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Bisdak chessers shineas Para team delivers
The team’s scoring machine Lennon Hart Salgados from Cagayan de Oro, who missed Wednesday’s double-header, might resume his productive duty on board 2.
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Paralympic ‘bisdak’ chessers in limelight tonight
Powered by Jerlyn Mae San Diego, Fide Master Roel Abelgas, and reigning IPCA world champion Sander Severino of Silay City in Negros province, the Para woodpushers will take on heavyweights Pasig and Laguna when PCAP’s double-header resumes tonight at 7:30 pm.
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Help is on the way for ailing chess master
Quick for a response, fellow chess senior citizen International Master Domingo Ramos of Manila has sponsored an online chess tourney on Saturday, October 16 of which proceeds will go to Caturla’s medication. The “Event for a Cause” is open to all Filipino chess players via lichess.org with National Arbiter Dioniver Medrano (09213201752) as the contact person.
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Mindanao chessers remain scoreless
Played over the chess.com platform yesterday, the online team tourney saw the Checkmaters going down against the National Juniors representing Pampanga, 9-12 despite the perfect showing off their youthful vanguards on the top boards.
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Mindanao chessers vsPCAP top guns tonight
The Checkmaters, Mindanao’s lone official entry this conference in the country’s first-ever professional chess league, clash with 1st Conference champion Laguna at 7:30 pm, tonight followed by another uphill bout with Northern division top notcher San Juan.
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Mindanao’s young chess stars show class in top board tussles
But their resiliency was not enough as the Checkmaters ― Mindanao’s lone official team entry in the Professional Chess Association of the Philippines (PCAP) 3rd Conference ― fell short against tournament heavyweights Manila and Pasig on Wednesday’s opening of the foreign-laced second round skirmishes via online chess.com platform.
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PCAP update:Mindanao chessers vs Manila, Pasig tonight
Victorious in their last three outings, Mindanao’s Surigao Fianchetto Checkmaters will be oozing with confidence and in fighting form, entering the second phase rivalry of the Professional Chess Association of the Philippines (PCAP) 3rd Conference starting tonight (7:30 pm) via chess.com.
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Mindanao chess masters to rally tonight
National Masters Jonathan Tan of Davao and Joey Florendo of Zamboanga will try to push Mindanao’s cause in tonight’s resumption of the Professional Chess Association of the Philippines (PCAP) Tag Team Online Tournament at 6 pm via chess.com.
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Online chess boom during the pandemic
The Netflix movie shown during the pandemic, The Queen’s Gambit, with 62 million household viewers on its first month alone, plus several awards it received, contributed much to the growth of online chess comparable to the 1972 world championship match won by American Bobby Fischer over Russian rival Boris Spassky during the West and East’s cold war.
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Oro NM Mercado shines in PCAP tilt
“We’re actually discouraged after losing to Cagayan earlier (10-11) maskin kulang wala ilang senior player sa board 4. But we chose to give it another try and focus in our last round fight,” said Mercado, who was undefeated against Cagayan in both the blitz and rapid duels and yielded just a draw opposite Cavite’s team skipper NM Almario Marlon Bernardino Jr.
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Surigao chessers aim for top-3 tonight
Bringing the name of the Congressman Robert Barbers-backed Surigao Fianchetto Checkmates, Mindanao’s lone official entry in the country’s first-ever professional chess league battles the dangerous Camarines and the winless Cebu (0-8) in the outset of the elimination round online matches starting at 7:30 pm tonight via lichess.org.
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Oro’s Canino get team silver in Asian chess tourney
The 13-year-old Canino, who already contributed at least 15 golds to the country’s cause from the international chess level, did not win the individual gold this time around.
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