Tournament news - Chess Club Janwe

All Star Tournament 2017 | 5 - 7 May | CCPF

7/5/2017

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Youth

In the weekend of May 5th to 7th, Curacao Chess Players Foundation held another edition of the All Star Tournament which took place at Sentro di Bario Janwe. The tournament was played in both a youth and open group where over 30 local players participated over the course of 5 rounds.

Youth group

Prize winners & chess diploma recipients

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The youth group kicked off on the morning of Saturday May 6th where various young talented players took the boards and moved pieces in the battle for the top prizes. After 5 interesting matches of 30 minutes (15 minutes per player) a bit after noon the results were made known. Chess Club Janwe's rising female talent Mariana Sanchez scored 1st place after winning 2016's All Star champion David Pietersz early in round 2 who remained on 2nd followed by Dylan Mathilda on 3rd for the second consecutive year. All top 3 players scored 4 points equally leaving it up to the tie-break scores which determined their final positions.
Medal prizes in the sub-age category 6-9 went to: Frederic Simonis on 1st with 3 points, Kennard Martines on 2nd with 2 points and Serah Mathew.
In the sub-age category 10-12 medal prizes went to: Taqesyah Marcos on 1st with 4 points, Xavier Werleman on 2nd with 2 points and Aviandrie Kastablank on 3rd with 2 poibts as well. Just before the prize ceremony Chess Club Janwe handed out diplomas to various club members who recently passed one or more chess exams for the pawn, rook and king levels.

Open group

The competition in the open group was pretty interesting where many veteran players took part and accompanied by various young and upcoming talents who gave the veterans quite a challenge, made the tournament a whole lot more interesting. Almost a total of 20 players competed in the open group displaying quite some challenging games. FM Wim Blijstra won 1st place undefeated with a total of 5 points out of 5 rounds. CM Jimmy Izijk placed 2nd with 4 points leaving CM Sherman Maduro on 3rd with 3.5 points.

All by all Curacao Chess Players Foundation can look back on yet another successful edition of the All Star Tournament and would like to thank the sponsors Coca-Cola (Curaçao Beverage Bottling Company B.V) and Chit Chat Cafe for their support.