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| Sep-21-14 | | pinoymaster77: Kardz,
Mukhang wala sa WYCC.
Ang balita sa World Juniors merong makakalaro. |
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| Sep-21-14 | | pinoymaster77: Throw in the kitchen sink, pati sa bolang gagamitin kasama sa plano ng hosts Korean. Di pa sure ang Kazakhs to top Group B, emerging power din ang India. Bukas na dapat laban ng Gilas vs Group B topnotcher http://www.philstar.com/sports/2014... |
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| Sep-21-14 | | pinoymaster77: IM Hari Pascua was having a run in the Datu Arthur Open with 6/8 going into the final round, and having met 3 GMs from 3 diff Feds and TPR near 2600, but eventually lost in the final round to FM Le Tuan Minh. Me thinks with the rebuilding going on the practices (particularly training) being finetuned eh for the 2016 Olympiad eh ratain the Tromso team as part of the national training pool. Then maybe add 1 to 2 more slots, in case there's a new young GM who's ready or the likes of GM Rich Bitoon regain his form. A slot could also be allotted for the PNG champ and/or the Natl Jrs champ. The annual BOGM can just be re-named as the NCC / National Chess Championships, or National Open finals. |
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| Sep-21-14 | | Pulo y Gata: Let there be a regular Olympiad selection, for players to prove themselves each time and not sit on past laurels. Even the players who produced phi's best finishes were products of national selection. Maybe it's time to return to the old formula, and it's only fair if we want to develop the young ones. What's needed is a well-publicized schedule. That, and good compensation for the players. |
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| Sep-21-14 | | Pulo y Gata: One thing I hate hearing is one master complaining about how GM Torre has always been pre-selected. It's always good to retort: "Beat him in the selections." |
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| Sep-22-14 | | pinoymaster77: I think Marilin still plays tennis, if there's a good tennis court. Maybe tennis would also be on the upswing now that this lady 'heart throb' came into the limelight. May elite event pala dito featuring Sharapova, Murray and PHI player Huey. She just missed the Bench show 'Naked Truth' done just recently : http://www.philstar.com/sports/2014... |
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| Sep-22-14 | | pinoymaster77: PYG,
Under normal circumstances yes, have a qualifying tournament. However, dmi twists and turns in the recent Tromso Olympiad and based on the lessons learned, NCFP had in fact put in values/charecter criteria, and actully eto na path tinatahak nila. Siguro for the 2016 Olympiad eh ganun muna as the rebuilding takes some time. Even at this stage to be frank Im not seeing any other player who could join IM Paulo, even among the current players in their college years / 20s. |
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| Sep-22-14 | | Pulo y Gata: If NCFP doesn't start on the right foot now, will they ever? You preselect players again and more likely you will do it again in the future; they find excuses now, why shouldn't they in the future? NOW is the right time. The next Olympiad is still far away, the correct approach is to start the build up now. Then again, this has always been the problem with our chess executives. No long-term planning backed with executable projects and programs. Maybe it's the funds. But maybe it's not. |
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| Sep-22-14 | | Pulo y Gata: The young ones will rise to challenge <if> the challenge is there. Preselection disqualifies them outright, so I don't how it would help in the long run in trying to infuse new blood in the local chess scene. Again, it's a wonder to me why the bright chess minds could joy come up with viable and progressive programs to address the aging chess line up. |
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| Sep-22-14 | | Pulo y Gata: <could not come up> |
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| Sep-22-14 | | pinoymaster77: PYG,
Yup cannot rely on the current NCFP team to 'start it right'. Maybe if there's a viable,alternative team come 2016, then they can do the proper REBOOT. |
