African Junior Chess Championship…update

Players at Lake Malawi….

You can read more HERE as the coaches keep you informed about the event as it goes! More pictures to see on this link too.

Please click HERE to play through the game of Klaasen and Van Rensburg, both from South Africa.

Move 25. Ryan played … Bf5 here which was an inaccurate move; f5 would have been a better move to get an equal position.

Please click HERE to play through the game of Melissa Greeff…South Africa….and Mwale’s game.

 Melissa Greeff played a very nice Kings Indian defence and won the opposite colour bishop endgame.

Thirteen year-old Melissa Greeff is the defending SA Women’s Open Champion 2006, the youngest ever winner of this title. At such a young age, Melissa’s chess career has brought great success and reward.

Last year, she won the girls section of the African Junior Chess Championships (U20) in December 2006 in Botswana, and was awarded a Woman International Master title (WIM) and her first Woman Grand Master norm.

Her win in Botswana gave her qualification for the World U20 Championships in 2007, and she has also been selected for the South African Women’s squad to play in the All African Games in Algeria in July 2007 (the youngest-ever player to be selected).

Read on THIS LINK about Melissa Greeff.

If you click HERE on this link you can play through the game of Carmen de Jager and her opponent of Angola. Carmen took the point in this game.

ON this link HERE you can read about the event too…

On this next picture you can see (From left to right) Linda Oosthuisen, Carmen de Jager (SA Womens Closed winner 2006) and Melissa Greeff (SA Women’s Open Champion 2006) and you can read about them on THIS LINK here.