Thursday, April 03, 2008 Malita's Retanal rules in Panabo
NATIONAL Master (NM) Elwin Retanal of Malita, Davao del Sur bagged the champion's purse of P3,000 at the recently concluded Araw ng Panabo Open Chess Tournament held at the Panabo Chess Club.
Retanal tallied 4.5 points to beat four point scorers Samuel Yu, Jimmy Dano, Reynaldo Quiñones and Araw ng Dabaw open chess champion Henry Roger Lopez who shared the second to sixth spots.