Malta Supreme one-day Berbice chess tournament on tomorrow

Oct 22, 2011 Sports

Banks DIH under its newly introduced MALTA SUPREME brand has thrown its solid support once again behind chess with another tournament, this time in Berbice tomorrow at the UG Tain Campus, Corentyne.
Registration begins at 9:30hrs at the venue and all male and female chess players from Berbice are invited to participate. The tournament consists of seven rounds with a junior and senior category. Registration fee is $500 each for Seniors and $300 each for Juniors.

Clayton McKenzie (left) presents the sponsorship to Shiv Nandalall while Mortimer Stewart (right) looks on

Banks DIH Brand Manager for non-alcoholic malts Clayton McKenzie today presented the sponsorship cheque to President of the Guyana Chess Federation Shiv Nandalall at the company’s Thirst Park complex.
Nandalall expressed gratitude to the company for supporting chess as the Federation continues to spread the noble pastime by way of competition and the distribution of chess material. Trophies and chess sets would be awarded to the first place Senior and Junior players and an additional 10 more sets would be distributed to other prizewinners.
Players would each have 20 minutes for each round to complete their game. Each round of the tournament is expected to last a maximum 40 minutes. The Federation would be providing chess clocks for the tournament and players with tournament size chess sets can bring those along. Interested chess players in Berbice can contact Steven Leung on 644-9721 for further information.