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African Juniors 2007/2008

RESULTS
Final	Boys	Girls

COACHES REPORT

Last Round:

There was some great tension in the last round, anything could still happen and did happen. In the girls section Daleen Wiid was under pressure from he start of the game but managed to get a big time advantage and won the game, thus claiming first place and the WIM title. Carmen De Jager also won her game to make sure she is in second place. Angelique drew and ended 7th overall. Well done girls.

In the open section it was chaos. The Egyptian boy lost that mean Calvin Klaasen only needed a draw or win to gain his IM title, but he pushed to hard and also lost the game. Very, very unlucky for Calvin, but that is chess and he ended overall 2nd in the tournament. Ryan van Rensburg lost to Melissa Greeff, but he still managed to keep his 3rd place. Lthukela Zitha won his game and ended 4th (tied 3rd), and Melissa Greeff ended 6th (tied 3rd  aswell). Well done South Africans.

Overall it was a great tournament and a great experience. South Africa did very well and I also learned a lot especially from the manager side of things. Thanks for the opportunity. Here are the two champions D. Wiid and K. Wageih

By Coach/Manager
Corno Klaver

Day 8

Round 8:

A great round for South Africa.
In the open section Lthukela Zitha had a long hard struggle but managed to draw. This puts Calvin Klaasen half a point behind the Egypt boy with one game to go. K Wageih from Egypt is playing the nr 1 seed Fide Master E Soares from Angola in the last round, so all is set for a great finish. Calvin Klaasen most probably played the best game of the tournament, with a neat sacrifice. The Brilliancy game as follows:

Chofya,M (ZAM) - Klaasen,CJ (RSA) [E88]
African Junior Championship 2007 (Boys) (8), 04.01.2008
 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.f3 0–0 6.Be3 e5 7.d5 c6 8.Bd3 cxd5 9.cxd5 Nh5 10.Qd2 f5 11.Bg5 Bf6 12.Bxf6 Qxf6 13.Nh3 Nd7 14.exf5 Nc5 15.Bc2 Bxf5 16.Nf2 Nf4 17.Bxf5

Here Calvin sacrificed a piece for a few pawns and lots of play. He kept the pressure throughout the game.
 Nxg2+ 18.Kf1 Qxf5 19.Kxg2 Qxf3+ 20.Kg1 Rf5 21.Qe2 Rg5+ 22.Kf1 Qg2+ 23.Ke1 Rf8 24.Rf1 Rgf5 25.Ncd1 Rf3 26.Ne3 Qxh2 27.Nfd1 Qh4+ 28.Kd2 Qd4+ 29.Kc2 Qe4+ 30.Kd2 Qd4+ 31.Kc2 Qe4+ 32.Kd2 Rxf1 33.Nxf1 Qxd5+ 34.Kc2 Ne6 35.Kb1 Nd4 36.Qe1 Rxf1 0–1

Ryan van Rensburg had a tricky ending but finished it off nicely. This puts him in 3d place with the last game to go.

1.Rd3+ Kf4 2.Rd4+ Ke3 3.Rd3+ Ke4 4.Ra3 h3! 5.Ra4+ Kd5 6.Rh4 Rh1+ 7.Kxd2 h2 0–1, because of Ra1 Rxh2 and Ra2 + winning the rook.

Melissa Greeff also played a very nice opening and finished off J. Santos in 20 moves.

In the girls section Daleen Wiid beat Angelique Hatting and Carmen de Jager also won her game, with aggressive play. This leaves Daleen still half a point ahead of Carmen de Jager with one round to go. Thus the girls section is also set for a great finish.

Round 7:

This round was a good round for South Africa, with all the girls winning. This makes the girls section still very interesting with Daleen Wiid half a point ahead of Carmen De Jager, but Daleen has to play Angelique Hattingh in round 8, which will make an interesting match.

In the open section Calvin Klaasen drew with Melissa Greeff where Calvin was in a better position but couldn’t convert to a win in time trouble.

