Holy Angels 1st Chess Tournament

LET THE GAMES BEGIN!!!!

Medal Positions being played for by the Holy Angels Chess Club.

Sponsored by Mr. Raul Avila.

"THANK YOU" Mr. Avila for supporting Holy Angels Chess Club.

School Supplies donated by The Citrus Products of Belize Ltd. donated to each member of Holy Angels Chess Team.No one left the tournament without a prize.
"IN CHESS THERE ARE NO LOSERS, ONLY LEARNERS"

THANK YOU CITRUS PRODUCTS OF BELIZE LTD.

For sending this message to our Chess Players"

Alex Polanco-Best Sportsmanship

Francis Acosta-Best Attitude

Nelsey Bonilla -Best Female

Thomas Polanco-Best Captain

from whose team came Holy Angels two new captains

Fitzroy Chan and Gilbert Parham

Kris Sanchez-1 st Place -"Holy Angels Chess Champion"

Fitzroy Chan-2 nd

Gilbert Parham -3 rd

Melvin Velasquez -4 th

THE HOLY ANGELS CHESS TEAM

The Top four Players of the Holy Angels Chess Team

1 st -Kris Sanchez(first from left)

2 nd -Fitzroy Chan(second from left)

3 rd- Gilbert Parham(second from right)

4 th -Melvin Velasquez(right)

Back row

Mr. Raul Avila (Sponsor)-middle

Brian Chun (Left)

These gentlemen will now take positions as "captains" of teams.Biggest upset of the tournament was done by new comer Fitzroy Chan who defected District Champion "Rick Pascascio".Gilbert Parham new blood to the game also has demonstrated in his play the qualification of ranking in captain category.Chris Sanchez, proved the Champion that he is being undefeated in the 5 rounds Swiss System used in the tournament.Chris is also the ranking second in Belize's 12 years old category.Melvin played consistently and carefully maintaining his present captain position .

"WELCOME NEW CAPTAINS"

"CONGRATULATION GUYS"

These players will now be representing Holy Angels School in upcoming chess tournaments.They will be representing Holy Angels at the upcoming "Chess Olympiad" to be held in Belmopan City.

The other ranking players :

5 th -Rick Pascascio

6 th- Thomas Polanco

7 th- Alex Polanco

8 th - Luis Tut

9 th- Jehiel Arnold

10 th - Julian Bol

11 th- Juan Lopez

12 th - Francis Acosta

13 th- Nelsy Bonilla

14 th- Norman Brooks

15 th -Kelvin Pascascio

16 th- Julian Lopez

Absent from tournament were:

Rolando Rosales

Marcos Cardoda

Kevin Girffithes

Rene Lopez

This tournament was made possible through the kind contribution of Mr. Raul Avila and the Citrus Products of Belize Ltd. Creating diffrences in the lives of our youth and encouraging them to be constructive citizens of Belize. "THANKS" must also be expressed to the principal of Holy Angels School Mr. Kenrick Francisco , who had embraced and supported the "Chess Club" as it was presented to him .Additionally , "THANKS" must be expressed to Mrs. Deborah Chun who was our Technician Tournament Director ,Mr. Emil Montero and Ms. Michelle Chun who were both our Tournament Floor Directors and the Stann Creek Chess Association for providing the technical support and equipment for a succesful tournament.

HOLY ANGELS WILL BE PREPARING FOR ITS UPCOMING DISTRICT PRIMARY SCHOOL TORNAMENT THIS 17th MAY 2008.

ALL DISTRICT PRIMARY SCHOOLS ARE INVITED.

SEE YOU THERE.

Contact us to register your School. Four representative from each schools are allowed.

E-Mail : holyangelschess@hotmail.com

The Club is made up of four teams

Saturday the 15th of March 2008 Holy Angels School will be having its first "School Chess Tournament" where the top four players will be "captains" of the teams and will be representing Holy Angels School in future School Tournaments.

The Holy Angels Club
takes this opportunity to say "THANK YOU" to Mr. Raul Avila who have generously sponsored the medals/awards and food for the chess players of Holy Angels School.

Additionally , "THANK YOU" must also be expressed to The Citrus Company of Belize Ltd. who have cotributed to each paritcipant of the tournament school equipment and juices , along with a sport cap sipper for each player to drink their favorite "Caribbean Pride Juices", the official drink of the "Holy Angels Chess Club".

Below the chess players discuss and plan their moves as they prepare to take on the Little Harbor School of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The Little Harbor School ventured into correspondence chess against the Holy Angels School and their club is made up of four teams also,as such four games are being played and moves are being emailed to each other. The Little Harbor coach Mr. Steve Schulten ensured that the relationship with his school and Belizean based schools like Holy Angels are established and what more than "corespondence chess".

TEAM _MV

TEAM _TP
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Present positions of games being played with Little Harbor of Portsmouth, New Hamshire.

TO VIEW GAMES BETWEEN
LITTLE HARBOR AND HOLY ANGELS:

SCROLL BELOW and apply the following steps:

1) Copy all of the pgn file of game to be viewed.

2) In "CHESS TOOLS" Click on pgn chess game viewer.

3)In "chess game viewer click on "open".

4)Paste pgn text in window on left bottom corner and select " ok".

5)Start viewing game play by play!!!

ENJOY!!!!