I received a comment from one of our readers about the low turnout of participants and the differing number of rounds being used in the National Age Group. Please read on:
Age groupers number of rounds to be played varies, ex. the 8-under girls will
play for 5 rounds, the 10under boys will play 6 rounds. We are actually looking
forward a 9-round event but usually its a 7-round Swiss system that they
applied. Maybe it now depends on the number of participants. Yes, only few were able to attend this years event and players from Manila I think will still make it to top. Accdg to Cong Pichayspeach, only top 2 players will be our representative to the Asean and World Chess Championship.
Someone in-the-know sent me an information that the 12-Under group has the most number of participants numbering to 34. Some age-groupers have 16 to 20 players only.
I don't see any problem, though, with the low number of participants. It's in the quality of the players, not in the quantity.
Probably, this "small" number of players are already the cream of the crop -- the future of Philippines chess.
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Low number of participants
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3 Comments:
we need more participants to make chess popular sports in the country. This is a complete set back! kung kelan pa naman papasok na ang chess in school sa bansa. Hoy gising NCFP !!!!
One reason why the low turnout in participants is the closeness of the event to the Palarong Pambamsa. We could have sent a player or two but he was busy preparing for the Palaro. He was to leave April 21 for Tacloban, the day the National Age group is to finish (?). Maybe we can join next time.
ang tamang dahilan ay nasa dulo ng mundo kasi ang venue, paano ung walang budget para dyan? talagang di makakapunta kaya paano nila masasabi na mapipili nila ang talagang magaling kung iilan lang sila ?
sana ibalik sa manila o kaya 1 sa luzon 1 sa visaya at 1 sa mindanao
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