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  • The Kapiti Rapid Tournament starts soon. Saturday October 8—just over a week away—players from the Wellington region and beyond assemble at Paraparaumu to play exciting competition chess. Kapiti players have free entry to the Tournament—cost normally $40—but must arrive at the community hall at 8am to help set the hall up. Please support Kapiti Chess and turn up on the day for an exciting 6 round tournament against new and interesting opponents—also, there will be plenty of prizes!

     

  • Section B of the Club Champs has resumed and 7 players are within 1 point of taking home the trophy. The next eight rounds will be closely fought and incumbent Kapiti Chess Club Champion, David Paul, will be gathering all the mojo he can muster to keep this trophy in his current war chest.

     

  • The fifth and final Blitz Tournament of the year is now over and Paul Frost dominated the evening finishing with a respectable 5.5 points, closely followed by Alastair McGowan on 5. Josh Bunker was the top scoring Junior with 2 points.

    With all results now in and tallied, David Paul is the Kapiti Chess Club 2011 Blitz Trophy winner—congratulations! Alastair McGowan and Mighty Mike O’Rorke follow closely. Johnny Hynes takes the Junior section, followed closely by Josh Bunker.

  • The first half of the Club Champs has been completed and incumbent David Paul barely holds the lead on 5.5 points after a mighty victory by Zoe Kingston—over David—in the last round of this section. Zoe, calculated as mechanical Swiss-watch, played steady chess to overwhelm her opponent—his first Club Championship loss in 4 year (also to Zoe).

    A plethora of members are within one point of the lead, including Junior Itay Ben-Dom on 5 points.

    Next Wednesday (15 September) we have the last round—round 5—of our 5 minute Blitz Tournament and the second half of the Club Champs begins on 21 September.

  • The 2011 Kapiti Rapid will be held this coming Saturday. Yes, we know the Rugby World Cup Quarter Finals start 6:00pm that day. But, we promise to finish on time and let you get away asap, if you really must get back to watch the match!

     

  • The chess-web-meister is on annual leave for a month and this commentary will resume in early September.

     

  • The dust has settled and Zoe Kingston and David Paul just are clear of the field by half a point. Gordon has a strong game tonight against Alistair McGowan and talented Itay Ben-Dom played strongly to draw against current club champion David Paul.

     

  • Club Champs are now well under-way, the field is slowly starting establish their positions. It takes several rounds for the dust to settle before we start to see the leaders appearing through the haze, who then become targets that all members want to beat in the heat of battle.

  • The Club Champs are now under-way and round one was played last week—results will be posted soon. The Champs continue for next week.

  • Round 4 of our Blitz Trophy series was played and David Paul took out the honours. Full results will be posted soon.