Welcome
The Wellington Chess Club meets every Tuesday evening from
7:30pm on the top floor of Turnbull House, Bowen Street, opposite the
Beehive, in Wellington the capital city of New Zealand. Competitive
players of all strengths will find Wellington Chess Club a great place
to enjoy real, old-fashioned over-the-board chess with serious
opponents. Find out more about us here.
What's Hot Right Now
Last update 13May2012
- The Autumn cup is underway, see the blog and the first tournament report on the current tournament page.
- Ian is publishing club games on a website as
well as by email. I've now put a permanent link to this website in the
main menu as "Games blog". Will I rise to the challenge and incorporate
this
innovation into the site proper ? Speculate intelligently and stay
tuned.
- The rapid matchplay finished on on Tuesday 24th of April with victory to the Capablancan team.
Check out the results on the previous tournaments page. - Congratulations to Ross Jackson and Scott Wastney, joint winners
of the Wellington Open this Easter weekend. The key top-board clashes
in the last round saw Wastney(4.5)-Ker(4) on board 1 and
Steadman(4)-Jackson(4) on board 2. Scott and Anthony continued a long
running debate on the merits of the 7.Qd4 variation of the Austrian
Pirc. Scott got a better endgame but couldn't convert. Draw. Meanwhile
Steadman-Jackson was a wild Marshall Gambit (the Slav one not the Lopez
one) with Ross outplaying the current NZ champ. Anthony came third
alone with 4.5. Full results and a link to download the tournament .pgn
appear on the Wellington Easter Open page.
- The 2012 summer cup is over. Congratulations sole winner Anthony Ker. Reports appear on the previous tournaments page.
- A
good Wellington contingent competed at Queenstown. Unfortunately most
of us ended up clustered around the bottom of the table, and even our
champions Russell and Anthony didn't have their greatest ever NZ
champs. The result was a evil popular Aucklander usurping our rightful normal hold on the silver rook.
- Never
mind. Next year we're bringing the silver rook home. Literally. We are
organising the 2013 Congress and holding it right here in the
traditional home of New Zealand chess. That's Wellington for those of
you who aren't paying attention. No doubt Russell and Anthony (and Scott?) will be
in boot camp all year getting into tip top shape for the event. It's
still early days, but as details emerge I'll put them on the congress page.
What's Coming Up
As far as the website is concerned I still aspire to get play-through chess on this site. I've done some research, but I don't want to do it until I have a really good
way of doing it. If that sounds like an excuse, hmmm there's probably a
reason it sounds like an excuse. An "Honour Roll" of sorts is another
goal, in other words a list of previous Wellington Chess Club
tournament results (or at least winners). Who did well in the summer
cup of 2004 ? It will be interesting to try and collect as much of this
kind of information as possible.