TWCA opens for chess training

THE Weekend Chess Academy (TWCA) hopes that its chess students rested well and are ready to take chess by storm this year.

Since 2007 there has been acceleration in chess training methods, student chess results, academic results and discipline.

In 2007, TWCA students won two medals. TWCA only enrolled one team during the 2007 Namibian Schools team championship in which they achieved 12th position from 36 teams.

In 2008, TWCA won nine medals out of 21 at the Namibian Junior championship. This time TWCA was represented by three teams during the 2008 Namibian School Team chess championship when the TWCA A-team won silver medals followed closely by the TWCA B-team who shared the third spot with two other schools.

All in all, TWCA students participated in five events and brought home 15 medals.

2009, the WOW year...
 
Once again the Academy claimed several top spots. This time round TWCA ended in the top three spots 36 times in only ten chess events.

The highlight was the Khomas Regionals for boys and girls. The boys championship was won by Julian Isaak, who was 14 years old at the time. Remarkably he had to deal with players of every age group which also included u.18 and u.20 players.

The girls section was dominated by the TWCA players, Patricia Teek, Jolly Nepanda and Nicola Tjaronda. Ten-year-old Nicola Tjaronda displayed great potential and discipline when she outplayed several high school boys and girls older then herself during the Namibian Schools team selection tournament.

The top ten players represented Namibia in an invitational tournament in South Africa, bringing home bronze medals. In this event Nicola shared joint first place with Hange Tjingaete and Julian Isaak.

All 3 scored 6/7 (5 wins, 2 draws and 0 losses). TWCA teams also came second, fourth and sixth in the School Team championship.

Worth mentioning is the domination of the TWCA students during the 2008 and 2009 junior events. In both years TWCA students clinched the most medals per chess event compared to that of other chess academies and schools.

2010, History in the making...
 
With several schools and chess academies getting ready to do their very best especially during the junior events TWCA is poised to take their position at the top.

As in 2009, the club will rely on its students to do the talking across the chess board.