Klaasen,CJ (RSA) - Greeff,M (RSA) [B48]
African Junior Championship 2007 (Boys) (7), 03.01.2008
 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 a6 3.Nf3 e6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 Qc7 6.a3 Nc6 7.Be2 Nf6 8.0–0 Be7 9.Be3 b5 10.Nxc6 dxc6 11.f4 Bb7 12.e5 Nd5 13.Nxd5 cxd5 14.Bd4 Bc5 15.c3 0–0 16.Kh1 Bxd4 17.cxd4 Qe7 18.Qd2 Rac8 19.Bd3 Bc6 20.Rac1 Qa7 21.Rc3 g6 22.f5 exf5 23.Bxf5 Bd7 24.Bxd7 Rxc3 25.Qxc3 Qxd7 26.Rc1 Qg4 27.h3 Qe2 28.b3 Qe4 29.Re1 Qh4 30.Rf1 a5 31.Rf6 Qe4 32.Kh2 Ra8 33.Qc5 Rd8 34.Qe7 Rf8 35.Qc5 Rd8 36.Qa7 Rf8 37.Qb6 Rc8 38.Rf2 h5 39.Qb7 Rf8 40.Qa7 ½–½

Ryan van Rensburg drew to J. Santos of Angola and Lthukela Zitha won his game to get to 4 points. He will be playing the Egyptian boy in round 8, South Africa’s last hope to be able to win the tournament. Let’s hope Zitha can pull it off.

Day 7:

There are two rounds today so going to be a tough day for the players.
Round 5:

Melissa Greeff again played a very nice game but missed the correct continuation in a tricky position being the exchange up.

Greeff,M (RSA) - Wageih,K (EGY) [B41]
African Junior Championship 2007 (Boys) (6), 03.01.2008
 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 a6 5.Be3 Nf6 6.f3 e5 7.Nb3 d5 8.exd5 Nxd5 9.Bf2 Nc6 10.N1d2 Bf5 11.a3 Qc7 12.Bc4 Nf4 13.0–0 Rd8 14.Re1 Qd6 15.Bg3 Be7 16.Ne4 Qh6 17.Qc1 0–0 18.Qe3 a5 19.Bb5 Rd5 20.Nc3 Rxb5 21.Nxb5 a4 (Diagramme)

22.Nd2 (Here Melissa missed Na5 Nxa5 Bxf4 exf4 Qxe7 Qb6+ Kh1 Qxb5 Re5 Qxb2 Rae1 being +1 evaluation of the position) Bg5
23.Qc5 (Was a mistake Qf2 with Nf1 was better but hard to find on the board) Ne6 24.Qf2 Bxd2 25.Re2 Bf4 26.Rd1 Ncd4 27.Nxd4 Nxd4 28.Ree1 Nxc2 29.Bxf4 exf4 30.Re5 Ne3 31.Rc1 Qd6 32.Rb5 Nd1 33.Rb6 Qd3 34.Rxd1 Qxd1+ 35.Qf1 Qxf1+ 36.Kxf1 Re8 37.Rxb7 Bd3+ 38.Kg1 Re1+ 0–1

Calvin Klaasen won with the Kings Indian playing on the opponent’s weaknesses. Calvin is still in second place half a point behind the Egyptian boy. Can anyone stop him? Ryan van Rensburg quickly won aswell as Lthukela Zitha.

 

In the girls section it didn’t go so well this round with Daleen Wiid and Angelique Hattingh losing. Carmen De Jager won neatly in a tricky position and she is just half a point behind Daleen with 3 rounds to go.

Day 6:

Today’s big match up: Calvin Klaasen vs Ryan van Rensburg.

Calvin and Ryan played a tricky out of book opening. It looked drawish at a stage with 3 light pieces each on the board, but ryan played an inaccurate move to give Calvin the advantage and score the point, the game as follows:

Klaasen,CJ (RSA) - van Rensburg,RP (RSA) [B23]
African Junior Championship 2007 (Boys) (5), 02.01.2008
 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 e5 4.fxe5 Nxe5 5.Nf3 d6 6.Be2 Nf6 7.d4 cxd4 8.Qxd4 Nc6 9.Qd2 Be7 10.b3 Be6 11.Bb2 d5 12.exd5 Nxd5 13.Nxd5 Qxd5 14.Qxd5 Bxd5 15.0–0–0 0–0–0 16.a3 Rhe8 17.Rhe1 g6 18.c4 Be4 19.Rxd8+ Rxd8 20.Rd1 Rxd1+ 21.Bxd1 Bd6 22.g3 h6 23.Kd2 Kd7 24.b4 b6 25.Ke3 Bf5 26.Ba4 Kc7 27.Bxc6 Kxc6 28.Nd4+ Kd7 29.Nxf5 gxf5 30.Bg7 h5 31.Bh6 Be5 32.Bf4 Bb2 33.a4 a6 34.Bb8 Ba3 35.b5 axb5 36.cxb5 f6 37.Kd4 Ke6 38.Kc4 Kd7 39.Kd5 Bc5 40.a5 1–0

Move 25. Ryan played ... Bf5 here which was an inaccurate move; f5 would have been a better move to get an equal position.

