Totaneros meritorious positions of a runner and two fourth place finishes, and high praise for the organization
The XVI Regional Chess Championship Ages jointly organized by the Department of Sport, Totana Chess Club and Chess Federation of the Region of Murcia, which has developed in the Municipal Sports Pavilion "Manolo Ibáñez" on Sundays 7, 14 and March 21, ended last Sunday.
The organization, which has received many congratulations both verbally and in writing on blogs and forums that chess players often visit, he had many surprises for the participants and their families and companions.
Among others, from the Department of Sports has highlighted the personalized badges, decorations giant chess pieces, the three-day picnic for all participants, free sightseeing relatives (while the kids played) by the Holy and Aledo and delivery on the last day of a bag with a personalized photo, a souvenir T-shirt and other gifts.
The championship, which was visited by Mayor of Totana, José Martínez Andreo, had a total of 158 participants classified in the U-8, U-10, U-12, U 14, U-16, U-18 and veterans, both male and female.
The ratings are available on the website of the federation, www.farm.es.
The winners of each category will represent the region in Chess Championships in Spain by Age 2010 to be held in July in the city of Linares (Jaén).
Totanera participation has been 17 players who have made meritorious positions in the rankings due to lack of experience of most of them in these championships, which shows that there quarry from which, in the near future we will hear.
Besides the magnificent second place achieved by Raul Vera Cano at the U-16, are outstanding fourth place of Pedro Romero Moya in the Under-14 and David Cayuela Alejandro Tudela in Sub-10.
Juan Manuel García Vivancos was ninth in the U-12.
The awards ceremony was held on Sunday 21 March and was given by Councilman Sports Totana Jose Antonio Valverde Queen, the spokespersons of opposition groups and the President of the Chess Federation of Murcia Antonio Gallego Martínez .
In that delivers the Federation recognized the great efforts of the members of the chess club Totana, technicians of the Department as well as sports volunteers for three consecutive weekends were responsible for installing and removing the game scenario and as the organization was a success.
