2026 New Zealand Congress | Championships

Invercargill NZLJan 2 – 10, 2026Classical

2026 New Zealand Congress | Championships brought together 29 players in Invercargill NZL, including 1 grandmaster. Felix Xie has the best score, 6 out of 7. Open a player to see their openings and games, or to prepare against them.

Players: 29
Games: 94
Average Elo: 1935
Top rating: 2379

Standings

#	Player	Fed	Elo	Pts	W / D / L
1	IMFelix Xie	NZL	2379	6/7	5 / 2 / 0
2	CMWilliam Rui Liu	NZL	2116	5½/7	4 / 3 / 0
2	CMHaran Salasan	AUS	1989	5½/8	5 / 1 / 2
4	Abhaysinh Ker	IND	2191	5/9	4 / 2 / 3
4	CMZachary Yu	NZL	2081	5/8	4 / 2 / 2
4	Matthew Keith	NZL	1921	5/8	4 / 2 / 2
7	CMJustin Zhide Wang	NZL	1948	4½/6	4 / 1 / 1
8	Edward S Lee	NZL	1989	4/6	4 / 0 / 2
8	Dion A Wilson	NZL	1966	4/7	3 / 2 / 2
8	Richard Jingjie Liu	NZL	1924	4/9	3 / 2 / 4
8	Dan Fernandez	ESP	1905	4/5	3 / 2 / 0
12	GMJacek Stopa	POL	2330	3½/5	3 / 1 / 1
12	Ro Smith	IND	2136	3½/7	2 / 3 / 2
12	CMEdward Rains	NZL	2021	3½/6	3 / 1 / 2
12	Hayden Steele	NZL	1853	3½/7	3 / 1 / 3
16	Matthew David McNabb	NZL	2040	3/8	2 / 2 / 4
16	CMLeighton Nicholls	NZL	1882	3/8	2 / 2 / 4
16	WFMAnya Thurner	NZL	1841	3/7	1 / 4 / 2
16	WFMEmily Cathay Gan	NZL	1832	3/8	2 / 2 / 4
16	WCMWeiyang Cadence Yu	NZL	1671	3/7	3 / 0 / 4
21	FMLester Van Meter	USA	1918	2½/7	1 / 3 / 3
21	WFMNadia Braganza	NZL	1844	2½/8	1 / 3 / 4
21	WCMSophia Feng	NZL	1797	2½/6	2 / 1 / 3
24	Nathan Sun	NZL	1796	2/4	2 / 0 / 2
25	William Forster Georgiou	CYP	1812	1½/7	1 / 1 / 5
26	Ryan Yiheng Zhou	NZL	1844	1/6	1 / 0 / 5
27	CMR.A. Tony Dowden	NZL	1961	½/4	0 / 1 / 3
28	Ashwin Gogate	NZL	1741	0/2	0 / 0 / 2
28	IMRussell John Dive	NZL	1401	0/1	0 / 0 / 1

Scores count the games recorded in the imported databases. Byes, forfeits and unrecorded games are not included, so they can differ from the official final standings.

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