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                    [Title] => Bagamasbad rules Asian srs chess
                    [Summary] => Filipino chess player Efren Bagamasbad believes age isn’t a hindrance to achieve one’s dream.
                    [DatePublished] => 2022-10-22 00:00:00
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                    [Title] => Emperado rules grand reunion chessfest
                    [Summary] => Top seed National Master (NM) Emmanuel Emperado lived up to his  own expectation as he ruled the Metropolitan Chess Club (MCC) Grand Reunion Standard Open Chess Tournament that concluded over the weekend at the Starmall EDSA Shaw in Mandaluyong City.
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                    [Title] => Barbosa, three other GMs pace La Union chess
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Grandmaster Oliver Barbosa downed Efren Arguelles in their Queen’s Indian defense game to lead three other GMs and seven others with two points in the seventh La Union Open Chess Championships at the Ortega gym in San Fernando City, La Union yesterday.

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Wesley So settled for a draw with fellow GM Merab Gagunashvili of Georgia, enabling a pair of Chinese GMs – Zhou Jianchao and Zhao Jun – to grab a share of the lead in the third round of the first Florencio Campomanes Memorial Cup Chess Championships at the Ninoy Aquino Stadium yesterday.

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World Chess Cup veteran Darwin Laylo defeated fellow GM Jayson Gonzales in the sixth round then drew with GM John Paul Gomez in the next to remain at the helm with two rounds left in the National Open Chess Championship at the Victory Centrall Mall in Caloocan City yesterday.

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Dresden Olympiad veteran grandmasters Jayson Gonzales and Darwin Laylo pulled off similar smashing victories over their respective rivals to forge a two-way tie for the lead after the fifth round of the Victory Central Mall National Open chess championship at the Victory Central Mall in Caloocan City.

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GM Wesley So defused the challenge of IM Ronald Dableo to post his second straight win in the fourth Prospero Pichay Cup ...

[DatePublished] => 2008-09-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 395491 [Title] => Chinese chessers sweep top 5 in RP Open [Summary] => SUBIC – Top seed Wang Yue drew with GM Zhao Jun then nipped two others in the tiebreak to capture the Philippine Open International Chess Championship crown as the Chinese dominated the event with a sweep of the top five places at the close of the $40,000 tournament late Thursday at the El Centro of the Legenda Hotel here.
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If ever there was a changing of the guard in Philippine chess, it was graphically demonstrated last night when teener Oliver Dimakiling pushed GM Eugene Torre to the limit and ousted the top seeded player right in the first round of the Chess Pambansa Millennium Grand Prix at the PNB Financial Center in Pasay.

The 18-year-old Dimakiling, needing to win in six minutes with the white pieces, relentlessly attacked Torre's queenside with his Two Knights Opening and clinched the 49-move win when the 48-year-old Torre squirmed in time trouble and lost via time forfeit. [DatePublished] => 2000-03-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096369 [AuthorName] => Joey Villar [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) ) )

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