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Banguilan is Champ of 1000GMs NCR Final Leg

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Elijah Johan Banguilan ruled the final leg of the 1000GMs National Capital Region kiddies chess championships recently at the Robinsons Galleria.

Banguilan, only eight years old, captured the 11-under category in a record field of 101 campaigners, an attendance that broke the record in number of participants throughout the Philippines.

The University of Santo Tomas-Angelicum College elementary student settled for a fighting draw in the last round against 11-year-old Aria Sophia Paras, the eventual second placer.

Playing white, Banguilan didn’t find a dent in Paras’s Caro-Kann defense and halved the point, to emerge champion with 6.5 points.

Banguilan racked up six straight wins, beating upset conscious Princess Nenita Gonzales in the fifth round. He also beat a streaking Sudarshan Mapula in the sixth round to arrange the final showdown with Paras.

Paras, 11, a student of Immaculate Conception in Greenhills and seeded only at 37th, showed steely nerves, as she virtually took a more treacherous path towards the top, amassing six points of five wins and two draws.

She had to dispose of third seed Francesco Angelo Lainez in the second round, drew with fifth seed Evan Meneses in the third canto and subdued Luis Ynigo Torres in the fourth round. Paras upset top seed Xian Yosef Dionisio in the fifth round and foiled 10th seed Marco Piolo Sanido in the sixth.

Paras had a higher tiebreak over fellow six pointers Marius Constante, Princess Gonzales and 12th seed Tito Lorenzo Sean Balibalos.

Highly rated and prodigious Constante, the second seed despite just turning seven years old, bucked a fourth round loss to Gonzales and won his last three matches.

Gonzales was also solid, losing only to the eventual champion Banguilan, in the fifth round.

In the 16-under division, second seed Joshua Manire topped the field ahead of 90 other campaigners with 6.5 points, half-a-point ahead.

Mark John Baliwang, who lost to Manire in the fourth round, rallied to win his last three assignments to emerge with six points.

Also posting six points was third placer Gabriel Ryan Paradero, who had five wins and two draws.




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