Howick-Pakuranga Chess Club · since the late 1960s

Chess every Tuesday in Howick

Juniors, beginners and rated players all welcome. A friendly club with one of the largest junior memberships in New Zealand.

  • Junior Club 5:50pm–7:00pm · Senior Club from 7:15pm
  • Downstairs at the Howick Bowling Club, Howick, Auckland
Juniors playing chess at a club night

Coming up at the club

  1. Tuesday 10 November 2026

    • Booth Shield — Round 5

      Register — Booth Shield

      Please use the email and legal name from your membership (as on your birth certificate or passport). The arbiters use your date of birth, gender and rating numbers to enter the right player.

      Gender

      Notify absence — Booth Shield

      Which rounds will you miss?

  2. Tuesday 17 November 2026

    • Booth Shield — Round 6

      Register — Booth Shield

      Please use the email and legal name from your membership (as on your birth certificate or passport). The arbiters use your date of birth, gender and rating numbers to enter the right player.

      Gender

      Notify absence — Booth Shield

      Which rounds will you miss?

  3. Tuesday 24 November 2026

    • Booth Shield — Round 7

      Register — Booth Shield

      Please use the email and legal name from your membership (as on your birth certificate or passport). The arbiters use your date of birth, gender and rating numbers to enter the right player.

      Gender

      Notify absence — Booth Shield

      Which rounds will you miss?

Next event

2027 Oceania Zonal Chess Championships

22–27 January 2027 · Christchurch, New Zealand

Open and Women’s Zonal plus a Blitz championship, with direct titles available (entries permitting).

Where would you like to start?

Parent of a junior?

Junior Hour from 5:50pm in term time: a short lesson, then games paired by the club’s ladder system.

Here to play?

Every round of this season’s rated club tournaments, plus draws and standings on VegaResults.

Latest results

Winners from the 2026 club tournaments.

2026

President’s Cup (Lightning)

Jaden Lee · 7.5/8

2026

Club Championship

Sai Somaraju · 6/7

2026

Club Reserve Championship

Jamie Shizie Wang & Jacob Carr · 6/7

All season results

News

All news

More than fifty years of club chess

The club began in the late 1960s as the Cockle Bay Chess Club, founded by FM Richard Sutton, and became Howick-Pakuranga after merging with the Pakuranga club in 1975. We run the Latvian weekend tournament every year since 1977 and have hosted the New Zealand Championships four times.

Our history and committee