Canterbury Junior Chess Championships

30-31 August 2025

Venue

Canterbury Chess Club: 9/27 Tyne Street, Addington, Christchurch.

Plenty of offstreet parking available.

Online entry form - see below for more information.

Junior Championship and Age Groups

Entries, Pairings and Results

Open (includes under 16 and under 14)

Under 12 (includes under 10)

The Canterbury Junior Chess Championships are open to juniors under 20 at the start of the year.

The highest-placed Canterbury junior will be the 2025 Canterbury Junior Chess Champion and the highest-placed girl will be the 2025 Canterbury Junior Girls Chess Champion.

Titles will also be awarded in these age groups:

Under 16

Under 14

Under 12

Under 10

Players must be born on or after 1 January 2005 to play, and 2009/2011/2013/2015 respectively for the age groups.

Medals and certificates will be awarded to the highest-placed player and girls overall and in each age group for open and best girl.

There will be other prizes dependent on entries.

Tournament Format

5 round tournament using Swiss pairings (i.e. players are paired against other players on the same score where possible) so all players will usually play all rounds (if there is an odd number, one player each round will get a bye i.e. no game and 1 point).

In addition to the open section, the age groups will be run as separate sections, noting that the organisers reserve the right to combine age-adjacent sections with low numbers. Players may choose to play in the open section or the section for their age.

Players may take one half-point bye on Saturday (please indicate which round in the entry form).

The tournament will be officially rated by the New Zealand Chess Federation (NZCF) if possible.

Laws of Chess apply including notation (writing the moves down) - scoresheets and pens are provided.

Chess clocks will be used with a time control of 60 minutes for the game plus 30 seconds additional per move from move 1.

Players not in the venue 30 minutes after a round's start time will default that round and may be withdrawn from the tournament.

Timetable

Saturday 30 August

9am: Check-in (please arrive by 9:15am)

9:15am: Players meeting (players not present may not be paired for round 1)

9:30am: Round 1

1pm: Round 2

4pm: Round 3

Players are not required to stay between games or after they finish their round 3 game.

Sunday 31 August

8:45am: Doors open

9am: Round 4

1pm: Round 5

Prizegiving: After round 5, approx. 4pm

Entry Details

Entry Fee: $30

Enter using the online entry form - https://newzealandchess.co.nz/new-zealand-ratings-list/ has players' NZCF Code numbers if they have one.

Payment should be made by online banking to 03-0802-0093915-01 (account name is Canterbury Chess Club Inc) using the player's name and 'age group' as the reference.

If paying by credit card (fees additional), please enter through Humanitix.

Once the entry form has been completed and payment received, players will be added to the entry list (this is not published but entries will be published as part of publishing results).