5-Year-Old Banawa Tops National Age Group Chess Championships - BusinessWorld Online

5-year-old Banawa tops National Age Group Chess Championships - BusinessWorld Online

JODIEL CHLOE BANAWA, a five-year-old woodpusher from Alicia, Isabela, asked her father Joel, an International Master, to teach her chess a year ago out of curiosity. Exactly one year after learning the royal game, she is now a national champion. It happened on Saturday night after Ms. Banawa bested older opponents and topped the Under-8 girls division of the National Age Group Chess Championships at the SMX Convention Center in Olongapo City. Ms…

Cantela, Mendoza claim age group crown

Oscar Joseph Cantela and Jemaica Yap Mendoza threaded through the proverbial eye of the needle to rule the standard event of the premier boys and girls Under-20 divisions of the National Age Group Chess Championships at the SMX Convention Center in Olongapo City.Cantela, a native of General Trias, Cavite, drew with Mar Aviel Carredo in the eighth and final round and then edged Rigil Kent Pahamtang and Vince Duane Pascual, whom the former tied fo…