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SA Closed Tournament: Contenders 2024 results

Contenders was once again held as a combination of “over the board” matches and online matches. Games between players in the same area were “over the board” and the remainder were online.

There was a three way tie for third place. In terms of their head to head games: Andrew beat Paul, Paul beat David, David beat Andrew. The tie breaker in these cases is the previous year’s results. This means the final positions were Andrew, David, then Paul.

Player NBW Notes
1 Victor Chow 7
2 Chris Welsh 6
3 Andrew Davies 4 Tie breaker: 2023 results
4 David Lubinsky 4 Tie breaker: 2023 results
5 Paul Edwards 4 Tie breaker: 2023 results
6 David Gale 2
7 Ben Bredenkamp 1
8 Fred Strauss 0
Final Standings

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Winter League 2024

Winter League 2024 took place from May until November with 12 players taking part. The top three positions were determined by head-to-head results.

Congratulations to Pieter-Francois and Johan who were promoted to 8k and 15k respectively during the tournament.

Player
1 Chris Welsh
2 Dominique de Rouvroy
3 Andrew Davies
4 Paul Edwards
5 Ben Bredenkamp
6 Rocco Vivier
7 Michael Rapson
8 Gordon Wells
9 Fred Strauss
10 Pieter-Francois Theron
11 Christina Auret
12 Johan Janse van Vuuren
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Candidates 2024 Results

The “Candidates” stage of the SA Closed tournament was played on September 29. There were eight players so the tournament was a three-round Swiss tournament. The top five players move on to the “Contenders” stage of the tournament.

The results were as follows:

Player Points SOS* SOSOS**
1 Rocco Vivier 3 5 16
2 Ben Bredenkamp 2 5 13
3 David Gale 2 5 12
4 Paul Edwards 2 4 15
5 Christiaan Maasdorp 1 6 12
6 David Lubinsky 1 4 13
7 Fred Strauss 1 3 15
8 Adru van Niekerk 0 4 12

*SOS is “sum of opponent scores”. *SOSOS is “sum of sum of opponent scores”.

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SA Closed Tournament: Contenders 2023 results

Contenders was once again held as a combination of “over the board” matches and online matches. Games between players in the same area were “over the board” and the remainder were online.

The top four kept their 2022 positions, with Andrew’s victory over Andre breaking their points tie. David Lubinsky qualified for Contenders for the first time, and caused some upsets. His wins against Andrew, Rocco, and Ben secured him fifth place.

Player NBW Notes
1 Victor Chow, 7d 7
2 Chris Welsh, 4d 6
3 Andrew Davies, 3d 4 Tie breaker: head-to-head
4 Andre Connell, 2d 4 Tie breaker: head-to-head
5 David Lubinsky, 1k 3
6 Rocco Vivier, 1d 2
7 Ben Bredenkamp, 1k 1 Tie breaker: head-to-head
8 Paul Edwards, 1d 1 Tie breaker: head-to-head
Final Standings
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Winter League 2023

Winter League 2023 took place from May until October with 10 players taking part. Andrew Davies won the tournament with a two point lead over second place. Andrew has previously won the tournament, most recently in 2019.

Player Rank
1 Andrew Davies 3d
2 Ben Bredenkamp 1k
3 Michael Rapson 4k
4 Paul Edwards 1d
5 Christiaan Maasdorp 2k
6 Rocco Vivier 1d
7 Christina Auret 6k
8 Gordon Wells 7k
9 Pieter-Francois Theron 9k
10 Pico Geyer 10k