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Philippines sweeps 11th Asean Age Group+ Senior-50 Chess Team Events; Dep-Ed bet bags 3 golds

Philippines sweeps 11th Asean Age Group+ Senior-50 Chess Team Events; Dep-Ed bet bags 3 golds

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Philippine won all three golds in the Standard chess team,Rapid chess team  and the Blitz chess team in the 11th Asean Age Group+ Senior-50 Chess Team Event held June 4-13,2010 at the Subic Bay Port,Philippines.Silver medals goes to Singapore in the Rapid and Blitz team and bronze medals to Vietnam. Vietnam won the silver in the Standard team event.IM Chan Peng Kong of Singapore won the Blitz individual gold,winning the bronze was Ernesto Baltazar of Dep-Ed ,Philippines.Baltazar,representing the Department of Education,combined with Rudy Ibanez and Edmundo Legaspi for the gold medals in the Standard event.The 53,year old Baltazar added two more golds in the Rapid and Blitz team events together with Joel Pineda of Olongapo city.

 

 

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15 year old IM Mark Paragua captured the title in the Ernie Baltazar Millenium  Open Chess tournament - side event of the P1,000.00 Millenium Chess Tournament.

Paragua finished with 6 wins and a draw to bag the top prize of P15,000 in the seven round Swiss system tournament. National Master Reggie Olay of Davao was solo second with 5.5 points. National Master Efren Bagamasbad finished in a tie with Winston Joseph Silva of Davao City for  3rd to 4th place with five points. Randy Segarra of De La Salle University finished with 4.5 points for solo fifth place. The Philippine Chess Federation award the title of National Master to Winston Silva and Randy Segarra for  finishing in the top 5 of the standings The tournament attracted a total of 25 players including 1 international master 8 national masters 10 candidate master and 1 national women master.Carlito Lavega of Bacolod City finished 6th in a tie with two others. Also with the same score were Catalino Sadorra of Cavite and Fernando Reantosa.