North Shore Chess Club

Events for 2018

This year, North Shore Chess Club ran South Auckland and Central Auckland events, in addition to our own North Shore competitions.
North Shore CC thanks NZ Chess News for securing sponsorship from ChessNews.Asia, which supplied the clocks used in our Interschools events. Thanks also to the Auckland Chess Association, for making tables available.
Many photos from these events can be found on the NZ Chess News Facebook page (no login required):
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May 15th Central Primary, Ponsonby Primary School
Central Primary
1st (Gold medals) Marshall Laing A
(Isaiah Tan, Zack Jones, Jonny Meng & Haydn Kemp)
2nd (Silver medals) Hillsborough A
(Abraham Chanwong, Alan So, Ayaan Vasudeva & Daniel Stuart)
3rd (Bronze medals) Hillsborough B
(Liam Stuart, Maya Ali, Rocco Gough & Connor Stuart)
Medals for 100% scores over 6 rounds go to Abraham Chanwong, Zack Jones, Rocco Gough & Haydn Kemp.
Marshall Laing and Hillsborough qualify for the National Finals
Full results on Orion: Central Primary
May 17th Central Intermediate and Central Secondary, Mt Roskill Grammar.
Central Intermediate
1st (Gold medals) Mt Roskill Intermediate A
(WCM Renae Ghadiali, Saasha Ghadiali, Nico McKinlay & Adam Ali)
2nd (Silver medals) Waikowhai A
(Tom Tuipulotu, Julius Hall, Nathan Carpendale & Alex Thomson)
3rd (Bronze medals) Auckland Normal Intermediate
(John Liu, Prince Nayak, Phong Nguyen & Mingjue Phillips)
Medals for 100% score over 6 rounds go to WCM Renae Ghadiali, Nico McKinlay, and Adam Ali.
Mt Roskill Intermediate qualifies for the National Finals.
Full results on Orion: Central Intermediate
Central Secondary
1st (Gold medals) Auckland Grammar A
(FM Daniel Gong, CM Allen Fan, James Liu, Nicholas Huang & Kelvin Xiao)
2nd (Silver medals) Mt Roskill Grammar A
(Euan McDougall, Joe Wang, Christopher Schramm & Kirushni Suthakaran)
3rd (Bronze medals) Auckland Grammar B
(Aaron Wang, David Xu, Brijesh Sivabalan & Max Gu)
Medals for 100% score over 6 rounds go to WCM Nicole Qin, CM Allen Fan, and Christopher Schramm.
Auckland Grammar qualifies for the National Finals.
Full results on Orion: Central Secondary
May 22nd South Secondary, Papatoetoe High School
South Secondary
1st (Gold medals) King's College A
(Darrick Pan, Brian Qi, Ryan Nguyen & Fa'afuhia Fia)
2nd (Silver medals) Papatoetoe High B
(Lloyd Williams, Fergus Lee, Anthony Luu & Liyork Liao)
3rd (Bronze medals) Papatoetoe High A
(Kevin Guan, Ethan Stowers, Harpreet Singh & Anuj Semwal)
Medals for 100% score over 6 rounds go to Brian Qi, Ryan Nguyen, and Anuj Semwal.
King's College qualifies for the National Finals.
Full results on Orion: South Secondary
May 28th North Shore Primary, Wairau Intermediate
North Shore Primary
1st (Gold medals) Pinehurst School A
(Felix Xie, Kendrick Zhang, Eric Jin, Ryan Fan & Allen Weng)
2nd (Silver medals) Willow Park Primary A
(Matthew Chen, Emma Zhuang, Eddie Kim & Chenchen Wang)
3rd (Bronze medals) Murrays Bay Primary A
(Fortune Shi, Daniel Chua, Jude Fraser & Paul Kim)
Medals for 100% score over 6 rounds go to Matthew Chen, Noah Collier, Kendrick Zhang, and Jackson Zhao.
Pinehurst School and Willow Park Primary qualify for the National Finals.
Full results on Orion: North Shore Primary
May 29th North Shore Intermediate and North Shore Secondary, Wairau Intermediate.
North Shore Intermediate
1st (Gold medals) Murrays Bay Intermediate A
(Andrew Li, Allen Li, Nathan Jin & Andy Song)
2nd (Silver medals) Takapuna Normal Intermediate A
(CM Richard Meng, Jeffrey Yu, Antony Hu & Dinithi Liyanage)
3rd (Bronze medals) Wairau Intermediate B
(Shreerang Kulkarni, Minwoo Kim, Thomas Gwilt & Rayan Karadan)
Medals for 100% score over 6 rounds go to CM Richard Meng, Jonathon Sun, Allen Li, Zachary Collier, Thomas Gwilt, Nathan Jin, Andy Song and Aadvik Kumar.
Murrays Bay Intermediate, Takapuna Normal Intermediate and Wairau Intermediate qualify for the National Finals.
Full results on Orion: North Shore Intermediate
North Shore Secondary
1st (Gold medals) Westlake Boys High School A
(CM William Zhang, Michael Berns, Ian Qiu & Caleb Barr)
2nd (Silver medals) Westlake Boys High School B
(Alex Tai, George Yang, Samuel Yoo, Tony Lu & Mitchell Wisata)
3rd (Bronze medals) Westlake Boys High School D
(Nathaniel Williamson, Richard Jia, Jay Chen & Michael Edwards)
Medals for 100% score over 6 rounds go to CM William Zhang, Ben Fullam and John Zhang.
Westlake Boys High School qualifies for the National Finals.
Full results on Orion: North Shore Secondary
June 8th South Intermediate, Papatoetoe Intermediate
South Auckland Intermediate
1st (Gold medals) Papatoetoe Intermediate B
(Aniq Valmouga, Hamed Mohammadi, Jordan Gow & Darshil Jangra)
2nd (Silver medals) Rosehill Intermediate A
(Troy Phillips, Kevin Vimal, Caleb Sitagata & Jeremy Thompson)
3rd (Bronze medals) Papatoetoe Intermediate A
(Kharanshu Kumar, Kevin Huynh, Robbie Finay & Andy Liu)
Medals for 100% score over 6 rounds go to Max Jiang and Darshil Jangra.
Papatoetoe Intermediate qualifies for the National Finals.
Full results on Orion: South Intermediate
June 13th South Primary, Everglade Primary
South Auckland Primary
1st (Gold medals) Papatoetoe Central A
(Henry Luo, Darius Howell, John Nguyen & Alan Jiang)
2nd (Silver medals) Puhinui A
(Ryan Doan, Avneet Dhaliwal, Sarayu Gande & Ryan Prakash)
3rd (Bronze medals) Papatoetoe East A
(Aryan Bansal, Rehan Abdullah, Charlotte Steel & Bonita Touch)
Medals for 100% score over 6 rounds go to Aryan Bansal and Darius Howell.
Papatoetoe Central Primary qualifies for the National Finals.
Full results on Orion: South Primary

