Torre, Gonzales on promoting chess in TESDA

TESDA (Technical Education and Skills Development Authority) employee at Taguig is in for a threat tomorrow, July 5 as two renown chess grandmasters in the country, Eugene Torre and Jayson Gonzales will be conducting a simultaneous exhibition match and seminar. I hope it won't end there. Just seminar and everything will be forgotten by and by. Hope TESDA head coordinators will take what GMs Torre and Gonzales is putting up for them. The program must be continuous. Your truly is also once involved in co-coordinating TESDA courses in my community and we're very familiar on how the planning and management skill plays a vital role to every TESDA employee and instructors.

GMs Eugene Torre and Jayson Gonzales will hold a chess simultaneous exhibition tomorrow, Monday, July 5 at the Main Lobby of Tesda Building, Service Road South Superhighway, Taguig.


According to kay Julford Abasolo, Event Coordinator of Tesda and NAPCA head Boyet Tardecilla, the two chess wizards will challenge the Tesda employee's problem solving abilities, critical and strategic thinking. After the chess simultaneous exhibition, Torre, Gonzales along with IM Yves Ranola will conduct chess seminar among employee's of Tesda led by team captain Carlos Villanueva. Deputy Director General Milagros Hernandez and Executive Director Milagros Hernandez are invited to do the ceremonial moves.

Meanwhile, Mindoro journo and tournament organizer Noli Sangil Cruz annouced the staging of 1 vs. 600: Pinoy Ironmind, Guinness World Record with Gonzales, two-time olympian member will attempt to break the world record's of Iranian GM Majoob Morteza set on July 10 to 11.

However, Cruz said in the press release he sent to this writer that the possible venue is the San Andres Gymnasium after the Ninoy Aquino Stadium in Vito Cruz, Manila charge the organizer Cruz and Roberto "Robbie" Pangilinan, media head of Diliman Preparatory School.

" Naniningil ang PSC ng P3,000 kada oras para sa airconditioning system ng Ninoy Aquino Stadium bukod pa sa karagdagang sahod sa 10 maintenance crews na itatalaga nila sa event," Cruz said in a press statement.

Gonzales needed to score at least 480 points to break the world's record of Morteza.MARLON BERNARDINO.