Ingenious, masterly, chess virtuoso performance in Mansa Zambia..!
Zimbabwean National Team player Spencer Masango took part in the OPEN SECTION of the Chilufya Memorial Chess Tournament in Zambia scoring a good 7.5/9 attaining only wins and draws (didn’t lose any game)!. The Open Section had too many deadly Zambians ready to feast on any chess ‘tourists’. The end result was quite shocking and interesting…Tough young 1998 born Angolan IM David Silva (8/9) and our own hard working ‘Trojan’ Spencer Masango scooped Gold and Silver respectively. FM Munenga Douglas of Zambia was on 3rd tied with four other Zambian players at 7 points. The section had over 85 players with Silva and Masango being the only foreign players. Well done!! Here is how Spencer performed:
Round 1 vs CM Gondwe Kondwani Maxwell 2107 ZAM won
Round 2 vs Mayimbo Clement 2053 ZAM won
Round 3 vs IM Silva David 2245 ANG drew
Round 4 vs Lwamfwe Kabwe 2032 ZAM won
Round 5 vs Mwansa Richard 2035 ZAM won
Round 6 vs Chola Midosatos 2044 ZAM won
Round 7 vs CM Phiri Godwin 2238 ZAM drew
Round 8 vs FM Munenga Douglas D 2203 ZAM won
Round 9 vs IM Chumfwa Kelvin 2238 ZAM drew
Rating international 2218
Performance rating 2406
FIDE rtg +/- 40,0
He earned himself a very good prize of several greens.
The Open Section games ended on Monday 23rd of October 2017.
Meanwhile the Henry Chilufya Memorial Chess Tournament – GM NORM SECTION had the following 10 Chess sharks:
Starting rank list of players
1 GM Adly Ahmed EGY 2625
2 GM Gupta Abhijeet IND 2619
3 GM Kiriakov Petr RUS 2543
4 GM Greenfeld Alon ISR 2509
5 IM Ssegwanyi Arthur UGA 2373
6 IM Mwali Chitumbo ZAM 2334
7 IM Bwalya Gillan ZAM 2291
8 IM Phiri Richmond ZAM 2290
9 FM Wanyama Harold UGA 2290
10 IM Chumfwa Stanley ZAM 2278
The deadly Egyptian GM Ahmed Adly had better chances to lift the GM Norm Section Gold position as he played a tricky interesting end game of Rook and minor pieces as well as several pawns with a slight advantage vs Zambian IM Richmond Phiri in the 9th and last round leading already at 7.5/8, with the Israel GM Greenfeld Alon following closely at 6.5/8. Last round of this GM Norm section was at 3pm on Wed the 25th of October.
Prizes:
GM Norm Section: *** Open Section:
1st $1, 600 *** 1st $1, 000
2nd $1, 200 *** 2nd $800
3rd $1,000 *** 3rd $500
4th $800 *** 4th $400
5th $400 *** 5th $200
***Best Youngest $100
*** Best Oldest $100
