Charlize van Zyl (born 19 September 1999) is a South African chess player who holds the title of Woman International Master, which she earned in 2013 at the age of 13, becoming the youngest South African to do so.

Chess career

Van Zyl won the African Zonals at age 13, earning her WIM title. She has represented South Africa at the Chess Olympiad in

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(finishing on 3.5/8 on board 5) and

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(4/9 on board 2). She came second in the Women's section of the 2022

African Chess Championship The first African Chess Championship was played in 1998. Ibrahim Hasan Labib and Mohamed Tissir both shared first place with 7/10, but the former took the title. The 2007 championship was the FIDE Zone 4 qualifier for the Chess World Cup 2007, th ...

, finishing half a point behind

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, and qualifying for the

Women's Chess World Cup 2023 The Women's Chess World Cup 2023 was a 103-player single-elimination chess tournament, the second edition of the Women's Chess World Cup, taking place in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 29 July to 22 August 2023. The runner up and third place finishers, ...

, where she was defeated by

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in the first round.

Education

Van Zyl attended Collegiate Girls High School, and studied a BA in media, communications and culture student at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University.

References

External links

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Charlize van Zyl
chess games at 365Chess.com {{DEFAULTSORT:van Zyl, Charlize South African female chess players South African chess players Chess Woman International Masters Chess Olympiad competitors Living people 1999 births 21st-century South African women 21st-century South African people Nelson Mandela University alumni Sportspeople from Gqeberha