Sunday, February 28, 2016

CM Dante Beukes won 2nd TWCA Rapid Chess Tournament

Saturday, 27 February 2016, was one of the best days for our students. They fought tooth and nail and use all their focus to play the best moves to conquer their fears and their opponents.
CM Dante Beukes hard at work

Dante drew with the previous winner Christopher in Round 4 and fought to clinched the event. He scored 6.5/7. He was followed by Philip Mootseng with 6/7 and in second place we had Christopher Ndoroma.

Oyo just defeated Lucius
In the Girls Section Keisha van Wyk,took the top honors again, scoring 4/7. She was followed by Elvira Tibinyane in 2nd place also with 4/7. Jamie-Nicole took 3rd spot with 3.5/7. Worth mentioning is Oyo Hinda only 5 years old also scoring 3.5/7 and close on the heals off Jamie-Nicole. From the 27 students who participated she came 12 overall. An impressive results for the little star.


Keisha battle against Philip

There were also a lot of movement on the ratings! Check out our ratings.

 
Final Standings - TWCA 2nd Rapid Chess Tournament February 2016
Place Name                Rating Score Progr. M-Buch. Buch.
1 Beukes, Dante 1688 6.5 26 23.5 32.5
2 Mootseng, Philip 1600 6 23 20.5 29.5
3 Ndoroma, Christopher 1685 5.5 23 20.5 30
4 Kajovi, Matjiua 1682 5 25 25 35
5 Kahuure, Mbitjita 1500 5 20 18.5 27.5
6 Shatipamba, Lazarus 1620 4.5 18.5 18.5 26
7 Van Wyk, Keisha 1490 4 19 19.5 27
8 Tibinyane, Elvira 1450 4 17 22 31
9 Mcnally, Craig 1336 4 15 17 23.5
10 Smith, Shane 1256 4 14 16.5 24
11 Beukes, Jamie-Nicole 1216 3.5 16.5 20.5 29
12 Hinda, Ottilie 1000 3.5 12 15 20.5
13 Hipakua, Kamuiua 1260 3 14 18 24.5
14 Usurua, Ronaldo 1300 3 14 18 24
15 Van Wyk, Xander 1312 3 13 16.5 24
16 Klazen, Petrus 1136 3 13 16 22.5
17 Oarum, Lucius 1272 3 9 13.5 22
18 Shilangale, Karen 1212 2.5 9.5 13.5 21
19 Beukes, Amani 1200 2.5 7.5 12 18
20 Mushe, Calvin 1200 2 9.5 16.5 23.5
21 Jansen, Lilian 1108 2 7.5 14 18
22 Prybylski, Thomas 1372 2 4 3.5 10
23 Shilangale, Maureen 900 1.5 8 16 22
24 Palin, Leo P 1200 1 1 4 9.5
25 Van Wyk, Xanthu 900 0.5 0.5 3.5 3.5
26 Mcnally, Jadon 900 0.5 0.5 3.5 3.5
27 Plaatjes, Sven 1200 0 0 3.5 3.5
28 Beukes, Ivanhoe 1200 0 0 3 10
29 Noreseb, Dudley 1488 0 0 1.5 1.5
30 Tjaronda, Nicola 1684 0 0 0 0
31 Hewicke, Uatjiri 1476 0 0 0 0
32 Beukes, Alexander 1188 0 0 0 0
33 Fortuin, Jesse 1164 0 0 0 0