The New Zealand Chess Championship was first conducted in 1879.

Note: Up until 1934 foreign players were eligible for the title. The eligibility rules were changed in 1935 to preclude this; John Angus Erskine

John Angus Erskine

John Angus Erskine was a New Zealand educated physicist, electrical engineer, benefactor and chess master....

 (twice champion in 1929 and 1935) was born in Invercargill

Invercargill

Invercargill is the southernmost and westernmost city in New Zealand, and one of the southernmost cities in the world. It is the commercial centre of the Southland region. It lies in the heart of the wide expanse of the Southland Plains on the Oreti or New River some 18 km north of Bluff,...

 and was therefore eligible although he was domiciled in Melbourne, Australia.

The event is organised by the New Zealand Chess Federation

New Zealand Chess Federation

The first chess club in New Zealand was formed in September 1863 in DunedinThe New Zealand Chess Association came into being in the 1870s. The association, refounded in 1892, conducts the annual championship, usually held in the Christmas – New Year period. The Australian master, C. J. S...

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New Zealand Champions

	Location	Date	Champion	Club
1	Christchurch Christchurch Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the country's second-largest urban area after Auckland. It lies one third of the way down the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula which itself, since 2006, lies within the formal limits of...	1879	Henry Hookham	Christchurch
2	Christchurch	1888/89	Arthur Morton Ollivier	Christchurch
3	Dunedin Dunedin Dunedin is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the principal city of the Otago Region. It is considered to be one of the four main urban centres of New Zealand for historic, cultural, and geographic reasons. Dunedin was the largest city by territorial land area until...	1890	Henry Hookham	Christchurch
4	Wellington Wellington Wellington is the capital city and third most populous urban area of New Zealand, although it is likely to have surpassed Christchurch due to the exodus following the Canterbury Earthquake. It is at the southwestern tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Rimutaka Range...	1890/91	Richard James Barnes	Wellington
5	Auckland Auckland The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...	1891/92	Franz Vaughan Siedeberg	Dunedin
6	Christchurch	1892/93	Franz Vaughan Siedeberg	Dunedin
7	Dunedin	1893/94	Joseph Edwards	Wellington
8	Wellington	1894/95	William MacKay William MacKay William Andrew Mackay was an American artist who created a series of murals about the achievements of Theodore Roosevelt. Those three murals, completed in 1936, were installed beneath the rotunda in the Roosevelt Memorial Hall of the American Museum of Natural History in New York...	Wellington
9	Wanganui Wanganui Whanganui , also spelled Wanganui, is an urban area and district on the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It is part of the Manawatu-Wanganui region....	1895/96	William Meldrum William Meldrum William Meldrum was a prelate in the late 15th- and early 16th-century kingdom of Scotland. He appears to have come from the Meldrum family of Seggie, as suggested by the otters on his arms....	Rangitikei
10	Christchurch	1896/97	Richard James Barnes	Wellington
11	Auckland	1897/98	Richard James Barnes	Wellington
12	Dunedin	1898	Robert Alexander Cleland	Dunedin
13	Wellington	1900	William Edward Mason	Wellington
14	Christchurch	1901	David Forsyth David Forsyth (chess) David Forsyth , a Scotsman who emigrated to New Zealand, served as chess editor of the Glasgow Weekly Herald. Forsyth invented a method for recording chess positions, which he published in the Glasgow Weekly Herald in 1883, now known as Forsyth notation...	Dunedin
