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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.

PlayerNBWNotes
1Victor Chow7
2Chris Welsh6
3Andrew Davies4Tie breaker: 2023 results
4David Lubinsky4Tie breaker: 2023 results
5Paul Edwards4Tie breaker: 2023 results
6David Gale2
7Ben Bredenkamp1
8Fred Strauss0
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
1Chris Welsh
2Dominique de Rouvroy
3Andrew Davies
4Paul Edwards
5Ben Bredenkamp
6Rocco Vivier
7Michael Rapson
8Gordon Wells
9Fred Strauss
10Pieter-Francois Theron
11Christina Auret
12Johan 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:

PlayerPointsSOS*SOSOS**
1Rocco Vivier3516
2Ben Bredenkamp2513
3David Gale2512
4Paul Edwards2415
5Christiaan Maasdorp1612
6David Lubinsky1413
7Fred Strauss1315
8Adru van Niekerk0412

*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.

PlayerNBWNotes
1Victor Chow, 7d7
2Chris Welsh, 4d6
3Andrew Davies, 3d4Tie breaker: head-to-head
4Andre Connell, 2d4Tie breaker: head-to-head
5David Lubinsky, 1k3
6Rocco Vivier, 1d2
7Ben Bredenkamp, 1k1Tie breaker: head-to-head
8Paul Edwards, 1d1Tie 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.

PlayerRank
1Andrew Davies3d
2Ben Bredenkamp1k
3Michael Rapson4k
4Paul Edwards1d
5Christiaan Maasdorp2k
6Rocco Vivier1d
7Christina Auret6k
8Gordon Wells7k
9Pieter-Francois Theron9k
10Pico Geyer10k