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Registration for the first Pichay and Davis Cup chess festival is ongoing with the event slated March 28 at the Blue Wave Mall along Macapagal Ave. in Pasay City.

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(First of 2 parts)
It was not by pure chance that Nelson Mariano II has achieved a mind-boggling result as a chess player over the weekend. It was an "accident" waiting to happen.
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Needing two points in the last two rounds to complete the required number of points for a GM norm, Mariano did just that, halving the point with eventual winner GM Nguyen Anh Dung of Vietnam in the morning match and then drawing with Myanmar GM Zaw Win Lay in the afternoon.
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The men’s team shared the lead with Indonesia, GM Eugene Torre the men’s individual top standing with Indonesian IM Susano Megaranto and WIM Beverly Mendoza the women’s individual No. 1 spot with Vietnamese top seed Nguyen Thi Thanh An and two others.
[DatePublished] => 2003-12-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096369 [AuthorName] => Joey Villar [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 230049 [Title] => Main wave of RP athletes off today [Summary] => HANOI — The main bulk of the Philippine delegation to the 22nd Southeast Asian Games here and in the seaport city of Ho Chih Minh is scheduled to arrive today.

A total of 385 officials and athletes from 14 sports will be coming in three separate flights —two via PAL, including a chartered plane, and one via Cathay Pacific.
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The POC chief hailed International Boxing Federation (IBF) super-bantamweight champion Manny Pacquiao and US Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) veteran Dorothy Delasin, a Fil-American, for victories scored over the weekend and hoped that it would rub on to the 449 athletes who will carry the RP flag in Vietnam.
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But compatriots Joey Antonio and Bong Villamayor were slowed down by losses after streaking to three straight victories, enabling super-GM Vladimir Epishin to seize the solo lead in the 9-round Swiss system tournament serving as part of the Pinoy chessers’ buildup for next month’s Southeast Asian Games in Vietnam.
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The first part of the double round-robin grand finals will be held from April 11-14, while the second part will resume on April 21-24 after the Holy Week break.
[DatePublished] => 2003-04-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) ) )
JOEY ANTONIO AND BONG VILLAMAYOR
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                    [Title] => Pichay-Davis Cup chess listup on
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Registration for the first Pichay and Davis Cup chess festival is ongoing with the event slated March 28 at the Blue Wave Mall along Macapagal Ave. in Pasay City.

[DatePublished] => 2010-03-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 254159 [Title] => Dream come true for newly minted Filipino grandmaster [Summary] =>
(First of 2 parts)
It was not by pure chance that Nelson Mariano II has achieved a mind-boggling result as a chess player over the weekend. It was an "accident" waiting to happen.
[DatePublished] => 2004-06-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 253506 [Title] => Mariano becomes RP’s 5th GM [Summary] => Ten years after he ruled the Asian Juniors in Malaysia and nine after he obtained his first GM norm in Singapore, Nelson Mariano II became the fifth Filipino grandmaster when he clinched the third and last part of the elusive GM title yesterday in the first ASEAN Chess Confederation GM Circuit in Bangkok.

Needing two points in the last two rounds to complete the required number of points for a GM norm, Mariano did just that, halving the point with eventual winner GM Nguyen Anh Dung of Vietnam in the morning match and then drawing with Myanmar GM Zaw Win Lay in the afternoon.
[DatePublished] => 2004-06-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 235068 [Title] => Wrong move, says Eugene [Summary] => Grandmaster Eugene Torre, whose proposed one-on-one with GM-candidate Mark Paragua sparked a controversy that led to the resignation of top GMs Joey Antonio and Bong Villamayor from the National Chess Federation of the Phils., yesterday twitted his fellow GMs and advised them "to study their position first before making the right move."
[DatePublished] => 2004-01-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 231197 [Title] => RP chess masters show way [Summary] => HO CHI MINH (Via Globe Telecom)–Filipino chess players, respected by their peers and foes alike the world over, continued to lead the pack in the 22nd SEAG Games standard chess competition after four rounds at the Van Don Hall here.

The men’s team shared the lead with Indonesia, GM Eugene Torre the men’s individual top standing with Indonesian IM Susano Megaranto and WIM Beverly Mendoza the women’s individual No. 1 spot with Vietnamese top seed Nguyen Thi Thanh An and two others.
[DatePublished] => 2003-12-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096369 [AuthorName] => Joey Villar [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 230049 [Title] => Main wave of RP athletes off today [Summary] => HANOI — The main bulk of the Philippine delegation to the 22nd Southeast Asian Games here and in the seaport city of Ho Chih Minh is scheduled to arrive today.

A total of 385 officials and athletes from 14 sports will be coming in three separate flights —two via PAL, including a chartered plane, and one via Cathay Pacific.
[DatePublished] => 2003-12-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 228489 [Title] => RP feats augur well for SEAG [Summary] => Philippine Olympic Commitee president Celso Dayrit yesterday said the string of success by Filipinos in the international sports arena–both professional and amateur–is an early sign of good things to come in the forthcoming Vietnam SEA Games.

The POC chief hailed International Boxing Federation (IBF) super-bantamweight champion Manny Pacquiao and US Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) veteran Dorothy Delasin, a Fil-American, for victories scored over the weekend and hoped that it would rub on to the 449 athletes who will carry the RP flag in Vietnam.
[DatePublished] => 2003-11-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804774 [AuthorName] => Abac Cordero [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 227614 [Title] => Torre catches Russian GM at helm [Summary] => Grandmaster Eugene Torre failed to exact revenge on Filipino chessers’ tormentor Vladimir Epishin but succeeded in gaining a share of the lead with a seventh round draw with the Russian super-GM in the 15 de Open van Leuven Open at the Zaal Ons Huis Hall in Leuven, Sweden Monday.
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But compatriots Joey Antonio and Bong Villamayor were slowed down by losses after streaking to three straight victories, enabling super-GM Vladimir Epishin to seize the solo lead in the 9-round Swiss system tournament serving as part of the Pinoy chessers’ buildup for next month’s Southeast Asian Games in Vietnam.
[DatePublished] => 2003-11-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 202300 [Title] => SEAG rapid chess elims up [Summary] => After a two-week break, the quest for the country’s representatives to the Vietnam Southeast Asian Games chess rapid event resumes with a two- part championship round starting today at the Social Hall of the Department of Interior and Local Government, eighth floor, A. Francisco Gold Condominium II, EDSA, Quezon City.

The first part of the double round-robin grand finals will be held from April 11-14, while the second part will resume on April 21-24 after the Holy Week break.
[DatePublished] => 2003-04-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) ) )
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