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[Title] => Top Chinese GM due today for RP Open
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Chinese Grandmaster Zhang Pengxiang and a slew of foreign challengers arrive today for the 2007 Philippine Open International Chess Championship starting tomorrow at the El Centro Convention Center of the Legenda Hotel in Subic.
Zhang, the top seed in this event with an ELO rating of 2657, tows with him compatriots GMs Wang Yue (2656), Ni Hua (2654), Wang Hao (2638), Zhang Zhong (2621), Zhao Jun (2554) and Li Shilong (2525) and International Masters Li Chao, Zhang Zhiyang and Xie Deshun, all raring to go against the Filipinos.
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[Title] => Chess brain drain: Mark joining exodus?
[Summary] => Mark Paragua, the country’s highest rated chess player but whose form is hounded by poor performances the last few months, could be the third Filipino grandmaster to seek greener pasture overseas.
The 23-year-old Paragua is reportedly set to leave for Singapore to join fellow grandmasters Bong Villamayor and Nelson Mariano II who are gainfully employed as chess instructors in the island state.
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[Title] => Doha Asiad vets gun for GM results
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International Masters Darwin Laylo and Ronald Dableo try to become the country’s two new grandmasters as they gun for the last of the three GM results in the 2007 Asian Zone 3.2a Championships slated Jan. 10-19 in Vietnam.
Laylo and Dableo, veterans of the 2006 Doha Asian Games, will head the RP bid in the Zonals along with GM Mark Paragua, youthful IM Wesley So, and IM Oliver Dimakiling, the top five placers in the recent zonal qualifier.
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[Title] => Paragua’s chess rating dips; Antonio, So gain
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After starting out the year with a bang, Grandmaster Mark Paragua will end the year on a downslide.
Paragua, who will turn 23 in March, continued to perform poorly as he dropped from 2587 last October to 2573 when the International Chess Federation (FIDE) releases its quarterly rating list on Monday.
It marked the third straight quarter that Paragua lost rating points after peaking to 2621 last April, the highest rating achieved by a Filipino.
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[Title] => Paragua to receive GM title — Campo
[Summary] => Mark Paragua is set to be conferred the Grandmaster title in the ongoing 76th FIDE Congress in Dresden, Germany, becoming the country’s youngest GM at 21 and ending a year-long wait for the country’s top-rated player.
Long-time international chess federation (FIDE) president Florencio Campomanes made the confirmation from Germany where the FIDE Qualification Commission (QC) recommended the approval of pending applications for GM titles, including that of Paragua, who also became the youngest Filipino master at 9.
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[Title] => Paragua gets first slot in chess team
[Summary] => The National Chess Federation of the Philippines (NCFP) issued a resolution Friday that guaranteed International Master Mark Callano Paragua a spot in the men’s team bound for this year’s Chess Olympiad in Majorca, Spain.
Paragua is unavailable to play in the National Championships slated Sept. 18-29 in Tagaytay City as it coincides with two grandmaster tournaments in Alushta Ukraine where the Filipino is committed to play.
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[Title] => No Olympiad stint for Paragua?
[Summary] => Mark Paragua might have secured his place in the history of Philippine chess by ruling the just-concluded Alushta GM Tournament in Ukraine but the country’s current top-rated player would be missing a stint in the prestigious chess Olympiad.
With two more big tournaments abroad on tap in the next three weeks, Paragua is likely to skip the National Chess Championships set to start Sept. 18 in Tagaytay, a tough round robin tournament among 18 players that will select the members of the national team in next month’s Olympiad in Calvia, Majorca.
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[Title] => Paragua nears grandmaster title
[Summary] => GM-candidate Mark Paragua held top seed GM Vladimir Malaniuk of Ukraine to a draw in the 12th round then trounced IM Nino Khurtsidze of Georgia in the next to obtain his second grandmaster’s norm in the International Chess Title Tournament Alushta Autumn 2004 in Alushta, Ukraine Sunday.
