Winner » Akash Patel (9.0/10)

Our year ending tournament was the annual End-Of-Year-Blitz. The competition was played as a round robin over 10 rounds. Games were played at 5 minutes per player per game.

Congratulations to new Club Champion Akash Patel for winning the competition. Akash fought off a strong challenge from Bob van den Bergh who took second place.

Both Steve and Simon Barber have converted their provisional Blitz ratings into full Blitz ratings.

Full Results » 2024 End of Year Blitz…

Ladies & Gentlemen we have a new Club Champion: Akash Patel!

Akash demolished former Champion Scott Stringer in the final played last Tuesday. The new Champion showed absolutely no mercy pouncing on any inaccuracies and quickly turned the game into a winning position. Scott was forced to resign on move 16.

2023 Champion Tony Kesseller did not defend his title this year.

Full Results » 2024 Club Ladder…

This was an extended competition, played over two consecutive nights.

Bob van den Bergh was the clear winner on a perfect 5/5. He and Akash fought out a difficult and instructive pawn endgame to conclude the final game.

Full Results » 2024 King's Gambit…

10 players competed in this year's Midwinter Blitz competition. Seven rounds were played with games timed at five minutes-per-player-per-game.
Five unrated players earned their first NCC Blitz rating and Dean gained his full Blitz rating

Congratulations to Akash and Bob who shared first place.

Champions: Akash Patel & Bob van den Bergh (5.5/7)

Final Results » 2024 Mid Winter Blitz…

Overall winner: Nathan Houghton

Our 2018 Junior tournament was the same size as last year, wth only four players taking part. The small number didn't dilute the quality of chess played!

Defending junior champion Nathan Houghton successfully defended his title.

Congratulations Nathan!

Full results » 2018 Junior Competition…

2018 Champions

• West Eyreton Wizards

2016 Most Valuable Player

• William Bretherton (West Eyreton Wizards)

Team Placings

Place Name                   Score
  1   WEST EYRETON WIZARDS   20   
  2   ASHGROVE ACES          15   
 3-4  NORTH LOBURN KNIGHTS   13   
      LEITHFIELD LEGENDS     13   
  5   AMBERLEY KNIGHTS       12.5 
  6   ASHGROVE ARCHERS       10   
 7-8  WEST EYRETON WARRIORS  8.5  
      AMBERLEY ROOKS         8.5  
  9   WEST EYRETON WILD CATS 7.5  
 

North Canterbury Chess' regular meetings are held on the first and third Tuesday of each month

7pm - 9.30pm
Rangiora War Memorial Centre
Corner of High Street & Albert Street, Rangiora.

Special events and competitions may be held at other times and venues.  See the Calendar above for dates of these events.

North Canterbury Chess is a chess club which operates out of Rangiora, New Zealand.  We are run by an elected executive comprising President, Vice-President and Secretary/Treasurer with up to two additional untitled councilors.

Our club is a non-profit organization.  This status is detailed in our constitution and is recognised by New Zealand's sole taxation agency - the Inland Revenue Department.

We formed 12 September 2001, and since 2002 have been affiliated with the New Zealand Chess Federation (NZCF) the governing body for chess in New Zealand.

From our constitution…

2.0 OBJECTS
2.1 To encourage & foster the game of chess, with emphasis in the North Canterbury area.
2.2 To arrange and run matches, tournaments & competitions and other chess events.

We also organize school lectures, tuition, as well as our social & competitive chess events.

We are governed by New Zealand law, our constitution, NZCF regulations and FIDE rules.  So long as we don't act outside these constraints we are free to organize chess (and other) events as we see fit.

We operate a democratic policy toward decision making.