Thursday, October 12, 2006
Shell finalist leads round-robin contest
AT LEAST six promising youngsters here will play in a round-robin tourney to determine the board arrangements of Misor's junior/kiddies team in the forthcoming inter-province chess rivalry.
Arbiter Doming Oga was quick to add, however, that the last finisher will be booted out, as only five players will be accommodated to the host province's developmental squad.
Thirteen-year-old Lennon Hart Salgados, Cagayan de Oro's lone qualifier this year to the 2006 National Shell Active chess championships and the youngest of them all, joins fellow Corpus Christi Knight Randolph Dalauta, Antonio Chavez Jr. of Cagayan de Oro National High School and the "big three" from Carmen High -- Alfredo Rapanot Jr. and brothers Franklin and Francisco Porras -- in the round-robin affair set on October 14 and 15 at the Capitol Chess Park.
Easily the most consistent youth performer in the local chess front, Salgados proved superior in the recently-held Milolympics chess meet which saw the older Porras (Franklin) scoring an upset win over Chavez, the surprise tormentor of IM Richard Bitoon during the 3rd Pichay Memorial Cup in Cantilan, Surigao del Sur.
Dalauta, on the other, was the 14-under champion of the 2003 Philippine Age-Group tourney.
"Puro talented `ning mga bataa so, interesting kaayo `ning ilang showdown karong Sabado ug Domingo," one Divisoria chess habitue said.
(October 12, 2006 issue)
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