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| Sep-22-14 | | pinoymaster77: I've been remiss in checking out Bobby's Chesspiece articles the past weeks, I think after Glenda pa when wifi got disrupted. Anyway, remembered to check the site and following struck me. Maybe NCFP can revive those brilliancy and novelty prizes in the BOGM/NCC, NCC Semis, PNG and Natl Age Group with attractive amounts to promote research / preparation, and daring moves OTB From 'The Streak' article :
"We are talking about Fabiano Caruana’s seven-game winning streak in the strongest tournament in chess history. As recounted to you last Friday he beat Topalov in round 1, Maxime Vachier Lagrave in rd 2, then the world no. 1 (Magnus Carlsen) and no. 2 (Levon Aronian) in rds 3 and 4 then Nakamura in rd 5. In the second cycle he added Topalov and Vachier-Lagrave to his victim list before having the streak broken with a draw vs, Magnus Carlsen in round 8. Aside from the win streak the following game would probably have won the brilliancy prize if there were one. By the way, many years ago when the Philippine Chess Society was still active organizing tournaments there was usually a brilliancy prize and sometimes even a best theoretical novelty prize, and I think it is a good practice. Someone should revive it." |
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| Sep-22-14 | | pinoymaster77: From the Chesspiece article "Sinquefield Cup" :
REX SINQUEFIELD (born 1944) is a multi-billionaire retired financial executive who is a passionate chess player. Shortly after he retired he set up the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis (this is in Missouri) and started making chess history. The chess club is a three-storey building on a 550 sq.m. property which has classrooms on the ground floor with GM instructors and a full tournament area in the upper floor. Various international tournaments and USA championships have already been held here. This year they decided to really make an impact on world chess and organized the strongest international tournament in history -- a double round-robin event featuring the strongest line-up in history: #1 and World Champion Magnus Carlsen (2877); #2 Levon Aronian (2805); #3 Fabiano Caruana (2801); #5 Hikaru Nakamura (2787); #8 Veselin Topalov (2772); #9 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (2768). Average rating is 2801.6, making it the second category 23 event ever. The Zurich Chess Challenge 2014 was also advertised as category 23 but now, by a fraction in rounding off, it seems like it was only cat 22. Even if we accept the organizers’ claim then we should consider that Zurich is only a 5-rounder and nowhere near the media event it is here. And you want to know something else historical about this event? The 1991-1992 Reggie Emilia tournament was the strongest at that time, the first one to reach category 18. The competitors were Anand, Gelfand, Kasparov, Karpov, Ivanchuk, Khalifman, Polugaevsky, Salov, Gurevich and Beliavsky. Anand won that event with 6/9. Did you notice anything in the player roster? Except for Anand, everyone was from the former Soviet Socialist Republic -- they all spoke Russian! Some journalists were calling this the last championship of the USSR. Now in St. Louis we have the strongest tournament of all time and there is only one Russian speaker -- Aronian. The other players were from Norway, Italy, USA, Bulgaria and France. Times are really changing. And here is another thing historical about the event -- Caruana went on a monumental seven consecutive wins -- he defeated Topalov and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave twice and everybody else once plus one draw. In sequence, he beat Topalov in rd 1, Maxime Vachier Lagrave in rd 2, then the world no. 1 (Magnus Carlsen) and no. 2 (Levon Aronian) in rds 3 and 4 then Nakamura in rd 5. In the second cycle he added Topalov and Vachier-Lagrave to his victim list before having the streak broken with a draw vs Magnus Carlsen. |
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| Sep-22-14 | | pinoymaster77: India beat Kazakhstan to top Group B, and be Gilas' tough first opponent. 2 sure bronzes na thru wushu pero laban pa our 2 players sa Semis. Rowers Cordova and Ilas qualified to the finals by topping the repechage event in lightweight double sculls sa rowing http://www.philstar.com/sports/2014... |
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| Sep-23-14 | | pinoymaster77: Good article by the Dean on recap of Asiad history and mentioning the silver medal finish of our chess team in 2010.
