Philippines Team 1 prevailed over Russia Team 2, 3-1, to barge into the top 10 for the first time after three rounds of the 1st FIDE Online Chess Olympiad for People with Disabilities Monday. World champion Sander Severino, Henry Lopez and Darry Bernardo downed Yuri Meshkov, Ruslan Draganov and...
Sander Severino Philippines Team 1 blanked the United States, 4-0, while PH Team 2 absorbed a painful 4-0 defeat at the hands of traditional powerhouse Russia 1 after two rounds of the 1st FIDE Online Chess Olympiad for People with Disabilities on Sunday. Checkmated in a 2-2 draw with Canada in the...
The Philippines’ second team headed by Menandro Redor hammered out a 4-0 thrashing of Mongolia while PH Team 1 led by reigning world champion Sander Severino drew with Canada, 2-2, in the first round of the FIDE Online Olympiad for People with Disabilities Saturday night. Redor, an Asian and...
Woman Grandmaster candidate Kylen Joy Mordido blew away the field in leading the march to the grand finals while International Master Daniel Quizon and Jerlyn Mae San Diego faced rough sailing in the local qualifying tournament for the FIDE Online World Cadets and Youth Rapid Chess Championships...
Reigning world chess champion for the differently-abled Sander Severino will spearhead the Philippine team when it plunges into action in the FIDE Online Olympiad for People with Disabilities on Nov. 20 to Dec. 3. Severino, 35, will man the top board for a team that also consists of Henry Lopez,...
The Philippines is looking to produce world-class chess trainers and coaches as it hosts the FIDE Trainers’ Online Seminar September 25 to 27 via Zoom platform. World-renowned trainers Grandmasters Dejan Bojkov of Bulgaria and Melikset Khachiyan of Armenia, International Masters Jesper Hall of...
Mark Paragua. (File Photo) United States-based Grandmasters Mark Paragua and Banjo Barcenilla showed why they are two of the top Filipino chessers at present after a 1-2 finish in the online GM Rosendo Balinas Cup over the weekend. Fresh from playing the top two boards for the Philippine team that...
Russia, India awarded as co-champions Grandmaster Wesley So and the United States settles for a semifinal finish in the FIDE Online Chess Olympiad over the weekend. (FIDE Photo) Grandmaster Wesley So came through with a solid performance against many-time Olympiad champion Russia but it wasn’t...
Grandmaster Wesley So, who now plays for the United States, is on the semifinals with his teammates in the FIDE Online Chess Olympiad. (MB File Photo) Philippine-born Wesley So pulled off a pair of impressive victories on top board as the United States clobbered Ukraine with a two-match sweep...
Wesley So (FIDE / File Photo) Grandmaster Wesley So and his United States team survived a shock seventh-round meltdown to rule Pool D of the top division and earn an outright spot to the quarterfinals of the FIDE Online Chess Olympiad Sunday. Playing Board One minus GMs Fabiano Caruana and Hikaru...
Mark Paragua The Philippines salvaged some measure of pride as it downed Turkmenistan 4.5-1.5 to finish fifth out of 10 teams in Pool A of Division II of the FIDE Online Chess Olympiad on Sunday. Grandmaster Mark Paragua spearheaded the ninth and final round triumph with a win over International...
WGM Janelle Mae Frayna (Photo from Janelle Frayna's Facebook account) The Philippines absorbed stinging defeats to Belgium, 3.5-2.5, and Australia, 4-2, to slip to joint fifth after six rounds of the FIDE Online Chess Olympiad Saturday. The Nationals were leading the Belgians in the fifth round,...
