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  • 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.