Chess in the Province

Bacoor Team, Vince Angelo Medina at the center.

Dasmarinas Team.

Hi to all of you!

I missed out on a lot of news and I guess I have to make it up by giving you a rundown of the recently held Cavite Inter- town Chess Team Tournament, at the event Center of SM Dasmarinas Cavite from September 12-14, 2007.

With the sponsorship of the Office of Youth and Sports Development of the Office of the Provincial Governor, with the cooperation of different municipalities and cities in the province and Cavite A-SPORTS, it was a successful 3 day event with 17 towns sending their team to try checkmate their way to bag the bragging rights to be the Cavite Kings for 2007.

Here is the round by round results:

September 12, 2007

Round 1:

Amadeo vs Trece = 0 - 4
Magallanes vs Bacoor = 0 - 4
Carmona vs Imus = 4 - 0
Indang vs Cavite City = .5 vs 3.5
Dasmarinas vs Maragondon = 3.5 vs .5
Tagaytay City vs Bailen = 3.5 vs .5
Mendez vs General Trias = 3 - 1
GMA vs Rosario = 4 - 0
Tanza (BYE)

Round 2:

Bacoor vs GMA = 0 - 4
Trece vs Carmona = 0 - 4
Cavite City vs Dasmarinas = .5 – 3.5
Mendez vs Tagaytay City = 3 - 1
General Trias vs Tanza = 1 – 3
Bailen vs Indang = 1 -3
Maragondon vs Amadeo = 1 - 3
Imus vs Magallanes = 4 - 0
Rosario (Bye)

September 13, 2007

Round 3

GMA vs Dasmarinas = .5 – 3.5
Carmona vs Mendez = 2.5 – 1.5
Tanza vs Trece = 3 - 1
Tagaytay vs Bacoor = 0 - 4
Imus vs Cavite City = 3 - 1
Indang vs Amadeo = 1 - 3
Rosario vs General Trias = 3 - 1
Maragondon vs Bailen = 4 – 0
Magallanes (Bye)

Round 4

Carmona vs GMA = 1 - 3
Dasmarinas vs Tanza = 3 - 1
Bacoor vs Mendez = 3 - 1
Trece Martirez vs Imus = 2.5 – 1.5
Amadeo vs Rosario = 1 - 3
Cavite City vs Maragondon = 1.5 – 2.5
Tagaytay vs Indang = 2 - 2
General Trias vs Magallanes = 2 - 2
Bailen (bye)

Round 5

GMA vs Trece = 4 - 0
Dasmarinas vs Bacoor = 3 - 1
Rosario vs Carmona = 2.5 – 1.5
Tanza vs Imus = 4 - 0
Mendez vs Maragondon = 2 - 2
Amadeo vs Tagaytay = 4 - 0
Magallanes vs Indang = 2 - 2
Bailen vs Cavite City = 0 - 4
General Trias (Bye)

September 14, 2007

Round 6

Tanza vs GMA =
Carmona vs Dasmarinas =
Bacoor vs Rosario =
Cavite City vs Mendez =
Maragondon vs Trece Martirez =
Imus vs Amadeo =
Indang vs General Trias =
Magallanes vs Bailen =
Tagaytay (Bye)

Round 7:

GMA vs Cavite City =
Trece Martirez vs Dasmarinas =
Bacoor vs Carmona =
Rosario vs Tanza =
Mendez vs Amadeo =
Maragondon vs Magallanes =
Bailen vs Imus =
General Trias vs Tagaytay =
Indang (bye)

Standings after 7 rounds:

1st GMA - 25

2 Dasmarinas - 20. 5
3 Bacoor – 17
4 Carmona – 15.5

5-7 Rosario, Tanza & Maragondon – 15

8-9 Mendez, Imus – 14.5

10-11 Cavite City, Amadeo – 13

12-13 Trece Martires, General Trias – 12.5

14 Indang – 12
15 Tagaytay – 9.5
16 Bailen – 7.5
17 Magallanes 6

And for our Individual Gold medal awards, we have:

Board 1: Herminigild C. Rafols (Mendez) = 6 points
Board 2: de Leon C. Marohom (Dasmarinas)= 6.5 points
Board 3: Guillermo Arugay (GMA) = 7 points
Board 4: Eduardo Porlage (GMA) = 6.5

My personal bet, Vince Angelo Medina, who resides and played for board 4 of Bacoor team had a dismal play but I believe this event added another training and learning opportunity for him. I was told that in one of his games, he was leading in the endgame with Q-2Ps against a lone K but got into time trouble and brought his enemy K into a stalemate position, Ouch! Yes, tears had to fall and I believe it’s only right that he does. After all, he’s only 10 years old and so many chances! He, I believe is one of RP’s young stars!

Oh, before I forget, the games were official arbitrated by a friend and a classmate of mine in the Chess Arbiters Association of the Philippines seminar, Mr. Boyet Malliam.

Congratulations! to all the people behind this successful s chess tournament. May you never get tired and lose interest in the sports development in our province.

And lastly, I‘d like to announce the founding of the Cavite Chess Federation! This was held right after the awarding ceremonies of the event. From Imus Chess Association INC, we have Mr. Asi Bagaipo as the founding president. May all your ideals be put into an effective and self-sustaining chess development program in the province.

Here’s the complete list:

President: Assi Bagaipo (Imus Chess)
Vice President: Johner Egenias (Dasmarinas)
Secretary: Ariel Panganiban (Amadeo)
Treasurer: Boyet Maliam (Dasmarinas)
Auditor: Manuel Yu (GMA)
Business Manager: Jamy delos Fado (Bacoor)
PRO: Erdie Saquilayan (General Trias)

Town Representatives:

Amadeo: Francis Calubayan
Bcoor: Ed Tunguia
Carmona: Michael Chua
Dasmarinas: Orly Pascual
General Trias: Arman Montoya
GMA: Nixon Curiosa
Imus: Bobby Barranda
Indang: Eladio Piones
Maragondon: Antonio Cobardo
Mendez: Dindo Rey Maraan
Tagaytay: Norbert Enougaso
Tanza: Ronnie Nicolas
Aguinaldo(Bailen): Carlos Binauhan

Yes! We now have a federation for our favorite game called chess. We’ll wait and see what’s next after this.

Meanwhile, the prestigious 2007 Asian Individual Chess Championship in Cebu is now going on. Grandmasters from other Asian countries have come and joined which gives our homegrown masters a tough time to land into the top ten spot to qualify for the World Championship in Siberia Russia by November.