The
past Easter weekend saw the coming together of chess players and chess
enthusiast alike as the National Chess Federation (NCF) hosted yet another
successful National Chess Championship. This year’s championship brought about
a new era for Namibian chess players as both young and old battled fiercely
over the chess board for the esteemed National Chess Champion title.
The
9 round long tournament took five (5) days to complete and was held at the
Protea Thuringerhof Hotel in Windhoek over the ester weekend. 35 of the
country’s best chess players participated in this annually anticipated
tournament which following fierce competition resulted in the crowning of a new
young Namibian National Chess Champion, Goodwill Khoa. The new champion has for
the past 8 years since 2005 witnessed the crowing of older and more experienced
chess players as National Champions, this year however, at the age of 23, he
has now finally taken a giant leap for all young Namibian Chess players and has
become one of youngest chess champions taking over the rein of last year’s
champion Charles Eichab after drawing with the tournament favourite Otto
Nakapunda in the final round and also having earlier drawn with another
tournament favourite Charlse Eichab in round 4th . Khoa, finished top
of the tournament with a splendid score of 6 wins, 3 draws, 0 losses out of 9
long 3 hour classical games which gave him 21 points in total. Following Khoa, was another young chess
player, McLean Handjaba who also made chess headlines as he came in 2nd
place this year after qualifying for the National team last year during the
2012 National championship in 4th place. The 21 year old finished
with 19 points followed by the veteran player, Otto Nakapunda in 3rd
place with 17 points.
This
year’s National tournament had a separate Women’s section, which meant that the
women only played one another. In this section, a new champion was again
crowned as the new National Women’s Chess Champion when Kamutuua Tjatindi took
over last year’s women’s champion 14 year old Nicola Tjaronda. Up and coming 16
year old Lishen Mentile, came in 2nd in the women’s section with Rauha
Shipindo coming in 3rd place.
Katjovi
Matjua won the junior (Under 20) section, followed by Immanuel Gariseb in 2nd
place and Julian Isaaks in 3rd place. The top 3 from both the Open
and Women’s section automatically qualify to represent Namibian at the Zone
4.3. games in Botswana for 2013 Africa Individual Chess Championship from the
30th of April to 10th of May 2013.
Women’s Section - Final Standings
Place Name Feder Rtg Loc Score
Berg. Wins
1 Tjatindi, Beverly 1537 16 152.00
5
2 Mentile, Lishen 1488 14 110.00
4
3 Shipindo, Rauha 1600 13 95.00
4
4-5 Nepando, Jolly 12 99.00
4
Tjaronda, Nicola 1570
12 81.00 4
6 Ndjoze, Ngangane 1500 9 54.00
3
7 Aluteni, El-Shaddai 1500 6 48.00
2
8 Van Wyk, Keisha 1300 0 0.00
0
Open Section- Final Standings
Place Name Feder Rtg Loc Score Progr. M-Buch. Buch.
1 Khoa, Goodwil 1882 21 113.0 112.0 141.0
2 Handjaba, Mclean 1760 19 89.0 104.0 127.0
3-4 Nakapunda, Otto 2026 18 93.0 107.0 141.0
Eichab, Charles 2166 18 90.0 112.0 146.0
5-6 Nitzborn, Josef 1964 17 88.0 109.0 142.0
Matjiua, Kajovi 1639 17 75.0 96.0 121.0
7 Nauiseb, Alfred 1500 16 60.0 78.0 95.0
8-10 Nghifikwa, Leonard 1500 15 87.0 108.0 142.0
Gariseb, Immanuel 1626 15 81.0 102.0 126.0
Kapuire, Glenvile 1500 15 75.0 95.0 122.0
11-12 Isaak, Julian 1665 14 87.0 109.0 140.0
Tjingaete, Hange 1620 14 70.0 87.0 107.0
13-18 Gariseb, Edmund 1768 13 74.0 110.0 136.0
Tjiriange, Richman 1663 13 73.0 94.0 116.0
Ehrich, Thomas 1843 13 72.0 92.0 118.0
Kamberipa, William 1613 13 66.0 103.0 133.0
Eixab, Calvin 1765 13 58.0 79.0 101.0
Hochobeb, Mutago 1500 13 50.0 60.0 81.0
19-20 Kuhanga, Fremantle 1574 12 60.0 92.0 112.0
Tjimune, Kievido 1500 12 54.0 85.0 108.0
21 Eichab, Doc 1500 10 52.0 65.0 89.0
22-24 Uapinge, Jossy 1500 7 46.0 91.0 113.0
Uirab, Adelino 1637 7 41.0 79.0 99.0
Hochobeb, Mubasen 1500 7 25.0 56.0 71.0
25 Kandume, Ileni 1500 6 33.0 71.5 89.5
26-27 Benjamin, Hooker 1300 3 18.0 70.0 88.0
Cloete, Aldrin 1500 3 12.0 24.0 39.5
28 Nangula, Etu 1500 0 0.0 34.0 56.0