15	Auckland	1901/02	Richard James Barnes	Wellington
16	Dunedin	1902/03	John Cresswell Grierson	Auckland
17	Wellington	1903/04	William Edward Mason	Wellington
18	Oamaru	1904/05	Arthur William Oswald Davies	Wellington
19	Auckland	1905/06	Richard James Barnes	Wellington
20	Christchurch	1906/07	William Samuel Viner William Samuel Viner William Samuel Viner was an Australian chess master.He was the West Australian champion in 1900, 1901, 1903 and 1905, and won the Perth Chess Club's handicap tournament three times...	Perth
21	Wellington	1908	Arthur William Oswald Davies	Wellington
22	Dunedin	1908/09	Fedor Kuskof Kelling	Wellington
23	Auckland	1909/10	John Mason	Wellington
24	Timaru	1910/11	William Edward Mason	Wellington
25	Napier	1911/12	William Edward Mason	Wellington
26	Nelson	1912/13	John Cresswell Grierson	Auckland
27	Auckland	1913/14	William Edward Mason	Wellington
28	Christchurch	1914/15	Fedor Kuskof Kelling	Wellington
29	Wellington	1919/20	William Edward Mason	Wellington
30	Dunedin	1920/21	John Dunlop John Dunlop (chess player) John Boyd Dunlop was a chess player from New Zealand. He won the New Zealand Chess Championship in 1920-21 , 1921-22, 1922-23 , 1933-34 , 1938-39 and 1939-40.- Sources :...	Oamaru
31	Auckland	1921/22	John Dunlop John Dunlop (chess player) John Boyd Dunlop was a chess player from New Zealand. He won the New Zealand Chess Championship in 1920-21 , 1921-22, 1922-23 , 1933-34 , 1938-39 and 1939-40.- Sources :...	Oamaru
32	Christchurch	1922/23	John Dunlop John Dunlop (chess player) John Boyd Dunlop was a chess player from New Zealand. He won the New Zealand Chess Championship in 1920-21 , 1921-22, 1922-23 , 1933-34 , 1938-39 and 1939-40.- Sources :...	Oamaru
33	Wellington	1923/24	Spencer Crakanthorp Spencer Crakanthorp Spencer Crakanthorp, was a chess player and Australian Chess Champion in 1923−24, 1925−26, 1926 and 1927. He was the father-in-law of chess master Cecil Purdy and grandfather to another chess master, Cecil's son John Purdy John Purdy.-External links:...	Sydney
34	Nelson	1924/25	Cecil Purdy Cecil Purdy Cecil John Seddon Purdy was an Australian chess International Master and inaugural World Correspondence Chess champion. Purdy earned the Grandmaster title at Correspondence Chess in 1953...	Sydney
35	Dunedin	1925/26	Spencer Crakanthorp Spencer Crakanthorp Spencer Crakanthorp, was a chess player and Australian Chess Champion in 1923−24, 1925−26, 1926 and 1927. He was the father-in-law of chess master Cecil Purdy and grandfather to another chess master, Cecil's son John Purdy John Purdy.-External links:...	Sydney
36	Auckland	1926/27	Arthur William Oswald Davies	Auckland
37	Christchurch	1927/28	Arthur William Oswald Davies	Auckland
38	Wellington	1928/29	John Angus Erskine John Angus Erskine John Angus Erskine was a New Zealand educated physicist, electrical engineer, benefactor and chess master....	Melbourne
39	Wanganui	1929/30	Gunnar Gundersen Gunnar Gundersen (chess player) Gunnar Gundersen was an Australian chess master.Born in Bordeaux, France, he was raised in Melbourne, Australia, where his Norwegian father was the Scandinavian consul. Gundersen started to play chess at his first year of study at Melbourne University in 1902...	Melbourne
40	Rotorua	1930/31	Alfred William Gyles Alfred William Gyles Alfred William Gyles was New Zealand chess champion on two occasions—1930/31 and 1935/36.Gyles was born in Wellington, New Zealand and died in Levin.-Further reading:*30th Congress of the New Zealand Chess Association...	Wellington
