2026 New Zealand Chess Championship LIVE
The 2026 New Zealand Chess Championship will take place from January 02 to January 10 in Invercargill, New Zealand. It is a 9-round Swiss system tournament with time control of 90 min/40 moves + 30 min + 30 sec/move. For more events from New Zealand, check out The Oceanian Chess Calendar, which is part of The Chess Calendar.
The players are Nicolas Messerschmidt (1903), Vasileios Telioridis (1963), Fabian Alexander Czappa (1914), Franz Ernst (1942), Otto Metz (1877), Roland Macho (1985), Stefan Roth (1962), Markus Mock (1937), Lothar Trumpp (1952), Joachim Rein (1911), Tom Werner (1881), Sven Helms (1892), Rainer Krauß (1943), Sven Minich (1828), Christian Gheng (1941), Wolfgang Jekel (1880), Hermann Schlötterer (1852), Guntram Althoff (1943), Maximilian Franke (1822), Alwin Mohr (1823).