7-leg Shell Active Chess competition kicks off June 20
The future stars of RP chess take center stage beginning June 20 as the Shell National Youth Active Chess Championship (Shell Active Chess), the nation's longest running, grassroots-based chess competition, unveils its 2009 season with a promise of another spirited nationwide battle for top honours in two age divisions.
The seven-leg circuit, spread over key cities in the country, features the Juniors division, for players 20-year-old and under, and the Kiddies division, for players 14-and-under, with the top finishers gaining berths in the national finals slated in October.
To kick off this year’s theme “Maglaro at Matuto, Kasama ang Chess Barkada!” Pilipinas Shell, in partnership with the Department of Education, held the first ever “An Interaction with the Masters” or AIM where over 100 students teachers, coaches, principals and parents from various public elementary and high schools in Metro Manila took part in the two-day chess clinic conducted by the country’s top chess masters, headed by Grand Master (GM) Eugene Torre. Torre, together with fellow GMs Jayson Gonzales and Darwin Daylo, one of the products of Shell Active Chess, along with International Masters Idel Datu and Ronald Dableo, and International Arbiter Rolly Yutuc shared their expertise on the fundamentals, techniques and advanced strategies of the game.
This year’s Shell Active Chess circuit will start on June 20-21 for the NCR leg at SM Mall of Asia. See you there!
(lifted from Shell in the Philippines website)
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