Henry Steel from Stellenbosch and Daniel Cawdery will be representing South Africa in Baoji in the 1st BRICS Chess Masters, a 10-player round-robin rapid tournament taking place from 23-26 April, 2017 in Baoji, China.

Ten players, two each from the five countries Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, hence the name BRICS, compete for $36,000 in prize money, with $8,000 for first prize.

Players receive 25 minutes for the entire game, plus a 10-second increment starting from move one.

Follow the games live on Chess24

The Easter Weekend saw the 40th Anniversary Steinitz Chess Festival taking place at the Proteaville Recreation Centre.

The Stellenbosch players that took part did us proud – Corne Briedenhann came 4th and Nathan Amsterdam 6th in the Prestige Section.

In the A Division Daniel Frank and Ulrich Wolff ended in the Top 10. Ulrich also received the Ratings Prize.

Rebecca Selkirk ended 14th in the Blits on the Thursday and Jacobus Geyser second in the Under 10 Section on Saturday.

The prizewinners

For more pictures see Steinitz Facebook page

Congratulations to all the Stellenbosh Schools Players who took part in this year’s Closed.

Alexander van der Merwe earned his SA Colors in the Under 12 Open Division with the Silver.

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Other Top 10 Stellenbosch players were Cronan Willis Under 8 Open and Karla and Ilse Brugman Under 14 Girls. Well done!

Only a few rounds remain for the competitors, but you can follow the final action on Chess-Results, or maybe see who you can spot on Chess South Africa’s Facebook page.