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2020 PCAP Draft
The 2020 Professional Chess Association of the Philippines draft was held on December 20, 2020 at the Quezon City Sports Club. It is the first-ever draft held by the Professional Chess Association of the Philippines The Professional Chess Association of the Philippines (PCAP) is a professional chess league in the Philippines. History The Professional Chess Association of the Philippines (PCAP) was formed by Filipino lawyer Paul Elauria who also became the l ... (PCAP). The draft was held to determine the initial composition of PCAP's 24 teams for its inaugural 2021 season. The draft had around 350 applicants. The draft lasted around four hours and had four rounds. Grandmaster Eugene Torre was the first pick of the draft. The Rizal Towers selected Torre to play for them. Draft order All 24 teams of PCAP par icipated in the draft, with the draft order determined through the drawing of lots. Antipolo was drawn as the first team to select a player in the draft but they made a de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chess
Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to distinguish it from related games, such as xiangqi (Chinese chess) and shogi (Japanese chess). The recorded history of chess goes back at least to the emergence of a similar game, chaturanga, in seventh-century India. The rules of chess as we know them today emerged in Europe at the end of the 15th century, with standardization and universal acceptance by the end of the 19th century. Today, chess is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide. Chess is an abstract strategy game that involves no hidden information and no use of dice or cards. It is played on a chessboard with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. At the start, each player controls sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quezon City
Quezon City (, ; fil, Lungsod Quezon ), also known as the City of Quezon and Q.C. (read in Filipino as Kyusi), is the most populous city in the Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 2,960,048 people. It was founded on October 12, 1939, and was named after Manuel L. Quezon, the second president of the Philippines. The city was intended to be the national capital of the Philippines that would replace Manila, as the latter was suffering from overcrowding, lack of housing, poor sanitation, and traffic congestion. To create Quezon City, several barrios were carved out from the towns of Caloocan, Marikina, San Juan and Pasig, in addition to the eight vast estates the Philippine government purchased for this purpose. It was officially proclaimed as the national capital on October 12, 1949, and several government departments and institutions moved out of Manila and settled into the new capital city. This necessitated the expansion of the city northwards, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Professional Chess Association Of The Philippines
The Professional Chess Association of the Philippines (PCAP) is a professional chess league in the Philippines. History The Professional Chess Association of the Philippines (PCAP) was formed by Filipino lawyer Paul Elauria who also became the league's first commissioner. 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. It was formed as a means of livelihood for Filipino chess players, since not all are part of the Philippine national team. It is reportedly the first professional chess league in Southeast Asia with its first season to be held in 2021 with games possibly to be held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The league was recognized by the Games and Amusements Board (GAB), a government body which regulates professional sports in the Philippines, in September 2020. PCAP held its first national try out online through on October 17, 2020. For the inaug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugene Torre
Eugenio "Eugene" Torre (born November 4, 1951) is a Filipino chess player. In 1974, at 22 years old, he became not just the first Filipino but also the first Asian to qualify for the title Grandmaster. Torre did this by winning the silver medal in the 21st Chess Olympiad in Nice, France. He is considered the strongest chess player the Philippines produced during the 1980s and 1990s, and played for the Philippines on board 1 in seventeen Chess Olympiads. In 2021, Torre was inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame. In a tournament in Manila in 1976, Torre was then the only one to beat the then-reigning World Champion Anatoly Karpov in a game that has become part of Filipino chess history. In 1982 he gained a spot in the World Chess Championship candidates matches, where he lost to Zoltán Ribli. He served as Bobby Fischer's second in the 1992 match against Boris Spassky in Yugoslavia. He currently plays for the Rizal Towers of the Professional Chess Association of the Philipp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Draft (sports)
A draft is a process used in some countries (especially in North America) and sports (especially in closed leagues) to allocate certain players to teams. In a draft, teams take turns selecting from a pool of eligible players. When a team selects a player, the team receives exclusive rights to sign that player to a contract, and no other team in the league may sign the player. The process is similar to round-robin item allocation. The best-known type of draft is the entry draft, which is used to allocate players who have recently become eligible to play in a league. Depending on the sport, the players may come from college, high school or junior teams, or teams in other countries. An entry draft is intended to prevent expensive bidding wars for young talent and to ensure that no team can sign contracts with all of the best young players and make the league uncompetitive. To encourage parity, teams that do poorly in the previous season usually get to choose first in the postsea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joey Antonio
Rogelio Antonio Jr. (born February 19, 1962) is a Filipino chess grandmaster, who was awarded the title in 1993. He is affectionately known as "Joey" Antonio or GM Joey. Antonio finished tied for 3rd-8th places in the 2009 Asian Chess Championship (ultimately finishing in 6th place after tiebreaks) and became the first player in the Philippines' history to qualify for the World Cup later in 2009. Chess career FIDE World Chess Championship Antonio participated in two World Chess Championship cycle, in the 1990-1993 cycle and the 1998-1999 cycle: In the 1990-1993 cycle, he participated in the Zonal 11 tournament held at Shah Alam, Malaysia where he ended up as the best-placed Filipino player tied for 9th-13th places with fellow Filipinos GM Eugene Torre and then IM Rogelio Barcenilla and IM Edhi Handoko and GM Utut Adianto, both of Indonesia. Antonio eventually ended up in 9th place with Handoko ending up 10th, Torre 11th, Barcenilla 12th and Adianto 13th. He was seeded No. 8 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julio Sadorra
