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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]
Aug 21, 2021 · Adham is the youngest grandmaster in Africa. Born in the year 2000, the 21-year old became a FIDE Master at 12, an international master at 15, and recently got the grandmaster title in 2019. With a rating of 2485, he is the fourth-highest rated player in Egypt and 7th in Africa.
1/14/2015 – Kenny Solomon, South Africa's first Grandmaster, was born in 1979. At that time Apartheid still enforced racial segregation in South Africa. This also affected the life of Solomon. He grew up in Mitchell Plains, a densely populated township near Cape Town, plagued by poverty, violence and crime.
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Mar 23, 2015 · 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.
Jan 18, 2015 · In December Kenny Solomon crossed the final hurdle needed to achieve what no other South African has. He won the African Individual Championship to become South Africa’s first chess grandmaster. Along the way he beat Egyptian grandmaster Ahmed Adly. Solomon (35) grew up in Mitchell’s Plain in the 1980s, the second-youngest of eight children.
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.
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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 ...
