Zheng, Thomas | (0) | 12 | 0 - 1 | 9 | (0) | Li, Allen | NS | NZL |