Participating children watch the ceremonial moves of the 11th ASEAN Age Group Championships between FIDE General Secretary and ACC President Ignatius Leong (left) and Philippine Department of Education Assistant Secretary Atty. Emilio B. Abelita III. Looking on are, from left, Geoffrey Borg of Global Chess, NCFP Treasurer Red Dumuk, NCFP Secretary General Mayor Abrahaml Tolentino, NCFP Chairman/President Prospero A. Pichay Jr., Asian Chess Federation Deputy President Casto Abundo and NCFP Executive Director Wilfredo Abalos.
11th ASEAN+ Age Group Championships in Subic
Sunday, 06 June 2010 03:04
The 11th ASEAN+ Age Group Championships are being held 4-13 June 2010 in Subic Freeport, Philippines. Twelve age group tournaments among 266 players are being held for U-8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 20 Age-Groups for Girls and Open. In addition, Seniors (aged 50 and above) are competing for the title. See results and standings in chess-results.com.
The tournament is organized by the National Chess Federation of the Philippines (NCFP) for the ASEAN Chess Confederation (ACC). Seeing action are players from Vietnam, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Iran, Australia, Russia and Philippines.
Chess is booming in Asia. FIDE is doing a great job.
Depends on who is organising it!! You need to really know whether it is for the welfare of the players or the people who is running it…ask the local Filipino players who are housed at the mountains 30 minutes by bus away from the playing venue…to give you a real score of what is going on, where can you see an event hosted by a country where their players undergone a series of tough qualifying tournaments who are not staying in the official hotel?? and have to pay $US200.00 each for registration? Grand total of at least $US40,000 in fees + a lot of sponsors…
Foreign players are the only ones in the official hotel!
Filipinos are even 2nd class citizens in their countries…this is really bad…does the NCFP people know this??
This is madness, pure profitting…and guess who is the main man of this ASEAN Age group championships…IGNATIUS LEONG. Owner of IntchessAsia (Singapore chess school), President of Singapore Chess Federation, President of the ASEAN Chess Confederation AND FIDE Secretary General…who is running again for the FIDE Elections…A lot of conflict of interest here…