Category: News

All blog type posts for the Club

  • Chess has finished for 2016. We celebrated with Prizegiving on 20 December. Photos can be found Here.
    Chess resumes Tuesday February 7—see you then!

  • Prize Giving on 20 December; a time to bring a plate and more importantly your friends, partners and family!

  • Club Champs are now over.
    Congratulations go to David Paul—A Grade, Sean Doyle—B Grade and Rose Kingston—C Grade.
    Don’t forget Prize Giving on 20 December; a time to bring a plate and more importantly your friends, partners and family!

  • One more round of the Club Champs and play’s all over for year.
    Results are tight—David Paul leads the A Grade by one point ahead of Lars Dobbertin-King and Ross Jackson. Rick Lowe is half a point ahead of Sean Doyle in the B Grade. C Grade sees Rose Kingston half a point ahead of Paul Benefield.
    Don’t forget Prize Giving on 20 December; a time to bring a plate and more importantly your friends, partners and family!

  • Lars Dobbertin-King is still unbeaten in the 2nd Series of our Club Champs—only half a point behind leader David Paul. Unfortunately Lars will miss the final night of play, thereby making it hard to dislodge David from the lead in Kapiti Chess Club’s ultimate Trophy.

  • Lars Dobbertin-King continues his unbroken run in the 2nd Series of our Club Champs with an upset win over David Paul. This win has upset the apple-cart for David; he is now only half a point in front of Alan Winfield and one point ahead of Lars—exciting stuff!
    Game can be viewed Here

  • Lars Dobbertin-King continues to lead series 2 of the Club Champs, but David Paul continues his slide into the lead for the complete event—now one and a half points clear of the field. With four rounds to go it will be difficult to reign him in….

  • Clash of the giants: Club Champ leaders David Paul and Alan Winfield battled it out in an exciting game where, with a piece down, Alan rolled out a pawn attack, but to no avail—a draw.

  • It’s great to be back at the Library to finish the first series of the Club Champs. David Paul has a comfortable 1.5 point lead in the A Grade, Sean Doyle is only half a point ahead in the B grade, and the C grade is led by Rose Kingston. The first round of the 2nd series of the Champs begins Tuesday.

  • A full house with 7 boards played in the Club Champs—no major upsets and David Paul continues to lead by half a point.
    Next week we are finally back in the Library and play the final round of the current series.

  • Rose Kingston victory over Natalie Bowles propels her well into the lead of the C Grade in our Club Champs.
    There is NO CHESS—4 October—and meet again at the Women’s Centre 11 October.

  • Fifth round of our Club Champs was played and David Paul leads by a whisker with 4 players within one point.
    Rick Lowe heads the B grade and Rose Kingston is in charge of the C.
    We next meet again at the Womens Centre and the following week—4 October—there is no chess.

  • Sorry about the muck up last Tuesday—we now have the key.
    Don’t forget, we will play at the Women’s Centre, Ngahina Street.

  • ATTENTION
    There will be no chess this Tuesday—6 September—and the following Tuesday—13 September—we will meet at the Women’s Centre—around the corner from the Library, but don’t worry if you don’t know where it is; someone will be at the Library to direct you there.

  • We welcome back to the Club chess stalwart Mike O’Rorke.
    The third round of the Club Champs was played and David Paul edges into the lead by a whisker half point.

  • It’s early days in the Club champs and David Paul takes an early lead.

  • Third round of our Blitz Trophy was played, with a small field, and David Paul nudges Lars Dobbertin-King aside to narrowly lead by half a point
    Next week we start the Holy Grail of Kapiti Chess—the Club Championships, 8 rounds played in two series with a timeframe of 1 hour 30 seconds with a 30 second add-on per move.

  • Alistair McGowan lost his mojo to allow David Paul and Lars Dobbertin-King to take out the Freebird Trophy—congratulations.
    A Blitz round next week.

  • The Freebird Trophy is underway and Alistair McGowan leads with a blistering 4 wins after 4 games, including a rare 6 move checkmate against Guy Burns:  1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 e5 5.Nf5 Nge7 6.Nd6# 1-0!

  • Congratulations goes to David Paul for winning the Leo Eichholtz Trophy. Due to low numbers the final 8th round was not played.
    Full results Here
    Next week we start the first night—of two—in the Freebird Trophy—timeframe:  10 minutes with a 5 second add on, 4 games on the night.