- Thursday, February 25, 2010, 19:00
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FRESH from winning the Aeroflot Open's top junior player plum, GM Wesley Barbasa So seeks an unprecedented third straight title when the 2010 “Battle of GMs" chess championships come off the wraps on March 15-22 in Dapitan City.
So, who dominated the first two editions, will set out as the prohibitive favorite anew in this prestigious tournament featuring the country’s brightest woodpushers.
The 16-year-old ...
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- Saturday, June 6, 2009, 20:00
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ALL roads to the 1st Palmdale Import and Export Co. Rapid Chess Tournament this coming Sunday, June 28, 9:00 am at the Ramon Magsaysay High School in Cubao Campus. International arbiter and National Master Erwin Carag will supervise the event which bankrolled by sportsman/ businessman Fernando Reyes, in close cooperation with FDR International, XT2000 Orange Oil and Diana Secret for anti aging treatment.
According to sportsman/ businessman Fernando Reyes, the tournament ...
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- Saturday, May 23, 2009, 19:23
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MANILA, PHILIPPINES---TWO Filipino chessers made the country's proud by winning first and second in just concluded the 11th Open International de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines International Open Chess Championship in France, recently.
The newly RP's 11th Grandmaster Joseph Sanchez also the former coach of child prodigy GM Mark Paragua who now lived in the south of France was actually leading until the last round salvage a draw against GM ...
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