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                    [Title] => Tolentino, Yap bag Shell chess crowns
                    [Summary] => Rustum Tolentino and Kim Steven Yap booked  identical 9.5 points in 12 games to top their respective brackets in the 2002 Shell National Youth Active Chess Championship over the weekend at SM Megamall in Mandaluyong City.


Tolentino of Cagayan de Oro City pocketed the gold medal plus P20,000 top purse in the 20-and-under bracket, while Yap of Cebu City earned the 14-and-below category’s gold and P10,000 prize money. Pilipinas Shell general manager for external affairs Bobby Kanapi handed the awards.
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National Master John Paul Gomez humbled defending champion Darwin Laylo in the final round yesterday then banked on better tiebreak points to win the Union Insurance Philippine junior chess championship at the Ever Gotesco Commonwealth in Quezon City.

The 13-year-old Gomez, a high school student from Biñan, Laguna and one of the country's youngest NMs, outplayed Laylo in a Sicilian Defense to prevail in 27 moves. [DatePublished] => 2000-05-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 108599 [Title] => PCF pursues GM's tax case [Summary] =>

The Philippine Chess Federation yesterday said it would exhaust all avenues to help Grandmaster Joey Antonio get tax relief for his earnings in the recently-held Chess Millennium Pambansa Grand Prix even as the Bureau of Internal Revenue denied reports it had already come out with an official ruling on the matter.

PCF chairman Arturo A. [DatePublished] => 2000-05-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1194422 [AuthorName] => by Gerry Carpio [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 108550 [Title] => Peace talks on [Summary] => chess row urged

Reynato Sarmiento, president of the sponsoring Real Bank, called for a settlement of the controversy that rocked the aftermath of the Chess Pambansa Millennium Grand Prix but ruled out talks that the sponsors pay the withholding tax assessed on the chessfest's prize money.

"I've read in the papers a lot of stories of people giving out their opinions. This is not right. [DatePublished] => 2000-04-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096369 [AuthorName] => Joey Villar [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 108531 [Title] => No chess scam, says PCF [Summary] =>

The Philippine Chess Federation yesterday said miscommunication with the Bureau of Internal Revenue resulted in a deduction of 10 percent, instead of the required 20 percent, on the winnings of players in the just-concluded Chess Pambansa Millennium Grand Prix, adding that it had never announced it was waiving the required final tax.

PCF chairman Arturo A. [DatePublished] => 2000-04-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096369 [AuthorName] => Joey Villar [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 103335 [Title] => Why Erap is always the object of arrows [Summary] =>

Have you noticed how so many stories in the front pages of newspapers are focused on President Estrada, and on him alone? Have you noticed, too, how so many of his Cabinet members are deafeningly silent on what they are doing, giving the public the impression that their departments do not exist? One glaring example of a government department that seems to be non-existent is the Department of Public Works and Highways. [DatePublished] => 2000-04-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1189692 [AuthorName] => Art Borjal [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 103296 [Title] => A gasoline scandal at the police stations [Summary] =>

More sensational events have bumped off the Philippine National Police gasoline scandal from the newspaper headlines, which is not at all good. For there are some fingers and other body parts, as it were, sticking out of shallow graves into which the controversy has been hastily consigned. [DatePublished] => 2000-03-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1189692 [AuthorName] => Art Borjal [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 103276 [Title] => Jawo's basketball shoes for an ailing boy who's homeward-bound [Summary] =>

L'affaire Laquian has an impact that is disturbing. Henceforth, the best and the brightest will think, not twice, but a hundred times, before saying yes to invitations for them to join the public service, especially for posts in the deepest corridors of power. With snakes and vampires and vultures lurking all over the power centers, what guarantee is there that the best and the brightest will survive? [DatePublished] => 2000-03-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1189692 [AuthorName] => Art Borjal [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 103219 [Title] => Father and son [Summary] =>

The people's tragedy is that many government agencies do not have a short-term vision. Yes, they are unable to see the benefits that can flow out of seemingly simple steps that government can do. [DatePublished] => 2000-03-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1189692 [AuthorName] => Art Borjal [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )

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                    [ArticleID] => 183933
                    [Title] => Tolentino, Yap bag Shell chess crowns
                    [Summary] => Rustum Tolentino and Kim Steven Yap booked  identical 9.5 points in 12 games to top their respective brackets in the 2002 Shell National Youth Active Chess Championship over the weekend at SM Megamall in Mandaluyong City.


