We are proud to announce that the Manawatu Knights Chess Club have just put in a bid to run the National Congress, here in Palmerston North, in 2018.

Here comes the Knights...

North Island Championship 2016

Manawatu Knights players finish on a high after to 2 weeks of chess championships been held at PNBHS.

Joint North Island Champions for 2016 are our clubs very own Jack James & Mark Noble

This Title for Jack goes well with his 2 NZ Junior Titles earned last week.

This also gives Mark back to back North Island Titles

Jack James takes out Top Junior Prize

Mark Noble takes out Top Senior Prize

Sol Ross wins biggest upset beating someone 823 rating points higher

Also our club members playing in this event made a gain of over 200 rating points.

5th Feilding Rapid

1st Jack James

North Island Blitz

2nd= Mark Noble & Jack James

1st Top Junior Jack James

1st Top Senior Mark Noble

2016 New Zealand Junior Championship

Isabella Malton capped of a great week winning 2 more NZJ titles today taking her total to 5

NZJ Under 10 Champion
NZJ Under 10 Girl Champion

NZ Junior Chess Championship Rapid 2016

Manawatu Knights players win more titles at NZJ Rapid

2016 NZJ Rapid Champion 1st Jack James

2016 Under 10 Girls Champion
1st= Isabella Malton

2016 New Zealand Junior Blitz Championship

Manawatu Knights players star in Blitz Championship results below.

2016 NZJ Blitz Champion Jack James 1st

2016 NZJ Blitz  Dion Charles 3rd=

2016 NZJ Blitz Under 10 Isabella Malton 1st=

2016 NZJ Blitz Under 10 Girl Isabella Malton 1st

Manawatu School Pupils 2016

Overall Results

1st Sol Ross (PNBHS)
2nd Malachi Hill (PNBHS)
3rd Matthew Clayton (PNBHS)

Under 16

1st Hananke Calitz  (home school)
2nd Martin Joseph (PNBHS)

Under 14

1st Cameron Van RynBach (PNBHS)
2nd Shaheer Hussian (PNINS)
3rd Kian Jones (Masterton)

Under 12

1st Will Tucker  (Masterton)
2nd Alyssa Smiler (PNINS)
3rd Alex Clayton (PNINS)

Under 10

1st Isabella Malton
2nd Joshua Wright (Tokomaru)
3rd Fletcher Lockhead (St James)

Under 8

1st Charlie Lawton (Opiki)
2nd Liam Voysey (St James)
3rd Devon Wheeler (Manchester St)

Top Female

1st Jade Alves (Masterton)
2nd Rakshit Rajeshkumar (PNINS)
3rd Jorja Wood (FIS)

2016 Oceania Junior Champion

Jack James

 

Manawatu School Pupil

Chess Championship 2016

 

Venue: Feilding Civic Centre

             84 Aorangi Street

             Feilding 4702

 

Date: Wednesday, 21^st  September 2016 

Entry Fees: $10.00 

Closing date for entries: Midday, 20^th  September 2016 

Time Control: 40 minutes per game, Unfinished games to be adjudicated 

Play Starts: 9.30am

                      (Players are asked to be there by 9.15am) 

Trophy & Medals:    Manawatu School Pupil Champion 2016

                                    Under 16 Champion 2016

                                    Under 14 Champion 2016

                                    Under 12 Champion 2016

                                    Under 10 Champion 2016 

Payments:    Please make cheques payable to Manawatu Knights Chess Club. Send entry to The Secretary, Manawatu Knights Chess Club,

101 Sherwill St West,Feilding 4702.

If paying by direct credit (to ANZ Bank account 01 0755 0222242 00) please give full name, and email full details required on entry form to xn7223@paradise.net.nz  (Mark Noble) 

Entries to Mark Noble:

Email: xn7223@paradise.net.nz

Phone: 06 3237003 or 0273382040

1st Fiji International Blitz Open

Jack James 1st= with IM Gary Lane
which included Jack beating the IM

Jack James wins

2016 Oceania Junior Championship

 Great result for Jack who has been putting in hours of work of late.

