SILAY City-pride FIDE Master Sander Severino settled for second place in the recently-concluded First FIDE Online Cup for People with Disabilities.
The 34-year-old Severino drew with Poland Grandmaster Martin Tazbir in the fifth and finished tied at first with 4.5 points each but, eventually ended second in the final ranking after tiebreaks. Tazbir edged Severino in the tiebreak, 10.5 to 10.0.
Severino also won against other titled players like CMC Mucha Annegret of Germany, Woman IM Natasha Morales Santos of Puerto Rico, FM Vit Valenta of the Czech Republic, and International Master Yuri Meshkov of Russia.
The Silay City-native took home 400 euros or P22,000 for his feat.
He is also preparing for the IPCA World Championship in Israel and the first World Chess Olympiad for the differently able, which were all reset to next year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.