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MCC champions
Manila, Philippines – Ninth seed Richel Lomocso downed top seed Jaime Criste in the fifth and final round to win the February edition of Metropolitan Chess Club 1900 below standard chess tournament held over the weekend at ETON Cyberpod Corinthian Bldg.1 located in EDSA cor Ortigas Avenue. Lomocso of Pasay City stamped a perfect score of five points after five rounds of play and capped the title...
MCC 1900
Manila, Philippines – The Metropolitan Chess Club one-day event for 1900 below category reels off at 11 a.m. today. at ETON Cyberpod Corinthian Bldg.1 along EDSA corner Ortigas. Open to kiddies, juniors, beginners, unrated and rated players with ratings not over 1900, the five-round Swiss event will employ the 20 minutes time control in the first three rounds and 75 minutes in the last two...
MCC 1900 below listup on
Manila, Philippines – Richmond Obogne and Burlington Tiu lead the early entries in the Metropolitan Chess Club standard chess tournament (1900 below category) that reels off tomorrow at ETON Cyberpod Corinthian Bldg.1 located in EDSA corner Ortigas Avenue. Open to kiddies, juniors, beginners, unrated and rated players with ratings not over 1900, the five-round Swiss event will employ the 75...
Chess seminar
Manila, Philippines – The National Chess Federation of the Philippines, in coordination with the World Chess Federation (FIDE) is conducting a FIDE arbiter’s seminar on Feb. 14–16 at the Audio-Visual Room of the Philippine Sports Commission at Philsports Arena in Pasig City, Metro Manila. Registration starts at 10 am. The three-day course is open to all Filipino chess enthusiasts aspiring...
MCC meet
Manila, Philippines – The Metropolitan Chess Club standard chess tournament (1900 below category) kicks off on Feb. 18 at ETON Cyberpod Corinthian Bldg.1 located in Ortigas cor EDSA. Participants have two choices of schedules: the two-day event that uses the 75-min. time control in all the rounds and the one-day affair with 20 min time control in its first three matches and 75 minutes in the...
Milo checkmate
Manila, Philippines – The 2012 year-round Milo-sponsored Checkmate chess clinics will start its first batch of weekend classes at 10:30am today, February 4, at Eton Cyberpod Corinthian (Bldg. 1) located in Ortigas Ave. cor EDSA and on February 18 at Kinderville Learning Center (KLC) in Speaker Perez St., Retiro, Quezon City. The classes at Eton will be conducted during Saturdays and Sundays...
Paragua ‘simul’
Grandmaster Mark Paragua goes up against top Sta. Maria players in a rare simultaneous chess exhibition on Sunday at the Sta. Maria Church yard (Patio) in Sta. Maria, Bulacan. Organized by Sta. Maria Chess Club in close cooperation with Paragua Chess Academy, the one-day event aims to promote chess in the grassroots level coincide the celebration of Sta. Maria Town Fiesta 2012. GM Mark Paragua, Norben...
UST, La Salle pace chess
University of Santo Tomas wrested the men’s lead while defending champion De La Salle continued to pace the women’s side of UAAP Season 74 chess action held over the weekend at the Far Eastern University-Manila Mini-Theater. The Tigers beat the National University Bulldogs, 2.1-1.5, to post a front-running 11.5 points, while the Lady Archers routed the Lady Eagles of Ateneo, 3-1, to keep the...
Barbosa champ
Grandmaster Oliver Barbosa defeated International Master Shyam Nikil in the 11th and final round to complete a wire-to-wire victory in the 10th Parsvnath International Grandmasters ChessTournament Monday at Ludlow Castle Sports Complex, Civil Lines in New Delhi, India. Barbosa’s victory over his Indian foe earned him 9.5 points, the winner’s purse of two lakh rupees, the championship trophy and...