Manawatu Regionals Intermediate & Secondary Results 2016

Intermediate

1st Feilding
2nd Feilding

Wairarapa Zone

1st Masterton

Secondary

1st PNBHS
2nd PNBHS

Manawatu Primary Regionals 2016

1st  Manchester Street

2nd St James

3rd Carncot

Good Luck to the teams making it to the National Finals in Palmerston North on 24/25 September

Up coming events in Palmerston North

September 24th-25th 2016 - NZ Interschools Team Championship Finals, Palmerston North. Kicking off organiser Mark Noble's two week bonanza of non-stop chess! Winning teams from the nationwide qualifying competitions will compete for the official New Zealand Chess Federation Interschools title. Hosted by Manawatu Knights Chess Club. Qualifiying events: see NZCF New Zealand Interschools page.

September 25th 2016 - NZ Junior Blitz, Palmerston North. Venue: Palmerston North Boys' High School, 263 Featherston St, Palmerston North. Nine-round swiss-system event with a time control of 3 minutes for the game plus an increment of 2 seconds per move from move 1. FIDE-rated: non-NZL players must have FIDE ID issued by their chess federation.Entry fee: $20. Contact: Mark Noble, email xn7223@paradise.net.nz. Download entry form here (pdf document). Follow the event on Vega: NZ Junior Blitz

September 26th 2016 - NZ Junior Rapid, Palmerston North. Venue: Palmerston North Boys' High School, 263 Featherston St, Palmerston North. Six-round swiss-system event with a time control of 25 minutes for the game plus an increment of 5 seconds per move from move 1. FIDE-rated: non-NZL players must have FIDE ID issued by their chess federation. Entry fee: $40. Contact: Mark Noble, email xn7223@paradise.net.nz. This event is a Poison Pawn Grand Prix class 2 event. Download entry form here (pdf document). Follow the event on Vega: NZ Junior Rapid

September 27th-30th 2016 - NZ Junior Championships, Palmerston North. Venue: Palmerston North Boys' High School, 263 Featherston St, Palmerston North. Seven-round swiss-system event with a time control of 90 minutes for the game plus an increment of 30 seconds per move from move 1. FIDE-rated: non-NZL players must have FIDE ID issued by their chess federation. Entry fee: $40. Contact: Mark Noble, email xn7223@paradise.net.nz. This event is a Poison Pawn Grand Prix class 1 event. Download entry form here (pdf document). Follow the event on Vega: NZ Junior

October 1st 2016 - Feilding Rapid, Palmerston North. Venue: Palmerston North Boys' High School, 263 Featherston St, Palmerston North. Six-round swiss-system event with a time control of 25 minutes for the game plus an increment of 5 seconds per move from move 1. FIDE-rated: non-NZL players must have FIDE ID issued by their chess federation. Entry fee: $40. Contact: Mark Noble, email xn7223@paradise.net.nz. This event is a Poison Pawn Grand Prix class 3 event. Download entry form here (pdf document). Follow the event on Vega: Feilding Rapid

October 1st 2016 - North Island Blitz, Palmerston North. Venue: Palmerston North Boys' High School, 263 Featherston St, Palmerston North. Nine-round swiss-system event with a time control of 3 minutes for the game plus an increment of 2 seconds per move from move 1. FIDE-rated: non-NZL players must have FIDE ID issued by their chess federation. Entry fee: $30. Contact: Mark Noble, email xn7223@paradise.net.nz. Download entry form here (pdf document). Follow the event on Vega: North Island Blitz