Tolentino of Cagayan de Oro City pocketed the gold medal plus P20,000 top purse in the 20-and-under bracket, while Yap of Cebu City earned the 14-and-below category’s gold and P10,000 prize money. Pilipinas Shell general manager for external affairs Bobby Kanapi handed the awards.
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National Master John Paul Gomez humbled defending champion Darwin Laylo in the final round yesterday then banked on better tiebreak points to win the Union Insurance Philippine junior chess championship at the Ever Gotesco Commonwealth in Quezon City.

The 13-year-old Gomez, a high school student from Biñan, Laguna and one of the country's youngest NMs, outplayed Laylo in a Sicilian Defense to prevail in 27 moves. [DatePublished] => 2000-05-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 108599 [Title] => PCF pursues GM's tax case [Summary] =>

The Philippine Chess Federation yesterday said it would exhaust all avenues to help Grandmaster Joey Antonio get tax relief for his earnings in the recently-held Chess Millennium Pambansa Grand Prix even as the Bureau of Internal Revenue denied reports it had already come out with an official ruling on the matter.

PCF chairman Arturo A. [DatePublished] => 2000-05-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1194422 [AuthorName] => by Gerry Carpio [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 108550 [Title] => Peace talks on [Summary] => chess row urged

Reynato Sarmiento, president of the sponsoring Real Bank, called for a settlement of the controversy that rocked the aftermath of the Chess Pambansa Millennium Grand Prix but ruled out talks that the sponsors pay the withholding tax assessed on the chessfest's prize money.

"I've read in the papers a lot of stories of people giving out their opinions. This is not right. [DatePublished] => 2000-04-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096369 [AuthorName] => Joey Villar [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 108531 [Title] => No chess scam, says PCF [Summary] =>

The Philippine Chess Federation yesterday said miscommunication with the Bureau of Internal Revenue resulted in a deduction of 10 percent, instead of the required 20 percent, on the winnings of players in the just-concluded Chess Pambansa Millennium Grand Prix, adding that it had never announced it was waiving the required final tax.

PCF chairman Arturo A. [DatePublished] => 2000-04-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096369 [AuthorName] => Joey Villar [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 103335 [Title] => Why Erap is always the object of arrows [Summary] =>

Have you noticed how so many stories in the front pages of newspapers are focused on President Estrada, and on him alone? Have you noticed, too, how so many of his Cabinet members are deafeningly silent on what they are doing, giving the public the impression that their departments do not exist? One glaring example of a government department that seems to be non-existent is the Department of Public Works and Highways. [DatePublished] => 2000-04-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1189692 [AuthorName] => Art Borjal [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 103296 [Title] => A gasoline scandal at the police stations [Summary] =>

More sensational events have bumped off the Philippine National Police gasoline scandal from the newspaper headlines, which is not at all good. For there are some fingers and other body parts, as it were, sticking out of shallow graves into which the controversy has been hastily consigned. [DatePublished] => 2000-03-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1189692 [AuthorName] => Art Borjal [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 103276 [Title] => Jawo's basketball shoes for an ailing boy who's homeward-bound [Summary] =>

L'affaire Laquian has an impact that is disturbing. Henceforth, the best and the brightest will think, not twice, but a hundred times, before saying yes to invitations for them to join the public service, especially for posts in the deepest corridors of power. With snakes and vampires and vultures lurking all over the power centers, what guarantee is there that the best and the brightest will survive? [DatePublished] => 2000-03-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1189692 [AuthorName] => Art Borjal [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 103219 [Title] => Father and son [Summary] =>

The people's tragedy is that many government agencies do not have a short-term vision. Yes, they are unable to see the benefits that can flow out of seemingly simple steps that government can do. [DatePublished] => 2000-03-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1189692 [AuthorName] => Art Borjal [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )

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