JEDDAH, 15 March — Community Chess Club (CCC) celebrated its fourth anniversary recently. The celebrations started with the unveiling of club emblem. It was followed by the presentation of awards to the first Amateur Round Robin step adder knockout finals Series One winners: Ramon Andrada of ABV Rock (champion), Raymond Manahan of Al Habib Trading (first runner-up) and Michael Sangalang of Naval Base (second runner-up).
The CCC wishes to thank the support of the sponsors since club inception: SkyFreight Forwarders, Jotun Paints, SG & SAFE Hotel, Cabalen, El Khereji Corp., Internet World Cafe and special thanks to Danny Tamba of SSS.
Community Chess Club past champions: SkyFreight Chess Tournament — Rey Calimlim. Cabalen Chess Problem Solving Contest — Anwar Panganting. CCC Speed Chess — Zulfikar Zali. Back to back Jotun Paints Active Chess (year 2000 and 2001) and Chessaton — Vladimir Pong Mandap. SG Invitational Chess Tournament and James Umali Farewell Tournament — Ric Amper. CCC First Amateur Chess — Ramon Andrada.
The CCC major tournament was free of registration and no entrance fees including free meals with entertainment plus trophies and prizes.
In line with the club objective of giving free chess tournament the organizer also extended its resources to other activities like scrabble, dart, angling, basketball and civic symposium. Apart from this endeavor the CCC have its own website communitychessclub.resourcez.com
The CCC founding members are comprised of Willy Lumboy, Glenn Orlina, Bong Marquez and Bert Porio.
