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by Marlon Bernardino
MANILA, Philippines—National Master Jasper Faeldonia led Romblon Chess Club to victory with a tournament-high of 87 points in the latest Colegas Weekly Rapid 32 Team  Battle participated in by 490 players worldwide, NM Faeldonia played a total of 26 games with a win rate of 81%, a berserk rate of 91%, and an overall performance rate of 2419.

NM Faeldonia was supported by teammates Carlito Faina Jr., AGM Joseph Galindo, Rilly Familara, and Joel Forcadas. The top 10 participating teams in this tournament were:
1st- Romblon Chess Club- Philippines
2nd- Philippine Blitz Arena- Philippines
3rd- Team Chess 73728 – Worldwide
4th- Xadrez Entre Amigos – Brazil
5th- نادي الشطرنج المغربي – Morocco
6th- Arab World Team – Saudi Arabia
7th- Lichess Swiss – Worldwide
8th- Echecs Maxipontain – Europe
9th- Dream Team – Russia
10th- Gujarat Lions – India

“Congratulations to RCC for defending the title for the 3rd consecutive time. Thanks to all who supported the team. Mabuhay ang mga Pilipinong manlalaro ng ajedrez,” said Engr. Ernie Fetisan Faeldonia

by Marlon Bernardino
MANILA, Philippines – Defending champion Laguna Heroes swept Caloocan City Loadmanna Knights, 3-0, in Armageddon play last Saturday evening, July 10, 2021.

Laguna Heroes and the Caloocan City Loadmanna Knights were tied 10.5 each after seven boards, but the trio of sub-import Ukrainian GM Kiril Shevchenko, GM John Paul Gomez and FM Austin Jacob Literatus saved the day via the Armageddon penalty shoot-out (3-0) beating  sub-import Malaysian IM Jimmy Liew, Paul Sanchez and IM Barlo Nadera to win their assignment in the Professional Chess Association of the Philippines dubbed as GM Wesley So Cup being held at chess.com platform.

The Heroes took the blitz boards, 5.5-1.5 behind Shevchenko, Literatus, Gomez, Kimuel Aaron Lorenzo and Arjie Bayangat and a draw by FM Jose Efren Bagamasbad.

Caloocan staged a comeback in rapid play with an 9-5 win that forged the deadlock, thanks to the heroic win of WNM Arvie Lozano, FM Nelson Villanueva and Sanchez and draws by IM Jan Emmanuel Garcia, Liew and AGM Glenn Lemen.

Duplicating its solid performance, Laguna continued their winning streak at the expense of Rizal Batch Towers, 11-10, in the second match.

“I am happy because we have won the match,” Dr. Fred Paez said, one of the four co-team owners of the Laguna Heroes together with Mr. David Nithyananthan of KALARO, Engr. Benjamin Dy of SDC Global Choice and Engr. Jonathan Mamaril of Oregon, USA.

The defending champion Laguna Heroes and Caloocan City Load Manna Knights tallied identical 26-7 win-loss records to share 3rd and 4th placers in the Northern division standing.

San Juan Predators bounced back with a 14-7 win over Isabela Knight Raiders to remain on top with 30-3 win-loss records.

Manila Indios Bravos, on the other hand shocked San Juan, 2-1,  in Armageddon play then routed Quezon City Simba’s Tribe, 17.5-3.5.

Manila remains solo second place with 29-4 win-loss records.

by Marlon Bernardino
MANILA, Philippines—National Master Christian Gian Karlo Tade-Arca of Panabo City, Davao del Norte and National Master Ivan Travis Cu of San Juan City defeated their respective last round assignments to share top honors in the 4th Annual National Chooks To Go Rapid Chess Championships Kiddies Boys division Saturday, July 10, 2021 at tornelo platform.

