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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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In their letter to the NCFP through legal counsel Atty. Cris Aspiras Jr., a former national junior champion, IMs Ronald Dableo, Chito Garma and Darwin Laylo and NM Oliver Barbosa asked the chess body to "afford them their right to due process before they are meted the suspension."
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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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In their letter to the NCFP through legal counsel Atty. Cris Aspiras Jr., a former national junior champion, IMs Ronald Dableo, Chito Garma and Darwin Laylo and NM Oliver Barbosa asked the chess body to "afford them their right to due process before they are meted the suspension."
[DatePublished] => 2007-03-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) ) )
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