These are qualifying events for the 2018 NZCF National Interschool Championships, to be held in Mount Maunganui, September 29th-30th. The winner of each regional event will represent that region in the appropriate division (Primary, Intermediate, or Secondary). If 20 or more teams compete, a second school will qualify; if 30 or more teams, a third school will qualify. Schools may enter as many teams as they like (subject to space restrictions at the venue), but can only win one qualifying place.

Tournament Format: Matches are played on four boards (two with white and two with black pieces), so four players are required for each team. There will be six rounds using the Swiss pairing method (Orion software).

Teams and Board Order: The players in each team should be ranked as closely as possible in order of playing strength, with the strongest player on board one, the second strongest on board two, etc. This order must remain unchanged throughout the day. Please indicate the order on the entry form and confirm with the arbiter on arrival. Furthermore, a school’s A-team should be stronger than its B-team, etc.

Playing Times: Teams need to register their presence before 9:00am on the day of the tournament. A players’ meeting will follow and the first round should commence about 9:15am. There will be a break for lunch and we aim to finish by 2:30pm. Digital chess clocks will be used with each player having 15 minutes base time for the game plus additional time of 5 seconds added per move. This time control is similar to that used in the National Finals.

Adult Support: Visiting school teams must have an adult (teacher, parent, or guardian) present to supervise them. We will provide arbiters and make the pairings - anyone who is interested in learning how to do this is during the event should let us know in advance.

Entries: The entry fee of $35 per team should accompany the entry form. All entries will be acknowledged and more detailed information will be circulated as soon as possible after the entry deadline. Entries will be listed here.

Prizes: The first three teams will receive gold, silver, and bronze medals, which will be engraved and sent to schools after the event, for presentation at Assembly. Some regions have trophies which are awarded annually - if you are in possession of such a trophy, please remember to bring it to the event!

Queries: Please email Helen Milligan