Filipina ties for top spot in China chess tilt
Posted at 08/25/2011
KUNMING CITY, Yunnan Province – Filipina Woman Fide Master (WFM) Marie Antoinette San Diego settled for a truce with Chinese Huang Mo Fei in the third round of the 2011 China-ASEAN junior chess classic competition in Yunnan Province, China on Wednesday.
San Diego is now tied with Xu Qian Qian of China for first place in the girls 12-and-under category with a total of 2.5 points.
Julius Gonzales of Marikina City also split the point with Zhou Chen of China. He now had 1 point on 2 draws and a loss in the 10-and-Under category.
Other Filipino bets lost their respective rivals.
The Filipino woodpushers' campaign in China is backed by the National Chess Federation of the Philippines (NCFP), the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) and Philippine Olympic Committee (POC). – By Marlon Bernardino
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