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Photo credit: Lennert Ootes Text: Stellenbosch Chess Club In 1925 the 14 year old Mikhail Botvinnik defeated Jose Raoul Capablanca in a simultaneous exhibition in Leningrad. In 1964 the 13 year old Anatoly Karpov drew a game against Botvinnik in a simultaneous exhibition in Moscow. The 14 year old Karpov also drew a game against…
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The last term of 2017 saw the SA Women’s Open and Chess Western Province Awards take place. The SA Closed Chess Championships also took place at the end of 2017. Shannon Neels from Stellenbosch took part in the SA Women’s Open and placed third in the Women’s Open Chess Championship 2017 A. At the Chess Western…
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Metro held their annual Girls Tournament at Aristea Primary this past weekend. Read the feedback from WP Schools pages And the results: U7, U9, U11, U13, U15&17 Well done Girls!!
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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