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8 October 1979 (age 44) Mitchells Plain, Cape Town, South Africa [1] Title. Grandmaster (2015) Peak rating. 2461 (January 2012) Kenneth Terence Solomon [2] (born 8 October 1979) is a South African chess Grandmaster. He is the first and currently the only Grandmaster South Africa has ever produced. [3]
South Africa's first Grandmaster. 1/4/2015 – With an Elo-rating of 2399 (January 2015) Kenny Solomon is South Africa's number three but a few days ago he became the country's first grandmaster. In the Africa Chess Championship 2014 he finished with 7.0/9 and had a better tie-break than tournament favorite GM Ahmed Adly, World Junior Champion ...
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Mar 23, 2015 · He changed his fate when he began playing chess at the age of 13; now, 22 years later, he has become a chess grandmaster and an inspiration to youngsters everywhere. South African chess grandmaster Kenny Solomon at the launch of the Chess Garden at Tafelsig High School, in Cape Town. (Image: Mitchells Plain Chess Club)
Sep 11, 2012 · Cape Town - A Mitchells Plain father who grew up in the township and played his first game of chess at 13, has become South Africa’s first chess grandmaster. Kenny Solomon, 32 was in a team of ...
Mar 23, 2015 · Kenny Solomon: South Africa’s first chess grandmaster. 23 Mar 2015. 0. 163. Kenny Solomon chose a very different path from the boys he grew up with in Cape Town’s Mitchells Plain. He changed his fate when he began playing chess at the age of 13; now, 22 years later, he has become a chess grandmaster and an inspiration to youngsters everywhere.
CHESS SA is affiliated with SASCOC, and organises national competitions such as the South African Closed Chess Championship and the South African Open Chess Championship. CHESS SA was established in 1996 following unification discussions among several chess ruling bodies in existence during the apartheid era. South Africa produced its first ...
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Oct 17, 2012 · Kenny Solomon is South Africa’s first chess grandmaster-elect. GroundUp: Where did you grow up? Solomon: I grew up in Mitchell’s Plain. GroundUp: How old were you when you learnt to play chess? Solomon: I learned the moves at about seven but studied my first chess book at the age of twelve. I started my first tournament at the age of 13.
