Samantha Brink, \u2019n graad 7-leerder aan die Laerskool Overberg in Caledon en wat pas haar 13de verjaardag gevier het, is vir die SA skaakspan gekies om in haar ouderdomsgroep aan die Afrika-jeug-skaakkampioenskap in Lusaka, Zambi\u00eb, deel te neem. Sy is die enigste deelnemer in haar ouderdomsgroep uit die Overberg wat gekies is om haar skuiwe te gaan maak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dit was blote toeval dat Samantha op sewejarige ouderdom begin skaak speel het. \u201cEk het bietjie afgedwaal. Ek was op pad na \u2019n wiskundeklas toe ek afdwaal en een van my vriende na \u2019n skaakklassie in die saal volg. Ek het daar en dan begin speel en daardie naweek aan my eerste toernooi deelgeneem, waar ek die tweede plek behaal het.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Samantha het al aan baie kompetisies deelgeneem, en baie van hulle gewen. In 2017 het sy aan die jeugkompetisie in Indi\u00eb deelgeneem en in 2019 in Namibi\u00eb. Om lid te wees van die SA span, wat in Zambi\u00eb gaan deelneem, het harde werk geverg. Sy is in Maart genooi om aan die SA geslote kampioenskap in Johannesburg deel te neem, waar sy oor sewe dae aan 11 rondes deelgeneem het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Skaak hou gewis voordele in, s\u00ea Samantha: \u201cEk is iemand wat baie in die klas sukkel om te konsentreer, maar skaak help my om meer gefokus te wees. Dit is baie soos wiskunde, want jy moet dink daaroor. Dit het my skoolwerk in die algemeen gehelp en verbeter.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tydens die Covid-inperkings moes baie toernooie noodgedwonge aanlyn gespeel word. \u201cDit is nie vir my so lekker soos die intimidasie en die spanning om in lewende lywe met \u2019n opponent voor jou te speel nie. Jy raak gewoond daaraan, maar ek verkies \u2018oor-die-bord\u2019-skaak.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Op \u2019n vraag aan haar ma, Mari\u00ebtte Pretorius, of hulle by die huis skaak speel, antwoord sy: \u201cEk weet hoe om te speel en ken nou die re\u00ebls, maar speel glad nie. Sam sal ook s\u00ea sy mors haar tyd om teen my te speel. Ons is verskriklik trots op haar. Haar toewyding en die ure wat sy insit en hoe opgewonde sy oor skaak is, is vir my ongelooflik.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSamantha het \u2019n goeie gesindheid. Skaak het haar so mooi geleer. Of sy nou wen of verloor \u2013 sy gee nie op nie. Sy gee ook terug. Sy het nou by die laerskool begin om die kleintjies af te rig, want die skool het niemand wat hulle kan leer om skaak te speel nie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Oor ander belangstellings antwoord Samantha:\u201d Ek het in \u2019n stadium klavier gespeel, maar het dit nou vir eers gelos, want skaak is vir my belangriker en dit neem baie tyd in beslag.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Samantha se gunstelingkos is mac and cheese<\/i> en sy wil graag \u2019n marine-bioloog word. \u201cOns het baie akwarium toe gegaan en ek het nog altyd \u2019n belangstelling daarin.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy noem ook dat volwassenes haar dikwels uitdaag vir \u2019n potjie skaak, en met \u2019n groot glimlag s\u00ea sy: \u201cEk wen altyd teen hulle.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy sien geweldig uit na Lusaka, en om die uitgawes vir die reis daarheen \u2019n hupstoot te gee, het hulle onlangs \u2019n baie geslaagde pannekoekverkoping gehad en ook heerlike kolwyntjies gebak om te verkoop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Samantha Brink, \u2019n graad 7-leerder aan die Laerskool Overberg in Caledon en wat pas haar 13de verjaardag gevier het, is vir die SA skaakspan gekies om in haar ouderdomsgroep aan die Afrika-jeug-skaakkampioenskap in Lusaka, Zambi\u00eb, deel te neem. 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