The young guns in chess have their guns a blazing as their cusp for greatness come to fore as they dominated the ninth edition of Aerofloat Open in Moscow, Russia which is one of the strongest chess tournament in the world.
Teenager Viet bet in GM Le Quang Liem bested a field that boasts of 73 [...]
Many-time Philippine Chess Olympiad member Rogelio “Banjo” Barcenilla Jr. recently become a full-pledged Grandmaster joining the growing elite list of Filipino Grandmasters.
The Iligan City born Barcenilla which is now based in Texas, USA, whipped GM Zviad to gain his third and final GM result in the just concluded Copper State International Chess Championship held in [...]
A dream collision between two of the hottest and fast-rising chess superstars in the planet between last year’s giant killer in World Cup GM Wesley So of the Philippines, and the tournament’s darkhorse Anish Giri of the Netherlands in the crucial eleventh round of the 72nd Corus Chess tournament at the De Moriaan Community Centre [...]
Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands – GM Wesley So posted two straight victories by whipping GM Dimitri Reinderman of the Netherlands in the 7th round in 2010 Corus Chess Open at the De Moriaan Commercial Center. Riding on the crest of his first win in the tournament against third seeded European Champion Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu in the [...]
GM Wesley So of the Philippines is finding it difficult to squeeze a full point against fancied chessers in the Group B section of 72nd Corus Chess Tournament at the Moriaan Community Center in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands. The Filipino chess aces extracted another draw at the expense of Indian Supergrandmaster Pentala Harikrishna, his fifth [...]
Last Goodbyes. Founding commissioner who coach the Philippine basketball team that took seventh place in the 15-nation Melbourne Olympic Tournament in 1956. The Philippine beat Thailand 55-44, Japan 76-61, France 65-58 and Chile 75-65, while losing its games to eventual gold medal winner USA 121-53, Uruguay 79-70, Chile 88-69 and Bulgaria 80-70. The USA team [...]
The much-awaited World Team Championships unfurled last January 3 to 14 in one of the world’s chess Mecca, that is, Turkey. Held every once in four years the tournament which began in 1965, gathers the elite chess playing countries n the world. Highlighting continental champions plus the top five nations in the recent Chess Olympiads and a team [...]
Wijk Aan Zee, Netherlands – Super grandmaster Wesley So of the Philippines open its bid in the 2010 Corus International Chess Championships at the de Moriaan Community Center Saturday when he faces top seed GM Arkadij Naiditsch of Germany in the first round.
The Nordic great hope, Magnus Carlsen, a ferocious wood pusher in the world chess circuit officially upended every chess player as he collared the Number 1 ranking in the January 2010 world chess rankings.
His mystifyng FDE rating of 2810 overshadowed that of the reigning world champion and two former world champions. His feat was spectacular [...]
