Digitsa Royal Chess Club

With Port Elizabeth Chess Club – I just got recognised as one of their top fans! 🎉

Welcome to our new members Laeeq Hendricks and Leia Darling.

Royal Chess Club would like to wish Freddy Odendaal a blessed and happy birthday. The club acknowledges your achievements, dedication and love for the game of chess. Enjoy

♟️ 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 Team South Africa (Open) for the FIDE Chess Olympiad!

South Africa (Open): IM Jan Karsten, IM Caleb Levitan, FM Banele Mhango, Charlton Mnyasta and James Dinham
𝗖𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻: IM Henry Steel

🎉 This is 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮'𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁-𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗢𝗹𝘆𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺!

♟️ 46th FIDE Chess Olympiad 2026
📍 Samarkand, Uzbekistan 🇺🇿
📅 Game days: 16–27 September

Congratulations to all players for an enjoyable evening of friendly chess. Well done to PE Chess Club for a well deserved win over Royal. We are looking forward to our next encounter. 👏👏👏

Royal and PE Chess club executives.

Our first club vs club outing, a friendly match against PE Chess Club.

📢 Chess Calendar Update ♟️📅

Please note that there has been a slight change to our chess calendar for this month.

Round 1 of the PECC President Cup has been rescheduled to 30 July. As a result, we will be hosting a friendly match against the Digitsa Royal Chess Club next Thursday evening instead.

We’re looking forward to welcoming the Royal Chess Club to PECC for what promises to be a great evening of chess and friendly competition! 😎👌🏻🙌🏻

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Thank you Good Hope Chess Club for a wonderful chess event. Congratulations to Mekhail Perring (1st), Jaryd Syse (2nd) and Monteago Arries (3rd). It was great to reconnect with chess Legend Good Hope’s chairman Roberto Salsone.