NEGRENSE chess standouts who are Manila-based and who have figured prominently in previous national tournaments will be happy additions to the roster of entries in the 1st George S. Aguirre/Atty. Eugenio Villasor Villanueva Jr. Memorial open individual chess tournament.

The tournament was slated on September 6 to 27, 2009 at the lobby of the Top’s Millennium Plaza Bowling Lanes, 10th/Hilado Sts., Capitol Shopping Center, Bacolod City.

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“Big names like NMs from Manila who have Negros roots as well as NMs who are Negros-based are very welcome to join the event since not only will they make the competition more exciting but they will be able to provide the kind of top-caliber competition that local players need as far as exposure is concerned. So it’s really good for chess development,” said tournament director and chief arbiter Dodz
Felisilda.

The tournament, sponsored by New York-based chess patron and author Antonio Ivan S. Aguirre and Engr. Hugo D. Villanueva, is organized by the Game Royale Aficionados of Negros Inc. headed by Dr. Alfonso Teorima.

It is a seven-round Swiss system competition (1-hour-20-moves + 1-hour to-finish-the-game) which is open to all Negrense male and female chess players as well as guest players from neighboring provinces who must know how to record chess games either through the Descriptive English Notation (P-K4 – PQB4) or Algebraic Notation (e4 – c5) and must use their own tournament size chess sets and chess clocks.

Registration fee is P200 per participant which must be settled upon registration the deadline of which is set on Friday, September 4, at 6 p.m., with no extension.

Prizes awaiting the top finishers of the event are: for the champion, P5,000 plus 42-inch, four-legged “King” trophy; for the 1st runner-up, P4,000 plus a 36-inch, four-legged “Queen” trophy; for the 2nd runner-up, P3,000 plus 30-inch, four-legged “Rook” trophy; for the 3rd runner-up, P2,000 plus a 27-inch, four-legged “Bishop” trophy; for the 4th runner-up, P1,000 plus a 24-inch, four-legged “Knight” trophy; while the 6th to 20th place finishers will each get Eureka chess sets, mats and bags.

Meanwhile, special prizes also await the top three finishers in both the female and kiddies divisions, with the top three female players to be given P700, P500 and P300, respectively; while the top three kiddies players will get P500, P300 and P200, respectively plus gold, silver and bronze chess medals for both categories.

Interested participants may contact Dodz Felisilda for more information through telephone number (034) 707-0421 or mobile numbers 0919-658-1254 and 0917-607-8373. (HCV)