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  • Newbie—well for this year—Alan Winfield, continues to lead the field, but, current Kapiti Chess champion is sliding in his slipstream, only one point behind. Glyns Mills leads the B &C grades, and is closely followed by a keen pack. Look at our results for full details.

  • Club Champs are well under way and after 4 rounds Alan Winfield leads the field. It’s early days yet; with two more series to be played in this ultimate Kapiti Chess challenge. On another front, work is well under way revamping our website—there’s still more water to flow under this bridge and by the end of the year we should be all go—many thanks to Lars for his dedicated web-work.

  • We meet Tuesdays at the Salvation Army rear hall, 41 Bluegum Road, Paraparaumu Beach.  The Junior Club runs from 6:30pm to 7:30pm, except during school holidays, and the Senior Club runs from 7:45 pm. Find out more about us here.

    “Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic” — Mikhail Botvinnik

  • Congratulations to Alistair McGowan, the new Leo Eichholtz Trophy Champion—he won both his games to finally end David Paul’s domination of this prize. Next week, we have a night of Blitz—3 minutes plus 2 second add-on and the following week begins Series One of the Kapiti Club Championship.
    Don’t forget Upper Hutt’s annual Rapid Tournament this Saturday 27 June; be there by 9:45, Hapai Building, 879-881 Fergusson Drive, Upper Hutt.

  • One night of play to go in the Leo Eichholz Trophy and Alistair McGowan is challenging current champion David Paul for this Trophy. Half a point divide them and with David away next week, Alistair will grasp this perfect prize—if he wins both his games—watch this space.

  • 2 games of the Leo Eichholz Trophy were played and Alan Winfield continues his meteoric rise with a fine win over David Paul—will it be enough to dethrone the current champion? — time will tell — we have 2 more nights play to go. Sean Doyle is showing improving form with 2 fine wins. Up for discussion is the idea of changing our Club night to Tuesday for 2016—any thoughts?

  • The third and final series of the Leo Eichholz Trophy has begun. Top Junior Johnny Hynes had a good win against Senior player Guy Burns. David Paul continues to comfortably lead the field by two points. Three more nights of play to go. 

  • Series 4, of the Freebird Trophy was played—4 games at 10 minutes plus 5 second add-on per game—and long-time-no-see dark horse Todd Stewart took the honours with 3.5 points, closely followed by Guy Burns and John Whibley on 3. John Whibley shares the lead for the Trophy with David Paul—8.5—closely followed by a menacing marauding pack—a lot can happen with one more night’s play to go. Next week we start the final series our Leo Eichholz Trophy—4 nights at 2 games per night, with a timeframe of 25 minutes, plus a 5 second add-on.

  • The John Kingston Memorial Trophy is over and we now have a new champion. Congratulations to Alan Winfield, who has broken David Paul’s 4 year grip on the trophy. Next Wednesday we play the 3rd series of our Freebird Trophy—four rounds at 10 minutes with a 5 second add-on.

  • Lars Dobbertin-King—now known as giant killer—had an upset win against current champion David Paul in the penultimate round of our John Kingston Memorial Trophy. His win places David half a point behind Alan Winfield, and as David is away next week, Alan is almost assured of toppling David from his 4 year winning streak—unless of course Alan loses his game next week—we will wait and see.