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Blairgowrie Open Results

Fairland Open 2010
Saturday 20th Feb
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SA Junior Closed Player list - 27 March 2010 to 1 April
If you name is on the list and you have not received an invitation, please email your details (name, email, section and telno) to events@chessa.co.za
Please do NOT email if your name is NOT on the list - this tournament is by invitation only.

African Juniors 2009 Boys - Egypt

African Juniors 2009 Girls - Egypt

Congratulations to the 3 GW national champions:

Alessandro Crismann - U14 Boys
Andrew Whittet - U16 Boys
Angelique Hattingh - U18 Girls

Second place:
Jason Naidoo - U18 Boys
Aleida de Bruyn - U10 Girls
Inge Marx - U12 Girls
Megalie Mendes - U18 Girls

Top 5 per age group:

Well done to GW U20A and U14A for winning Gold in the team event.

Official website for Team and Individuals for SAJCC2009

World Youth Chess Championships official site , 11th - 23rd November, Turkey

WYCC Summary of results SA Players

Players:

Victor Spirou (u10B)
Aleida de Bruyn (u10G)
Inge Marx (u10G)

Alessandro Crissman (u12B)

Mari-Jeanne Jonker (u14G)

Stefan Enslin (u16B)
Divek Surujhlal (u16B)

Angelique Hattingh (u/18G)

Inter-Provincial - 10 October

This was a very fruitful tournament and I want to thank each and every Player, Manager, Coach and Committee Member for all their hard word of the past month getting everything together for this tournament – you were great!

Congratulations to the following individuals and teams for winning their sections:

U/8 Individual Section:  A Pienaar – Silver Medal
U/10 Individual Section:  Z van der Merwe – Bronze Medal
U/16 Individual Section:  M Brossy – Silver Medal

U/14 A Section – Gauteng West A
U/16 A Section – Gauteng West A
U/16 B Section – Gauteng West B
U/20 Section – Gauteng West A

Overall Winner of the A Section – Tie between Gauteng West and Mid Gauteng (109.5 points)

Overall Winner for the day:  Gauteng West (210 points)

Everybody can be proud of themselves with this great achievement!

Regards
Franzelle Judeel
Secretary GWJCA

Final overall results:

Gauteng West would like to congratulate the U16 Olympiad players on the results in Turkey. A team was 14th and B team was 7th (22 teams participated). This was an excellent result.

Andre Meyer, Andrew Whittet , Divek Surujhlal, Heinco du Plessis and Matt Pon

Congratulations for being chosen to play in this prestigious tournament. Have a wonderful time and play VERY GOOD chess. Once again Good Luck. Official Web site for results and pairings

NWR Open Results
Knights College,  9 Nerina Street,  Kensington B, Randburg

Date : 4,5 September 2009         

GW Coaching notice

The coaching sessions will start this Friday 21st August from 18:30 – 20:30 at Trinity House – 23 Knoppiesdoring Street, Rand Park Ridge.

Coaching dates are as follows:

21 & 28 Aug;  
4 - Sept - no coaching (NWR Open)

11 Sept - Teams for Nationals will be announced before the start of coaching
18 Sept
25 Sept - no coaching;  
2, 9, 16 & 23 Oct.

We are not sure about 30 Oct., but will let you know about the coaching or 30 Oct.  No coaching will take place during Nov., because of everybody writing exams.

There will be a GW chess get-to-gather on 5 Dec to play chess as a refresher before we leave for Nationals – will be in the form of a bring & braai after the chess games.

Information regarding the Nationals 2009

SA National Club Championships - 6 - 8 August 2009 in Bloemfontein.
Congratulations to Randburg A for 2nd place and MES for 4th place.

Webcom Open - results

Chess fever in Cape Town

An international and three national tournaments were run concurrently in Cape Town during the first 2 weeks of July. The African Youth (30th June - 9th July), S A Open (3-11 July), Blitz (8 July) and
S A School Championships 6-9 July. Our GW players have really excelled in these tournament.

Congratulations to Aleida de Bruyn (left) for winning the U10 Girls section at the African Youth. Inge Marx was 2nd in this section. The 2 girls earned themselves WFM and WCM titles respectively.

Many our players played at least two and two players – Alessandro Crismann and Ruwayne du Piesanie - played in three.

The Lion and the Cub, Watu Kobese and Alessandro Crismann	Rohan King in Action

The S A open was a very strong tournament and our players performed well.

A few memorable mentions:

Congratulations:-

Ryan van Rensburg who was sixth place tied.
Matt Pon won first place in 5 - 13 age category
Alessandro Crismann won second place in the same age category

Ryan van Rensburg beat SA top player Watu Kobese (2493) and drew to the following titled players - GM Dimitri Komarov, Ukraine(2530), IM Punchen Wang, New Zealand(2453), IM Johannes Mabusela (2244) and FM Nicholas van der Nat ( 2322) , previous SA Open winner, Gordon Meyer, visiting from UK, (2235).  Ryan did not concede a loss, and either won or drew his games in the 11 rounds.

Matt Pon was named the slayer of coaches, having defeated two, but, no names shall be mentioned.

