Samantila tops MCC tilt
MANILA, Philippines - Fourth seed Daryl Unix Samantila drew his fifth and final match with No. 2 Gino Divino Cabual to bag the January edition of MCC Kiddies standard chess tourney held over the weekend at ETON Cyberpod Corinthian in EDSA cor. Ortigas Avenue, Pasig City.
The 11-year-old Samantila of Adamson posted a total output of 4.5 points with four wins and one draw after five rounds of play to claim his first MCC kiddies title in this MCC monthly event. For his feat, Samantila took home the top prize of P2,000.
Cabual slid to a tie in 2nd-5th places along with top seed Juan Carlos Presente of San Jose Academy of Bulacan, Jose Carlo Castro and Jose Lorenzo Lat of Batangas City with 3.5 points each.
Rounding off the top ten winners were Obogne (6th); Robin Ignacio (7th); Joshua Tan (8th); Brent Lenard Alanan (9th); and Rogelio Endrane (10th). Adjudged best age-group scorers were: Samantila - best 12-U and Tan - best 10-U.
The next MCC standard events are: Feb. 12-13- kiddies 14-under; Feb. 19-20 - 1900 and below; Feb. 3 Thursday-only and Feb. 25 Friday-blitz tourney. For details call 826-8560 and 994-5199 or 0916-852-1069 and 0922-822-6319.
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