41	Napier	1931/32	Gunnar Gundersen Gunnar Gundersen (chess player) Gunnar Gundersen was an Australian chess master.Born in Bordeaux, France, he was raised in Melbourne, Australia, where his Norwegian father was the Scandinavian consul. Gundersen started to play chess at his first year of study at Melbourne University in 1902...	Melbourne
42	Auckland	1932/33	Maurice Edward Goldstein	Sydney
43	Dunedin	1933/34	John Dunlop John Dunlop (chess player) John Boyd Dunlop was a chess player from New Zealand. He won the New Zealand Chess Championship in 1920-21 , 1921-22, 1922-23 , 1933-34 , 1938-39 and 1939-40.- Sources :...	Dunedin
44	Christchurch	1934/35	John Angus Erskine John Angus Erskine John Angus Erskine was a New Zealand educated physicist, electrical engineer, benefactor and chess master....	Invercargill
45	Wellington	1935/36	Alfred William Gyles Alfred William Gyles Alfred William Gyles was New Zealand chess champion on two occasions—1930/31 and 1935/36.Gyles was born in Wellington, New Zealand and died in Levin.-Further reading:*30th Congress of the New Zealand Chess Association...	Wellington
46	Auckland	1936/37	Hedley Roy Abbott	Christchurch
47	Dunedin	1937/38	Samuel Hindin	Christchurch
48	Wanganui	1938/39	John Dunlop John Dunlop (chess player) John Boyd Dunlop was a chess player from New Zealand. He won the New Zealand Chess Championship in 1920-21 , 1921-22, 1922-23 , 1933-34 , 1938-39 and 1939-40.- Sources :...	Dunedin
49	Wellington	1939/40	John Dunlop John Dunlop (chess player) John Boyd Dunlop was a chess player from New Zealand. He won the New Zealand Chess Championship in 1920-21 , 1921-22, 1922-23 , 1933-34 , 1938-39 and 1939-40.- Sources :...	Dunedin
50	Timaru	1940/41	Philipp Allerhand	Wellington
51	Wellington	1943/44	Robert Wade Robert Wade (chess player) Robert Graham Wade OBE , was a British chess player, writer, arbiter, coach, and promoter. He was New Zealand champion three times, British champion twice, and played in seven Chess Olympiads and one Interzonal tournament...	Wellington
52	Auckland	1944/45	Robert Wade Robert Wade (chess player) Robert Graham Wade OBE , was a British chess player, writer, arbiter, coach, and promoter. He was New Zealand champion three times, British champion twice, and played in seven Chess Olympiads and one Interzonal tournament...	Wellington
53	Christchurch	1945/46	Tom Lepviikman	Wellington
54	Palmerston North	1946/47	Tom Lepviikman	Wellington
55	Dunedin	1947/48	Robert Wade Robert Wade (chess player) Robert Graham Wade OBE , was a British chess player, writer, arbiter, coach, and promoter. He was New Zealand champion three times, British champion twice, and played in seven Chess Olympiads and one Interzonal tournament...	Wellington
56	Wanganui	1948/49	Alan Edgar Nield	Auckland
57	Auckland	1949/50	Philipp Allerhand	Wellington
58	Christchurch	1950/51	David I. Lynch	Hastings
59	Napier	1951/52	Ortvin Sarapu Ortvin Sarapu Ortvin Sarapu MBE , sometimes known as "Mr Chess", was a New Zealand chess International Master who won or co-won the New Zealand Chess Championship 20 times between 1952 and 1990.-Early life:Born Ortvin Sarapuu in Estonia, he won the Estonian Junior Championship in 1940, then defected to Finland...	Christchurch
60	Timaru	1952/53	Ortvin Sarapu Ortvin Sarapu Ortvin Sarapu MBE , sometimes known as "Mr Chess", was a New Zealand chess International Master who won or co-won the New Zealand Chess Championship 20 times between 1952 and 1990.-Early life:Born Ortvin Sarapuu in Estonia, he won the Estonian Junior Championship in 1940, then defected to Finland...	Auckland
61	Wellington	1953/54	Ortvin Sarapu Ortvin Sarapu Ortvin Sarapu MBE , sometimes known as "Mr Chess", was a New Zealand chess International Master who won or co-won the New Zealand Chess Championship 20 times between 1952 and 1990.-Early life:Born Ortvin Sarapuu in Estonia, he won the Estonian Junior Championship in 1940, then defected to Finland...	Auckland
