On 29 April 2024, a team of 6 Kāpiti players travelled to Trentham for a friendly interclub match with Upper Hutt. Each team member had 2 games of 25m +5s against an opposing club member, one as white and one as black. In this game, Geoffrey playing black on board 2 against white’s King’s English, prevails in a game played on two sides, with black storming the king side, and white doing the same on the queen side.

Game of the week was definitely a game of two halves. Ross playing the black side of a Caro-Kann (!), played a nice positional game and had the initiative early. This initiative increased on move 21, when Lars was forced to recapture on f3 which severely weakened his kingside. The weak king was harassed by the Black queen who collected some pawns along the way. However, when Ross played 35…f6, in an attempt to activate his rook along the f-file, he opened lines against his own king. This gave Lars active counterplay which culminated in a great finish. Annotations by Gordon Lyall.

2023 Club Champs Round 4 match. Another good clash between young and old. When the dust settles it is a draw.

Another game from Round 4 of the 2023 Club Champs. A closely-fought match clash between old and young.  John secures a pawn advantage but stumbles in the end to a nice tactical move.

The Game of round 2 in the 2023 KCC Championship was the top board clash between between David and Levi. A high quality game in which David steered into an open tactical battle which played to his strengths, and saw him come out on top.

A second round game played at the 2023 Kāpiti Open (25m + 5s).

This game was played as part of the Interclub match with Upper Hutt club  on 18 April 2023. 

A Round 2 clash in the 2023 Kāpiti Kingston Memorial.

This was a Round 5 game at the NZ Major Open played in Wellington in January 2023.

Here is a game from Round 6 of the 2022 Kāpiti Chess Club Championship played between Andy Hicks (rated 1621) versus Geoffrey Gunawan (rated 1812). Annotations by Gordon Lyall.