The 12-years-old Arca (photo above), who is also an online Arena Grandmaster, a Grade 6 GT Neptune student of Panabo Central Elementary School SPED Center in Panabo City, Davao del Norte toppled Al-Basher Buto of Cainta, Rizal in 34 moves of Caro-Kann defense

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The 12-year-old Cu, a Grade 7 student of Xavier School, San Juan City under the watch of coach IA Rolly Yutuc, on the other hand trounced Mark Noah Ventayen of Lingayen, Pangasinan in 72 moves of Sicilian Defense, Grandprix variation.

With the wins, Arca and Cu, both finished undefeated in seven games with 6.5 points apiece. They faced each other in the sixth and penultimate round and ended into a fighting draw in 61 moves of London System Opening.

Third to Fourth is Cyrus James Butiu Damiray of Tanza, Cavite and Keith Adriane Ilar of El Salvador, Misamis Oriental who notched 6 points each.

In the Kiddies Girls division, Franiel Magpily of Makati City made a quick draw with Ryien Bahita of Canlaon City, Negros Oriental in 17 moves of a Caro-Kann defense in the last round to romp home with the title.
Magpily tallied 6.5 points, half point ahead over Maria Kristine Lavandero of Cebu City who scored 6 points.

The event was organized by Rotary Club of Nuvali headed by Transforming President Sam Balboa and the Philippine Executive Chess Association led by it’s President Dr. Fred Paez with the support of BAVI President Ronald Daniel Mascarinas and sanctioned by the National Chess Federation of the Philippines.

 

 

The Asian Schools Online Chess Championships are a combined individual and team event. Individual results will be calculated by game points. Team results will be calculated by the total scores of the four (4) players of a team. Team members will not be paired against each other.

Download regulations Asian Schools Online Chess Championships 2021.

Download Reg.Form.Asian Schools Online 2021. Deadline for registration is 16th July 2021.

by Marlon Bernardino
MANILA, Philippines— Filipina Melizah Ruth Carreon (above left) beat Singaporean Siew Kai Xin (above right) in the GM Rosendo Carreon Balinas Jr. Chess Challenge dubbed as Bayanihan Chess Club Chess For A Cause, Goodwill match between Philippines versus Singapore Friday, July 9, 2021 at the lichess.com platform.

Melizah asserted her dominance over Siew, winning, 7-1, in the race-to-7, draws not counted, four minutes plus two second increment time control format in this chessfest, supported by US based frontliner Dr. Joe Balinas, Engr. Antonio “Uncle Paps” Balinas, Mr. Jimmy Reyes and PEZA Deputy Director General Sir Theo Panga.

“Luck was on my side until the end,” said Melizah, lady player of Cavite Spartans, who beat Siew, sub-import player of Quezon City Simba’s Tribe during their PCAP chess league encounter.

“I did my best but Melizah still emerged better,” said Siew, a 2-time World Chess Olympiad member of the Singapore National Chess Team.

“I look forward to play against Melizah in the future,” added Siew.

 

The Asian Chess Championship for Players with Disabilities starts today 9 July with 9 countries fielding 16 players in the Men’s and 14 players in the Women’s division. Above photo shows blind player Dashtseren Ganbat of Mongolia with his young son who is his Assistant.

Blind player Fatemeh Barghol of Iran with her assistant.

Visit chess-results.com for round by round pairings,.

Download the regulations Asian Chess Championship for Players with Disabilities Regs

See previous story in Asian Chess Championship for Players with Disabilities.

Asian Disabled Online Chess Championships – Open
Pairings/Results
Round 1 on 2021/07/09 at 3:00pm
Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.	Name	Rtg	No.
1	1	FM	SEVERINO Sander	2373	0		0	LOO Pin Xie	1593	9
2	10		IBRAIMOV Kubanychbek	1486	0		0	KAZEMIYAN ESKI Abolfazl	2144	2
3	3		LOPEZ Henry	2110	0		0	RAKHATBEKOV Tilegen	1372	11
4	12		SHAHRULIZAM Amirul Shahmie	1306	0		0	CHANGAEI Amin	2046	4
5	5		SARKAR Md. Ali Newaz	1900	0		0	ABDUL Ghaffar	1003	13
6	14		GANBAT Dashtseren	1002	0		0	NGUYEN Van Quan	1862	6
7	7		SARKAR Bappi	1772	0		0	JAMBALJAMTS Khurelbaatar	1001	15
8	16		NGUYEN Anh Tuan	1000	0		0	SUNDUI Sonom	1645	8