62	Auckland	1954/55	Ortvin Sarapu Ortvin Sarapu Ortvin Sarapu MBE , sometimes known as "Mr Chess", was a New Zealand chess International Master who won or co-won the New Zealand Chess Championship 20 times between 1952 and 1990.-Early life:Born Ortvin Sarapuu in Estonia, he won the Estonian Junior Championship in 1940, then defected to Finland...	Auckland
63	Dunedin	1955/56	Frederick Alexander Foulds	Auckland
64	Wellington	1956/57	Arcadios Feneridis  James Rodney Phillips	Wellington Auckland
65	Christchurch	1957/58	James Rodney Phillips	Auckland
66	Hamilton	1958/59	Frederick Alexander Foulds  Barry C. Menzies	Auckland Auckland
67	Dunedin	1959/60	Ortvin Sarapu Ortvin Sarapu Ortvin Sarapu MBE , sometimes known as "Mr Chess", was a New Zealand chess International Master who won or co-won the New Zealand Chess Championship 20 times between 1952 and 1990.-Early life:Born Ortvin Sarapuu in Estonia, he won the Estonian Junior Championship in 1940, then defected to Finland...	Auckland
68	Auckland	1960/61	Ortvin Sarapu Ortvin Sarapu Ortvin Sarapu MBE , sometimes known as "Mr Chess", was a New Zealand chess International Master who won or co-won the New Zealand Chess Championship 20 times between 1952 and 1990.-Early life:Born Ortvin Sarapuu in Estonia, he won the Estonian Junior Championship in 1940, then defected to Finland...	Auckland
69	Wellington	1961/62	Graham G. Haase	Dunedin
70	Christchurch	1962/63	Ortvin Sarapu Ortvin Sarapu Ortvin Sarapu MBE , sometimes known as "Mr Chess", was a New Zealand chess International Master who won or co-won the New Zealand Chess Championship 20 times between 1952 and 1990.-Early life:Born Ortvin Sarapuu in Estonia, he won the Estonian Junior Championship in 1940, then defected to Finland...   Richard John Sutton Richard John Sutton Richard John Sutton was a New Zealand legal academic and chess player. He was twice the dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Otago and was the New Zealand national chess champion in 1962–63 and 1970–72....	Auckland Auckland
71	Auckland	1963/64	Roger A. Court	Wellington
72	Wellington	1964/65	James Rodney Phillips	Auckland
73	Hamilton	1965/66	Ortvin Sarapu Ortvin Sarapu Ortvin Sarapu MBE , sometimes known as "Mr Chess", was a New Zealand chess International Master who won or co-won the New Zealand Chess Championship 20 times between 1952 and 1990.-Early life:Born Ortvin Sarapuu in Estonia, he won the Estonian Junior Championship in 1940, then defected to Finland...	Auckland
74	Christchurch	1966/67	Ortvin Sarapu Ortvin Sarapu Ortvin Sarapu MBE , sometimes known as "Mr Chess", was a New Zealand chess International Master who won or co-won the New Zealand Chess Championship 20 times between 1952 and 1990.-Early life:Born Ortvin Sarapuu in Estonia, he won the Estonian Junior Championship in 1940, then defected to Finland...	Auckland
75	Dunedin	1967/68	Bruce R. Anderson	Christchurch
76	Wellington	1968/69	Bruce R. Anderson  Ortvin Sarapu Ortvin Sarapu Ortvin Sarapu MBE , sometimes known as "Mr Chess", was a New Zealand chess International Master who won or co-won the New Zealand Chess Championship 20 times between 1952 and 1990.-Early life:Born Ortvin Sarapuu in Estonia, he won the Estonian Junior Championship in 1940, then defected to Finland...	Christchurch Auckland
77	Auckland	1969/70	Ortvin Sarapu Ortvin Sarapu Ortvin Sarapu MBE , sometimes known as "Mr Chess", was a New Zealand chess International Master who won or co-won the New Zealand Chess Championship 20 times between 1952 and 1990.-Early life:Born Ortvin Sarapuu in Estonia, he won the Estonian Junior Championship in 1940, then defected to Finland...	Auckland
