Ikaya Primary held their second tournament on 21 and 22 Oktober 2017.
It was well supported and all the U/10s who participated received medals!
Stanleigh Mpinganjira was the winner of the A Section. Full results on Chess Results:
Month: October 2017
Courtrai Primary Chess Festival
Happy to see on Facebook that some of our Stellenbosch Schools Players from Aitsa ad IVP were among the winners at the Courtrai Tournament this weekend.
These photos from Colene Willis, Marsha Adonis and Worcester Chess Club.
Laerskool Stellenbosch Toernooi 2017
Stellenbosch Primary held their annual schools invitational tournament this past weekend. As usual it was a fun way to introduce new players to a tournament, with some tough tie-breaks between the top players in each age group.
Some pics of the medal winners.
Unfortunately it seems I missed the U/8 Boys and the U/12s.
Friday Afternoon Chess @ Blue Jay Farm Stall
Rietenbosch Primary and learners from Timbelia Farm took part in a fundraiser for the SAJCC on Friday the 13th of October 2017. A big thank you to Marion Jeffrey, her brother Dr Andrew Murray and Charity Bonyonga Madzviti who made it possible.
Ulan Lackay kindly shared some of his photo’s, from which it looks like it was a lot of fun!
2018 SOUTH AFRICA JUNIOR CLOSED CHAMPIONSHIPS Provisional list of qualifiers
It is October and that means the provisional lists of the top 10 Grand Prix and Rated Players have been published.
Congratulations to the following Maties, Stellenbosch Club and Schools Players who qualified:
Caleb Samuel, Nathan Amsterdam and Daniel Frank U20.
Andres Flores-Bartoli U18.
Karla and Ilse Brugman U16.
Alex van der Merwe U14.
Lisa Brugman U12.
Migael van Schaik U12 and Kayla van Schaik U8.
Download provisional list of qualifiers
2017 Club Championships
The South African National Club Championship was held from 22 to 25 September at the University of the Western Cape.
Stellenbosch Chess Club fielded 2 Teams in the event:
The A Team – Andrew Southey, Veroe September, Nathan Amsterdam and Keegan Palmer
The B Team “Life is Beautiful” – Corne Briedenhann, Daniel Frank, Aldrich van Wyk, Philip Coetzee and Deon Makwatie.
For the full results see A Section and B Section
Well done guys!
Chess Stellenbosch 