Shell grand finals slated

NCR leg winners Marc Labog, Julius Gonzales and Jerome Aragones banner a big 48-player field bracing for a battle royale in the 2015 Shell National Youth Active Chess Championship national finals slated this weekend at SM Megamall in Mandaluyong City.

The best and the brightest after the three-month long, five-leg regional circuit sponsored by Shell for the 23rd year will try to outwit each other in the upcoming grand finals with so much at stake for the country’s current and future chess stars.

Labog, an Adamson University standout, topped the seniors division of the NCR leg and towed second placer McDominique Lagula of San Beda and National University’s Antonio Almodal to the national finals where they will slug it out for top honors, and prizes.