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Tuesday 21 August 2012

Puzzles - mate in 1 move

More puzzles (mate in 2 and 3 moves) will be published on the puzzles page.
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The GRADE SIX (6)* Championships

We will start the grade 6* championships on Thursday, the 23rd of August 2012.

The * indicates that is not ONLY the grade sixes that will take part, but some of the grade 7's and 4's as well.  Four grade 7 learners, JJ in grade 4 and Alex Mckenzie in grade 3!

There was one open spot left, that needed to be filled before I can set up the groups for the round robin games.  I gave the opportunity to Chad, the grade 5 KING winners, but he declined.  So, I mentioned it to his brother Alex, and the fact that the harder your opponents, the better he will get later on.  He thought about it for a couple of moments and accepted!  :-)  Good luck Alex!

The groups, drawn randomly by my wife and I this evening, that will play a round robin tournament, is as follows:

Group A
Clint van Rooyen
Adrian Fieties
Mambesi / Justin Gouws (who accepts first - Divan, unfortunatly had to withdrew due to other commitments)
Alex Mckenzie

Group B
JJ Oosthuizen
Ravian Daniels
Mickyla du Preez
Ernst

Group C
Enrico Davids
Keegan Walker
Wouter Rademeyer
Gerhard Potgieter

Group D
Jacques Claassen
Trevor Rademeyer
Joshua Syce
Tiaan


Grade 5 championships - Bishop and Pawn

The Bishop quarters played out as follows, the winner underlined:

Zukhanye vs Dawie

Kyle M vs Albertus

Nathan vs Matthew

Mickhael vs Kyle N

Bishop semi-finals:

Zukhanye vs Kyle M

Matthew vs Kyle N

The Bishop FINAL: Kyle M vs Matthew

The winner will be decided tomorrow morning.


The Pawn semi-finals played out as follows, the winner underlined:

Dawie vs Albertus

Nathan vs Mickael

The Pawn FINAL: Albertus vs Mickael

The winner will be decided tomorrow morning.

Grade 5 championships - ROOK Champion

The Rook semi-finals played out as follows, the winner underlined:

Craig vs TC

Wikus vs Tyler

ROOK FINAL:  Craig vs Tyler

And the winner is: Tyler Pretorius

CONGRATULATIONS!!

Afterwards, the KING champion played against the ROOK champion and the KING won!

Chad vs Tyler - Chad won.

Grade 5 Championships - KING champion

With the long weekend and the fact that I have been sick last week, hindered my blogging abilities, so sorry that the blog has been standing still the last couple of weeks.  But I'm better and back to old blogging ways!  Expect some more puzzle as well!

Here is an update on how the grade 5 championships went.

The King quarters were played out as follows, with the winners being underlined:

Craig vs David

Earl vs TC

Wikus vs Chad

Tyler vs Ndinani

King semi's:

David vs Earl

Chad vs Ndinani

KING FINAL:  David vs Chad

And the winner is: Chad Mckenzie.

CONGRATULATIONS!!


Sunday 5 August 2012

Grade 5 championships

The group stages took place, as mentioned, last week and Thursday.

Here are the standings for the quarter-finals:
Click to enlarge:


Just to illustrate the Rook and Pawn draws: If David loses his game, he will play the loser of Earl and TC.  The winner of this match, gets to play in the Rook Final.  (He still have a chance to win something)

:-)

Friday 3 August 2012

Grade championships - info

We have started yesterday in completing our separate grade championships.

I divided the grade fives in 4 groups - with four players in each group.  They play a round robin match against everyone in the group.

The top 2 op each group go through to the "King" and "Rook" quarters and semi finals.
The bottom 2 of each group go through to the "Bishop" and "Pawn" quarters and semi finals.

Click on the picture below (to enlarge) for more clarity.

The players playing in the Rook and Pawn semi-finals, are the one's who lost their quarter-final matches.  Thus ensuring they have another chance to win at least some consolation prize.

If you have ever watched the Rugby 7's, they also use this table to determine the Cup, Plate, Shield and Bowl winners.  (I just gave other names) :-)

The next couple of posts, I will give feedback on how the different grades a progressing through the finals etc.

I have started with the grade 5's yesterday, on Tuesday they will play their finals.  Also on Tuesday, the grade 6 championship group games will start.  The few grade 7 players (and JJ), and the rest of the grade fours and threes will play in their own "league" respectively.  More info and clarity will follow soon!