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EUGENE TORRE AND JOEY ANTONIO
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[Title] => Barbosa leads Phl bid in PSC Cup
[Summary] => GM Oliver Barbosa Jr., the lone Filipino qualifier to the World Chess Cup, heads the local challenge in the Philippine Sports Commission Cup International Chess Championship which begins Jan. 14 at the Ninoy Aquino Stadium in Manila.
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[Title] => Paragua, Laylo, Gomez win Asian chess opener
[Summary] => Grandmasters Mark Paragua, Darwin Laylo and John Paul Gomez dominated their respective rivals but fancied Wesley So was held to a draw in the opener of the 11th Asian Continental Individual Chess Championships in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam over the weekend.
[DatePublished] => 2012-05-07 00:00:00
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[Title] => Gomez, Paragua pace Asian Zonals
[Summary] => GMs John Paul Gomez and Mark Paragua outplayed their rivals to seize the early lead while NM Rhobel Legaspi stunned Vietnamese GM Dao Thien Hai with a draw in the Asian Zonal Chess Championships which got under way yesterday at the Tagaytay International Convention Center in Tagaytay.
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[Title] => Top Chinese GM due today for RP Open
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Chinese Grandmaster Zhang Pengxiang and a slew of foreign challengers arrive today for the 2007 Philippine Open International Chess Championship starting tomorrow at the El Centro Convention Center of the Legenda Hotel in Subic.
Zhang, the top seed in this event with an ELO rating of 2657, tows with him compatriots GMs Wang Yue (2656), Ni Hua (2654), Wang Hao (2638), Zhang Zhong (2621), Zhao Jun (2554) and Li Shilong (2525) and International Masters Li Chao, Zhang Zhiyang and Xie Deshun, all raring to go against the Filipinos.
[DatePublished] => 2007-04-10 00:00:00
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[Title] => Sacked Chessers to appeal suspension
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Chess players charged with game-fixing yesterday appealed to the National Chess Federation of the Philippines to reconsider its decision suspending them for a year or six months for their involvement in the scam.
Chito Garma, an Olympiad veteran and one of those suspended, said he was disappointed with the NCFP verdict and said he would appeal the case.
"I will definitely appeal it," Garma told The STAR in Filipino.
[DatePublished] => 2007-03-02 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Joey Villar
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[Title] => Chess: Best for RP women, woes for men
[Summary] => Relegated to the background in countless Chess Olympiads, the Philippine women’s squad finished way ahead of its counterpart this time, finishing 26th despite a final round setback to Slovenia Sunday.
While the GM Mark Paragua-led men’s team wallowed in 44th place, its worst in years, the RP ladies of Sheerie Joy Lomibao, Catherine Perena, Sherily Cua and Beverly Mendoza gave the country something to be proud of with a remarkable performance against the best of the lot.
[DatePublished] => 2006-06-06 00:00:00
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[Title] => RP women spank Estonia
[Summary] => The Philippines’ women’s squad pulled off a stirring 2.5-0.5 victory over 34th-ranked Estonia to gain a share of 14th place even as the RP men’s team got stalled by a draw by Switzerland and remained in joint 33rd in the penultimate round of the World Chess Olympiad in Turin, Italy Saturday.
Catherine Pereña and Beverly Mendoza beat Monika Tsiganova and Valeria Gansvind, respectively, while Sherily Cua halved the point with Victoria Bashkite to complete the surprising victory for the 60th-ranked Filipina chessers.
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[Title] => Torre, Antonio force draw with Romania
[Summary] => GMs Eugene Torre and Joey Antonio, taking the cudgels for an embattled Philippine team, trounced their respective rivals to salvage a 2-2 draw for the RP squad against Romania as top board player GM Mark Paragua suffered another setback in the ninth round of the World Chess Olympiad in Turin, Italy Tuesday.
Torre, the many-time spearhead of the RP team in the biennial event, came out smoking and showed his deep understanding of the Trompovsky Opening to beat GM Andrei Istratescu in 39 moves.
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[Title] => RP draws Colombia on 4 boards
[Summary] => The Philippines’ men’s squad failed to re-assert its "mastery" over Colombia, settling for a 2-2 standoff and falling farther down the standings even as its women counterparts got ambushed by a talented Kazakhstan side in the fourth round of the World Chess Olympiad at the Olympic Village in Turin, Italy Wednesday.
[DatePublished] => 2006-05-26 00:00:00
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[Title] => So, 12, youngest RP chess Olympian
[Summary] => Wesley So started to play chess when he was six-year-old. Six years later, he became the youngest Filipino ever to make it to the Olympiad squad.
So, a 12-year-old FIDE Master, scored 3.5 points in five games to join seeded GMs Mark Paragua, Eugene Torre and Joey Antonio and fellow qualifiers Darwin Laylo and FM Oliver Dimakiling in the squad bound for the World Chess Olympiad slated May 19-June 5 in Turin, Italy.
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January 9, 2013 - 12:00am
