The Club Championship commenced in March and saw a close race between the top three finishers. Peter Dankelmann scored an upset win in the 5th round with the Black pieces against defending champion Keith Rust, and was the joint leader after 8 rounds with 5½ points from 7 games (with a postponed game against Julian Thorpe in hand).

Joining him in the lead was Ashley Lewis, also on 5½ points, but with a totally won adjournment against Cyril Danisa up his sleeve, and Keith Rust, on the same score but with a drawish looking Rook and Pawn ending to finish against Bongani Mgaga.

In a dramatic last round Ashley drew with Julian, and then watched as Keith swindled a point from Cyril. The last game to finish was Peter's game against championship debutant, Luke Adamson, who sacrificed several pieces in a successful attempt to mate Peter in an exciting time scramble.

When all the games were finished, there was a tie for first place on 7 points. Ashley is to be congratulated on his maiden Championship title, and on being the only player to remain undefeated.

No	Name	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Score
1	Lewis,Ashley	*	½	½	½	1	½	1	1	1	1	7.0
2	Rust,Keith	½	*	0	1	1	½	1	1	1	1	7.0
3	Dankelmann,Peter	½	1	*	0	½	1	1	1	½	0	5.5
4	Thorpe,Julian	½	0	1	*	½	1	0	1	0	1	5.0
5	Choko,David	0	0	½	½	*	1	0	1	1	1	5.0
6	Mgaga,Bongani	½	½	0	0	0	*	1	0	1	1	4.0
7	Mabuya,McDonald	0	0	0	1	1	0	*	½	0	1	3.5
8	Ramsurrup,Pratish	0	0	0	0	0	1	½	*	1	½	3.0
9	Danisa,Cyril	0	0	½	1	0	0	1	0	*	0	2.5
10	Adamson,Luke	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	½	1	*	2.5

The Candidates section was convincingly won by Ashish Ramsurrup with 8½ points out of 9 games, improving on his position as runner up to John Blackburn in 2005. In the Premier section Sayen Naidu won with 6½ points out of 8 games, and new member Philip Rodda won the Reserves tournament with a fine 8 out of 9.

The 2006 UNITE Kwa-Zulu Natal Open took place on the long weekend of 29th April to 1st May. There was a triple tie for first place on 7 out of 8 between Keith Rust, Jason Subke, and Lulama Qobo.

Here are the final results.

The Third Swiss was won by Keith Rust with 5 out of 6, ahead of Bongani Mgaga, Ahdir Puran and Mageshan Pillay on 4½ points. Upset of the tournament was Mageshan's surprise win against Ashley Lewis in the last round. Ashley was the exchange ahead for nothing, but stumbled into a mating net to end on 4 points.

The Second Swiss was won by visiting master Aminul Islam (6 out of 7) followed by Keith Rust on 5½ points. Amin actually scored 6/6 as he was unable to play in the 6th round. Amin has a FIDE rating of just over 2300 and is one of the strongest players in Bangladesh.