Stalled by a round 5 draw 11-year old Melwyn Kenneth Baltazar (Master Kenneth here at chess.com) eked wins in his last two games against Philippine Science High School sophomore Kevin Sicat and Metropolitan Chess Club's Malcolm Kwok to log 6.5 poi...
Kenneth Baltazar (Master Kenneth here at chess.com) ranked only 23 rd from a field of 312 players shares the early lead with 32 other players after 3 rounds of the 2009 Shell National Youth Active Chess Championship Kiddies Division held in the Ma...
Host Vietnam sweep all the 38 gold medals in the team events and 42 gold medals in the individual events to emerged over-all champion in the 10th Asean Age-Group Chess Championship held June 6-15,2009 at the Thua Thien- Hue,Vietnam.The 25-man Phil...
The 2009 Shell National Youth Active Chess Championship start next weekend, when the National Capital Region, the first leg of the eight stage nation wide series unfolds June 20,2009 at the Mall of Asia in Pasay City,Philippines. The two day eve...
11- years old Melwyn Kenneth Baltazar , a grade VI students of F.G.Calderon Integrated School edged out his older rivals via a higher tiebreak scores to rule the 2009 Malabon Rapid Chess Championship held June 7,2009 at the Plaza Hulong Duhat C...
GM Ehsan Ghaem Maghami of Iran finished with 5 wins and 4 draws to bag the top prize of US $ 5,000.00 in the 2nd Subic Bay International Open Chess Championship held in Subic Bay Free Port, Philippines. Ghaem Maghami ranked 2nd defeated untitled W...
GM Surya Shekhar Ganguly of India finished with five wins and six draws to win the eleven-round 2009 Asian Continental Chess Championship held in Subic Bay,Philippines. GM Zhou Weiqi also had eight points to finished second.Untitled Yu Yangyi fin...
Roberto '"Galman" Torres accumulated an impressive 6.5 victories in seven games on his road to first place at the National Capital Region elimination for the Philippine team in the 3rd Asian Indoor Games held at Victory Central Mall in Monumento,C...
Region X Silverio Abasolo defeated Nazario Ubanan of Cagayan de Oro to grab the solo lead after five rounds of the Tonsuya Non-Masters Active Chess Tournament held at the Tonsuya Covered Court, Malabon City. The real shocker was a loss by top seed...
The annual Caloocan Chess Festival held every third Sunday of February at Barangay 4 Sangandaan ,Caloocan City ended in a two way tie for first at 4.5- 0.5 among National Master Jovert Valenzuela and 16 years old Sheider Nebato of General Santos C...
The Nueva Ecija Natinal Open ,held in Palayan city ended in a two way tie for first.Both GM's Mark Paragua and Eugene Torre finished with six wins and three draws to bag the combined P 300,000.00 (Phil peso) in the nine round Swiss system tourna...
Melwyn Kenneth Baltazar scored a title twin killed grabbing both the over-all championship and the 12 years and under crowns of the Alay Kay Mayor "Search for the Bagong Bayani" Age-group Active Chess Championship held December 20,2008 at the l...
The grand final of the 2008 Caloocan City Open Chess Tournament was held on December 13-14,2008 at the J.Ramos Barangay 7 Hall,Caloocan City.The twenty -two topnotchers played in a knock out event in which two games matches at a time control of 2...
Malabon, city north of Manila hosted the 2008 Philippine Young Masters Chess Tournament last November 30,2008 at the Tanong Elementary School , Malabon City.The one day 6-Rounds Swiss System open to all high school and elementary students age 15 y...
Manila's Division of City Schools (DCS) emerged over-all champion in the 2008 Dep-Ed Manila Chess Meet held at the Arellano High School from November 18-20,2008.The DCS boys and girls team seized six of the fourteen gold medals staked,with both ...