Melissa Greef played a very nice Kings Indian defence and won the opposite colour bishop endgame.

Mwale,C (MAW) - Greeff,M (RSA) [E85]
African Junior Championship 2007 (Boys) (5), 03.01.2008 [,Günther]
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.f3 0–0 6.Be3 Nc6 7.Qd2 e5 8.Nge2 a6 9.d5 Ne7 10.g4 Nd7 11.Ng3 Qe8 12.Bd3 Nc5 13.Bc2 Bd7 14.h4 f5 15.gxf5 gxf5 16.Bg5 f4 17.Bxe7 Qxe7 18.Nf5 Bxf5 19.exf5 Kh8 20.Ne4 Nxe4 21.Bxe4 Bf6 22.0–0–0 Rg8 23.Rdg1 Rxg1+ 24.Rxg1 Rg8 25.Rh1 Qd7 26.h5 Qa4 (=) 27.b3 Qa3+ 28.Kb1 a5 29.h6 Qc5 30.Qh2 Rg5 31.Qc2 Rg1+ 32.Rxg1 Qxg1+ 33.Kb2 b6 34.a3 Qh1 35.b4 axb4 36.axb4 Qxh6 37.c5 bxc5 38.bxc5 Qf8 39.c6 h5 40.Qg2 Qg7 41.Qxg7+ Kxg7 42.Bd3 Kh6 43.Kc2 Kg5 44.Bf1 0–1

Melissa is playing the leader Wageih, Kareim from Egypt tomorrow morning. Let’s hope she can get a point to keep the South Africans in the running.

Lthukela Zitha again was up a pawn, but could convert to a win and lost in time trouble.

In the girls section Daleen Wiid won in the Scandanavian to take a point and a half lead on the rest of the field. Carmen De Jager also played a very nice postitional game in the English opening to take the full point.

de Jager,C (RSA) - Rosalina,S (ANG) [A25]
African Junior Championship 2007 Girls (5), 02.01.2008
 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.g3 Bc5 4.Bg2 Nge7 5.d3 0–0 6.Nf3 d6 7.0–0 h6 8.a3 Be6 9.b4 Bb6 10.Rb1 Qc8 11.Bb2 Bh3 12.Nd5 Nxd5 13.cxd5 Bxg2 14.Kxg2 Ne7 15.e4 f5 16.Nd2 f4 17.Qh5 Qe8 18.Qxe8 Raxe8 19.f3 Rf6 20.Nc4 Nc8 21.Rbc1 Re7 22.d4 Bxd4 23.Bxd4 exd4 24.Na5 b6 25.Nc6 Rd7 26.Nxd4 fxg3 27.hxg3 Kh7 28.b5 Rf8 29.Ne6 Rff7 30.Rc4 Kg8 31.Rfc1 Kh7 32.Kf2 g5 33.Ke3 Kg6 34.Nxc7 Ne7 35.Ne6 Ng8 36.Rc8 Nf6 37.Nf8+ Rxf8 38.Rxf8 Re7 39.Rd8 Nxd5+ 40.Kd4 Nc7 41.Rxd6+ Kg7 42.a4 Ne6+ 43.Ke3 Nc5 44.Rc4 Rf7 45.Rc6 Rd7 46.Rd4 1–0

Angelique Hattingh got herself into a difficult position in the opening, but managed to draw.

A picture of the playing venue, the girls section.

Day 4

Well it’s the last day of 2007 so we can expect some fierce battles on the board. The tournament is running smoothly at the moment with Gunther van den Bergh being the main arbiter. Uganda only arrived this morning thus already missing 3 rounds, amazing. This morning there is one round at 9:00 am and then we only play 2 January at 16:00 again.

I hope you all have a great new years and that South African chess will have a great year in 2008. Happy New Years!!!

Round 4:

In the girls section Daleen Wiid beat Carmen de Jager to take the lead in the tournament by a point. Daleen did escape a loss by being a pawn down in a rook and pawn ending. Angelique maneuvered her pieces very nicely to take the full point.

In the open section Ryan van Rensburg was lucky to get a draw with a pawn down in the ending. Calvin played a nice pinpoint game to make sure he scores a full point. Melissa Greeff also played well to get a point. Lthukela Zitha missed a win and lost the game.

