BROKEN PROMISE

July 04, 2008

¨Promises are made to be broken.¨
Since I am my BLOGś BOSS, Iĺl write as I please... SO CHESS...

From Bobby Ang´s webpage
http://www.indochess.com/news_maint_public.php?news_id=1654
ANg is based I think in Indonesia, another strong regional power in CHESS...

ANG quotes from a book about the CHESS champions in this archipelago & this I
think is the CORRECT HISTORY of the game here...

1908 Fernando Canon
1909-1913 Alvah E. Johnson
1914-1921 Ismael Amado
1922-1924 Leopoldo Lafuente
1925 Jose D. Warren
1926 Datu Alip
1927-1930 Adolfo Gutierrez
1931 Ramon Lontoc Jr
1934 Datu Sandangan
1935 Ramon Lontoc Jr
1936 Rogelio Catanjal
1937 Castor Catalbas
1938 Antonio Navarro
1939 William Lucena
1940-1941 Ramon Lontoc Jr
1942 Max Hoeflein
1943 Antonio Arce
1946 Horacio P. Pagle
1947 Ramon Lontoc Jr
1948 Antonio Navarro
1949 Ramon Lontoc Jr
1950 Rosendo Bandal Sr
1951 Serafin Alvarez
1952 Jose Pascual
1953 Meliton Borja
1955 Jose Pascual
1957 Meliton Borja
1958 Ramon Lontoc Jr

CANON was a personal friend of RIZAL pala! He was a Katipunero GENERAL... Datu Alip & Datu Sandangan were both M´ranaw chess masters if I am not mistaken... So you see how SOPHISTICATED the people of Mindanaw are/were...

Note how fair REAL CHESS is: this list includes Christians, Jews and Muslims! I an surprised how close I am to certain CHESS personalities! Four people on the list are familiar names to me!

Read also: http://www.indochess.com/news_maint_public.php?news_id=1626

It is sad to know that CHESS is again being POLITICALIZED/POLITICIZED:

I read in the Official NCFP site that the Philippines´s TOP TWO GUNS GM Torre & GM Antonio are not playing... POLITIX again?!... The Tausug NATIONAL MASTER I was talking about is none other than
Abdullah Unding who is quite well known among strong chess players. I am SURPRISED why the title ¨NM¨ does not precede his name in the Tourney Sked... He IS a NATIONAL MASTER and practically an FM(FIDE Master) in strength as he told me his rating was 2300+. INDEED, the listed ratings (Elo or what?) of Unding & the rest are EXTREMELY LOW!!! An NM is 2200 at least. And yet the masters have their ratings at 2100+!!! I do not know how they obtain these numbers... Possibly they are following USCF ratings which yields low numbers (Popular Low low low hiphop tune by Flo Rida! Is SHAWTY PGMA??? HAR!) US ratings even have 1200 or the like which to me is no longer a CHESS rating... As a scholastic/academic chess player more than 2 decades ago I had a rating of 1800+-1900+ which is CLASS A-B. ANd SUPER GMs have now 2800+ ratings! Is there a CONSPIRACY to keep ¨LESSER MORTALS¨ in CHESS low low low low? HAR!
Old masters like ABSIN, Agagon, Manaog, Meneses & the other time-tested chess club habitues (even NM Ric Bandal!) I knew in the past all had 2100+ ratings ONLY! My goodness... some of these strong local players can whip GMs from other countries! My VERDICT: Either these ratings should be corrected & raised or they all lose their ¨Master¨ title...
Maybe there is a PCF/NCFP political battle brewing?... With those identified with the old association suffering? When most likely only one or two people are really guilty? Let´s all be fair & just... Repeating the same mistakes will only perpetuate problems... Paging Mr. Pichay... Most players I´ve talked with have only good words to say about you... Don´t let temporary success fool you to let down your guard... Pls. look into this...

NM Unding placed #16 in that very strong tournament & this alone reflects his calibre... SEVEN of them 6-pointers failed to enter the FINALS (Plus NMs Lorena, Tolentino, Absin, Vasquez, Olay & a non-NM Lopez) since only twelve were taken in with the other two 6 pointers to qualify being IMs Nolte & Bitoon...
Wouldn´t it have been better if the #13-#17 were also included? I really am SURPRISED at that SEMIFINALS tourney since NM Barbosa a UP standout who is a very strong master (Candidate IM?) was at the bottom of the field! Something fishy...
IS POLITIX AGAIN RE-INFECTING CHATUR in this ARCHIPELAGO? Paging the CHESS LOVERS in this ARCHIPELAGO of whatever persuasion/religion/etc...

TMNP