Samantila tops MCC kiddies chess

Published news:  The Philippine Star Sports - Samantila Tops MCC tilt

Pinoychess.informe.com   by divigin on Tue Feb 01, 2011 2:16 pm

Fourth seed Daryl Unix Samantila drew his fifth and final match against No. 2 Gino Divino Cabual to bag the January edition of MCC Kiddies standard chess tourney held over the weekend at ETON Cyberpod Corinthian in EDSA cor Ortigas Avenue, Pasig City.

The 11-year old Samantila of Adamson posted a total output of 4.5 points with four wins and one draw after five rounds of play to claim his first MCC kiddies title in this MCC monthly event. For his feat, Samantila took home the top prize of P2,000.

Cabual slid to a tie in 2nd-5th places along with top seed Juan Carlos Presente of San Jose Academy of Bulacan, Jose Carlo Castro and Jose Lorenzo Lat of Batangas City with 3.5 points each.

Rounding off the top ten winners were Obogne (6th); Robin Ignacio (7th); Joshua Tan (8th); Brent Lenard Alanan (9th); and Rogelio Endrane (10th). Adjudged best age-group scorers were: Samantila - best 12-U and Tan - best 10-U.

The next MCC standard events are: Feb. 12-13- kiddies 14-under; Feb. 19-20 - 1900 and below; Feb. 3 Thursday-only and Feb. 25 Friday-blitz tourney. For details call 826-8560 and 994-5199 or 0916-852-1069 and 0922-822-6319

MCC 20th Anniversary Chess Tourney

Watching over our game is none other than Asia’s first IM, Rodolfo Tan Cardoso, the only Filipino who has beaten the late chess legend Bobby Fischer. Me in blue long sleeve shirt

Winners all of MCC 20th anniversary chess tourney. Me in yellow shirt

THE Metropolitan Chess Club (MCC) celebrated its 20th anniversary with a two day (March 15-16, 2008)chess tourney and simulaneous exhibition by Russian IM Nikolai Andrianov at the 3F of St. Francis Square (SFS) located behind SM Megamall in Mandaluyong City.

I didn't play good enough. But nevertheless I still got a medal, though a trophy will be very very great if I got to champion the event for kiddies.