Who is chess on the cape

Andre jokes that chess players could be locked up and the board taken away from them, but nothing will stop them from playing and exercising the mind. Just the past weekend 10 regions — including Johannesburg, Nelson Mandela, Sedibeng and Ekurhuleni — took part in an interregional online tournament with a time control of 10 minutes per game.

Western Cape won the tournament with a big margin. The Western Cape executive also had a Google Hangouts meeting with the executive committees of the different districts on Saturday.

They wanted to establish what more they can do to keep the players active during the lockdown, took stock of all the challenges members are facing, and discussed how they can assist each other even though they do not have the financial means, amongst other things.

A commission was established that will look into the development of online chess in the Western Cape. Andre says they limit the games to 10 minutes to prevent players from cheating by using online engines to boost their game. The commission will develop guidelines on how to play online chess that will be communicated to the districts. They will start working this week. A coaching commission was also established and a database of all coaches in the Western Cape is being created.

They will also identify at which level a shortage of coaches exists and try to plug that gap. For the first time a head coach — Reuben Salimu — was appointed, and his job is to develop a strategy for coaching in the Western Cape. He will also oversee the training of coaches and ensure that all the coaches are adequately equipped to deliver coaching of a high standard. Last week Chess WC had its first online coaching seminar and that will be a regular occurrence in future. Free resources would also be made available online for players and coaches and an effort would be made to make online chess accessible for more players and coaches.

Andre says a lot of people who earn an income from the sport are suffering financially and he was hoping the Western Cape Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport would assist chess with funding, as they are continuing to be active and are continuing to support children from previously disadvantaged areas. In order to provide some relief a coaching fund has been established and Andre encourages people to donate money to the coaches and referees.

Online tournaments are in the pipeline and the entry fees from those tournaments will be going to the coaching fund. Chess Western Cape are now growing their game online. Share on facebook Facebook. Share on twitter Twitter. Share on whatsapp WhatsApp. Share on email Email.

Share on print Print. More news. Western Cape Lotto application documents and guides Read More ». Provincial Climbing host successful African event Read More ». Provincial Netball happy with season; wants more in Read More ». Provincial chess make big strides during tough year Read More ».

Provincial bowls players enjoy being back on the greens Read More ». We use cookies on our website to give you the most relevant experience by remembering your preferences and repeat visits.

However, you may visit "Cookie Settings" to provide a controlled consent. Cookie Settings Accept All. Manage consent. Official website: www. Keep me logged in. Lost your password? We'll send you a link to reset it! Show Options Hide Options. Necessary Data Some data is technically necessary to be able to visit the page at all. A so-called cookie stores identifiers that make it possible to respond to your individual requests. A security identifier csrf is also stored to prevent a particular type of online attack.

All of these fields are alpha-numeric, with almost no relation to your real identity. The only exception is that we monitor some requests with the IP address that you are currently using, so that we are able to detect malicious use or system defects. Additionally, a technical field is stored singletab to ensure that some interactions are only processed in the browser tab that is currently active. For example, a new chess game will not be opened in all your current tabs.

We use your local storage to save the difference between your local clock and our server time serverUserTimeOffset , so that we are able to display the date and time of events correctly for you.

We measure how our page is used with Google Analytics so that we can decide which features to implement next and how to optimize our user experience. Google stores your device identifiers and we send tracking events such as page requests to Google Analytics.

These have no direct relationship to your person except for the IP address currently being used and your Google Analytics identifiers. You can also enable more data fields, as described in the other sections. Your personal decision on which data storage to enable is also stored as necessary information consent. We offer a range of personal settings for your convenience. Options include which opponents you prefer to be paired against, your preferred chessboard and pieces, the board size, the volume setting of the video player, your preferred language, whether to show chat or chess notation, and more.

You can use our web page without storing this data, but if you would like to have your individual settings remembered we recommend enabling this feature. For logged-in registered users this setting is mandatory to store information about your privacy settings, users you have blocked and your friendship settings. As a registered user we also store your data consent in these settings. We embed a Twitter feed showing activity for the hashtag c24live and also make it possible to share content in social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.

If you enable this option social networks are able to store data in your cookies or local storage for the purpose of these features. Enable this feature to allow us to gather more individual measurements and statistics, so that we can make better decisions about which content and features are important to you and should be a priority to improve.