October 2nd 2016 - North Island Rapid, Palmerston North. Venue: Palmerston North Boys' High School, 263 Featherston St, Palmerston North. Six-round swiss-system event with a time control of 25 minutes for the game plus an increment of 5 seconds per move from move 1. FIDE-rated: non-NZL players must have FIDE ID issued by their chess federation. Entry fee: $60. Contact: Mark Noble, email xn7223@paradise.net.nz. This event is a Poison Pawn Grand Prix class 2 event. Download entry form here (pdf document). Follow the event on Vega: North Island Rapid

October 3rd-7th 2016 - North Island Championship, Palmerston North. Venue: Palmerston North Boys' High School, 263 Featherston St, Palmerston North. Nine-round swiss-system event with a time control of 90 minutes for the game plus an increment of 30 seconds per move from move 1. FIDE-rated: non-NZL players must have FIDE ID issued by their chess federation. Entry fee: $80. Contact: Mark Noble, email xn7223@paradise.net.nz. This event is a Poison Pawn Grand Prix class 1 event. Download entry form here (pdf document). Follow the event on Vega: North Island Championship

Team Match today in Patea

 

Manawatu Knights vs New Plymouth Chess Club

Round 1

Manawatu Knights 3.5 New Plymouth 6.5

Round 2

Manawatu Knights 6.5 New Plymouth 3.5

Match Tied 10 all

Stars for the Manawatu Knights team

Sol Ross 2 points

Malachi Hill 2 points

Hananke Calitz 1.5 Points

Cameron Van Rynbach 1.5 Points

Upper Hutt Rapid 2016

A Grade  Mark Noble 3rd=    3.5 points
                 Jack James              3 Points

B Grade  Dion Charles 2nd    4.5 Points

C Grade  Sol Ross                   3 Points
      Cameron Van rynvbach   1.5 Points
                 Martin Joseph        1.5 Points

Junior      Sam Fletcher   1st=  5 points
                 Isabella Malton      3 Points
                 Callum Smith         2 Points

39th Trusts Chess Open, Auckland.


Final Standing for our players


A Grade  Mark Noble  4.5 points 2nd
               Jack James     3 points

B Grade   Dion Charles 4.5 points 2nd=
                 Hananke Calitz 2.5 points

C Grade   Sol Ross      2 points

Manawatu Knights Chess Club
Blitz Championship 2016

1st Mark Noble         7 points
2nd Hananke Calitz  5.5 points
3rd Malachi Hill       5 Points

Manawatu Knights Handicap
Championship 2016

Final Standing

1st   Sol Ross 5 points

2nd  Hananke Calitz 4.5

3rd  Andrew Chandler 4

Copthorne Discounts for NZ Chess Events in Palmerston North

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New Sponsorship

Manawatu knights Chess Club are proud to announce its new sponsorship deal with Car & Commercial Rentals for the up coming year 2016.

 Please make sure you help our chess club by supporting our new sponsor.

2016 National School Teams, New Zealand Juniors & North Island Championship events held here in Palmerston North in September and October 2016




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Hawkes Bay Open 2016

A Grade

Hananke Calitz 2.5

Dion Charles 2

B Grade

Sol Ross 3.5

Well done all Great Results

2016 New Zealand Championship Results

NZ Blitz

FM Mark Noble 5.5
Dion Charles 3.5

NZ Champion  IM Puchen Wang 6.5

NZ Juniors

Dion Charles 4
Hananke Calitz 3

NZ Junior Champions Hans Gao & Allen Fan 5.5

Major Open

Hananke Calitz 5
Dion Charles 4.5

Major Open Winners Fuatai Fuatai & Vinod Kumar 7.5

NZ Championship Open

FM Mark Noble 5
Jack James  1.5  (withdrew)

NZ Champions FM Alexei Kulasho & FM Mike Steadman 6

NZ Rapid

FM Mark Noble 6.5  1st= NZ Champion
Hananke Calitz 4.5    1st Under 1700
Dion Charles 4

NZ Champions FM Mark Noble , IM Paul Garbett ,
FM Robert Smith & IM Puchen Wang 6.5