FM Mike Klein writes good article about Filipino chess history.

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    FM Mike Klein has written an informative article about Filipino chess history.

    Recently, the massive Typhoon Haiyan directly hit the Philippines, a country with a rich tradition of chess. The country is easily the strongest island nation in the Pacific, with Australia and Indonesia a distant second and third, respectively. With a dozen active grandmasters and a top-30 world player, the Philippines is behind only China and India as the best chess country in Asia....
    Names include: GMs ... Eugenio Torre, Wesley So, Mark Paragua, Oliver Barbosa, John Paul Gomez and others; former FIDE President Florencio Campomanes was Filipino, and, for about a year in his youth, former World Champion Anand lived in the Philipines.

    Originally posted by V. Anand
    And there they had a TV program that was on in the afternoon, one to two or something like that, when I was in school. So she would write down all the games that they showed and the puzzles, and in the evening we solved them together.

    Of course my mother and her family used to play some chess, and she used to play her younger brother, so she had some background in chess, but she never went to a club or anything like that. So we solved all these puzzles and sent in our answers together. And they gave the prize of a book to the winner.

    And over the course of many months, I won so many prizes. At one point they just said take all the books you want, but don't send in any more entries.
    Winnipeg and Manitoba, with its sizable Filipino-Canadian population, carried on the chess tradition here in Canada and had plenty of players in the Manitoba Chess Association. There are probably other Canadian cities that continue the Filipino chess tradition as well.
    Last edited by Nigel Hanrahan; Monday, 25th November, 2013, 02:28 PM. Reason: link, etc
    Dogs will bark, but the caravan of chess moves on.

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    Re: FM Mike Klein writes good article about Filipino chess history.

    Ignacio Dee writes on the current tenuous state of chess in the Philippines. Sadly, all their top GMs now reside in the U.S. ):

    http://www.rappler.com/sports/by-spo...ty-philippines

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      Re: FM Mike Klein writes good article about Filipino chess history.

      The 'Philippine Daily Inquirer' cites Fernando Canon as "the first Filipino international chess champion in 1905".

      http://lifestyle.inquirer.net/232123...rival-of-rizal

      Not detailed therein, Canon evidently won a tournament in Barcelona in 1905. Does anyone have any information on said tournament? It's not cited in the following Wikipedia list of strong tournaments.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ss_tournaments

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        Re: FM Mike Klein writes good article about Filipino chess history.

        Originally posted by Jack Maguire View Post
        The 'Philippine Daily Inquirer' cites Fernando Canon as "the first Filipino international chess champion in 1905".

        http://lifestyle.inquirer.net/232123...rival-of-rizal

        Not detailed therein, Canon evidently won a tournament in Barcelona in 1905. Does anyone have any information on said tournament? It's not cited in the following Wikipedia list of strong tournaments.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ss_tournaments
        Bobby Ang expounds upon the chess component of said article and cites Fernando Canon as "Philippines first national chess champion."

        http://www.bworldonline.com/content....pion&id=130368

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