Asian Disabled Online Chess Championships – Women
Pairings/Results
Round 1 on 2021/07/09 at 3:00pm
Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.	Name	Rtg	No.
1	1	WIM	OSTRY Irina	2163	0		0	TRAN Thi Bich Thuy	1421	8
2	9		MARUFA AZAD Sukanna	1240	0		0	KHISHIGBAYAR Mijgee	1782	2
3	3		MENDOZA Cheyzer Crystal J.	1631	0		0	SITI Safura Jaafar	1199	10
4	11		NACITA Jean-Lee	1122	0		0	SAFAEI Maliheh	1552	4
5	5		DOAN Thu Huyen	1535	0		0	KUDAINAZAROVA Dariia	1002	12
6	13		LIM Yee Jin	1001	0		0	BARGHOL Fatemeh	1511	6
7	7		NYAMTEMUULEN Khaltar	1449	0		0	SHORMI Roy	1000	14

by Marlon Bernardino
MANILA, Philippines— Ted Ian Montoyo of Bacolod City scored 273 points in a 12-hour Chess Marathon organized by endicraft of Colegas de Kike, Madrid, Spain to lead the Espana Chess Club to 2nd place finish. The tournament was held at lichess. com last July 6 to 7, 2021 with a time control of 3 minutes and zero-increment.

Montoyo was supported by top 20 leader boards teammates Nicky Nikoy Olvina, Leo Mirana, Judemund Ramirez, NM Julius Sinangote, Gerald Lumberio, Clement Valledor, Rhenz Rhean Auza, Alex Amatonding, Louise Manuel Macalintal, Ronjay Opilas, Rodelio Lopez, Mark Anthony Carganilla, Joel Obogne, Eric Calacday, Eduardo Campos Jr., Roland Villa, Ramil Talab, Renato Mame, Vincent Brimbuela, and other 98 players who joined ECC-PH-INTL. team.

“Congrats ECC (Espana Chess Club) Team and thanks to all who supported the team,” said Espana Chess Club Manila head Engr. Ernie Fetisan Faeldonia (photo above).

The top 5 participating teams out of 191 teams are:
1st – 64 Kings Chess Club – Worldwide team
2nd- España Chess Club Phil. International- Philippines
3rd- Iloilo Friendly Chess Club – Philippines
4th- KBPL – Indonesia
5th- Gullion Chess – Argentina

 

Ranindu Dilshan Liyanage of Ananda College is leaving to Russia today to represent Sri Lanka at the FIDE World Cup 2021. Ranindu adds his name in golden letters in the Sri Lankan Chess history being the first player to participate in the strongest Chess Event in the World.

The FIDE World Cup is the event where the top 208 players in the world participate in the knock out basis in a period of 1 ½ months to find the best in the world. All the top Chess players in the world including the current World Chess Champion Magnus Carlson have confirmed their participation. The event starts with the Opening Ceremony to be held on 11^th of July 2021 at Sochi, Russia and the 1^st round starts on 12^th of July 2021.

According to the new qualification system of FIDE on rating strength, Sri Lanka got the opportunity to enter a player into the World Cup 2021. The Sri Lanka National Selection Committee decided to have a selection trial between the National Chess Champion, Ranindu Dilshan Liyanage and the Sri Lanka Top ranked Harshana Thilakarathne. But, Harshana withdrew due to some health reasons giving the opportunity to Ranindu.