Thus the points after round 4:

Girls:

Daleen 4/4
Carmen 2,5/4
Angelique 2/4

Boys:

Calvin 3/4
Ryan 3/4
Lthukela 2/4
Melissa 2/4

Still 5 rounds left so lots to play for.
After the round we went for a game drive in the national park not to far from the playing venue.

1 January 2008

Happy new year to everyone.
Today is an off day. Some of the group stayed behind and rested, and the rest went to Lake Malawi. It was a long drive but worth it. On our way we saw the green countryside, with villages scattered all over. Eventually we got to the lake after 3hours + drive. It was a long drive but worth it at the end. It was a great experience to see Lake Malawi.

Lake Malawi

Calvin, Zitha and Ryan at Lake Malawi

Day 6:

Today’s big match up: Calvin Klaasen vs Ryan van Rensburg.

 

Round 3:

The first South African battle about to start between Angelique Hattingh and Carmen De Jager on board 2.

Round 3 had some very close and interesting battles. Carmen won against Angelique in the English openings. Carmen had a nice little combination to win a pawn which Angelique missed and she couldn’t get any compensation for the pawn. Unfortunately Angelique is a bit off form by making a few miss calculations, but lets hope she can regain her from she showed at Nationals by winning the Under 16 girls section. The game is as follows:

de Jager,C (RSA) - Hattingh,A (RSA) [A29]
African Junior Championship 2007 (Boys) (3), 30.12.2007
[,Günther]
1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.g3 d5 5.cxd5 Nxd5 6.Bg2 Nb6 7.0–0 Be7 8.a3 a5 9.d3 Be6 10.Be3 Nd5 11.Nxd5 Bxd5 12.Qa4 0–0 13.Rac1 f5 14.Rfd1 Qe8 15.Qb5 Rd8 16.Nxe5 Bxg2 17.Kxg2 Nxe5 (=) 18.Qxe5 c6 19.Qxa5 Bf6 20.Qb6 Rd7 21.Rc2 Kh8 22.a4 Qg6 23.Qb4 Re8 24.a5 Ra8 25.a6 Be7 26.Bc5 Bxc5 27.Qxc5 bxa6 28.Qxc6 Qe8 29.Ra1 a5 30.b4 Qd8 31.Rxa5 Rb8 32.Rb5 Rxb5 33.Qxb5 Rf7 34.Qc6 Rf8 35.b5 h6 36.b6 Kh7 37.b7 Rf7 38.Rb2 Rc7 39.Qxc7 Qxc7 40.b8Q Qc6+ 41.f3 Qe6 42.e4 fxe4 43.dxe4 Qf7 44.Qb7 Qe6 45.Qd5 Qf6 46.Qf5+ Qxf5 47.exf5 h5 48.Rb6 Kg8 49.Kh3 Kf7 50.Kh4 Kf8 51.Rb7 Kg8 52.Kxh5 Kh7 53.h4 Kg8 54.Kg6 Kf8 55.h5 Ke8 56.Rxg7 Kd8 57.h6 Kc8 58.h7 Kd8 59.h8Q# 1–0

Daleen Wiid also won a tough match with the Caro-Kann defence. The game went down to the wire with only a few minutes left on each clock. Daleen Wiid is leading the girls section at the moment with 3/3.

In the boys section on board 1 Calvin Klaasen lost a very well played game in time trouble against the Egyptian boy. Due to lots of complications in time trouble Calvin blundered in the dieing seconds of the match.
Ryan quickly dispatched of his opponent in the Sicilian Sveshnikov Defence and is playing the Egyptian boy the following round. Lthukela Zitha was a pawn up in a difficult queen and pawn ending but couldn’t convert it to a win.

Lthukela Zitha unfortunately played a4 here and the opponent won the pawn back with Qd1+ Kh2 and Qd6+ to win the pawn on b4. Instead he should have played Qc4 to protect his pawns and then play a4 to create a passed pawn on the queen site.
Melissa Greef had a difficult position which ended up in opposite bishops. She made a small mistake in the end and her opponent had a nice combination to finish her off.

Day 4

Well it’s the last day of 2007 so we can expect some fierce battles on the board. The tournament is running smoothly at the moment with Gunther van den Bergh being the main arbiter. Uganda only arrived this morning thus already missing 3 rounds, amazing. This morning there is one round at 9:00 am and then we only play 2 January at 16:00 again.

I hope you all have a great new years and that South African chess will have a great year in 2008. Happy New Years !!!

