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‘Backbone’ of Normin sports signs off
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The Davao Chess Eagles will debut against Tacloban, while the Surigao Fianchetto Checkmates will tangle with the Cagayan de Oro Higalas.


“Cagayan de Oro needed just the arrival of a little kid from Butuan we fondly called with his nickname ‘Mai-mai’ to end Northern Mindanao’s nearly seven-decade misery in Palaro basketball,” then said Calingin’s bench assistant Carlomagno Dagalea.



“Grabe ka kusog sa field naka eleventh-place lang si GM Mark Paragua. Sa mga nag-participate nga titled players, mora’g qualifying para sa gawas nga competition ang Asenso Pinoy tournament,” Mindanao’s top chess-playing executive, Honorary National Master Rey Urbiztondo told Gold Star Daily.




