YouTube – Important Endgames that People Mess UP!
At least the first 4 of these you should know by heart.
Ideal Chess – Checkmate puzzles and endgame practice
You should be able to do 10 Mate in 2 puzzles without a mistake
You can practice mate with 2 Rooks and a King against a lone King,
You can practice mate with 1 Rook and King against a lone King.
You can practice pawn and King against King – Queen the pawn!
Well worth a visit.
On Wednesday the 14th of June the South Auckland Primary Inter-Schools Chess Tournament was held at Everglade Primary School.
Results.
1st Papatoetoe Central 1. [ which included club members Henry and Max Lou with Max scoring the perfect 6 out of 6
2nd Puhinui 1.
3rd Puhinui 2.
Well run and supported event!
Next day Thursday 15th of June saw the South Auckland Intermediate Schools Chess Tournament at the Papatoetoe Intermediate School.
Results.
1st Rose hill Intermediate [ continuing their strong showing in the Primary section in previous years]
2nd Holy Cross
3rd Manurewa Intermediate [ well done! by a new entry]
Pictures and full results on www.newzealandchess.co.nz
Calendar – NZCF Junior events – inter-schools page – results.
Results
1. Lloyd Williams with 5.5 points out of 6
2. 2nd = Ryan Nguyen
FaFia
and Max Luo all with 4 out of 6 points
After this Tournament everyone’s Club Ratings were updated
before we began the next tournament, so that players could be sorted
into rating groups to see who had to give up material in the
Hans Gao Handicap Shield 2017
No Chess this Wednesday 31st May.
Bowling Club holding a funeral reception in the hall
next night 7th June at 5pm for Juniors followed by Seniors at 7pm
Please pass this message on to other Club Members
As we enter Round 4 of the Lew Collins Autumn Cup 2017
we are lucky to have 4 new juniors and the return of 2 past ones.
3 boys and 1 girl plus 2 boys that used to play here.
The boys are – Pratyush, Kane and Jireh and the girl is Varshitha.
Both Pratyush and Varshitha play very well but do need help recording their games as do Kane and Jireh.
Robin and Yabla are old hands and should do well.
We extend a warm Welcome! to them all and hope they enjoy their time and games with us.
GOOD LUCK – EVERYONE.
A few weeks ago there was the passing of one our highly respected members of our Club.
Paul Norris – ex President of Papatoetoe Chess Club from 2009 to 2016
a wonderful man, kind and more than happy to help anybody with a smile on his face.
“Alexander play with a smile, dont worry be happy” .. first words he ever said to me, when i asked him about chess from Alexander L.
Best saying was always “It is what it is” John M.
He will always be remembered never forgotten R.I.P
Papatoetoe had 3 players
Oliver Picken, Barry Hooton, Danny Madden.
Would like to congratulate all players on doing so well. Oliver achieving a Candidate Master (CM) with 4.5 points in the final round defeating Viney Kumar from Australia (1703). Barry on 3.5 and Danny Madden on 2.5. which was great result as it was his second only tournament ever.
Hi to all Members
Thanks to all the juniors Oliver Picken played on the night 26 Boards and though time did not allow us to finsh the all the games he was in front on all Boards .The Prizes went too Jasraj Singh Chadha -Ryan Nguyen -Emily Massey. That he had the hardest games with
.Thanks to all the parents that helped on the night .
Later in evening Oliver played 10 seniors Result unknown
NEW START TIME FOR 2017
February Wednesday 1st at 5.30 PM
IF YOU CAN NOT MAKE IT PLEASE CONTACT JOHN MCRAE OR DAVID TAYLOR
Pauline Thomas Junior Blitz Trophy 2016
1 night – 4 Rounds – 5 min each.
RESULTS
1st = Lloyd Williams and Ryan Nguyen on 4 out of 4 points
New players Chloe, Levi and their mother Davina , helped fill out the field with several people absent.
The Club Champs start when we return on 12/10/16 –
8 Rounds – 1 per night – 60 min each A, B, and C Grade Cups to be won.
Pauline Thomas Junior Blitz Trophy 2016
1 night – 4 rounds – 5min each
RESULTS 1st = Lloyd Williams and Ryan Nguyen on 4 out of 4
New players Chloe, Levi, and their mother helped fill out the field which had several people absent.
The Junior Club Champs start when we return on 12/10/16 with
8 Rounds – 1 per night – 60min each [ record all games ]
A, B, and C Grade Cups to play for