Congratulations to all our students for their great achievements the past weekend. How does one describe such performance? " Unmatched"
FM Dante Beukes only 14 years old, played in a higher age group u17 for boys and still scored a perfect 7/7. If there were any doubt of his tenacity and skill, the critics were silenced with his performance. He did not let any opportunity slip. Even when the opponent's thought they played "well" he stayed focused and converted games that looked drawish to the average person.
Daniel Mouton came 2nd taking home the silver medal in the boys u7 & u9 group. A young lad who are on the rise. A definite talent to watch in the future.
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| Laim and Daniel with NCF President |
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| TWCA Students & Coaches, Dante, Lilian Max, Jamie, Oyo, Patience and Matjiua. |
For Patience Tsues who were the top girl in the u17 age group for girls. There were no competition for her either as she scored a perfect 3/3 and took the gold medal home with pride. Keisha Van Wyk did the same by winning all her games in the Girls u13 section scooping the gold medal with a perfect score of 7/7 and leading with 2 points. This is her second perfect score for this year. In 2nd place taking the silver medal we had Penanjambi Tjipueja with 5/7. Watch this girls she is on the rise and she in improving fast.
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| Pena and Keisha with NCF President |
Then there is WCM Jamie-Nicole Beukes who stayed focus even in challenging positions she kept calm and delivered checkmate in her last game to score perfect too with 5/5. Leading the u7 & u9 girls group by 1.5 points. Lilian Jansen came 3rd in the Girls u7 & u9 section taking home the bronze medal.
WCM Ottilie Hinda did not let her changes slip either when she came 2nd overall in the Girls u7 & u9 section scoring 3.5/5. She scooped the gold medal for the girls u7 section with that performance. Making it 5 gold medals for the TWCA team.
Ellie and Hilton qualified and gave good account of themselves scoring 3.5/7 and 4/7 respectively. Ellie ended at 7th place out of 12 girls and Hilton ended 6th out of 12 boys. Awesome performance for their first Namibia Schools Chess Championships.
