Yes, brain drain was first coined in the 70's during the reign of President Ferdinand Marcos but the exodus of Filipinos as workers to foreign shores has been happening decades before his presidency. Remember the Hawaii Planters from Ilocos?
Anyways, we picked this from our Forum at http://pinoychess.informe.com as posted by PinoyChess, the site's creator and Administrator:
"As per FIDE Rating list last October 2007, our country's IM Enrique Pacencia is now currently listed as part of the Singaporean Chess Federation.
Paciencia is Singapore's latest addition after acquiring the service of Chinese Super GM Zhang Zhong..."
Also, Chess Journalist Association of the Philippines or CJAP, has chosen GM Mark Paragua as Player of the Month for October. His top place performance in the Tanauan Open and Fischerandom Chess held in Batangas showed us a glimpse of the reason why he is the placed within the top 5 of our country.
Congratulations!
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