Medals coming from wushu which is one of best run NSAs under Julian Camacho. Heard per interview of chess officials in DZSR they have their own building for training site, hired Chinese coaches before and for the Asiad preparation the athletes were in China for 2.5 months of intense training. Maybe in boxing and taekwondo if we get scoring breaks from the judges, can get in some medals. http://www.philstar.com/sports/2014... |
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| Sep-23-14 | | spawn2: Throwback Asian Games 2010
Philippine Chess Team (Silver)
Wesley So
Rogelio Antonio
John Paul Gomez
Darwin Laylo
Eugene Torre
Team Philippines beating India twice to secure the silver behind the heroics of the old and not so old warriors Torre and Antonio. |
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| Sep-24-14 | | spawn2: Hopefully, the two international events in the NCFP calendar scheduled this November will push through. Last chance to see our heroes play the game in 2014. PSC Chairman's Cup International
Nov 14-22-2014
Venue : To be announced
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PSC-POC International Open
Nov 23-30,2014
Venue : To be announced
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| Sep-24-14 | | epistle: At long last: a Filipino to play in the NBA in March 2015-- http://sports.yahoo.com/news/andray... |
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| Sep-24-14 | | pinoymaster77: spawn2,
Wala pala sa picture nuon sa 'chess elite' sila GMs Mac and Oli then. Was this the time Oli also tried it out in the US scene, and Mac eh sort of in hibernation? 'Bumalik' siguro sila in between since they had contributions in the 2012 Olympiad team. |
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| Sep-25-14 | | pinoymaster77: From United Phil Basketball / FB Groups. Iran and China nasa kabilang group : Group H: Qatar, South Korea, Philippines, Kazakhstan
September 26: Philippines vs Qatar, 530pm
September 27: Philippines vs Korea, 1pm
September 28: Philippines vs Kazakhstan 2pm
Top 2 teams each group will qualify to SF round.
All games live on TV5. |
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| Sep-25-14 | | pinoymaster77: From Hoop Nut on Asiad Day 6 action - mukhang di pa ganun ka astig ang China, 1 pt lang win over Taiwan na wala si Quincy Davis eh. Baka heavy minutes etong young center nila na si Zhelin : CHINA over TAIWAN, 59-58
China looked to be firmly in-charge after building a 47-35 lead in the third quarter, but the Taiwanese refused to serve the win on a silver platter and made a big rally in the final period. Behind the clutch shooting of Ke Chi-Hao and Lin Chih-Chieh, Taiwan rallied and threatened to pull the rug from under the Chinese, but Gong Luming’s wards held on to sweep Group C and advance to the next round. The dynamic duo of Wang Zhelin and Zhou Peng scored a total of 24 points to lead the Big Red Machine. China shot just 35% from the floor, but they compensated by outrebounding Taiwan, 45-39. The Taiwanese surely missed naturalized player Quincy Davis, who was ruled ineligible. They were paced by Tien Lei’s 10 markers and 3 triples. IRAN over PHILIPPINES, 68-63
Gilas Pilipinas seemed to be firmly in-control after erecting a 60-53 lead with 6 minutes to go, but Team Melli wouldn’t quit, capitalizing on the Pinoys’ numerous endgame miscues to mount a 15-3 windup and slip into the next round unbeaten. In contrast to their performance against India, the Filipinos had a slow start here, playing from behind most of the way until the final frame. Just like in their previous contest, however, coach Chot Reyes’s boys were shaky in the final minutes and allowed Iran to rally behind the great playmaking and shooting of star guard Mahdi Kamrani. Kamrani was one of three Iranians to score in double-figures. He dropped a dozen points, while Samad Nikkhah Bahrami had 23 markers. Hamed Haddadi was huffing and puffing late in the fourth, but he still tallied a double-double with 18 points, 15 rebounds, and 4 blocks. Gilas, meanwhile, was led by Paul Lee, LA Tenorio, and Marcus Douthit, who combined to score 31 markers. |
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| Sep-26-14 | | torrefan: No report on Qatar vs. Gilas? |
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| Sep-27-14 | | spawn2: Di ko type coaching style ni Kots Chot. Time and again he puts his players on the spot. When you manage people, basic ang practice na to "Praise in public, criticize in private". I dont remember Jawo singling out a particular person when team losses (baka lang senior moments na). Its always the team including himself ang kulang ang effort or spirit. Ibalik si Jawo sa Senado..este sa Team Pinas. |
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| Sep-27-14 | | spawn2: Sakit sa Puso ang aabutin ko sa Gilas. Better luck next time. |
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| Sep-27-14 | | torrefan: <spawn2: Di ko type coaching style ni Kots Chot. Time and again he puts his players on the spot. > They way Chot Reyes treated Douhit after the loss to Qatar was the way Filipino coaches <normally> treat foreign imports: like cattle. They are paid well (millions in pesos per month) but they are expected to produce points <every game> like machines and if they falter they are immediately replaced like disposable diapers. I read that in Rafe Bartholomew's book on Philippine basketball, "Pacific Rims." |
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