African Youth Chess Championship 2009

02/05/2009 by Nikita

Click on the logo of CHESSA – (first image in this post) Chess South Africa – to visit the official site of Chess in South Africa. The link will open in a new window. You will find a link to the results on the Official site. I will try my best to get hold of results too as I am eager to blog this tournament. I have contacted some of the officials today – 1st July – and waiting to hear from them.
For pairings of all the rounds -and results- please click here on this Chessa-link. The link will open in a new window.

Image: CHESSA

Players at the African Youth CC: Nina de Swart vs Ezet Roos and in the top image: two SA girls

The African Youth Chess Championship event is an historic first as it is the First African Age Group Championship taking place on the Continent. The first move was made by the Chessa President and Mr Dabilani Buthali, from the African Chess Union.

Table Mountain, Cape Town

Visit Cape Tourism and on this link Tourism Cape Town

Image: Cape Tourism

Image: Tourism Cape Town

African Youth Chess Championship 2009: Schedule

30th June to 9th July 2009
Cape Town – South Africa

Chess South Africa, under the auspices of the African Chess Union, has the pleasure of inviting all African Federations affiliated to FIDE to participate at the 1stAfrican Youth Chess Championship.

PRIZES
The winner of each age group (girls and boys) will have the personal right to participate in the 2009 World Youth Chess Championships in Turkey.
The winners in every age category (girls: WFM, WCM and boys: FM, CM) will be awarded FIDE Titles respectively as under

1 player in 1st place: FM Title
2 players in 1st place: 1st player FM Title. 2nd player CM Title
3 or more players in 1st place: 1st player FM, 2nd player CM and 3rd player CM.

Deadline for registration was 25th April 2009.
Click HERE for the Official site of Chess South Africa (CHESSA) to read all the details. The link will open in a new window.

PAIRINGS ROUND 6

Pairings round 6: boys U10, U12, U14 – click on the images for a larger view. Scores can also be seen

Pairings round 6: boys U16, U18

Pairings round 6: Girls U10, U12, U14

Pairings round 6: Girls U16, U18

Final Results: African Youth Chess Championships – click on the image for a larger view.

The Management of Mid Gauteng Chess Union are proud to announce that Stefan du Toit has won the under 14 Section and is therefore the new under 14 African Youth Champion. Stephan has been awarded the Fide Master Title! A fantastic performance by Roland Bezuidenhout has awarded him the second place in the under 12 section. The Management and Members congratulate you both on these excellent accomplishments.

Image: mg.chess.org.za

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on 03/05/2009 at 01:37 Just Chess » Blog Archive » African Youth Chess Championship 2009 « Chessalee

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on 05/05/2009 at 21:36 Dan

Those links about Cape Town are quite interesting. I’d like to go there someday … with the right person. 😉
on 05/05/2009 at 23:24 Nikita

hi Dan

Cape Town is beautiful! You should go there, you will really enjoy it and even more with the right person! 🙂
on 01/07/2009 at 11:23 campiony

how to know the results ?
on 01/07/2009 at 13:01 Nikita

hi campiony, welcome to my blog. If you click on the logo of Chessa (first image in this post) in the blog entry, you will find links on their site that will lead you to the results. If I can get hold of any results soon enough…Chessa does take their time to upload stuff on their site, bear that in mind!… then I will blog it too. My experience with them is…patience… 🙂 It’s not always out and ready straight after the games, usually the next day/morning, although I will see if I can make contact with someone that might, (might!) help me with early results.
on 03/07/2009 at 10:22 campiony

hi nikita thank you for your reponse
and i will be very glad if there is early result+
on 03/07/2009 at 16:35 Nikita

hi campiony
I’ve sent two emails to two different officials and haven’t had any response back. You can also follow the link in this post to the results/pairings and you will see there’s not much going on there. I don’t know what the problem is, unfortunately! sorry! 😦

update: Saturday 9:10am
There are results available now on the link!
on 04/07/2009 at 10:23 South African Open Chess Championship 2009 « Chessalee

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on 07/09/2010 at 18:25 Ian Koegelenberg

Where can I find out what posision did I end.
I’f you know how to do it i’ll really like it.
I’m Ian Koegelenberg.

Thanx..
on 07/09/2010 at 20:28 Nikita

hi Ian, Welcome to my blog. It’s funny that you took part in this event more than a year ago and you don’t know the results!? Is that CHESSA that slipped up to inform the players how they did? I can’t believe it actually, but again, it could be the case too…. could you go to the website of Chessa – http://www.chessa.co.za and contact the people via email or phone them. I assume you are in South Africa, so it should be easy for you to contact people. They do have telephone numbers and email addresses of the Chessa-body on their website. I hope you are successful. Good luck! [why did you wait such a lo-ong time before finding out? Why did you not contact the organisers on the same day after the event? Crazy…but this is really funny.]