Cepca anniversary chess on

AROUND a hundred wood pushers will vie in today’s Cebu Professionals and Executives Chess Association (CEPCA) anniversary tournament at SM City Cebu.

CEPCA’s Jun Olis said the top contenders for today’s nine-round Swiss system competition include Rommel Ganzon, Eden Diano, Anthony Makinano, Rogelio Enriquez and Carlos Moreno III.

They will be joined by some of the best junior wood pushers headed by Shell 20th Shell National Youth Active national champion Rhenzi Kyle Sevillano, Yves Fiel, Diego Claro, 20th Shell National Youth Active Chess Cebu-leg champion Felix Shaun Balbona and Lapu-Lapu City’s pride Alan Pason.

According to Olis, they want to duplicate the level of success they earned in the VMA Power Chess competition last September 28 at the Colonnade Mall, where around a hundred competitors also joined. This tournament will highlight CEPCA’s 23rd anniversary. Registration fee is pegged at P200 for the regular players and P100 for the kiddies and ladies players. /CORRESPONDENT DALE G. ROSAL