78	Nelson	1970/71	Richard John Sutton Richard John Sutton Richard John Sutton was a New Zealand legal academic and chess player. He was twice the dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Otago and was the New Zealand national chess champion in 1962–63 and 1970–72....	Auckland
79	Hamilton	1971/72	Richard John Sutton Richard John Sutton Richard John Sutton was a New Zealand legal academic and chess player. He was twice the dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Otago and was the New Zealand national chess champion in 1962–63 and 1970–72....	Auckland
80	Wellington	1972/73	Ortvin Sarapu Ortvin Sarapu Ortvin Sarapu MBE , sometimes known as "Mr Chess", was a New Zealand chess International Master who won or co-won the New Zealand Chess Championship 20 times between 1952 and 1990.-Early life:Born Ortvin Sarapuu in Estonia, he won the Estonian Junior Championship in 1940, then defected to Finland...	Auckland
81	Christchurch	1973/74	Paul Anthony Garbett  Ortvin Sarapu Ortvin Sarapu Ortvin Sarapu MBE , sometimes known as "Mr Chess", was a New Zealand chess International Master who won or co-won the New Zealand Chess Championship 20 times between 1952 and 1990.-Early life:Born Ortvin Sarapuu in Estonia, he won the Estonian Junior Championship in 1940, then defected to Finland...	Auckland Auckland
82	Dunedin	1974/75	Paul Anthony Garbett	Auckland
83	Upper Hutt	1975/76	Lev Aptekar Lev Aptekar Lev Isaakovich Aptekar is a Jewish Soviet–New Zealand chess master, coach and writer.He took 15th in the Kiev championship of 1963. In the middle of 1970s, he left the Soviet Union for New Zealand. In 1975/76, he shared first with Murray Chandler and Ortvin Sarapu in the 83rd New Zealand... Murray Chandler Murray Chandler Murray Graham Chandler is a New Zealand chess grandmaster who has played internationally for that nation and for England, after gaining citizenship there in the early 1980s... Ortvin Sarapu Ortvin Sarapu Ortvin Sarapu MBE , sometimes known as "Mr Chess", was a New Zealand chess International Master who won or co-won the New Zealand Chess Championship 20 times between 1952 and 1990.-Early life:Born Ortvin Sarapuu in Estonia, he won the Estonian Junior Championship in 1940, then defected to Finland...	Wellington Wellington Auckland
84	North Shore	1976/77	Ortvin Sarapu Ortvin Sarapu Ortvin Sarapu MBE , sometimes known as "Mr Chess", was a New Zealand chess International Master who won or co-won the New Zealand Chess Championship 20 times between 1952 and 1990.-Early life:Born Ortvin Sarapuu in Estonia, he won the Estonian Junior Championship in 1940, then defected to Finland...	Auckland
85	Wellington	1977/78	Craig Laird	Tauranga
86	North Shore	1978/79	Ortvin Sarapu Ortvin Sarapu Ortvin Sarapu MBE , sometimes known as "Mr Chess", was a New Zealand chess International Master who won or co-won the New Zealand Chess Championship 20 times between 1952 and 1990.-Early life:Born Ortvin Sarapuu in Estonia, he won the Estonian Junior Championship in 1940, then defected to Finland...	Auckland
87	Upper Hutt	1979/80	Ewen McGowen Green Ewen McGowen Green Ewen McGowen Green is a freelance chess teacher in Auckland, New Zealand.Green attained FIDE Master status in 1992. In 1979-80 he won the New Zealand Chess Championship along with Vernon A. Small and Ortvin Sarapu and has also been an Olympiad player .-References:...   Ortvin Sarapu Ortvin Sarapu Ortvin Sarapu MBE , sometimes known as "Mr Chess", was a New Zealand chess International Master who won or co-won the New Zealand Chess Championship 20 times between 1952 and 1990.-Early life:Born Ortvin Sarapuu in Estonia, he won the Estonian Junior Championship in 1940, then defected to Finland...   Vernon A. Small	Auckland Auckland Christchurch
