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One of the highlights for the Sinulog festival 2012 is the Cebu Chess Festival which aims to break the Guinness record for world's largest chess tournament (Jan. 21, 2012) at the Cebu City Sport Center.
The record-breaking attempt will almost be official as organizers have managed to come up with 4,000 players to compete in the grand finals. The tournament was formally launched last October 2011 in all public and private schools in Cebu City. It gathered around 50,000 participants during the school-wide eliminations. It is Krasnoyarsk in Russia who currently holds the Guinness record with 1,214 participants. Organizer had first targeted only 1,500 participants and did not realize the number would balloon up to more than 50,000 after launching an aggressive grass roots program that took three months of extensive chess workshops in over 150 public schools.
The Cebu Chess Festival will also include an open division for rated and non-rated wood pushers.
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