Julio Catalino Sadorra (born September 14, 1986) is a Filipino chess grandmaster. He competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2017 where he was seeded 101 and where he lost to the 28th-seeded Super GM Maxim Matlakov, 0.5-1.5. Sadorra has represented the Philippines at the Chess Olympiad since 2014. He tied for first place in the U.S. Open Chess Championship in 2013. Personal In 2009, Sadorra moved to the United States to pursue an education. He attended the University of Texas at Dallas on a chess scholarship, where he was a team member that went to the Final Four twice. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in Business Administration in 2013, and received the title of Grandmaster while pursuing his studies. Chess career In 2008, then still an International Master (IM), Sadorra played for the Club Intchess Team of Singapore in the 1st Asian Club Chess Cup held in Al-Ain, Abu Dhabi, UAE, manning Board 2 with an ELO of 2431 where he scored 4.0/7 (+4 =0 -3) for a 57.1% winning rate and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Paragua
Mark Callano Paragua (born March 29, 1984) is a Filipino chess Grandmaster (chess), grandmaster. He won the Philippine Chess Championship in 2012. He was the youngest Filipino master ever, at nine years of age. He also became the youngest Filipino GM ever at 20 (until Wesley So surpassed it), beating Eugenio Torre's record by about two years. Chess career At the 1998 The Walt Disney Company, Disney World Rapid Chess Championship for Kids, Paragua tied for finished first with 7½ points in the boys' 14-and-under section, and took the gold medal on tiebreak points. Paragua also played in the 3rd Asian Indoor Games held in 2009 where he finished with 5 wins, 1 draw, and 2 losses with a Tournament Performance Rating (TPR) of 2522 (ELO 2501) leading the team to a 7th-place finish but missed out on a playoff berth. World Youth Chess Championship Paragua took part in two World Youth Chess Championships: * 15th World Youth Chess Championship (2001) where he tied for 17th-26th place ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Paul Gomez
John Paul Gomez (born May 23, 1986) is a Filipino chess player. He was awarded the title of International Master (IM) in 2007 and International Grandmaster (GM) in 2009. He is a three-time Filipino national junior champion and has also won the Filipino Chess Championship. Early life and education Gomez is from Biñan, Laguna Province in the Philippines. 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. Gomez graduated from De La Salle University with a degree in mechanical engineering. Chess career While attending De La Salle, Gomez led the school's chess team to the UAAP men's chess championship for 20042005 season. Gomez won five "Most Valuable Player" awards and was named the UAAP's " Athlete of the Year" for Sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rico Mascarinas
The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act is a United States federal law that provides for extended criminal penalties and a civil cause of action for acts performed as part of an ongoing criminal organization. RICO was enacted by section 901(a) of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970 () and is codified at as . G. Robert Blakey, an adviser to the United States Senate Government Operations Committee, drafted the law under the close supervision of the committee's chairman, Senator John Little McClellan. It was enacted as Title IX of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970, and signed into law by US President Richard M. Nixon. While its original use in the 1970s was to prosecute the Mafia as well as others who were actively engaged in organized crime, its later application has been more widespread. Beginning in 1972, thirty-three states adopted state RICO laws to be able to prosecute similar conduct. Summary Under RICO, a person who has committed "at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darwin Laylo
Darwin Laylo (born 1980) is a Filipino chess grandmaster. Laylo won the Philippine national championship in 2004 and 2006. These wins earned him a place on the Philippine teams in the 2004 Calvià Olympiad and in 2006 at Turin. In 2006 he gained two GM norms, the first from the 2006 Malaysian Open, and the second at the 2006 Bad Wiessee tournament in Germany. His third and final norm came in the 2007 Asian Chess Championship in Cebu, Philippines. Laylo placed in the top ten of the 2007 Asian Chess Championship, earning a place in the 2007 World Chess Cup, November, 2007, in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. Seeded 113th out of 128 participants, Laylo was eliminated in the first round, 1½–½, by the French grandmaster Étienne Bacrot. In 2008, he tied for 3rd-7th with Ashot Nadanian, Marat Dzhumaev, Dražen Sermek and Susanto Megaranto in the 5th Dato' Arthur Tan Malaysia Open Championship in Kuala Lumpur. In 2009, he came first in the Zonal tournament in Ho Chi Minh Ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sports Interactive Network Philippines
GMA New Media, Inc. (or NMI) is the digital media and technology arm of GMA Network Inc. which offers interactive applications in the television, mobile, web, marketing and online gaming industry. Its headquarters are located at the GMA Network Center in Quezon City, Philippines. Products and services Websites * ''GMA News Online'' In 2007, GMA NMI launched GMA News Online (then called gmanews). In the same year, the site won several awards including Best Website in the 9th Philippine Web Awards in 2007 for the Media category. * ''GMA Network Portal'' In late 2011, NMI launched GMANetwork, a one-stop portal that consolidates GMA’s web properties including GMA News Online, ''GMA Entertainment Website'' , and ''IMReady Public Service Portal'' . It won the Digital Filipino Web Awards for the Television category in 2014. ''Philippine Entertainment Portal'' (''PEP'' is a joint venture of NMI ( GMA Network Inc.) and Summit Digital which offers entertainment news from the local ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
