As part of its continuing tradition to promote camaraderie and goodwill among customs officials, employees, brokers and other port stakeholders, the Bureau of Customs X-ray Operators Association, Inc. (BOCXOA), in cooperation with the Customs Grayknights Brotherhood, Inc. and the Bureau of Customs Chess Club, Inc., will sponsor a chess tournament from April 25 to May 20, 2011 which will be held at the MICP Law Division Office. The tournament will be its third since the organization started holding the annual affair in 2009.
BOCXOA President and BOCXOA Multi-Purpose Cooperative Chairman Renato Palgan said that the chess tournament is a regular sport fest of the association as part of its program in promoting the well-being among the customs personnel especially the ranks of customs x-ray operators.
“We choose the chess tournament from among other sports events simply because playing chess is like developing the image analysis skills of our x-ray inspectors wherein you must have a good grasp of mental images of shipments for you to detect any misdeclaration and anomaly inside the shipment, just like having a keen analysis of your opponent’s next moves to win a chess game. And in both cases, all your brain faculties must be functioning extremely well to become a winner in a chess game and a top caliber, world-class x-ray inspector on image analysis,” Palgan said on the holding of annual chess tournament.
He likewise invited all chess enthusiasts in the customs community to participate by registering at the POM X-ray Field Office or the MICP Law Division.
The BOCXOA is an association of technically-trained customs officials and personnel on how to properly operate the x-ray machines and they are duly recognized by the Department of Health, which is the regulatory agency in the use of linear accelerator source of radiation, while the Customs Grayknights Brotherhood, Inc. is a social organization of former cadets and graduates of the Philippine Military Academy who are working with the Bureau of Customs.
Officers of the sponsoring organizations of the upcoming 3rd BOCXOA Chess Tournament which will start on April 25, 2011 pose for a picture of posterity at the office of POM Field Officer Renato D. Palgan. Left to right: Bambi Purisima, publisher of the Manila Sun Newspaper; Julius Mates (PMA Class ’95), Secretary-General of the Customs Grayknights Brotherhood, Inc.; Renato Palgan (PMA Class ’88), President of the Bureau of Customs X-ray Operators Association, Inc. (BOCXOA) and the Customs Grayknights Brotherhood, Inc.; and Atty. Manuel Relorcasa, Chief of the MICP Law Division and the Chairman of the Customs Chess Club, Inc. The BOCXOA Chess Tournament, which is an annual sport event in the Bureau of Customs, participated in by chess enthusiasts among customs officers and personnel and other port stakeholders, is also supported by the Customs Chess Club and the Customs Grayknights Brotherhood, an organization of former cadets and alumni of the Philippine Military Academy who are working with the Bureau of Customs.
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