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                    [Title] => Paragua earns trip to world tilt
                    [Summary] => Grandmaster Mark Paragua advanced to the World Championship for the second straight year as he drew his last two games and finished tied for first with Indon GM Utut Adianto at the close of the Zone 3.3 (East Asia Zone) Championships at Stanford Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia yesterday.


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                    [Title] => Paragua rips Viet GM, seizes Zonal lead
                    [Summary] => Grandmaster MarK Paragua defended well with the black pieces and completed a stunning upset win over top seed GM Dao Thien Hai of Vietnam yesterday to grab the solo lead after five rounds of the Zone 3.3 (East Asia Zone) Championships at Stanford Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.


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                    [Title] => Chess finals reduced to  11-man cast
                    [Summary] => Six of the country’s top chessers, including GMs Eugene Torre and Bong Villamayor, pulled out of the National Open finals, reducing the aspirants for the national team competing in this year’s Southeast Asian Games to 11 players.


Villamayor opted to stay put in Singapore where he coaches its national team while Torre stood pat on his decision not to join the event that will select the members of the standard chess team seeing action in the biennial games slated Nov. 27-Dec. 5 here.


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                    [Title] => IM laughs off NCFP’s dubious move
                    [Summary] => International Master Chito Garma yesterday said he’d push through with his plan to boycott the National Open chess finals, muddled and chaotic as it seems, when it resumes on June 23 at the Ninoy Aquino Stadium.


The round-robin tournament, featuring the country’s top 16 players, is being held to determine the composition of the Philippine standard chess team to the 23rd SEA Games this November.


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                    [Title] => Door still open for Torre — GTK
                    [Summary] => The controversy hounding local chess took another twist yesterday when National Chess Federation of the Philippines president Go Teng Kok said Grandmaster Eugene Torre could still make it to the RP team to this year’s SEA Games.


And that’s even if Torre, Asia’s first grandmaster, pushes through with his plan to withdraw from the qualifying tournament.


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                    [Title] => Torre, six others pull out; NCFP option stays
                    [Summary] => Instead of a solution, the National Chess Federation of the Philippines yesterday faced more problems when seven players led by Grandmasters Eugene Torre and Bong Villamayor pulled out of the National Open chess finals which resumes today at the Ninoy Aquino Stadium. 


The 16-man tournament, which will determine the members of the Philippine SEA Games team in the standard event, was already on its third round when it was called off last Sunday due to differences between some players and NCFP officials. 


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                    [Title] => FIDE sets   probe on NCFP official
                    [Summary] => Newly-installed FIDE secretary-general Ignatius Leong and Zone 3.2a president Dang Tat Thang will file a report to the World Chess Federation regarding complaints against embattled National Chess Federation secretary-general Sammy Estimo.


But the two, who are on a short visit here, suggested that the NCFP under athletics chief Go Teng Kok will have to resolve the matter internally so as not to affect its preparations for the 23rd Southeast Asian Games slated Nov. 27-Dec. 5 in the country.


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                    [Title] => Antonio, Mariano to boycott chess finals?
                    [Summary] => Slighted over the decision to seed Mark Paragua to the Olympiad-bound national team, grandmasters Joey Antonio and Nelson Mariano II yesterday threatened to boycott the National Chess Championships slated this weekend in Tagaytay.


"I have nothing against Mark but if they want him to be seeded they should have basis for doing so," said Antonio. "I know that they want to put up a strong team, but I believe there are more deserving players than Mark."


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JOEY ANTONIO AND NELSON MARIANO

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Villamayor opted to stay put in Singapore where he coaches its national team while Torre stood pat on his decision not to join the event that will select the members of the standard chess team seeing action in the biennial games slated Nov. 27-Dec. 5 here.


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                    [Title] => IM laughs off NCFP’s dubious move
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                    [Title] => Torre, six others pull out; NCFP option stays
                    [Summary] => Instead of a solution, the National Chess Federation of the Philippines yesterday faced more problems when seven players led by Grandmasters Eugene Torre and Bong Villamayor pulled out of the National Open chess finals which resumes today at the Ninoy Aquino Stadium. 


The 16-man tournament, which will determine the members of the Philippine SEA Games team in the standard event, was already on its third round when it was called off last Sunday due to differences between some players and NCFP officials. 


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                    [Summary] => Slighted over the decision to seed Mark Paragua to the Olympiad-bound national team, grandmasters Joey Antonio and Nelson Mariano II yesterday threatened to boycott the National Chess Championships slated this weekend in Tagaytay.


"I have nothing against Mark but if they want him to be seeded they should have basis for doing so," said Antonio. "I know that they want to put up a strong team, but I believe there are more deserving players than Mark."


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