South Island Chess Championships 2025 LIVE

The South Island Chess Championships 2025 will take place from September 24 to September 27 in Dunedin, New Zealand. It is an 8-round Swiss system tournament with time control of 90 min + 30 sec/move. For more events from Australia, check out The Oceanian Chess Calendar, which is part of The Chess Calendar.

The top-seeded players are FM Michael V R Steadman (2254), Matthew D McNabb (2200), CM Edward Rains (2190), CM John Stark (2172), Edward S Lee (2147), CM Cohen Young (2124), Quentin J F Johnson (2108), CM Ilias Angelo (Leo) Baker (2100), CM Isabelle Yixuan Ning (2096), CM Kendrick Botong Zhang (2080), CM William Rui Liu (2076), CM Zachary Yu (2075), Thomas Van der Hoorn (2075), David P Weegenaar (2065), Mathew J King (2024). Scroll down for the full participants list.

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South Island Chess Championships 2025 Participants

ID	NAME	Fed	Title	Rtg	RtgF
1	Steadman, Michael V R	NZL	FM	2254	1992
2	McNabb, Matthew D	NZL		2200	2044
3	Rains, Edward	NZL	CM	2190	2027
4	Stark, John	NZL	CM	2172	2055
5	Lee, Edward S	NZL		2147	2016
6	Young, Cohen	NZL	CM	2124	2010
7	Johnson, Quentin J F	NZL		2108	1942
8	Baker, Ilias Angelo (Leo)	NZL	CM	2100	2088
9	Ning, Isabelle Yixuan	NZL	CM	2096	2023
10	Zhang, Kendrick Botong	NZL	CM	2080	2021
11	Liu, William Rui	NZL	CM	2076	2063
12	Yu, Zachary	NZL	CM	2075	2046
13	Van der Hoorn, Thomas	NZL		2075	1971
14	Weegenaar, David P	NZL		2065	1968
15	King, Mathew J	NZL		2024	1969
16	Wang, Justin Zhide	NZL	CM	2019	2034
17	Cummings, Nick	NZL		2007	1897
18	Wilson, Dion A	NZL		1995	1924
19	Sun, Alexander	NZL		1985	0
20	Muthukumaran, Sriram	NZL		1910	1643
21	Braganza, Nadia	NZL	WFM	1874	1829
22	Liu, Richard Jingjie	NZL		1850	1828
23	Md Arifuzzaman, Arif	BAN		1836	1836
24	Stewart, Ezekiel	NZL		1828	0
25	Fukushima, Shoji	NZL		1805	1861
26	Christie, Richie	NZL		1802	1808
27	Tao, Junqing Jerome	NZL		1796	1887
28	Holdo, Karl	NZL		1763	1711
29	Broad, Cory	NZL		1734	1564
30	McIntosh, Fraser	NZL		1731	1662
31	Dolejs, Dan	NZL		1710	1716
32	Heperi, Dallin J N	NZL		1704	1747
33	Grant, Tyne	NZL		1704	1730
34	Yu, Weiyang (Cadence)	NZL		1690	1634
35	Duffield, Terence	NZL		1685	1800
36	Familton, Gregory	NZL		1678	1702
37	Coleman, Phil	NZL		1671	1763
38	Gold, Hamish R	NZL		1664	1726
39	Bell, Daniel	NZL		1650	1619
40	Black, Ross	NZL		1637	1725
41	Christie, Jonno	NZL		1632	0
42	Koentges, Thomas	NZL		1575	1581
43	Loretan, Alf	NZL		1571	1741
44	Ashe, Michael	NZL		1566	1649
45	Song, Quinn	NZL		1558	1626
46	Lourenco, Eva	NZL	WCM	1530	1628
47	Patel, Akash Jayantkumar	IND		1525	1627
48	Gibb, John L	NZL		1482	0
49	Bazanov, Michael	NZL		1455	0
50	Lee, Dylan E S	NZL		1436	1553
51	Sun, Fu Qiang	NZL		1436	0
52	Kuruppuarachchi, Thisun	NZL		1394	0
53	Sloan, Rogan-Joe	NZL		1381	0
54	Peng, Kerry (Haiyan)	NZL		1350	0
55	Gudoy, Paul	NZL		1337	0
56	MacDonald, Caleb	NZL		1336	0
57	Dadou, Mohamed	NZL		1323	0
58	Christie, Jacob	NZL		1312	0
59	Balbalin, Sean	NZL		1296	0
60	Samuel, Scott	NZL		1272	0
61	Miriyala, Sreenikesh	NZL		1250	1480
62	Koulanov, Aleksey	NZL		1245	0
63	McPherson, Timothy J	NZL		1224	1560
64	Frith, Hunter	NZL		1214	0
65	Hamelink, Donovan	NZL		0	0
66	Lu, Oumaier	NZL		0	0