The impact of COVID-19 on chess in South Africa

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dc.contributor.authorEsau, Omaren_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-25T10:13:34Z
dc.date.available2021-02-25T10:13:34Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.descriptionCITATION: Esau, O. 2020. The impact of COVID-19 on chess in South Africa. In: Manik, S. (ed.) From high-risk sports to sports as high risk : crisis, capitulation and creativity during COVID-19. KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: CSSALL, pp. 69-84. doi:10.29086/978-0-9869936-8-8/2020/AASBS05.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractIn this chapter I address the question of the way that the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic with its new normal and social distancing, impacts the sport code of chess in South Africa. This pandemic has already drastically altered the fixtures of numerous sport codes including the planned events and outcomes of some elite professional leagues. Chess as an Olympic sport code, although more amateur in South Africa, offers benefits across the socio-economic spectrum in terms of administrators, players, coaches and referees (arbiters). I employ an auto-ethnographic case study methodological approach, which enables one to draw on ‘personal and experiential data,’ for example, my own observations and experiences as a chess player and administrator. Amidst the uncertainty of the future and in anticipation of perhaps a large-scale devastation, the COVID-19 pandemic imposes the need for innovative and creative thinking to keep future aspirations of chess alive. Drawing on my lived experiences, I employ an auto-ethnographic approach to inspire hope for the future.en_ZA
dc.format.extent16 pages
dc.identifier.citationEsau, O. 2020. The impact of COVID-19 on chess in South Africa. In: Manik, S. (ed.) From high-risk sports to sports as high risk : crisis, capitulation and creativity during COVID-19. KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: CSSALL, pp. 69-84. doi:10.29086/978-0-9869936-8-8/2020/AASBS05en_ZA
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-9869936-8-8
dc.identifier.otherdoi: 10.29086/978-0-9869936-8-8/2020/AASBS05
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/109595
dc.language.isoen_ZAen_ZA
dc.publisherCSSALL Publishers
dc.relation.haspartAlternation African Scholarship Book Series #05en_ZA
dc.relation.haspartFrom High-risk Sports to Sports as High Risk : Crisis, Capitulation and Creativity during COVID-19en_ZA
dc.relation.ispartofAlternation Journal - UKZNen_ZA
dc.relation.urihttp://alternation.ukzn.ac.za/books/series/from-high-risk-sports-to-sports-as-high-risk-crisi.aspx
dc.subjectChess -- Health aspects -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.subjectCOVID-19 (Disease) -- Social aspects -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.subjectChess -- South Africa -- Effect of pandemics onen_ZA
dc.titleThe impact of COVID-19 on chess in South Africaen_ZA
dc.typeChapters in Booksen_ZA
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