Mignon Pretorius
Mignon Pretorius (born January 10, 1987 ) is a South African chess player and trainer. In 2003 she won the South African women's individual championship and was named champion candidate for women (WCM).
Life
Mignon Pretorius comes from Johannesburg and is studying at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Pretoria . As a chess trainer, she has the national level 2 certificate and is one of three trainers for the South African national junior team. Pretorius' Elo rating is 1984 (as of December 2019), but she is listed as inactive because she did not play an Elo-rated game after the U18 youth world championship in Heraklion in November 2004. This is also the highest rating she has achieved.
successes
youth
Mignon Pretorius won several South African championships for women: U-14 in 2000, U-16 in 2002 (second place overall) and U-20 in 2003 and 2006. At the African U-20 championship in 2004 in Lusaka , she was second behind South African Jenine Ellappen .
Individual championships
She won the open South African women's championship in 2003. In the same year she won the closed South African women's individual championship. In October 2003 she reached a shared fourth place at the African women's championship in Abuja .
National team
For the South African women's national team, she played on the second board at the 2003 Africa Games in Abuja. South Africa took second place behind Algeria. At the Chess Olympiads in Bled in 2002 and in Calvià in 2004 , she also played on the second board of the South African women's national team. She plays the selected teams for province Gauteng and the chess district Gauteng West.
Web links
- Mignon Pretorius at the World Chess Federation FIDE (English)
- Replayable chess games by Mignon Pretorius on 365Chess.com (English)
- Chess curriculum vitae on the website ( Memento from August 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) South African Women's Chess (English, archived)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rating card from Mignon Pretorius at the South African Chess Federation (English)
- ↑ List of the winners of the open South African women's championships ( Memento from April 21, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (English)
- ↑ List of the winners of the closed South African women's championships ( Memento from April 22, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (English)
- ↑ South Africa at the All-Africa Games 2003 on olimpbase.org (English)
- ↑ Mignon Petrorius' results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pretorius, Mignon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South African chess player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 10, 1987 |