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New Zealand chess championships, 1956

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New Zealand chess championships, 1956

Russian-born chess player Arcadios Feneridis ponders his next move, probably at the 1957 New Zealand chess championships in Wellington. He tied for first place at these championships with a 14-year-old, Rodney Phillips, who became the youngest winner of a Commonwealth national title. Feneridis dominated Wellington chess from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1956/2995-F

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Mark Derby, Cards, board games and puzzles – Non-gambling games, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/38898/new-zealand-chess-championships-1956 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Mark Derby, published 14 November 2012.