Ranindu won the Sri Lanka National Chess Championship in October 2020 convincingly. Then he came back strongly to win the Sri Lanka Chess Gran Prix 2021

 

by Marlon Bernardino
MANILA, Philippines—Woman National Master (WNM) Kaye Lalaine Regidor of Santa Rosa City, Laguna, Woman National Master Jersey Marticio and Woman Candidate Master Alexandra Sydney Paez of Cabuyao City, Laguna lead the early entries in their respective divisions in the 4th annual Chooks-to-Go National Rapid Chess Championships Juniors and Kiddies (Boys and Girls) division slated July 10, 2021, 2pm Manila Time at Tornelo Platform.

The 12 year old Regidor, a Grade 6 student of Rizal Dila Elementary School Santa Rosa City, Laguna is the champion in the Under 12-Girls 2021 Hybrid  National Age Group Chess Championships Grandfinals. She tallied perfect 11 points.

The 14 years old Marticio, on the other hand, an Incoming Grade 9 student of Pulo National High School, Cabuyao City, Laguna won twice 2nd place in the 2021 Hybrid National Youth & School Chess Championships (Under 14 and Under 15 Girls).

The 17 year old Paez, an online Arena International Master, a Grade 12 student of Malayan College of Laguna is fresh from  a runner-up finish in the 2021 Hybrid National Youth & School Chess Championships (Under 18 – Girls) last June 22 to 29, 2021.

The National Chess Federation of the Philippines has conferred the Woman National Master and Woman Candidate Master Title to Regidor, Marticio and Paez respectively.

Other early entries for the kiddies category include Yanie Ayesha Estavillo, Ma. Sophia Achaoso, Jewelle Iris Anacio, Jeanne Marie Arcinue, Faith Argenal, Cecille Bagalanon and Ryien Bahita.

Early junior registrants are Alysah, Mickayla and Rohanisah Buto, Jelaine Adriano, Sofia Angelique Alcala, Chelsie Angeli Amir, Patricia Illeja Bernardo, Reycel Bodoso, Shaira Capinpin and Geraldine Mae Camarines.

“The event is the biggest national online chess event in the country. This is indeed a big help for the promotion of chess. I would like to really thank my good friend, BAVI President Ronald Daniel Mascarinas for annually sponsoring this event” according to Transforming President of the Rotary Club of Nuvali Sam Balboa.

“Exciting times ahead for Philippine chess. The proceeds of this event will go to the charity projects of the Rotary Club of Nuvali,” added online Arena Grandmaster Dr. Fred Paez.

The event is organized by the Rotary Club of Nuvali and Philippine Executive Chess Association, backed up by BAVI President Ronald Daniel Mascarinas and sanctioned by the National Chess Federation of the Philippines.

by Marlon Bernardino
MANILA, PHilippines—International Master Michael Concio Jr. of Dasmarinas City, Cavitewon the Marguel Soria Jr. Bullet Online Chess Celebration on Sunday, July 4, 2021 at lichess.org.

Concio beat Ryan Concepcion in the final round to tally 99 points to win the one-day event, using the 1 minute plus 1 second time control format, organized by Bayanihan Chess Club.

Concio, one of the top players of Dasmarinas Chess Academy put up by Cong. Elpidio “Pidi” Barzaga Jr. and national coach FIDE Master Roel Abelgas will also be representing the Philippines in the FIDE World Cup 2021 set from July 10 to August 6, 2021 in Sochi, Russia.

Kevin Arquero of Pasay City came second with 93 points followed by third placer FIDE Master David Elorta of Manila who totes 89 points.

Rounding up the top 10 were 4th: National Master Mark Jay Bacojo of Dasmarinas City, Cavite (75 pts.), 5th:  National Master Elwin Retanal of Cebu (74 pts.), 6th FIDE Master Roel Abelgas of Dasmarinas City,  Cavite (72 pts.),  7th: National Master Merben Roque of Cebu (68 pts.), 8th: Grandmaster Darwin Laylo of Dasmarinas City, Cavite (67 pts.), 9th: Arena Grandmaster Henry Roger Lopez of Panabo City of Davao del Norte(66 pts.) and 10th FIDE Master Sander Severino of Silay City, Negros Occidental (65 pts.).