Event promoting girls’ chess all set

Howick’s Paul Spiller, vice president of the New Zealand Chess Federation, is organising a special Girls’ Chess Day at Waipuna Hotel and Conference Centre on Sunday, March 26 as part of a global initiative by the World Chess Federation [FIDE] to promote girls’ chess and to promote chess in general.

They have both the FIDE chair of the Women’s Commission [WOM] Anastasia Sorokina and Women’s Grandmaster Dana Reizniece-Ozola (a former minister of sport in the Latvian parliament) who is deputy chair of the FIDE management board attending the event.

They will then travel to Wellington to meet with the president of the New Zealand Olympic Committee and Dr Julia Novak who is in charge of the NZ Schools’ curriculum. Their visit will finish with a live interview by Kathryn Ryan on Radio NZ at 10am on Tuesday,