Tournament news - Chess Club Janwe

All Star Tournament 2016 | 29 Apr - 1 May | CCPF

1/5/2016

Summary
Open
Youth

Curacao Chess Players Foundation successfully organized yet another edition of the All Star chess tournament in the weekend of April 29th to May 1st which was held in Sentro di bario Janwe. This year's tournament counted with participation of over 40 players including a few players from sister island Bonaire. The tournament consisted of 5 rounds played in a Youth and Open group.

Youth group

Prize winners Youth Group

The games for the youth group were played on Saturday April 30th where almost 30 youngsters battled on the checkered boards in 15 minute games. After the 5 round battle of young chess talents around 1:30 PM the results were made known. Chess Club Janwe's creme de la creme took away all 3 top prizes for the overall youth group: David Pietersz with 4.5 pts on 1st, Michael Yard with 4 pts on 2nd and Dylan Mathilda with 4 points on 3rd. As for the prizes of best scored for ages 6-9 Curacao Chess Academy players raked in the prizes with Frederic Simonis on 1st with 3.5 pts, Xavier Werleman with 3 pts on 2nd and Dylan Leanez with 2.5 pts on 3rd. The best scored for ages 10-12 were Taqesyah Marcos from Curacao Chess Academy with 4 pts on 1st , Jean-Pierre De Freitas from Chess Club Janwe with 3 pts on 2nd and Noah Gomes Casseres from Curacao Chess Academy with 3 pts on 3rd.

Open group

The Open group counted with over 15 players consisting of long-time players along with various up and coming talented youth players who by displaying some interesting games, made the tournament quite interesting and challenging at the same time. Young talented 16 year old Ailen Mena managed to grab the 1st prize with 4.5 pts, while long time player Claudio Sagredo took away 2nd with 4 pts after luckily defeating current national champion Ursus van Bemmelen leaving other long time player Norman Hodgson on 3rd wth 3.5 pts. Various of the youth talents made their mark throughout the tournament. Chess Club Janwe's young and upcoming female talent Mariana Sanchez after hardly falling for any of the traps set on the board managed to draw her game against current national champion Ursus van Bemmelen. David Pietersz another one of Chess Club Janwe's finest drew for a second time against top player Alex Roose. All by all it was a great tournament and would have not been possible without our various sponsors. Thank you all!