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The South African Open is a chess tournament played in South Africa. It was first held in 1962. ... Best South African player 2022 Cape Town: Daniel Cawdery [2] [3]
This is a list of South African Test cricketers.The list is arranged in the order in which each player won his Test Cap. International Test teams wear their cap number on their uniform under the national crest. For South African players, current cap numbers worn on their uniform start from their readmission to Test cricket in 1991 following their
South Africa first participated in the 1958 Olympiad in Munich. The team stopped participating in international chess in 1974 due to the sports boycott as a result of the country's apartheid policies, returning to play at the 1992 Olympiad after the end of apartheid.
He won the African Junior Chess Championship in 2002. [1] [2] Mabusela tied for 1st–4th with Rodwell Makoto, Ahmed Adly and Daniel Cawdery in the 2012 South African Open, finishing second on tiebreak, the highest finishing South African player. [3] [4] He again finished as the best South African finisher in 2014. In 2019, Mabusela was the ...
Daniel Cawdery is a South African chess player who was awarded the International Master title by FIDE in 2014 (Candidate Master title in 2008 and FIDE Master title in 2013).. He won the 2015 and 2022 South African Chess Championship, [1] [2] and has played for the South African Chess Olympiad team in 1998, [3] 2006, [4] 2008, [5] 2012, [6] 2016, [7] 2018 [8] and 2022.
Borrowing a chess book from him to study, Solomon was soon taken under his brother's wing to study and within two years, he was the South African Under-16 champion. [ 4 ] [ 1 ] He has won the South African Championship in 2003 and the South African Open three times, in 1999, 2005 and 2007, and was also the top ranked South African in 2003.
A History of Chess in Southern Africa, by Leonard Reitstein (2003), ISBN 978-0-620-29829-2. This covers the period from 1892 until 1945. South African Chessplayer, edited by Leonard Reitstein, published from 1953 to 1986. Guinness Chess: The Records, by Ken Whyld (1986), page 114. This list covers the period from 1892 until 1986.
A tall, left-handed opening batsman, Smith is regarded as one of the greatest openers of all time. During South Africa's tour of England in 2003, he made double centuries in consecutive Test matches: [3] 277 at Edgbaston, [4] and 259 at Lord's. [5]