Golden Square Chess C'ship from July 6 to 8
Sanjaya Ariyaratne
CHESS: The Golden Square Junior Inter-club Team Chess
Championship 2007 will be staged from July 6 to 8 at Isipathana College,
Colombo. The tournament is organised by the Golden Square International
Chess Association of Sri Lanka.
The events to be worked off are boys and girls under 8, 9, 10, 11 and
12 and the rounds will be conducted separately. Each team will include
five players without reserves.
The players can take part at this event representing their school or
club and the age will be considered before December 31, 2007. Valuable
trophies, prizes and medals are on offer for the winning teams of the
respective age groups.
Two teams from each age age group (boys and girls) will be selected
for the final which will be conducted in the near future.
The best player among those fifty players will be awarded a free air
ticket to Chennai, India to participate in a rating tournament, `It is a
very rare opportunity a junior chess player gets' said the tournament
organising committee. By conducting this nature of tournaments they
intend to popularise the game among school children.
National Major tourney
The Colombo and Galle regional sections of the National Major
tournament and the qualyfying tournament for the Women's National `B'
championships will be worked off this week-end and the Colombo section
rounds will commence today and will be continued till July 1 (Saturday)
at Lyceum International School, Nugegoda while Galle section matches
will begin tomorrow and will be conducted till July 2 at Mahinda
College, Galle. Those who wish to take part at this event should contact
the Tournament Secretary Sameera Gunasinghe on 0714-273979.
The top eight players from Colombo will qualify for the National `B'
championships (Men's and Women's) from Colombo along with the top six
men and women from Galle. The respective sections for Kandy and
Kurunegala began last week and will be concluded on Saturday.
The tournaments are being conducted by the Chess Federation of Sri
Lanka. |