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BONG VILLAMAYOR AND NELSON MARIANO
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[Title] => Top Chinese GM due today for RP Open
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Chinese Grandmaster Zhang Pengxiang and a slew of foreign challengers arrive today for the 2007 Philippine Open International Chess Championship starting tomorrow at the El Centro Convention Center of the Legenda Hotel in Subic.
Zhang, the top seed in this event with an ELO rating of 2657, tows with him compatriots GMs Wang Yue (2656), Ni Hua (2654), Wang Hao (2638), Zhang Zhong (2621), Zhao Jun (2554) and Li Shilong (2525) and International Masters Li Chao, Zhang Zhiyang and Xie Deshun, all raring to go against the Filipinos.
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[Title] => Chess brain drain: Mark joining exodus?
[Summary] => Mark Paragua, the country’s highest rated chess player but whose form is hounded by poor performances the last few months, could be the third Filipino grandmaster to seek greener pasture overseas.
The 23-year-old Paragua is reportedly set to leave for Singapore to join fellow grandmasters Bong Villamayor and Nelson Mariano II who are gainfully employed as chess instructors in the island state.
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[Title] => Doha Asiad vets gun for GM results
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International Masters Darwin Laylo and Ronald Dableo try to become the country’s two new grandmasters as they gun for the last of the three GM results in the 2007 Asian Zone 3.2a Championships slated Jan. 10-19 in Vietnam.
Laylo and Dableo, veterans of the 2006 Doha Asian Games, will head the RP bid in the Zonals along with GM Mark Paragua, youthful IM Wesley So, and IM Oliver Dimakiling, the top five placers in the recent zonal qualifier.
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[Title] => Paragua’s chess rating dips; Antonio, So gain
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After starting out the year with a bang, Grandmaster Mark Paragua will end the year on a downslide.
Paragua, who will turn 23 in March, continued to perform poorly as he dropped from 2587 last October to 2573 when the International Chess Federation (FIDE) releases its quarterly rating list on Monday.
It marked the third straight quarter that Paragua lost rating points after peaking to 2621 last April, the highest rating achieved by a Filipino.
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[Title] => Paragua to receive GM title — Campo
[Summary] => Mark Paragua is set to be conferred the Grandmaster title in the ongoing 76th FIDE Congress in Dresden, Germany, becoming the country’s youngest GM at 21 and ending a year-long wait for the country’s top-rated player.
Long-time international chess federation (FIDE) president Florencio Campomanes made the confirmation from Germany where the FIDE Qualification Commission (QC) recommended the approval of pending applications for GM titles, including that of Paragua, who also became the youngest Filipino master at 9.
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[Title] => Paragua gets first slot in chess team
[Summary] => The National Chess Federation of the Philippines (NCFP) issued a resolution Friday that guaranteed International Master Mark Callano Paragua a spot in the men’s team bound for this year’s Chess Olympiad in Majorca, Spain.
Paragua is unavailable to play in the National Championships slated Sept. 18-29 in Tagaytay City as it coincides with two grandmaster tournaments in Alushta Ukraine where the Filipino is committed to play.
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[Title] => No Olympiad stint for Paragua?
[Summary] => Mark Paragua might have secured his place in the history of Philippine chess by ruling the just-concluded Alushta GM Tournament in Ukraine but the country’s current top-rated player would be missing a stint in the prestigious chess Olympiad.
With two more big tournaments abroad on tap in the next three weeks, Paragua is likely to skip the National Chess Championships set to start Sept. 18 in Tagaytay, a tough round robin tournament among 18 players that will select the members of the national team in next month’s Olympiad in Calvia, Majorca.
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[Summary] => GM-candidate Mark Paragua held top seed GM Vladimir Malaniuk of Ukraine to a draw in the 12th round then trounced IM Nino Khurtsidze of Georgia in the next to obtain his second grandmaster’s norm in the International Chess Title Tournament Alushta Autumn 2004 in Alushta, Ukraine Sunday.
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