Johannesburg Open
The Johannesburg Open of 1999 was held at Jupiter Hall, Westdene Recreation Centre on 23 May 1999. It was a qualifying tournament for the SA Candidates’ tournament.
Format: The tournament was a 3-round MacMahon tournament, with handicaps based on difference of MacMahon score minus one. Komi was 5.5 for even games, and 0.5 for handicap games.
Time limits: 1 hour per player, with 20 moves in 5 minutes Canadian byo-yomi.
Final standings:
Pl. Name Str Co. MMS 1 2 3 Pt SOS SOSOS 1 Chow, Victor 6d SA 38 2+ 3+ 5+ 3 107 303 2 Yang, Michael 4d Tai 35 1- 4+ 3+ 2 103 307 3 Zhang, Yiao 3d Ch 33 4+ 1- 2- 1 103 307 4 Zhang, Qi Chao 2d Ch 32 3- 2- 9+ 1 97 298 5 Hunt, Clive 1d SA 32 6+ 8+ 1- 2 97 293 6 Liu, David 1d Ch 32 5- 10+ 8+ 2 92 280 7 Edwards, Paul 1d SA 31½ -- -- -- 0 90 270 8 Yang, Bruce 1d Tai 31 9+ 5- 6- 1 94 281 9 Gale, Ben 1k SA 30 8- 11+ 4- 1 92 274 10 Lubinsky, David 2k SA 29 12+ 6- 11- 1 89 257 11 Gale, David 4k ? 28 16+ 9- 10+ 2 83 265 12 Paulo, Julius 3k SA 28 10- 14- 16+ 1 82 255 13 Mampe, Kagiso 5k SA 28 18+ 16+ 14+ 3 78 244 14 Taylor, Tristen 5k SA 27 17+ 12+ 13- 2 82 238 15 Buys, Sakkie 6k SA 27 19+ 17+ 18+ 3 75 228 16 Chow, Daniel 4k SA 26 11- 13- 12- 0 84 243 17 Gaum, Leander 5k SA 26 14- 15- 20+ 1 78 228 18 Mantzios, Paul 6k SA 25 13- 21+ 15- 1 78 224 19 Levitt, Charles 7k SA 24 15- 20- 21+ 1 72 217 20 Gale, Bob 9k SA 23 21+ 19+ 17- 2 71 221 21 Mampe, Sipho 8k SA 22 20- 18- 19- 0 71 221 22 Goodman, Maurice 11k SA 21 26+ 23+ 24- 2 59 177 23 Ponelis, Albert 10k SA 20 24- 22- 25- 0 62 173 24 Leopeng, Sello 12k SA 20 23+ 25- 22+ 2 59 176 25 Casado, Pablo 14k SA 19 27+ 24+ 23+ 3 55 173 26 Motswiri, Thabo 13k SA 18 22- 28+ 27- 1 56 159 27 Guo, Michael 15k SA 17 25- 29+ 26+ 2 52 156 28 Lekabe, Boitumelo 15k SA 17 30+ 26- 31+ 2 48 142 29 Connell, Quintin 16k SA 16 31+ 27- 30+ 2 45 138 30 Marks, Geoff 16k SA 15 28- 31+ 29- 1 46 133 31 Halland, Ken 19k SA 11 29- 30- 28- 0 40 139 32 Lekabe, Lucky 21k SA 11 34+ 33- free 2 30 42 33 Patz, Alex 30k SA 3 free 32+ 34+ 3 6 42 34 Patz, Geva 30k SA 1 32- free 33- 1 6 42
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