Femi Solaja
26 February 2008
Lagos — The second edition of South-west Zonal Chess Championship and training of national arbiters get underway from today at the Liberty Stadium, Ibadan with several participants from the zone in attendance.
The Chess Zonal coordinator and 1st Vice President of Nigeria Chess Federation (NCF) Mr. Lekan Adeyemi, disclosed yesterday that all states, chess clubs and schools in the country are eligible to participate in the programme that will end on Friday.
"We have been on the programme for over three months along with the Zonal Coordinator, Mr. Peter Nelson, who has been of immense assistance to the project. Same with the President of NCF, ACP Sani Mohammed and the whole process is designed to groom more technical officials and at the same time prepare chess players for several national and international tournaments coming up later in the year," he noted.
According to the programme made available to THISDAYSports, each state, club or institution is eligible to present six male and female players with a team captain while institutions with more entries are allowed to field as many as possible.
The tournament is expected to run simultaneously with the training of the national arbiters. He said that all travelling expenses is the responsibility of the participants while each participating team is expected to pay N5,000 while the same thing applies to participants for the arbiters' programme.
The Chess Zonal coordinator pointed out that the tournament will be in accordance with FIDE regulations and the rate of play will be one hour rapid and in the case of tie break for medal winners on each of the boards, it will be broken by play-off and it is expected to be explained during the technical meeting before the start of the event.
The maiden edition of the programme held two years ago at the Liberty Stadium, Ibadan but was unable to come up last year due to logistic reasons.
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