88	Christchurch	1980/81	Roger I. Nokes Roger I. Nokes Dr Roger I. Nokes is an Associate Professor and Head of Civil Engineering at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. In 2008 he was voted the best lecturer in the University by students. His speciality is in the area of Fluid Mechanics in which he has undertaken a broad range of research.In...   Ortvin Sarapu Ortvin Sarapu Ortvin Sarapu MBE , sometimes known as "Mr Chess", was a New Zealand chess International Master who won or co-won the New Zealand Chess Championship 20 times between 1952 and 1990.-Early life:Born Ortvin Sarapuu in Estonia, he won the Estonian Junior Championship in 1940, then defected to Finland...   Vernon A. Small	Christchurch Auckland Christchurch
89	North Shore	1981/82	Vernon A. Small	Christchurch
90	Dunedin	1982/83	Paul Anthony Garbett  David Anderson Gollogly	Auckland Auckland
91	Auckland	1983/84	Paul Anthony Garbett	Auckland
92	Upper Hutt	1984/85	Vernon A. Small	Christchurch
93	Christchurch	1985/86	Adrian J. Lloyd  Ortvin Sarapu Ortvin Sarapu Ortvin Sarapu MBE , sometimes known as "Mr Chess", was a New Zealand chess International Master who won or co-won the New Zealand Chess Championship 20 times between 1952 and 1990.-Early life:Born Ortvin Sarapuu in Estonia, he won the Estonian Junior Championship in 1940, then defected to Finland...	Christchurch Auckland
94	Wanganui	1986/87	Russell J. Dive	Wellington
95	North Shore	1987/88	Jonathan Sarfati Jonathan Sarfati Jonathan D. Sarfati is a former New Zealand national chess champion and creationist author with a PhD in chemistry. Sarfati works for Creation Ministries International , formerly part of Answers in Genesis , a non-profit Christian Apologetics ministry specialising in Young-Earth creationism...	Wellington
96	Dunedin	1988/89	Paul Anthony Garbett  Anthony F. Ker	Auckland Wellington
97	Wellington	1989/90	Benjamin Martin  Ortvin Sarapu Ortvin Sarapu Ortvin Sarapu MBE , sometimes known as "Mr Chess", was a New Zealand chess International Master who won or co-won the New Zealand Chess Championship 20 times between 1952 and 1990.-Early life:Born Ortvin Sarapuu in Estonia, he won the Estonian Junior Championship in 1940, then defected to Finland...	Dunedin Auckland
98	Auckland	1990/91	Anthony F. Ker	Wellington
99	Dunedin	1991/92	Martin P. Dreyer	Auckland
100	Wellington	1992/93	Anthony F. Ker	Wellington
101	Invercargill	1993/94	Anthony F. Ker  Peter D. McKenzie	Wellington Christchurch
102	Wanganui	1994/95	Anthony F. Ker	Wellington
103	Wellington	1995/96	Russell J. Dive  Martin P. Dreyer  Robert W. Smith	Wellington Auckland Auckland
104	North Shore	1996/97	Alexei Kulashko	Auckland
105	Hamilton	1997/98	Alexei Kulashko	Auckland
106	Dunedin	1998/99	Russell J. Dive	Wellington
107	Auckland	1999/00	Alexei Kulashko	Auckland
108	Waitakere City	2000/01	Scott Wastney	Nelson
109	Christchurch	2001/02	Anthony F. Ker	Wellington
110	Wanganui	2002/03	Anthony F. Ker	Wellington
111	Wellington	2003/04	Anthony F. Ker	Wellington
112	Wanganui	2004/05	Anthony F. Ker	Wellington
113	Queenstown	2006	Murray Chandler Murray Chandler Murray Graham Chandler is a New Zealand chess grandmaster who has played internationally for that nation and for England, after gaining citizenship there in the early 1980s...	Queenstown and London
114	Wanganui	2007	Wang Puchen Wang Puchen Wang Puchen is a New Zealand IM-titled chess master. He became the New Zealand Champion, Rapid Champion and Lightning Champion in January 2007 when he was 17.-Chess career:...	Auckland
115	Auckland	2008	Murray Chandler Murray Chandler Murray Graham Chandler is a New Zealand chess grandmaster who has played internationally for that nation and for England, after gaining citizenship there in the early 1980s...	Auckland
116	Queenstown	2009	Anthony F. Ker	Wellington
117	Auckland	2010	Anthony F. Ker	Wellington
118	Auckland	2011	Anthony F. Ker	Wellington

