Sport and Recreation in Saint Martin: Chess, two players have the Holy Martiners National Finals
The National Final Blitz-BNP was held Saturday, June 16 at the Pyramids at Port-Marly (78) in the presence of several GMI (International Grandmaster) and MI (International Master).
8500 players have by-participates in the qualifying rounds since October 2011, 140 were selected for the final two St. Martin people: Jeff FOLLNER and Yash-want Vaswani, only representatives of the overseas territories.
The tournament was derou it on thirteen rounds has the cadence of 2×5 m inutes, unusual cadence for Saint-Martiners who play more often in 2×10 minutes. So they lost a lot of parties at the time. Nevertheless, the presi-dent of the club is satis-fied of the result and thank-ing the warm thanks SEMSAMAR that the displacement was possible financing.
the results
1. Jonathan DOURERASSOU 46. FOLLNER Jef (Chess King St. (Champagne) Martin) 2. Christian Bauer (Lorraine) 63. Vaswani Yashw ant (King 3. GULIYEV Namig (Azerbaijan) Chess St. Martin)
(Source: St Martin Weekend of 6/22/12)