The annual World Youth Chess championships took place from the
17th to 29th November in Antalya, Turkey. Congratulations go to
club members Yetish Ramsurrup (under 10 boys) and Trisha Reddy
(under 10 girls) on being selected to play for South Africa.
Yetish scored 5/11 and was the best placed South African in his
age group, whilst Trisha scored 2½ points in her group.
Other KZN players selected for the South African team were
Tasnim Amra (under 12 girls) and Cheshni Jeena (under 10 girls).
The Third Swiss tournament of the year has now finished.
Here are the detailed results.
An inter-continental schools match was held on Saturday 20th October
2007, with the Durban schools team based at UShaka Marine World facing
off against a team from Bilbao, in Spain. The match was drawn 8-8,
with club members Nashlen Govindasamy, Seshni Govindasamy, and Mondli
Hadebe amongst the point scorers.
To read more about this event, in Desmond Rooplal's report for the
ChessBase website,
click here.
The Second Swiss tournament of the year has now finished.
Here are the detailed results.
This open tournament took place at the Durban campus of the University
of Kwa-Zulu Natal on Sunday 16th September. There was a small but strong
field, and first place was eventually shared between Keith Rust and
Pratish Ramsurrup on 5½ points (4 wins and 3 draws each).
Here are the detailed results.
An open tournament was held on Sunday 12th August 2007 at UShaka Marine
World, to coincide with the visit of well-known chess teacher David
MacEnulty to Durban. The Durban Metro Chess Academy whose chairperson
is Bongani Mgaga (see Bongani's page) were
one of the organisers of MacEnulty's visit to Durban.
To read about his visit in Desmond Rooplal's report on the ChessBase website
click here.
There were 84 entries in the Open section, with a further 168 scholars
competing in the adjacent Schools competition. Games were played at 20
minutes each, and after 6 rounds there was a triple tie for first place
between Keith Rust, Pratish Ramsurrup and Cyril Danisa on 5½ points out of 6.
Here are the detailed results.
The annual club Championships is now complete,
and Peter Dankelmann has claimed the Durban crown for a second time.
The Candidates section was decided by the
last game to finish, with Humberto Hidalgo Henriquez running out the
winner ahead of Ahdir Puran.
In the other sections:
Section C has been won by Paul Curry,
Section D has been won by Seshni Govindasamy,
Section E has been won by John Khan.
Congratulations to all the section winners. You can click on the
hyperlinks above to get the detailed results.
For those interested in club history, cross tables of Championship
tournaments from 1953 to 2006 are now on the website. Many thanks
to John Blackburn for sharing his old Annual reports!
The second Mensa chess day was held on Saturday 19th May 2007 at
UShaka Marine World. The games were played at 15 minutes each, and
Pratish Ramsurrup was a convincing winner with 6½ points out of 7.
Here are the detailed results.
The annual KZN championship Swiss finished with Cyril Danisa
and Keith Rust tied on 7 points from 8 games, a point ahead of
Julian Thorpe and Ryan Stephens on 6 points. The titles of Open
and Closed Champion went to Cyril Danisa on tiebreak.
Here is the detailed tournament report
by Peter Dankelmann, together with some photos by Shaun Savy.
This open tournament took place at the Durban Chess Club on
Sunday 11th March.
Here are the detailed results.
The first Open tournament of the year took place at Northlands over
the weekend of 23rd to 25th February. A record field of 110 entries
competed for the Ethekwini Motors trophy, and in the end there was
a four way tie for 1st place on 6/7 between Keith Rust, Ari Hamalainen,
McDonald Mabuya and Malizo Matyolo.
Here are the detailed results.
The first Swiss tournament of the year has now finished.
Here are the detailed results.
The winner Keith Rust obtained a full score, with an astonishing
2½ point lead over the field. Here is an interesting game played
in round 7. Ashley's piece sacrifice had to be followed up with
24.Nd4 with good compensation: