GOLF... Results of the 12th Annual Ambleside Par 3 Golf Tourdament, played on Sun- day, Aug. {5 (score in parentheses): Overall winner, John Lucas (record fow score of 49): ladies’ low gross, Margaret Shanks (56); ladies* low net, Gwenn Brownlee (54); men's low gross, Larry Sechagen (50); men's low net, Tom Smith (50); seniors’ low gross, John Lucas (49); seniors’ fow net, Paul Watson (53); juniors’ low gross, David Sheldon (51); juniors’ flow net, Peter Stringer (53). Also, three holes-in-one were shot during the tournament, one each by Lucas, Watson and Sean Fairburn. s@a LACROSSE... The Shore Indians drew first blood in the West Coast Senior B lacrosse best-of-five final on Sunday night with an 8-5 victory over the Burnaby Lakers. .The Indians are looking for revenge for fast year’s playoff when the Lakers knocked them out of contention. The second game of the series goes Friday night at 8 p.in. at the Lonsdale recreation centre arena. eoe RUGBY... The Capilano Rugby Club’s junior seven- a-side team dominated the competition in Washington State recently to win the Can-American Sevens easily. Other Capilano squads also excelled this summer, tradi- tionally the off-season for rugger. With the opening of the I5-a-side regular. season Just weeks away, ful! open practices are being held every Tuesday and Thursday night at 6:15 p.m. at the club’s Klahanie Park facility. In preperation for the upcoming season, the Capilanos will be hosting Brampton, and the Vancouver Kiwis on Saturday, Aug. 28. Action is set to begin at 1H] a.m. After the games, the club will host a traditional Hangi (Maori barbecue) at their North Vancouver clubhouse. For information call the club at 980-6738 after 7 p.m. on Thursdays. North SOCCER... North Shore Select keeper Steven’ London has been named to. the under-17) Canadian Nationai team that will be competing at the Youth World Cup in Nagoya, Japan later this month. The I6-year-old Argyle student is coached on the North Shore by Gerry Macey. WRESTLING... Sixteen- year-old Jana Penny won a bronze medal on the final day of competition at ‘the Wortd Female Wrestling Champion- ships in Larvick, Norway earlier this month. A graduate of Carson Graham, Penny fost her first match in the 65 kilogram weight division to China's Chaoli Wang, the eventual champion. Victories over Australia, Norway and Switzerland earned Penny her third-place finish, capping a success-filled season which included the B.C. high school tide and Canadian espoir and senior championships. It was the first year that Canada fielded a team at the women's worlds. Ontario ° FRY Pr yet pa 18, 1993 ~ North Shore News - 13 No fluke wins for young chess whiz West Van’s Shahin Nabi dominating other players A POPULAR summer movie currently playing local theatres is based on the life of a voung chess prodi- gy and his rise within the highly competitive chess world. By A.P. McCredie Sports Reporter In West Vancouver, life is im- itating art. And while Nabi isn't 12-year-old Shahin looking for Bobby Fischer just yet, the Grade 6 Ridgeview student is quickly making a name for himself in the ranks of Canadian chess. Earlier this vear at the B.C, chess championships, Nabi, then li, placed first in the Grade 6 division, earning a spot at the na- Honals at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton. At the nationals, he continued to dominate his age group, finishing ahead of second-place Alberta and third-place P.E.I. in round robin play to capture best-in-the-country bragging rights. 64 My aggressive style tends to rattle them. 99 — Shahin Nabi But, this quiet and soft-spoken chess player doesn't fit the bill of a brooding and bragging com- petitor. “T guess most of my success comes from playing more experi- enced and better players,’’ said Nabi, who will be entering his first year of high school this fall. ‘The thing I like about chess is that, unlike other sports, there is no such thing as a fluke win.”’ He hasn't had to look far. for more experienced competition. His 19-year-old) brother. Sherwin, is an accredited chess master, and his father is an avid player. ; A chess master is a plaver that has surpassed the 2,200 point mark in ranking. Shahin currently has 1,788 points. He hopes to become a master in two years, and eventually a grand master, of whom there is only one in Canada and only 356 world-wide. The future Seutinel student characterizes his style of play as aggressive. “Other players 1 have played are more position-oriented than I am, so my aggressive style tends to rate them,” he said. Apart from playing his brother and father, Nabi gets much of his practice from chess books that detail game progressions much like in his age group eae SHAHIN NABI, 12. displayed all the right moves earlier this year to claim the title of Grade 6 Cana- dian chess champion in Edmonton. Nabi’s latest conquest was the B.C. Open 1,800-and-under ses- tion title during the August long weekend at BCIT. newspaper chess listings de. “T don't like computer chess games because all the computer program dovs is try to get draws and that gets really boring, after awhile,’ he said, adding he likes to go to Park Royal South and “hoost my confidence’ against other players who congregate at the popular chess hangout, His most recent confidence booster was at the B.C. Open earlier this month at BCIT, where he took first place in the 1,800 and under section. The youngest competitor at the tournament, Nabi took on players ranging in age from 30 to 60, from as far away as Victoria and Kamloops. His next challenge comes on Sept. 25-26 at the Park Royal North mall’s B.C. Cadet (under- 15) championships. Winners beat weather and foes in tennis tourney WITH INCLEMENT weather throwing match schedules into disarray, the Oth Annual West Vancouver Tennis Tournament managed to wrap-up’ last weekend. The following are the winners in their respective divisions: Trevor Richards, men’s A_ singles; Pat Dowling, men’s B singles; Jimmy Pham, mea's C_ singles; Rene Solomon, men’s D_ singles; An- thony Leung, men's X_ singles; Lubomir Chobot, men’s 35+ singles; Gregary Yu, men’s 45-+ singles; David Ross, men's 554 singles; Klonika Mueller, ladies’ A singles; Christa Bortignon, ladies’ B singles and ladies’ C_ singles; Helga Bludau, ladies’ D singles; Jutta Arendt, ladies’ X_ singles; Anke Staudenmaier, ladies’ 35+ singles; Greg Johson & Siamak Ali, men’s B doubles; L. Ledur & M.D. Louko, men’s C doubles; Monica Vseticka & Monika Mueller, ladies’ B doubles; P. Weinmaster & J. Marsden, fadies’ C doubles; Collette O'Keilly & Ron Eng, mixed B doubles; R. Dalen & M. Watson, mixed C doubles; Jane & Ted Baggott, parent & child U16 doubles; Tom Kranz, boys’ U18 singles; Steve Toth, boys’ UI16 singles; Seott Wright, boys’ Ul4 singles; Brian Leung, boys’ U12 singles; Steve Toth & Peter Nickel, boys’ U16 doubles; Sarah Kadi, girls’ U14 singles; Julia Hlynsky, girls’ Ui2 sinlges.