The 1999 South African Open was originally scheduled for 7-9 August, but was held on 6-7 November at Marks Park, Johannesburg. 2 professionals, Mr. Haruyama (9p) (co-author of “Basic Techniques of Go”) and Mr. Kirimoto (3p) visited the tournament as observers, and prizes were awarded by Mr. K. Niizuma of the Japanese embassy, as follows:
SA Open Champion: 1. Victor Chow (6d), 2. Clive Hunt (1d), 3. Michael Yang (4d)
SA Open Youth Champion: Michael Yang (4d)
SA Open Veteran Champion: Charles Levitt (7k)
SA Open African Players Champion: 1. Chris Visser (1k), 2. Julius Paulu (3k), 3. David Lubinsky (2k)*
Full results:
Pl. Name Str Cl. MMS 1 2 3 4 5 6 Pt SOS SOSOS 1 Chow, Victor 6d 287 35 11+ 5+ 2+ 7+ 3+ 4+ 6 194 1153 2 Hunt, Clive 1d 514 34 13+ 9+ 1- 4+ 7+ 6+ 5 192 1151½ 3 Yang, Michael 4d 186 33 4- 6+ 11+ 10+ 1- 8+ 4 192½ 1147 4 Zhang Yiao 3d 542 32 3+ 10+ 7- 2- 9+ 1- 3 196 1152½ 5 Visser, Chris 1k 518 32 10- 1- 8+ 6- 11+ 9+ 3 191½ 1143 6 Liu, David 1d 32 9- 3- 13+ 5+ 10+ 2- 3 191 1148½ 7 Liu, Martin 3d ? 32 -- -- 4+ 1- 2- 10+ 2 190 1122 8 Lubinsky, David 2k ? 31½ -- 16+ 5- 12+ 13+ 3- 3 183 1101½ 9 Chao, Chia 1d ? 31 6+ 2- 10- 11+ 4- 5- 2 192 1153½ 10 Cai, Yan 2d ? 31 5+ 4- 9+ 3- 6- 7- 2 192 1153 11 Zhang Qi Chao 2d 669 31 1- 13+ 3- 9- 5- 14+ 2 191 1137½ 12 Paulo, Julius 3k 193 31 17- 15+ 14+ 8- 16+ 13+ 4 179½ 1083 13 Edwards, Paul 1d 649 30 2- 11- 6- 16+ 8- 12- 1 188½ 1118 14 Mampe, Kagiso 3k 286 30 16+ 17- 12- 18+ 15+ 11- 3 179 1074 15 Gaum, Leander 4k 415 30 18+ 12- 20+ 17+ 14- 16+ 4 175 1053 16 Mayu, Feng 2k ? 29 14- 8- 17+ 13- 12- 15- 1 181½ 1081 17 Gale, David 4k 543 29 12+ 14+ 16- 15- 21- 18+ 3 176 1052 18 Chow, Daniel 4k 622 29 15- 20+ 21+ 14- 19+ 17- 3 171 1022 19 Buys, Sakkie 6k 477 28 22+ 21- 24+ 20+ 18- 25+ 4 160 970 20 Mantzios, Paul 5k 400 27 21+ 18- 15- 19- 22- 24+ 2 166 987 21 Fen, Adam 5k ? 27 20- 19+ 18- 23- 17+ 22- 2 166 983 22 Gogotshe, Welile 7k 182 27 19- 24- 23+ 25+ 20+ 21+ 4 158 953 23 Levitt, Charles 7k ? 26 32- 25+ 22- 21+ 24- 27+ 3 152 857½ 24 Gale, Bob 7k 199 25 25- 22+ 19- 26- 23+ 20- 2 157 911½ 25 Mampe, Sipho 8k 176 25 24+ 23- 27+ 22- 26+ 19- 3 152 871 26 Casado, Pablo 13k 357 22 28+ 31+ 29+ 24+ 25- 30+ 5 123½ 759 27 Motswiri, Thabo 13k 172 21 33+ 29+ 25- 28+ 30+ 23- 4 120½ 747 28 Leopeng, Sello 13k 408 20 26- 33+ 31+ 27- 35- 36+ 3 113½ 592 29 Lekabe, Boitumelo 13k 215 19 31+ 27- 26- 32- 36- 38+ 2 112½ 569 30 Guo, Michael 13k ? 18½ -- -- -- ? 27- 26- 0 112 662 31 Thompson, Allan 13k 391 18½ 29- 26- 28- -- -- -- 0 112 655½ 32 Connell, Quinten 16k ? 18 23+ 34- 33+ 29+ 37+ 35- 4 104 565½ 33 Marks, Geoff 15k 790 16 27- 28- 32- 34- -- -- 0 105 593 34 Lekabe, Lucky 21k 167 15 36+ 32+ 35+ 33+ 38+ 37+ 6 75 439 35 Lemeke, Thabiso 23k ? 12 37+ 36+ 34- 38+ 28+ 32+ 5 66 456½ 36 Suping, Kabelo 23k 149 10 34- 35- 38+ 37+ 29+ 28- 3 65 466 37 Gogotshe, Nathi 24k 200 8 35- 38+ free 36- 32- 34- 2 55 409 38 Lekabe, Tebogo 27k ? 4 free 37- 36- 35- 34- 29- 1 44 417½
*: Note that the order given here is the one on the trophy, but the order of second and third place is inverted with respect to the full results.
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