18 June 2007
Shell National Youth Active Chess Championship
I passed by SM Megamall to buy some gifts and a cake for Iani who turned 6 today. I couldn’t resist taking pictures of an on-going event on the 15th year of Shell National Youth Active Chess Championship and the First Shell Battle of the Champions. I play chess and enjoyed it immensely when I pitted wits against my brother and classmates and friends. It was is good brain exercise.
The Trophies
These young woodpushers would someday claim the throne long held by the Grand Tower of Philippine Chess himself, Asia’s first grandmaster, Eugene Torre, who is still quite active I think. Wouldn’t it be fitting if the next young GM gets his rank by defeating the celebrated grandmaster? With tourneys like this, I think it’s just a matter of time.
Hat tip to Shell for promoting chess in our country. Keep it up.
More info on the tournament here.
Comments
18 June 2007
Pinoy Photo Blog » Blog Archive » Chess Pieces said (pingback):
[…] I passed by an on-going chess tourney by Shell Philippines at SM Megamall. Reminiscing if I still had some chess moves in me, the images below attracted me to pull my Fujifilm Finepix A303 (which I think is no longer in production as I saw a 404 at just PHP 9,000.00 when I originally got my digicam for PHP 15,500 two years ago. How much is it worth now? Sorry, I digress. I just hope this blog will give me that DSLR I am dreaming of. Daydream over.) […]
19 June 2007
Pinoy Photo Blog » Blog Archive » Chess Pieces said (pingback):
[…] I passed by an on-going chess tourney by Shell Philippines at SM Megamall. While reminiscing the days when I still had some chess moves in me, the images below attracted me to pull my Fujifilm Finepix A303 (which I think is no longer in production as I saw an A404 at just PHP 9,000.00 when I originally got my digicam for $313 two years ago. How much is it worth now? Sorry, I digress. I just hope I’ll be able to get me that DSLR I’ve been drooling over. - daydream sequence over -) […]
25 January 2008
Arnold N. Abucejo said:
kindly post when the 2008 shell active chess will kick off
10 April 2008
waren dave said:
why 2008 shell active chess will kick
10 May 2008
GM john stephen gonzales said:
i like chess…………………kahit na gay ako i prove na kaya kung manalo…………………..salamat
24 July 2008
Dakilacruz said:
ang gwapo ni ivan gil biag
1 September 2008
Dillon Intila said:
Ano ba ang result sa Batangas Leg?