Jack Mizzi wins the Atlas Youth Athlete of the Month Award for September 2023

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Jack Mizzi, who is 17 years old, set a new Maltese chess record when he won all nine games in the Malta Blitz Chess Championship on the 17th of September, joining the elite group of players who won a Blitz Championship with perfect scores.  

The Malta Blitz Championship is an annual tournament organised by the Malta Chess Federation, which saw the participation of 32 players from different countries including Germany, Türkiye, Serbia, and China.

Unlike the traditional chess, where games usually  take more than three hours, in Blitz players are each allotted three minutes with two-second increments to make all their moves and each game is expected to last less than 10 minutes.

Mizzi has been playing chess since the age of ten. At 13, he was the youngest person to win the Malta preliminaries. Last year Mizzi became Malta’s youngest-ever Candidate Master, which is a title awarded by the International Chess Federation to players whose performance sets them on the track to become chess masters.

The trophy for the September 2023 Atlas Youth Athlete of the Month together with a sports apparel voucher were presented to Jack Mizzi by Robert Micallef, Chief Commercial Officer of Atlas Insurance and David Cassar Business Development & Marketing Manager. The Malta Sports Journalists Association was represented by President Sandro Micallef and General Secretary Lorraine Cunningham.

This award is a joint initiative between the Malta Sports Journalists Association and Atlas Insurance. The adjudicating panel of this award takes note of all the youth athletes’ achievements during the month under review and at the same time it invites local sport associations and federations to send in their nominations for consideration if they feel that any of their under-21 athletes have distinguished themselves during that month.

Nominations for this award may be sent via email to info@maltasportsjournalists.com. The rules and regulations of the award can be viewed on the website www.maltasportsjournalists.com.

Photo caption: From left: Sandro Micallef & Lorraine Cunningham (MSJA), Jack Mizzi, Robert Micallef & David Cassar (Atlas Insurance).

Jack Mizzi jirbaħ il-premju Atlas Atleta Żagħżugħ tax-Xahar għal Settembru 2023

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Jack Mizzi, li għandu 17-il sena, stabilixxa rekord ġdid fiċ-Chess f’Malta, meta fis-17 ta’ Settembru kien ir-rebbieħ tal-Malta Blitz Championship, fejn rebaħ id-disa’ logħbiet li kellu u sar wieħed mill-ftit li rebaħ kampjonat ta’ din ix-xorta b’rebħiet massimi

Il-Malta Blitz Championship huwa avveniment annwali organizzat mill-Malta Chess Federation, li fih ħadu sehem 32 parteċipant minn pajjiżi differenti, fosthom il-Ġermanja, it-Turkija, is-Serbja u ċ-Ċina.

B’differenza mil-logħba taċ-Chess tradizzjonali, fejn logħba taf iddum aktar minn tliet sigħat, fil-Blitz kull plejer ikollu tliet minuti b’żieda ta’ żewġ sekondi u kull logħba ma tieħux aktar minn għaxar minuti.

Mizzi ilu jilgħab iċ-chess minn mindu kellu għaxar snin. Ta’ tlettax-il sena huwa kien l-iżgħar plejer li rebaħ il-preliminari tal-kompetizzjoni lokali. Is-sena li għaddiet huwa sar l-iżgħar Malti li qatt rebaħ it-titlu ta’ Candidate Master, li jingħata mill-Federazzjoni Internazzjonali taċ-Chess lil dawk il-plejers li għandhom ċans kbir li jsiru masters.

It-trofew tal-Atlas atleta żagħżugħ tax-xahar għal Settembru 2023 flimkien mal-voucher t’abbiljament sportiv abbinat ma' dan il-premju ġew ippreżentati lil Jack Mizzi minn Robert Micallef, Chief Commercial Officer u David Cassar Business Development & Marketing Manager ta’ Atlas Insurance. F’isem l-Għaqda Ġurnalisti Sports kien hemm preżenti l-President Sandro Micallef u s-Segretarju Ġenerali Lorraine Cunningham.

Dan il-premju ta' kull xahar jingħata b'inizjattiva konġunta bejn l-Għaqda Ġurnalisti Sports flimkien ma' Atlas Insurance. Il-panel li jiġġudika r-rebbieħa ta' dan il-premju jieħu nota tas-suċċessi miksuba matul dak ix-xahar u fl-istess ħin jistieden lill-assoċjazzjonijiet u federazzjonijiet sportivi sabiex jibagħtu n-nomini tagħhom. In-nominati li jiġu evalwati jridu jkunu taħt il-21 sena.

In-nominazzjonijiet għandhom jaslu b’imejl lil info@maltasportsjournalists.com. Ir-regolamenti ta’ dan l-unur jinsabu fuq is-sit elettroniku tal-Għaqda Ġurnalisti Sports li hu www.maltasportsjournalists.com.

Ritratt: Mix-xellug: Sandro Micallef & Lorraine Cunningham (MSJA), Jack Mizzi, Robert Micallef & David Cassar (Atlas Insurance).

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