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                    [Title] => Chess to make strongest move for honors
                    [Summary] => It may not be the best but it sure is the strongest chess team ever assembled in recent years. 


Stronger than the 1992 Olympiad teams, tougher than the winning 1995 Asian Team Championships squad, and definitely a lot better than the crew which lost to Kazakhstan in their duel for the World Team Championship berth in 1997.
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GM-elect Rogelio Barcenilla, Jr., the two-time Asian Juniors champion who now boasts of a USCF rating of 2549, and IM Jayson Gonzales, who recently won a top-rated tournament in the East Coast, will join IMs Richard Bitoon, Enrique Paciencia and Petronio Roca and NM Rolly Martinez in the Philippine Chess Federation-organized team.
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                    [Title] => Chess to make strongest move for honors
                    [Summary] => It may not be the best but it sure is the strongest chess team ever assembled in recent years. 


Stronger than the 1992 Olympiad teams, tougher than the winning 1995 Asian Team Championships squad, and definitely a lot better than the crew which lost to Kazakhstan in their duel for the World Team Championship berth in 1997.
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GM-elect Rogelio Barcenilla, Jr., the two-time Asian Juniors champion who now boasts of a USCF rating of 2549, and IM Jayson Gonzales, who recently won a top-rated tournament in the East Coast, will join IMs Richard Bitoon, Enrique Paciencia and Petronio Roca and NM Rolly Martinez in the Philippine Chess Federation-organized team.
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