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Rebounding from a spate of losses after her sensational opening-round victory over the country’s lone Woman Grandmaster Janelle Mae Frayna, the small but terrible Canino drew with reigning titlist Woman International Master Jan Jodilyn Fronda after a long 65-move London System tussle in yesterday’s ninth round marked with heavy wins ― fighting chess style.
In a dominant endgame position where the gifted lass enjoyed a quality-up advantage that would leave her an unmolested two pawns-queening, the top-seeded 24-year-old Frayna resigned after a marathon 96 moves of the London System-Barry Attack variation.
With the prolific leadership of Anton Pabillore, Janjan Hengania, and Owen Ubay-Ubay off the backcourts, the troika of Stev Panaz, Allan Enteria, and Charome Marte each scored twin-digit numbers in their respective quarters.
“She may be the youngest but she can pull off a surprise. Our training was meant to deal with older rivals,” said Canino’s coach and trainer Jaime Joshua Frias II.
Reigning champ Team Orange, backed by Suyao Trucking Services and reinforced by Erwin Raagas, Christopher Carretas, Anthony Pabillore, Allan Enteria, and Charome Marte, takes on the youth-laden Team Gray in the Saturday morning opener. While the Black team of club president Wingmark Mercado will have the solid frontcourts of Jojo Mahistrado and Janjan Arcaya in their preliminary match with Team Red.
The newly-wed Chavez from Barangay Bonbon, Cagayan de Oro City, and an alumnus of the Far Eastern University senior varsity team, defeated fellow Army man Carlo Magno Rosaupan to hike his total to 6.5 points and receive P10,000 for the fourth-place honor.
The 17-year-old Quizon played through undefeated to become the youngest and the smallest participant to rule the 2021 Philippine National Chess Championship concluded on Tuesday night, December 14 at the plush Solea Hotel and Resort in Mactan, Cebu.
The Dasmariñas City, Cavite pride Quizon annihilated the three Grandmasters in the field ― Darwin Laylo, Janelle May Frayna, Rogelio Antonio Jr ― midway of the 2021 Philippine National Chess Championship Grandfinals at the Solea Hotel and Resort in Mactan, Cebu.
The Mindanao pride Reymart Gaballo from Polomolok, South Cotabato lost for the first time in a stinging way but gained valuable experience on how to deal with a high-caliber tormentor who happens to be his ring idol.
The much younger Gaballo, 25, tried to beat the mandatory eight counts as he struggled to stand up only to fall back on his knees in pain after absorbing the notorious left hook from Donaire to the ribs.
The Dasmariñas City, Cavite pride Quizon, who is groomed to be the country’s next Wesley So, destroyed Antonio’s reliable Caro-Kann defense.
AFTER a big start, the Cagayan de Oro bets dropped from the top-two standing with the top-seeded Johnnel Balquin yielding to Woman International Master Bernadette Galas in the fourth round of the 2021 Philippine National Mactan Open Chess Championships today.