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Aruban Chess delegation will compete in the CA.C.
Chess Festival in Trinidad & Tobago

AFTER competing in the 2015 Curacao Chess Festival last month, where our chess categories.
They are trying to get younger kids into chess by focusing more on the U8, U10
players did extremely well and won numerous titles, the Aruban Chess Federation and U12 categories.
is now getting ready for another fierce competition and even bigger competition;
the Central American and Caribbean (CAC) 2015 Youth Chess Festival which will In a few years Aruba will have a better flow and continuance of the juvenile cat-
be hosted by Trinidad & Tobago. egories and will improve on an international level.

During the week of August 13 to August 20 the best Chess players in
our region will compete against each other and battle for the highest
title possible in the Central America and Caribbean area.

Our island will be represented by Mark Bueno, who will be compet-
ing in the U-18 Open Group, Maria Paula de Mey, which will compete
in the U-18 Female Group, Kyell-Jean Antonio who will compete
in the U-12 Open Group and Ethan Croeze that will compete in the
U-12 open Group.

The coach that will accompany them is Jean Pierre Lesire along with
the Head of the delegation Raymundo Dijkhoff.
Jean Pierre Lesire will also attend the Fide Arbiter seminar.

Noteworthy is that the Aruban Chess Federation has been putting
a lot of emphasize and dedicating a lot of attention to juvenile

Aruban tennis players Alexson Hessels and
Frederick Sydow win gold medal

TENNIS athletes Alexson Hessels and Frederick Sydow recently competed in the

JITIC 2015 which was hosted by the Dominican Republic, they competed in the
U-14 category.
The Aruban duo did extremely well in the doubles competition, where they
achieved the first place and snatched the champion title.

The Aruban duo beat the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua and then again
the Dominican Republic in the knock out rounds. In the grand finale
they had to compete against Guatemala and managed to beat the Gua-

temalan duo Dominguez and Taracena with a 6 to 2 and 7 to 5 score.
Also very nice is that both Hessels and Sydow did extremely well in
their individual games, both ranked 1st place in their rankings.

The Tennis Federation has surely had a good half year, since their
tennis athletes have conquered many important titles in our region.
Especially the male tennis players stood out this season, due to their
triumphs in the Junior Davis Cup tournament and the Junior Tennis
Competition where they ended up in first place and second place.
The Tennis Federation is extremely thankful to the Funding Commission
for funding the delegations’ trip to the JITIC 2015 Championship in the Do-
minican Republic.

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