Summer Cup 2025 - Welcome Back

Welcome back for another year of chess at Papatoetoe Chess Club, we start the year of with a standard tournament, one round per night for six weeks (1 hour + 10 seconds per move)

Results of the first round and next weeks pairing can be found below (subject to change)

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Fischer Random (Chess 960)

To warp up the year we played 5 rounds of Fischer random also known as "Chess 960" and ate great food for our Christmas Break fun day. And out of twenty players, Nigel won all 5/5 games clearly not hampered by these strange starting positions, well done!

Looking forward too more chess in 2025, the Calendar is available, the first evening back is on the 5th of February with the Annual General Meeting and prize giving for the winners of 2024.

Lastly included are the board positions we played for our 2024 Chess 960 fun day and the FEN strings for those interested.

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Simul 2024

What a great Simul we played last week, Oscar had finished his exams and agreed to play the lot of us simultaneously, 17 games played and Oscar lost 0 but ended up taking two draws with young heavy weight Martin Z and Jonathan B.

It was a fun experience for all who participated, especially for those few juniors that had never played in a simul before, one of them said it was a great learning experience playing against this tough opponent, and thats a great thing to hear i think.

And Oscar said he had a great time playing us, it was the first time he played a simul against Papatoetoe chess Club but he assured us it will not be his last, although next time maybe not in the middle of the school exam term as that gets very busy.

Oscar Simul 2024 Oscar played 17 opponents in a Simul in 2024 winning 15 and taking a draw for the final two

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