2013 African Youth Chess Championships

Thank you to Hassan Khaled for sharing a newspaper article with us that appeared in a German newspaper about the Egyptian Player Amina Sherif, who got silver Medal Girls U14! Thank you very much!!

Thank you to The Boardwalk for supporting CHESS!!!!

So proud to see how Chess is growing!

Congratulations!!

Thank you to the dedicated Boardwalk staff for hosting this year's 2013 African Youth Chess Championships! Thank you also to Peter Tshidi and your team for all the behind the scenes work!

Thank you to Sasi from Botswana for sharing a recent Newspaper article that appeard in the Botswana Daily News paper regarding the 2013 African Youth Chess Championships

The end of an extremely successful 2013 African Youth Chess championship held at the Boardwalk! And with such a positive articles in the local Herald newspaper, Die Burger Afrikaans newspaper, as well as national TV and broadcasted all over Africa! Well done to all players - you were incredible - congratulations also to those who won their first titles!!
NMB is humbled over your positive quotes about our beautiful city and The Boardwalk!

Congratulations to all the players taking part in this year's African Youth! We are so proud to have been able to host this tournament!!!

And what a festive proud prize giving this afternoon!!!! (Pictures will follow tomorrow)

Herewith the list of prize winners:

UNDER 8 GIRLS
BRONS : Annika Visser (SA) WCM title
SILWER : Imene Benelfiker (ALG) WCM title
GOUD : Natasha Joubert (SA) WCM title

UNDER 8 BOYS
BRONS : Ahmed Tamer (EGY) CM title
SILWER : Yashil Modi (SA)
GOUD : Wassel Bousmaha (ALG) CM title

UNDER 10 GIRLS
BRONS : Nadia Schmidt (SA) WCM
SILWER : Lina Nassr (ALG) WCM
GOUD : Sonia Modi (SA) WCM

UNDER 10 BOYS
BRONS : Johann Emile Schnabel (SA) CM
SILWER : Jacques Malan (SA)
GOUD : Seth-Riley Adams (SA) CM

UNDER 12 GIRLS
BRONS : Sara Adel (EGY)
SILWER : Kriti Lalla (SA)
GOUD : Imarie Oberholzer (SA) WFM

UNDER 12 BOYS
BRONS : Mohamed-Taariq Mowzer (SA) CM
SILWER : Saphir Sahki (ALG) CM
GOUD : Adham Kandil (EGY) FM

UNDER 14 GIRLS
BRONS : Eldin Gamal (EGY)
SILWER : Amina Sherif (EGY) WCM
GOUD : Charlize van Zyl (SA)

UNDER 14 BOYS
BRONS : Abhiram Sasitharan (BOT)
SILWER : Aron Klevansky (SA) CM
GOUD : Adham Fawzy (EGY)

UNDER 16 GIRLS
BRONS : Olivia Bernstein (SA) WCM
SILWER : Shade Breedt (SA)
GOUD : Shrook Wafa (EGY)

UNDER 16 BOYS
BRONS : Simeon Darling (SA)
SILWER : Abdoulahab Ouaret (ALG) CM
GOUD : Mohamed Zayan (EGY) IM norm

UNDER 18 GIRLS
BRONS : Chanele van Zyl (SA) WCM
SILWER : Zineb Abdi (ALG)
GOUD : Shahenda Wafa (EGY) WIM norm

UNDER 18 BOYS
BRONS : Paul Darling (SA) FM
SILWER : Andro Wagdy (EGY)
GOUD : Ali Nassr (ALG) IM norm

Good luck to our young players and supporting parents, coaches and head of delegation! Its the 9th day and one last round remaining! Enjoy the game!!

A heartwarming email received after SABC 2 broadcasted on the African Youth Chess Championship from Mr Brummer:

Hello,

I’ve just seen on TV2 that there’s a big junior chess tournament taking place in Port Elizabeth. One of the players who was interviewed about the benefits of chess mentioned that it allowed you to think independently. I must agree with her.

I was involved in a severe motorbike accident in my matric-year (1986) that left me in a coma for 7-months. F.y.i. any coma that lasts longer than an hour is classified as “serious”. Since then, I’ve achieved my matric (albeit over 4 years), University qualifications (x4), released a motivational CD “5%” (because that’s the chance I was given to survive the first night I spent in ICU) and I have been delivering inspirational speeches since 2004 because I know that anybody can do anything

There were many reasons I survived. The one that’s pertinent to this email was because I was awarded Provincial colours for chess – at a school level! I’m sure that, that was one of the reasons why I managed to survive!

Photo by: Claire Marketos

Claire Marketos, sharing some of her special moments during this year's African Youth Chess Championship with us