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Daniel Quizon (born November 10, 2004) is a Filipino chess player and the current Philippine Chess Champion. [2] He was awarded the title of Grandmaster (GM) by FIDE in 2024. [3] He qualified to play in the Chess World Cup 2021, [4] where he was defeated 1.5-0.5 by Evgeny Bareev in the first round. [5]
The Toledo City Chess Miners changed their name to the Toledo City Trojans before the start of the season. [2] The Davao Chess Wizards changed their name to the Davao Chess Eagles before the start of the season. [4] The Camarines Soaring Eagles & Iriga City Oragons were merged into Camarines-Iriga before the start of the 2022 PCAP 2nd Conference.
The Professional Chess Association of the Philippines (PCAP) was formed by Filipino lawyer Paul Elauria who also became the league's first commissioner. [1] The league was launched in 2020, although plans relating to the establishment of the first professional chess league in the Philippines has already been made years ago.
The National Chess Federation of the Philippines (NCFP) is the governing chess organization in the Philippines. [2] It is a non-profit organization and a member of the Fédération Internationale des Échecs and part of the Philippine Olympic Committee. [3] [4]
Gomez is from Biñan, Laguna Province in the Philippines. [2] [3] He began playing chess when he was three years old and began beating older players when he was five.After becoming bored with chess, he started playing tennis, even becoming a top player in the ten-and-under age category; a fractured hand suffered while playing tennis, however, led him to switch back to chess.
World chess champion Magnus Carlsen left the World Rapid and Blitz Championships on Friday, Dec. 27 after he refused to change out of his jeans in accordance with the International Chess ...
He is also a three-time Philippine Chess Champion. On the March 2017 FIDE rating list, he was ranked number two in the world and had an Elo rating of 2822, [1] making him the fifth-highest-rated player in history. In 2019, So said his favorite form of chess is chess960 (also known as Fischer random chess). [2]
Pichay is an avid surfer and chess enthusiast. He was chairman of the Philippine Surfing Federation (PSF) and president of the National Chess Federation of the Philippines (NCFP). He is a close friend of Philippine chess Grandmasters Eugene Torre and Mark Paragua. In 2022 July, Pichay was re-elected president of the NCFP. [54] [55] [56]