Ok din naman basahan yun sa Wesley site, kaso yun iba talagang below the belt, walang modo eh. Di siguro naiintindihan ng site manager yun iba Tagalog.

Saka mga bata in today's generation di na masyado naipasa yun respeto sa matanda. Sa mga anak na lang natin ituro at ipamana.

May kirot din nga sa puso pati sa active chess players, ang tawag kay Eugene e lolo eh. Siyempre nung panahon na kalakasan ni Eugene may mga sentiments din siguro saka nung time nila Compomanes maybe feeling nila 'favored' player sila Eugene.

Anyway, na kay Pichay ang bola. Since politico siya, he has tendency to go with whats popular.

Medyo apprehensive lang ako baka mawala focus niya sa chess, naririnig ko name niya sa intl volleyball liga, and nasa kabilang side naman siya ng basketball dun sa BAP faction, vs SBP.

Sa pahina ni Wesley, masarap makibalita sa mga pausbong nating mga manlalaro. Sila Wesley, Haridas, Jan E, Datu, Cheradee, Ochoa, Villanueva atbp. Sila ang mga sisidlan ng galak at tuwa, magpapataba ng ating mga puso, sa mga daraang mga taon, kapag laho na ang giting sa laro ng mga katandaan, sa larangan ng ahedrez. Hindi na ako makikilahok pa duon sa mga pahinang iyon sa mga pananaw ko patungkol kay Eugene Torre. Dagdag pauban lang ang ehersisyong iyon. Sumulat lang ako duon kasi, meron ilan sa kanila na minaliit ang kakayanan, at sa mahinang banda, pati katauhan ni Eugene Torre. Yan mga kabayan, di ko pinapalampas. Kung minsan nga, nawawala din ako sa suklay ng hinahon. Pinoy din kasi ako sa "puso't diwa" (hiram kay Florante).

Ang nakatutauwa niyan ay ang malinaw nating paggalang sa selan ng paggamit natin sa kapareho, ngayung ang nagma-mayari nito ay lalabing-apat na taong gulang lamang, ilang tulog pa papatawid sa labing-lima, na si GM Wesley So. Ang mga may edad ay patuloy na ipinapakita na marunong rumespeto kahit kanino kapag ang pagdala sa sarili ay lapat at marangal, walang kesyo sa edad, katauhan, pulitika,o paniwala. Sa ibayo naman ang palait, at makasirang pag bale wala sa mga ipinakita at itinatag ng mga haligi ng chess natin, na si GM Eugene Torre. Baliktad na nga ang mundo!

Fellow kibitzers, let me pose this question - who among Carlsen,Karjakin and Radjabov will be near future world champ? Wesley would follow this group in 3 to 4 years' time, or longer kung magfulltime sa college.

Reason I raise this in Eugene's page is this is his unfinished business. Ive also checked the blogs/biography of these chess prodigies. The common hilites I saw were they learned to play chess at childhood, they won a world youth age group (Under-10,Under-12,Under-14) or Jr championships. Specially for the European Super GMs they enjoyed the backup support of having GMs as coach, or second.

Carlsen has Agdestein, even the Super GMs have seconds (malamang they pay, or share the prize money), Topalov has Cheparinov, Aronian has Sagissian etc...

Sa Russia, during their height they had the chess schools with the major ones named after their world champs - Botvinnik, I think Tal has one. I think in RP, there should be a Torre school, sana may sponsor.

As for the prodigies question, I would second the overwhelming consensus among the top tier SuperSGMs like Aronian, and company, which I've read from an Aronian interview at Bilbao, in Spain during their superSGM games.

It is Magnus Carlsen, no doubt, if there is one coming off their batch.

Radjabov's almost been there, but nowadays seem to have lost a little bit of that grim determination needed, say the spikes to hike, to win it all. His plight is similar to that with Leko's hitting a granite wall-like halt from a steady upsurge. Karjakin doesn't seem to have consistent numbers against the biggies, while Magnus' game flourishes and just grows leaps and bounds.

My bet is Magnus Carlsen. The way he has been scoring in the SuperGM circuit is just amazing.

Hi Spawn2, yes I also read Torre did some basic chess lessons at the First Asia Institute in Batangas. Saka sana yun GETCI would produce real chess masters.

321ycnay and spawn2, noted your bet is Magnus. Yes, I also read about the Bilbao report and the SuperGMs are grumbling 'why can't I beat this kid?'

For a day or 2, he was #1 in the live ratings, and the last rounds of the Bilbao masters defined who got #1 and thats Topalov.

timhortons pala ang sikat na donut store sa montreal.

ikumpara mo ang pinas kisa canada, mas malakas ang pinas na chess playing nation, although maraming immigrant na bagong salta sa montreal at malalakas mag laro at bata pa,katulad ni anton kovalyov na 16 years old palang at naging estudyante ni michael tal ng yon ay buhay pa.

magaling din na tournament host ang montreal sa chess at naging tradition na nito ang pag daos na malakas na tournament taon taon.

Going back to Eugene, I have two wishes for him:

1. He should ride on his latest success and continue to play in rated tournament so that he can breach 2600. Just imagine the impact of this, a 56 year old considered as "laos" by other people able to improve his rating and prove that old dogs can still learn new tricks.

2. Someone will finally finance the printing of his book which was a collaboration with Bobby "ChessPiece" Ang. Bobby mentioned to me that there is a chapter in the book entitled "The Making of a GM" written by Mr. Florencio Campones which is an excellent read.

I tried looking for a book written about Eugene during the seventies entitled " Beyond the 13th move" but no success.

I just browsed the Olympiad link in chessdom for the partial (I didnt see Aze,Kazakh,Bulgaria and France for example) list of teams.

I could say for Armenia,Georgia,China and US theyre sending their top GMs.

I should say the US has a very SOLID linetup this round. Well, with their 'new' recruits (Akobian and I think Onischuk?), theyre solid with Kamsy on #2 and Nakamura on #3,if that is how the player chronology is presented....

I think if I remembered right on their previous lineups, it was an immigrant GM Smirin manning the top board, but the US still fared well then.

China is fielding their 'FIRST 5', think its same TOP 5 who played in 'China vs Russia' series.

Ah ok kabayan, actually I just got back into the chess circles when I started to read up on Wesley's consecutive tournaments exploits, and then found the chessgames site and found it easy to register.

Thanks also zanshin for confirming that he's Pinoy.

si anton kovalyov still play under argentina kasi sabi ng tatay nya sa akin mahal ang bayad sa fide pag nag lipat ng bansa sa pag lalaro.

nakita ko si irina krush last tourneo de montreal, si pascal newyork base na yan doon na nakatira at nag tatrabaho.montreal is always proud na dito galing si pascal charbonneau.