Olympus wins the 2014 TuksChess Res League

Posted on March 12, 2014

The students in the residences and faculties are given the opportunity to compete against each other pick their brains and challenge their strategies. Another reason for the tournament is to scout for talented players that could represent the club in local tournaments and also at the University Sports South Africa (USSA) championship in December.

Six residences participated in the tournament namely; Vividus Ladies, Asterhof, Boekenhout, Taaibos, Olympus and House Jacaranda.

Vividus Ladies entered a strong team that felt confident that they could challenge the men’s teams, and proved themselves worth adversaries by defeating Taaibos to go through to the semi-finals. In the semi’s they came up against Olympus and narrowly lost by a tie-breaker. House Jacaranda, who have been competing in the tournament for the last three years, placed second, and Olympus after five years of participation finally tasted victory and won the tournament.

In terms of talent scouting, Ruan from the Olympus team and Thabo from the Kiaat team with ratings of 1800 and 1500 respectively were identified as strong competitors, as well as many of the ladies from the Vividus team. The club hopes that these students will be interested in representing the University at the USSA tournament in December this year.

For more info: contact Godfrey Kgatle on email: [email protected] or cell: 079 489 5966 


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