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WP Closed 2017

Congratulations to all the participants in this year’s Closed this past weekend. Full results: Junior D Section C Section B Section A Section
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GPCA Pitt Memorial 2017

Result of this year’s Tournament from Chess-Results: Elite Section A Section B Section U/10 Section U8 Section For some pictures, see the Club’s Facebook page Congratulations to all the Stellenbosch Chess Players in the Top 10 in each Section – and to Andrew Flores-Bartoli on his win in the A Section!
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2017 IKAYA TOURNAMENT

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: A Section U/12s U/10s
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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.
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Western Cape Top Schools 2017

Stellenbosch Schools showed that we are a force to recon with when it comes to schools chess in the Western Cape. Kayamandi’s U/15 Girls, Luckhoff’s U/15 Mix Team, and Idas Valley Primary’s U/9, U/11 and U/13 Mix Teams came home with medals. We are very proud of you! Full results from Chess-Results: U7 and U9 Mix…
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World Cadets Chess Championship 2017

Alexander van der Merwe from Stellenbosch took part in the World Cadets Championships which was held in Pocos de Caldas, Bazil, He did extremely well, gaining more than a 100 FIDE rating points in this tournament. Very well done! Gys du Toit shared these photos on Facebook