Africa-Press – Cape verde. Clube Sportivo Mindelense won the 2nd Edition Chess Tournament in honor of Gabriel Borges, which ended yesterday afternoon in São Vicente. The second and third places went to Grémio Desportivo Amarante, the organizing club, with team B and A, respectively. Grémio Desportivo Amarante and Associação de Chess de São Vicente hope to attract young people and women to the tournament in the next edition, and are working to integrate and raise awareness among schools to make this possible. The only female presence was in the winning club.
Yesterday, in São Vicente, the 2nd Edition Chess Tournament in honor of Gabriel Borges, who was the eighth president of Grémio Desportivo do Amarante and an activist, social cultural and sportsman, came to an end.
The tournament organized by Grémio Desportivo Amarante and the family of the deceased had the participation of five teams, including a youth team from the Salesiana school.
Clube Sportivo Mindelense ended up winning the most points and winning the competition, followed by Grémio Desportivo Amarante, with team B and A, who won, respectively, second and third place. The league table was completed with fourth place awarded to Clube Desportivo Falcões do Norte and fifth to Escola Salesiana de Artes e Ofícios.
Greater integration of young people
In the end, heard by A NAÇÃO online, Yuran Miranda, referee and president of the São Vicente Chess Association, congratulated the organization, stating that the tournament “went very well” and applauded the fact that they invited the school to participate in this second edition. Salesiana, contributing to the greater integration of young people in the modality.
Miranda said that it was “rewarding” to see the interaction between generations, between the youngest and most experienced in the sport, and praised the organization’s capacity for initiative.
“This tournament makes a very relevant contribution to chess in São Vicente, because it is a club, and the family of the honoree, who organize a tournament, and who do not wait for the São Vicente Chess Association or the Federation to organize it” , highlighted.
This person in charge believes that it is possible to attract more young people to the modality and that the basis of work and awareness of schools is good. In this sense, he stressed that the São Vicente Chess Association is working in this direction, to “launch” chess in schools and that this tournament, with the inclusion of the Salesiana school, ended up serving as a “seed” that can bear fruit.
Attract more women to the sport
Likewise, he argues that it is necessary to work to attract more women to the sport, if we consider that the only female presence was at Clube Sportivo Mindelense, with only one player.
“In Chess, in São Vicente, female participation is still very low”, he lamented.
That’s why he noticed that the Association he directs is also working on the greater inclusion of female athletes in the modality.
“I have noticed that in Sal there are more women playing chess who come from schools and we are following the same model”, he stressed.
Who was Gabriel Borges
Gabriel Borges, a unique and much loved figure on the island of São Vicente, was a man of sport and culture, an activist. He was even linked to the theater, before independence, in the 50s, when Grémio Desportivo do Amarante itself took the theater to the stage of Éden Park
Born on March 18, 1924, having died in 2017, aged 93, Gabriel Borges was the 8th President of Grémio Desportivo Amarante, a club he helped found with Beto Fernandes, Evandro de Matos, among others. Having even been together with Evandro de Matos, they were the faces of the team that led the so-called modernization phase of Amarante today.
Remember that Grémio Desportivo Amarante was founded on June 2, 1936, currently comprising the modalities of Football, Chess and Handball.
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