Cape Winelands literally took things to the Winelands – the 2019 Open Schools Tournament took place at Nederburg Wines.
Congratulations – Here is the “line-up” of medal winners!
Category: schools chess
SAJCC 2018 Report
Stellenbosch Learners and Stellenbosch Chess Club Players who took part in this past SAJCC in Boksburg as part of the Western Province Team, were:
U8A – Bronze
Israel Edwards (board prize)
U10A – Bronze
Cronan Willis, Reagan Samuels and Kayla van Schaik
U10B
Jarrod Roux
U10 Girls – Gold
Noreht Nieuwoudt (board prize)
U12A – Gold
Migael van Schaik
U12B – Silver
Jacobus Geyser and Earl Erasmus
U12 Girls – Gold
Robyn Skippers and Jamie Roux
U14A – Silver
Alexander van der Merwe (board prize), and Brett Williams (board prize)
U16B – Gold
Phillip Coetzee (board prize), and Dawid Nieuwoudt (board prize)
U20A – Silver
Andrew Flores-Bartoli, and Nathan Amsterdam (board prize)
Well done to all!!
Some pics from the prize giving – photo credits SAJCC Facebook page
Western Cape Kings and Queens 2018
A number of Stellenbosch Schools Players took part in this year’s tournament as part of the Cape Winelands Teams.
Congratulations on your performances and medals!
Spot the familiar faces – with thanks to Lydia Palmer for the pics.
Boland Schools Sport Awards 2018
Congratulations to Alexander van der Merwe from Stellenbosch who won the Boland Primary Schools Chess Cup, and was also crowned Boland Primary Schools Sportsman of the Year at the recent awards!
For their participation in International Chess Tournaments, Andrew Flores-Bartoli, also from Stellenbosch, and Alexander both received medals at the awards.
Western Cape Top Schools 2018
This year’s Western Cape Top Schools Competition took place in a very windy and cold and wet Caledon.
We are very proud of our Stellenbosch Schools that not only took part, but showed the other schools in the province how to do things!
Full results on Chess-Results: U7 & U9 Mix, U9 & U11 Girls, U11 Mix, U13 Girls, U13 Mix, U15 Mix, U15, U17 & U19 Girls, U17 Mix and U19 Mix
Thank you Andries and Colene for sharing these photos of the Stellenbosch Medal Winners.
Cape Winelands Top Schools 2018
This year’s Top Schools Trials took place in Paarl.
Stellenbosch Schools featured prominently, with many of our teams going through to the Western Cape Top Schools at the end of August.
For full Results see –
U19, U17, U15 Mix & Girls, U13, U13 & U11 Girls, U11 & U9
Congratulations to all the medalists!
Stellenberg 2018
Western Cape Schools 2018
Kleinmond Primary School hosted this year’s Schools Championships, with lots of stalls and even a guilt free car wash!
Congratulations to all the winners and members of the Western Cape Schools Team.
Full results
U18 Boys, U18 Girls, U15 Boys, U15 Girls, U13 Boys, U13 Girls, U11 Boys, U11 Girls , U9 Boys, U9 Girls , U7 Boys, and U7 Girls
Ikaya Stars
The chess players from Ikaya Primary did very well at this past weekend’s tournament at Rhenish, as you will see from the photograph above.
They practice from Monday to Thursday from 2h00 -4h00.
Some of their Ex-learners at Kayamandi High help to train the learners. On Monday’s it’s the girls turn and Tuesday’s it’s the boys turn for training.
It seem to pay off, as they did well at the Cape Winelands Prestige Tournament
and brought back some medals from Kimberley!
Rhenish Chess Tournament 2018
Rhenish Primary School held their annual schools invitational tournament this past weekend with nearly 200 participants.
As in the past, this was a great way to introduce new players to a chess tournament.
Congratulations to all the age group winners.
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