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“High morale kaayo atong mga players sa Mindanao with Barbers’ assurance of his financial support. This is a great help for us to do better in our quest to bring honors to Mindanao,” said team owner in newly-recognized Arena Grandmaster Rey Urbiztondo.
The Silay, Negros Occidental-born Severino finished ahead of Grandmasters Darwin Laylo and Rogelio Antonio Jr. in the 500-man field to top the two-day Surigao Open Fiesta Online Chess Tournament 2021 concluded last Saturday.
“For me, tsamba lang kini nga achievement so, i-share nato ang blessings to our fellow chess players around the country,” said Urbiztondo, who was first conferred of the AIM title in 2020 by Fédération Internationale des Échecs (Fide) President Arkady Dvorkovich.
This, after the Philippine Team got disqualified from the ongoing World Olympiad online tournament after one of its players, a minor aged 13 years old, was allegedly caught cheating by using engine assistance.
The late Ian Nietes Lariba, fondly called Yanyan by her friends, was the Philippines’ first ever table tennis player to qualify in the Olympics.
“Politics is the dirtiest game in the world. It’s not the right place for us (boxers) that better off relax and enjoy what is left for us financially after a tedious struggle for years, sacrificing our lives and limbs due to poverty,” Barrientos emphatically said.
The six-point difference was salt to the wound for the Checkmaters who also yielded to Zambo Sultans by a close two points (9.5-11.5) during the All-Mindanao match-up in the imports-flavored 2nd Conference of the Professional Chess Association of the Philippines (PCAP) tournament.
The Surigao Checkmaters, who earlier crushed the Caraga selection, 44-12, and nipped Northern Mindanao, 30.5-29.5, will wrap up their series of chess matches today against the Zamboanga Sultans of Western Mindanao.
City sports chief Jaymar Rivera said that Paalam’s newfound fortune estimated to be over P20 million from cash rewards and pledges was significant in repairing the strained relationship of his parents and solidifying the poverty-stricken family.
The 53-year-old Sevillano blanked Mindanao’s top non-master Johnnel Balquin twice in blitz matches and in their rapid duel to power the Surigao Fianchetto Checkmates to a thrilling one-point victory over the Northern Mindanao team, 30.5-29.5 in their recent online duel on 15 boards.
“Tsamba lang tingali or dili lang gyod tingali kumpyansaan ang mga tigulang kay may asim pa,” the 58-year-old Urbiztondo said in jest.
“Three prominent boxers are on my list. But Rigondeaux is already finished. So Donaire will be next then the Japanese turtle Naoya Inoue will follow,” the flamboyant Casimero told the US press.