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SO, LAYLO, PARAGUA SET TO GRACE MARIKINA CHESS TOURNEY


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THE COUNTRY'S top rated Grandmaster (GM) Wesley So is looking forward to meeting young chess players as the 2050 Non-Master Below rapid chess tournament gets underway on February 5, 2012, Sunday at no. 96 M.A. Roxas St. corner H. Roxas St., San Roque, Marikina City.

?As a veteran chess player, I?m looking forward to interacting with young chess players in every tournament that I visit, because they are the future of Philippine chess,? said So, who became a full-pledged GM at age 14.

So, together with fellow World Cuppers GMs Darwin Laylo and Mark Paragua will be the special guests in the one-day tournament, which starts with a simple opening ceremony at 11am.

Registration starts at 8 a.m., while the first round of the 7-round Swiss system tournament starts promptly at 11:30 a.m.

National Chess Federation of the Philippines (NCFP) Chairman and President Prospero ?Butch? Pichay Jr. (NCFP) has also been invited as keynote speaker.

Members of other chess clubs and students from the elementary, high school and college levels are invited to join the NCFP-sanctioned tournament, which accepts all unrated players and those rated 2050-below.

The tournament offers P5,000 to the champion, P4,000 to the runner-up, P3,000 to the third placer, P2,000 to the fourth placer and P1,000 for the fifth placer. Sixth to the 15th placers will receive P500 each.


Category winners in the kiddies, 14 years old and below and 12 years old and below, juniors, 16 years old and below will receive P600 each while top three Marikina player will receive P500 each.

Registration fee is pegged at P300. For more details, contact, CAAP arbiter Ferdie Bonifacio at 0916-154-7267 or Efren Laylo at tel.no. (02) 571-6683.


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