Cambodia to hold first ever Khmer Chess tournament
Chim
April 28, 2008
The Olympic Committee of Cambodia (OCC) and the Cambodian Chess
Association (CCA) will jointly hold the First Khmer Chess Tournament
from May 3 to 4 in order to standardize and highlight the national
game.
Cash prize for champion is 1,000 U.S. dollars, and those for the
second place and the third 700 U.S. dollars and 500 U.S. dollars, said
CCA chairman Ly Hout here on Sunday.
Other top 10 winners can respectively win 100 U.S. dollars as well as
trophies, he added.
Participating teams can be established on provincial or municipal
basis and each team should include no more than five members, two or
three of them chess players, he said.
Meanwhile, he raised 10,000 U.S. dollars to mobilize all the
Cambodians to find and submit historical relics that can tell the real
origin of the centuries-old sport.
Khmer Chess is a popular game among the Cambodians, but there had been
no national match for it the its rules not officially certified until
OCC and CCA got them done recently, said Ly Hout.
With these actions, OCC and CCA want to preserve and develop the
national gem and thus benefit the coming generation, he added.
Source: Xinhua