28 December to 6 January 2008

Day1/2

We started our journey from South Africa at midday on the 28th.We met the previous Malawi President Mr. Tembo and the founder of the school on the plane. We arrived safely in Malawi, but then we had to wait for about 3 hours for our bus to arrive at the airport to take us to the playing venue 150km away. The bus trip was interesting with bright lights from the opposing cars, narrow roads with pot holes and wet circumstances. Its Africa after all with new experiences every moment.
The opening ceremony was eventful, with lots of speeches as usual. Everyone got their sleeping place and had a good rest for the first round to follow tomorrow.

In the morning we had a technical meeting to sort out all the rules and problems and play started at 16:00.

Round 1:

The best game of the round according to me was Ryan van Rensburg interesting, difficult knight endgame against R Mokoto from Zimbabwe (one of the tournament favorites). Ryan was a pawn up and dealt very neatly with this endgame to get his first point of the tournament. The game goes as follows:

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.f3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.e4 Nb6 6.Nc3 Bg7 7.Be3 0-0 8.Qd2 Nc6 9.0-0-0 Na5 10.Bh6 Nac4 11.Qg5 Qd6 12.Bxg7 Kxg7 13.Bxc4 Nxc4 14.Qb5 Qf4+ 15.Kb1 Nd6 16.Qd3 Qg5 17.Nge2 c6 18.h4 Qa5 19.h5 Be6 20.hxg6 hxg6 21.d5 cxd5 22.Nf4 Qc5 23.Nxe6+ fxe6 24.exd5 Rad8 25.Rhe1 exd5 26.Rxe7+ Rf7 27.Rxf7+ Nxf7 28.Nxd5 Rd6 29.Qc3+ Qxc3 30.Nxc3 Rxd1+ 31.Nxd1 Kf6

32.Kc2 Ke5 33.Kd3 Kf4 34.Ke2 Ne5 35.Nf2 Kg3 36.Kf1 Kf4 37.Ke2 Kg3 38.Kf1 Kf4 39.Ne4 Ke3 40.Nd6 Kd2 41.Nxb7 Kc2 42.b4 Kb2 43.b5 Nc4 44.a4 Kc3 45.Nd8 Kb4 46.Nc6+ Kxa4 47.Nxa7 Ka5 48.Kf2 Kb6 49.Nc8+ Kxb5 50.f4 Kc5 51.Kf3 Kd4 52.Ne7 g5 53.Nf5+ Kd5 54.Ne3+ Nxe3 55.Kxe3 Ke6 56.fxg5 Kf5 57.Kf3 Kxg5 58.Kg3 1-0

Well played Ryan, good endgame technique.
Unfortunately Angelique Hattingh failed to score a point and lost on time in a though struggle against E Tembo from Zambia. The rest of the South African players won and on to day 3.

Day 3

A drizzling day, wet, wet, wet. The food is good so far and the playing venue very nice.

There are two rounds today. Let’s go to round 2 where South Africa performed decently:

In the girls section Angelique Hattingh and Daleen Wiid won and Carmen De Jager drew, but should have won the rook and pawn endgame. Angelique easily disposed of her opponent facing the French Defence and here is Daleen Wiid’s game

Wiid,D (RSA) - Phiri,L (ZAM) [C50]
African Junior Championship 2007 Girls (2), 30.12.2007
1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Bc5 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.d3 h6 5.0–0 Nge7 6.c3 d6 7.h3 0–0 8.b4 Bb6 9.a4 a5 10.b5 Na7 11.d4 exd4 12.cxd4 c6 13.bxc6 bxc6 14.Nc3 Bb7 15.Ba3 Re8 16.Qb3 Rf8 17.Bxd6 Qxd6 18.Qxb6 Qb4 19.Qxb4 axb4 20.Na2 c5 21.dxc5 Bxe4 22.Nd2 Bd5 23.Nxb4 Bxc4 24.Nxc4 Rac8 25.Nb6 Rc7 26.a5 Rb8 27.Na6 1–0

In the boys section Calvin Klaasen won a tough game with white. Lthukela Zitha and Ryan van Rensburg drew. Zitha playing the nr 1 seed Jeovani Soares from Angola(2260). He was a pawn up in the endgame, but the knight endgame was eventually drawn. Melissa Greeff lost in a very tricky Sicilian Najdorf position with the black pieces against a player from Malawi.

Round 3:

The first South African battle about to start between Angelique Hattingh and Carmen De Jager on board 2.

By Coach/Manager
Corno Klaver