Of the GJ players, the final results are as follows:

S A OPEN 11 ROUNDS

OPEN SECTION (over 200 players)

Ryan van Rensburg                 -8 points (8th)
Matt Pon                                 -6.5 points (55th)
Craig Bornheim                       -6.5 points (59th)
Frans-Willem Vermaak           -6.5 points (64th)
Dale Pon                                 -6 points (77th)
Alessandro Crismann              -6 points (85th)
Rohan King                             -4.5 points (147th)

B SECTION

Sashin Magu                           - 6.5 points
Ruwayne du Piesanie              - 5.5 points
Eduard King                           - 5.5 points

Sashin Magu achieved 12th position in this section

BLITZ 7 ROUNDS

Alessandro Crismann              -4 points
Matt Pon                                 -3.5 points
Ruwayne du Piesanie              -2 points

S A SCHOOLS CHESS NATIONAL OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP 7 ROUNDS

U11
Eduard King                           -5 points

U13
Alessandro Crismann             -6.5 points
Sachin Magu                           -5.5 points
Ruwayne duPiesanie               -4.5 points

U15
Rohan King                             -5.5 points

Congratulations:-

Alessandro Crismann – Marist Brothers Linmeyer – First in his division
Rohan King – Monument Hoerskool – Third in his division

WELL DONE ALL OUR PLAYERS YOU MAKE US PROUD!

Gauteng Junior (part of Gauteng West) Chess Trials 2

will take placeon Friday, 24th July and Saturday, 25th  July at Laerskool Fontainebleau, C/r Charlie and Rabie Str, Randburg. The 2nd phase of the trials will be on invitation only and based on the results of the 1st phase.
The 2nd phase will be played over 7 rounds as detailed below:

Format:            All rounds:        61/61               

Age groups :
U/8            born after 1 Jan 2002       U/10   born in 2000 / 2001       U/12     born in 1998 / 1999
U/14          born in 1996 / 1997          U/16   born in 1994 / 1995                    
U/18          born in 1992 / 1993          U/20   born in 1990 / 1991

Confirmation of Attendance    25th July    16h00 – 16h45

Seating’s and Announcements   17:15

Round 1      24 Jul      17:30 – 19:32                            Round 2   24Jul    19:50 – 21:52   

Round 3      25 Jul      08:30 – 10:32                            Round 4   25 Jul    11:00 – 13:02

Round 5      25 Jul      13:30  - 15:32                            Round 6   25 Jul    16:00 – 18:02

Round 7      25 Jul      18:30 – 20:32

As you will automatically be entered, please inform the organisers if you CANNOT play.

Please note that you need to bring your own clocks and pieces to the trials

PLEASE NOTE: You need to bring your own Clocks and sets!!!

GW Newsletter 1

Gauteng Open - 29th - 30th May
Complete and abbreviated results

Winners of the SA JNR Closed from GW:
U10Girls - Aleida de Bruyn
U16Girls - Megalie Mendes
U16 Boys - Heinco du Plessis
U20 Girls - Angelique Hattingh
U20 Boys - Ryan van Rensburg

CONGRATULATIONS AND WELL DONE! YOU MAKE US PROUD.

Congratulations to all those who have been selected to participate in overseas events:

Media Articles:

Ryan van Rensburg - SA Junior Closed Champion 2009	Inge Marx

Yorkshire Arms Results

1st Daniel Cawdery, 2nd Ryan van Rensburg, 3rd Robert Gwaze

An enyoyable tournament with a difference	Rudolf, Daniel, Corno and Alister

Saturday Knockout

Open section won by 1st Robert Gwaze, 2nd Daniel Cawdery, 3rd/4th Corno Klaver and Rodwell Mokoto.	U14 Section won by 1st Bezuidenhout, 2nd Chrisman and 3rd/4th Magu and de Abreu. Michael Longano presents te prizes.

Please register with CHESSA for 2009 so they have your correct details on the database. It's FREE this year! We need as many people on the database as possible whether you are an organiser, player, coach, teacher or tournament director.

GW Committee for 2009

Congratulations to our National winners:
Inge Marx - U10 Girls and Stefan Enslin - U16 Boys

Inge Marx -U10 Girls National Champion 2008 Stefan Enslin - U16 National Champion 2008

For 3rd place, Francois Oberholzer (U14), Andre Meyer (U16), Dirk Bakker (U18) and Dale Pon (U20)

Well done to those who have qualified for the SA Junior Closed:

Successful wildcard applicants will be announced as soon as they have been selected.

Our U16A Team champions have done it again - congratulations for winning the national championships!

For full results, please see theSAJCA website - www.sajca.com

CHESS COACHING AVAILABLE
For anyone interested in private and group coaching from all levels of play in the Gauteng area.
My name is Daniel Cawdery and my current SA rating is 2361. I am a current member of the SA open team and have competed in several Olympiads. I have also accompanied the SA junior teams overseas on numerous occasions.
I do private lessons, group sessions and online coaching.
Contact info:
Cell: 0741293274
Work: (011) – 579 5018
Daniel Cawdery