The Philippine Nationwide Chess Workforce poses for a bunch picture. | NCFP picture
CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Philippine nationwide chess group delivered a robust efficiency on the twenty third ASEAN+ Age Group Chess Championships, gathering a complete of 13 medals because the event wrapped up on Friday, July 11, in Penang, Malaysia.
Competing towards over 360 gamers from 20 nations throughout Southeast Asia, the Filipino woodpushers bagged 5 golds, 4 silvers, and 4 bronzes — all in the usual occasion.
Main the cost was Cebuano veteran Worldwide Grasp (IM) Rico Mascariñas, the one double-gold medalist of the delegation. IM Mascariñas, one of many founding gamers of the PCAP champion group, the Toledo Xignex Trojans, topped each the person and group occasions within the seniors 65 division. He teamed up with fellow IM Efren Bagamasbad to clinch gold within the seniors 65 group occasion.
One other gold got here from the trio of Grandmaster (GM) Rogelio Antonio Jr., IM Angelo Younger, and Area Grandmaster (AGM) Edmundo Gatus, who dominated the seniors 50 group occasion.
Within the youth divisions, Kassie Nunez emerged champion within the ladies under-8 class, whereas Girls’s Nationwide Grasp (WNM) Franchesca Largo secured the highest spot within the ladies’s under-20.
The nation’s silver medalists have been FIDE Grasp (FM) Mark Jay Bacojo (under-20), IM Younger and GM Antonio (seniors 50), and FM Christian Gian Karlo Arca (under-18).
Bronze medals went to WNM Mhage Gerriahlou Sebastian (under-20); the ladies under-12 group of WNM Mary Jannele Tan, Thea Grace Clar, and Millery Gen Subia; the under-12 group of Sebastian Damonsong, Neil Angelo Balines, and Henrick Marello Bolanos; and the under-16 trio of John Peter Cabales, Marc Justinn Fua, and Artwork Noblijas.
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