Aristea Tournament Report and Results

Good day everyone!

What a tournament it has been.  A lot of development took place and everyone enjoyed the day fully.

With 230 learners registering and in the end only 188 playing, made for some computer difficulties early on.  (We as administrators also developing!).  At the start of the 3rd round, we decided to shorten the tournament to 4 rounds only, to finish on the scheduled time.  Everyone was in favour.

I want to congratulate all the players on their participation and the good sportsmanship that was shown throughout the day.  Like Mr Reon Hunter says: "We don't loose a chess match, because even when  losing, we learn and gain knowledge on the game!"  Thank you for your support.

See you again next year!

Here are our Aristea players' results: (In order, Name and Surname, Place, Score)

UNDER 13

Neelan Koopman, 9th, 3.0
Britney Cupido, 16th, 3.0
Tristan Bailey, 20th, 2.5
Alex Adams, 47th, 1.0
Rene Emmett, 49th, 1.0
Lobayeni Makhohliso

UNDER 11

Kiara Blows, 1st, 4.0
Jordan van Schoor, 3rd, 4.0
Louis Oosthuizen, 6th, 3.5
Ewald de Kock, 14th, 3.0
Joshua Muir, 19th, 3.0
Safa Hassiem, 21st, 3.0
Nikita Malherbe, 33rd, 2.0
Tumelo Noah, 63rd, 1.0

UNDER 9

Matthew Adams, 24th, 2.0

Kind regards,

Mr. Bekker

Everything ready for tomorrow

Good day everyone!

Just a short post to let you know that everything is set for tomorrow's tournament.
Just have a look...

Unfortunately entries are CLOSED!

See you tomorrow.

:-)

Awesome August Month of Chess

Good day to everyone.

Here are some reports and photos on what happened during the month of August at Aristea Chess.

The District Play-off's went very well for Aristea.
Our under 13 team only lost two of their 5 matches games.
The under 11 team and the Girls team won 2 of their matches.

We would like to congratulate all the schools who qualified for the WP Top Schools and Western Cape Top Schools Tournament.  Click here to view them.

Western Cape Girls Tournament 

Five of our learners and a teacher, Mrs Geldenhuys, took part in the Girls Tournament that happened on the 22nd of August.  They were treated with goodie bags, cookies and cooldrink throughout the day.  Congratulations to everyone! Here are their results:

 

Click on the images above to enlarge it for better viewing.

League Matches

Then we unfortunately only had 1 league match - against Gene Louw last week and Friday.
The under 13's lost 2 - 4, but the under 11 team won 5,5 - 0,5!

Important dates for the 3rd term

Good day everyone!

Important dates to make a note off in the diaries so long:

Saturday, 25 July - Practise tournament at school  (letters went out today, 20 July)

Sat, 1 Aug - District North Top Schools Playoffs for the u/11, u/13 and Girls teams!

Vr. 7 Aug - u/11 League match vs Curro Centuary City

Vr. 21 Aug - u/11 and u/13 League match vs Blouberg Ridge

Sat. 22 Aug - Girls only tournament at Curro Durbanville

Vr. 28 Aug - u/11 and u/13 League match vs Gene Louw

Sat. 12 Sep - Chess Tournament at Aristea

As in the past - more information to follow as soon as they are available.

As you can see, it is going to be a busy term for chess at Aristea!!
But that is the way we like it.

:-)

Very good news

Good day to everyone.

We are ending our very good term of chess off with some excellent news: ALL our chess teams (under 11, 13 and Girls) have been selected to play in the District North Top Schools Playoffs on Saturday, the 1st of August.

This will imply that we will have to sharpen our games with a few extra practises. For the first two weeks, we are going to have special team practices on a Thursday afternoon as well, (the same time as the other practises).  We are also going to have a tournament on the 25th of July at school.  More info on that early next term.  If your son or daughter played in a league match this term, I really want them to play in this tournament. More information on the tournament will follow shortly.  For the first time, I'm going to do online entries! :-)

Talking about tournaments and sharpening our games - there is a big chess festival taking place in Cape Town in the middle week of the holidays.  There are three different types of tournaments to choose from.  The best for our learners are the Rapid (30 min a side) tournament on Thursday and Friday the 9th and 10th of July.  If you can provide your child with the opportunity to play in this very big tournament, his/her game would sharpen considerably during the holidays.  More information, click here.

I hope you enjoy the holidays.  Those of you driving far this holiday - drive safe and see you next term!

Kind regards.

:-)

Chess League Results for the 2nd term

Good day to everyone

Well can you believe it, we are almost done with the second term.  A term that has been a good one for Chess at Aristea!

Our learners are currently writing exams, thus no chess at school again until next term.
Hopefully I will get next terms fixtures before the end of the week.

For those interested, there is a big chess tournament (festival) taking place at the Cape Town Stadium in the holidays, from the 3rd to the 10th of July.  See the post below for more information.

Here then are the results for our matches that we played:

Opponent                   Result
Meridian                     won by default
Durbanville                draw 3 - 3
Webnerstreet u/11      won 5 - 1
Webnerstreet Girls     lost 0 - 6
Belhar                         won 5,5 - 0,5
CL Willmot                draw 3 - 3

Congratulations to all our players!  You did us proud.

Keep well and drive safe this holiday season.

Looking forward to another good term of chess!

:-)

SA Open Chess Fesitival

Click on the picture to go to the website for more information.

There are a couple of options to choose from.
Below is an extract from the page.

SA Schools Individual Chess Championship

The SA Schools Individuals is incorporated as part of the SA Open Chess Festival 2015. It will be held at the same venue (Cape Town Stadium) from Monday 6 July until Thursday 9 July. This will be a 7 round Swiss event. Please note that this event is open to all scholars. The entry fee is R250. The times of the rounds are daily from 09h30 until 15h30.

SA Open Blitz Chess Championship

The SA Open Blitz Championship will be played on Tuesday 7 July, from 14h00 until 18h00. This will be a 9 round Swiss event.  This event is open to all. The entry fee is R100.

SA Open Rapid Chess Championship

The SA Open Rapid Chess Championship will be played on Thursday 9 July and Friday 10 July, from 11h00 until 15h00. This will be a 7 round Swiss event. This event is open to all. The entry fee is R150.

Welcome Back - Term 2 league fixtures and Puzzles below

Hi all

I know I have not been active on the blog, but there are personal reasons for this.

Welcome to 2015!

Here are this terms fixtures:

24 April vs Meridian - we didn't play due to the long weekend.
8 May vs Durbanville
15 May vs Webnerstreet
22 May vs CL Willmot
29 May vs Belhar

The learners will be getting letters on the Wednesday before the Friday's game if they are playing or not.

I hope to be here on the blog on a more regular basis.

Kind regards

Mr Bekker

:-)

PS: Bonus post - solve the following puzzle

FIND Checkmate in TWO moves

Click on the image to go to two new puzzles on the puzzles page