Checkmate! SAIT student builds world’s largest chess set by Crystal Schick, News Writer | March 19, 2013 | 12:04 am Many students are familiar with the Guinness Book of World Records, but Ken Taylor is one of the...
Guinness chess record for Cebu City
Cebu’s feat of holding biggest chess tourney enters Guinness record Cebu Daily News 6:47 am | Friday, November 9th, 2012 Continue the legacy.This is what Cebu City Sports Commission chairman Edward Hayco aims to do after Cebu’s record-breaking feat of...
Largest Chess Piece in the World Unveiled in Saint Louis
For more information, please contact:Mike WilmeringCommunications SpecialistChess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis For Immediate Release Image Attached – Caption: The competitors of the 2012 U.S. Championships stand in front of the world’s largest chess piece, which was...
Businessman holds record with chess-set collection
Businessman holds record with chess-set collectionISTANBUL – Doğan News Agency Turkish businessman Akın Gökyay’s collection of 412 chess sets is in the Guinness Book of Records. Part of the collection, which he has gathered from some 100 countries on...
Cebu mounts successful bid for Guinness record
City mounts successful bid for Guinness recordBy Dale G. RosalCebu Daily News8:04 am | Sunday, January 22nd, 2012 After months of frenzied preparations, the Cebu City Sports Commission (CCSC) under chairman Edward Hayco finally realized a dream that once...
Over 40,000 persons have, to date, registered!
Grand chess tourney registers thousandsBy PHOEBE JEN INDINOJanuary 14, 2012, 6:15pm CEBU CITY, Cebu, Philippines – Over 40,000 persons have, to date, registered in the most ambitious chess tournament festival in the country. To recall, the Cebu City Sports...
Guinness attempt reaches 40,000 players
Guinness attempt reaches 40,000 playersBy Rommel C. ManlosaSaturday, January 7, 2012 WITH only weeks left before the Grand Finale, the Cebu City Sports Commission (CCSC) and the Cebu Chess Association (CCA) has gathered more than 40,000 participants from the...
Cebu City a step away from breaking record
Cebu City a step away from breaking recordBy Dale RosalCebu Daily News8:54 am | Wednesday, January 4th, 2012 Cebu City is just a step away from breaking the Guinness record of Krasnoyarsk, Russia for the world’s largest chess tournament....
Real world politics played out on the chess board
Battle for world simul recordPublished: Thu, 2011-11-24 23:44 In a column earlier this month, Double Rooks bewailed the entry of “the politics of hate” into the unifying arena of chess. This depressing episode took place at the Corsican Chess...
SLC teen sets Guinnes World Record
Courtesy KUTV-2 East High School student Eliza McIntosh broke the Guinness World Record Saturday for the longest continuous wheelie in a wheelchair, going 12.45 miles in three hours and 51 minutes. Salt Lake City teen sets wheelchair wheelie record...