The New Zealand Rapid Chess Championship was first conducted in 1993.

The event is organised by the New Zealand Chess Federation

New Zealand Chess Federation

The first chess club in New Zealand was formed in September 1863 in DunedinThe New Zealand Chess Association came into being in the 1870s. The association, refounded in 1892, conducts the annual championship, usually held in the Christmas – New Year period. The Australian master, C. J. S...

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New Zealand Rapid Champions

	Location	Date	Champion	Club
1	Wellington	1992/93	Russell J. Dive	Wellington
2	Invercargill	1993/94	R. Anthony Dowden	Dunedin
3	Wanganui	1994/95	Kendall M. Boyd  Martin P. Dreyer  Mark F. Noble	Dunedin Auckland Wellington
4	Wellington	1995/96	Russell J. Dive	Wellington
5	North Shore	1996/97	Russell J. Dive	Auckland
6	Hamilton	1997/98	Alexei Kulashko	Auckland
7	Dunedin	1998/99	Anthony F. Ker	Wellington
8	Auckland	1999/00	Matthew Barlow  Russell J. Dive  Robert W. Smith  John L. Sutherland	Auckland Wellington Auckland Dunedin
9	Waitakere City	2000/01	Murray Chandler Murray Chandler Murray Graham Chandler is a New Zealand chess grandmaster who has played internationally for that nation and for England, after gaining citizenship there in the early 1980s...	London
10	Christchurch	2001/02	Russell J. Dive	Wellington
11	Wanganui	2002/03	Russell J. Dive	Wellington
12	Wellington	2003/04	Paul A. Garbett  Stephen G. Lukey	Auckland Wellington
13	Wanganui	2004/05	Russell J. Dive	Wellington
14	Queenstown	2006	Puchen Wang	Auckland
15	Wanganui	2007	Puchen Wang	Auckland
16	Auckland	2008	Robert W. Smith  Michael V. R. Steadman	Auckland Auckland
17	Queenstown	2009	Anthony F. Ker	Wellington
18	Auckland	2010	Nicholas Croad	Wellington
19	Auckland	2011	Anthony F. Ker	Wellington

New Zealand Correspondence Champions

Winners of the New Zealand correspondence chess

Correspondence chess

Correspondence chess is chess played by various forms of long-distance correspondence, usually through a correspondence chess server, through email or by the postal system; less common methods which have been employed include fax and homing pigeon...

 championship (start year given):

