The 1998 South African Open was held at the Westdene Recreation Centre in September.
Summary
SA Open:
1st. Victor Chow, 5d
2nd. Martin Liu, 3d
3rd. Michael Yang, 4d
SA Closed:
1st. Victor Chow, 5d
2nd. Paul Edwards, 1d
3rd. Clive Hunt, 1d
African Players:
1st. Paul Edwards, 1d
2nd. Ben Gale, 3k
3rd. Chris Visser, 1d
Veterans:
1st. Charles Levitt, 4k
2nd. Paul Edwards, 1d
3rd. Bruce Yang, 1d
Youths:
1st. Michael Yang, 4d
2nd. Julius Paulu, 5k
3rd. Sipho Mampe, 5k
Prizes for 5/6 wins:
Ben Gale, 3k
Julius Paulu, 5k
Leander Gaum, 9k
Lucky Lekabe, 26k
Results
Final standings in SA Open:
- Victor Chow, 5d
- Martin Liu, 3d
- Michael Yang, 4d
- Paul Edwards, 1d
- Clive Hunt, 1d
- Ben Gale, 3k
- Bruce Yang, 1d
- Chris Visser, 1d
- David Gale, 3k
- David Lubinsky, 3k
- Julius Paulo, 5k
- Daniel Chow, 4k
- Kagiso Mampe (tied 12th), 4k
- Tristen Taylor, 4k
- Charles Levitt, 4k
- Sakkie Buys, 7k
- Mike Liao, 5k
- Sipho Mampe, 5k
- Leander Gaum, 9k
- Paul Mantzios, 8k
- Bob Gale, 10k
- Christian Dresel, 10k
- Welile Gogtshe, 11k
- Luke Edwards, 10k
- Maurice Goodman, 12k
- Sello Leopeng, 14k
- Boitumelo Lekabe, 14k
- George Qu, 15k
- Thabo Motswiri, 13k
- Quintin Connell, 16k
- Pablo Casado, 17k
- Geoff Marks, 16k
- Lucky Lekabe, 26k
- Tebogo Lekabe, 25k
- Boyboy Baloi, 26k
Complete final results are not available. Here are the complete results after the third round:
Pl. Name Str Cl. MMS 1 2 3 4 5 6 Pt SOS SOSOS 1 Chow, Victor 5d J 33 6+ 2+ 4+ ? ? ? 3 193 1143 2 Edwards, Paul 1d J 32 7+ 1- 5+ ? ? ? 2 190 1133 3 Yang, Michael 4d Pta 32 5+ 4- 6+ ? ? ? 2 189 1128 4 Liu, Martin 3d J 32 10+ 3+ 1- ? ? ? 2 189 1122 5 Yang, Bruce 1d ? 31 3- 7+ 2- ? ? ? 1 187 1123 6 Hunt, Clive 1d J 30 1- 8- 3- ? ? ? 0 185 1116 7 Visser, Chris 1d J 30 2- 5- 8- ? ? ? 0 183 1105 8 Gale, Ben 3k J 30 9+ 6+ 7+ ? ? ? 3 179 1077 9 Gale, David 3k J 29 8- 13+ 10+ ? ? ? 2 172 1033 10 Lubinsky, David 3k J 28 4- 11+ 9- ? ? ? 1 173 1046 11 Chow, Daniel 4k J 28 14+ 10- 13+ ? ? ? 2 166 998 12 Paulo, Julius 5k J 28 16+ 15+ 14+ ? ? ? 3 165 972 13 Mampe, Kagiso 4k D 27 15+ 9- 11- ? ? ? 1 165 994 14 Levitt, Charles 4k J 27 11- 18+ 12- ? ? ? 1 162 972 15 Taylor, Tristen 4k J 27 13- 12- 18+ ? ? ? 1 161 968 16 Liao, Mike 5k J 27 12- 17- -- -- -- -- 0 154 918 17 Buys, Sakkie 7k J 26 18+ 16+ 20+ ? ? ? 3 153 908 18 Mampe, Sipho 5k J 25 17- 14- 15- ? ? ? 0 155 941 19 Mantzios, Paul 8k J 24 20- 24+ 21+ ? ? ? 2 137 806 20 Gaum, Leander 9k Pta 23 19+ 22+ 17- ? ? ? 2 140 838 21 Dresel, Christian 10k Pta 21 22- 23+ 19- ? ? ? 1 129 778 22 Gale, Bob 10k J 21 21+ 20- 23- ? ? ? 1 128 779 23 Gogotshe, Welile 11k Dvi 21 24+ 21- 22+ ? ? ? 2 126 761 24 Edwards, Luke 10k J 21 23- 19- 26+ ? ? ? 1 126 754 25 Goodman, Maurice 12k J 20 26- 28+ 27+ ? ? ? 2 113 665 26 Motswiri, Thabo 13k Dvi 18 25+ 27- 24- ? ? ? 1 113 687 27 Lekabe, Boitumelo 14k Dvi 18 28+ 26+ 25- ? ? ? 2 109 657 28 Leopeng, Sello 14k Dvi 17 27- 25- 30+ ? ? ? 1 104 626 29 Qu, George 15k ? 17 -- -- 31+ ? ? ? 1 96 556 30 Marks, Geoff 16k J 15 32+ 31- 28- ? ? ? 1 92 552 31 Casado, Pablo 17k J 15 34+ 30+ 29- ? ? ? 2 88 491 32 Connell, Quintin 16k Pta 15 30- 33- 35+ ? ? ? 1 84 417 33 Lekabe, Lucky 26k Dvi 7 35+ 32+ 34+ ? ? ? 3 40 276 34 Lekabe, Tebogo 25k ? 6 31- 35+ 33- ? ? ? 1 39 278 35 Baloyi, Boyboy 26k Dvi 4 33- 34- 32- ? ? ? 0 33 262
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