• 1933 R.O. Scott
• 1934 ---
• 1935 E.F. Tibbetts
• 1936 J.T. Burton
• 1937 S. Hindin
• 1938 S. Hindin
• 1939 S. Hindin
• 1940 G.C. Cole
• 1941 J.A. Cunningham
• 1942 G.C. Cole
• 1943 G.C. Cole
• 1944 F.H. Grant, T. Lep, N.M. Cromarty
• 1945 C.J. Taylor
• 1946 R.W. Lungley
• 1947 D.I. Lynch
• 1948 D.I. Lynch
• 1949 N.M. Cromarty
• 1950 N.M. Cromarty
• 1951 H.G. King, J.A. Cunningham
• 1952 H.P. Whitlock
• 1953 R.W. Park
• 1954 J.A. Cunningham
• 1955 E.J. Byrne
• 1956 A.E. Turner
• 1957 D.I. Lynch
• 1958 R.A. Court, L. Esterman
• 1959 R.A. Court, J. Eriksen, J.A. Cunningham
• 1960 J.A. Cunningham
• 1961 F.A. Foulds
• 1962 R.A. Court
• 1963 J. Eriksen
• 1964 F.A. Foulds
• 1965 Ortvin Sarapu
  Ortvin Sarapu
  Ortvin Sarapu MBE , sometimes known as "Mr Chess", was a New Zealand chess International Master who won or co-won the New Zealand Chess Championship 20 times between 1952 and 1990.-Early life:Born Ortvin Sarapuu in Estonia, he won the Estonian Junior Championship in 1940, then defected to Finland...
  
  
• 1966 R.S. Wilkin, R.A. Court
• 1967 J.H. Patchett
• 1968 Ortvin Sarapu
  Ortvin Sarapu
  Ortvin Sarapu MBE , sometimes known as "Mr Chess", was a New Zealand chess International Master who won or co-won the New Zealand Chess Championship 20 times between 1952 and 1990.-Early life:Born Ortvin Sarapuu in Estonia, he won the Estonian Junior Championship in 1940, then defected to Finland...
  
  
• 1969 Ortvin Sarapu
  Ortvin Sarapu
  Ortvin Sarapu MBE , sometimes known as "Mr Chess", was a New Zealand chess International Master who won or co-won the New Zealand Chess Championship 20 times between 1952 and 1990.-Early life:Born Ortvin Sarapuu in Estonia, he won the Estonian Junior Championship in 1940, then defected to Finland...
  
  
• 1970 R.J. Sutton
• 1971 Paul Anthony Garbett
• 1972 K.W. Lynn
• 1973 D.A. Flude
• 1974 T. van Dijk
• 1975 L.J. Jones
• 1976 P.A. Clemance
• 1977 L.J. Jones
• 1978 R.W. Smith
• 1979 M.R. Freeman
• 1980 R. Chapman
• 1981 R. Chapman
• 1982 Paul Anthony Garbett, T. van Dijk
• 1983(50)M.R. Freeman
• 1984 M.R. Heasman
• 1985 P. van Dijk
• 1986 G.M. Turner
• 1987 P. van Dijk
• 1988 H.P. Bennett, M.F.Noble
• 1989 H.P. Whitlock
• 1990 P.W. Stuart
• 1991 R.J. Dive, P.W. Stuart
• 1992 M.G. Hampl
• 1993(60)R.J. Dive
• 1994 G.B. Banks
• 1995 M.G. Hampl
• 1996 B.F. Barnard
• 1997 B.F. Barnard
• 1998 B.F. Barnard
• 1999 T.J. Doyle
• 2000 A.J. Short
• 2001 M.L. Dunwoody
• 2002 M.L. Dunwoody
• 2003(70)P.B. Goffin
• 2004 R.E. Gibbons
• 2005 R.E. Gibbons, M.F. Noble
• 2006 H.P. Bennett
• 2007 H.P. Bennett, M.F. Noble
• 2008 M.F. Noble
• 2009 M.F. Noble
• 2010 M.F. Noble

External links

• Official NZCF Website
• New Zealand from chess.com