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Philippines struggles on board assignment
By J.Lo
“We need only 2.5 points to win match and we feel this move will give us stronger chance of winning,” national women’s coach Grandmaster Jayson Gonzales call it Philippine gambit deviating from their usual roster for better chance at winning, Filipinas will gamble on fielding their top two players Janellle Mae Frayna and Jan Jodilyn Fronda on second and third boards instead in 45th FIDE Chess Olympiad unfurled last night at BOK Sports Hall Budapest, Hungary.
Instead of Frayna and Fronda, Shania Mae Mendoza, who usually played in the lower board in the past, has been designated to suit up at top board, and teenage wonder Ruelle Canino and Olympiad returnee Bernadette Galas in the lower boards.
Filipinas, whose trip is being funded by Philippine Sports Commission through chair Richard Bachmann and commissioner Ed Hayco, and NCFP head Butch Pichay, were ranked 47th out of 181 participating teams nations in women’s side and were playing 137th ranked Malawi, small African nation bannered by its one and only titled player – Woman FIDE Master Linda Jambo.
Meanwhile, men’s side, mentored by non-playing captain GM Eugene Torre with Atty. Roel Canobas as delegation head, will have its usual board formation consisting of GM Julio Catalino Sadorra at board one and IMs Daniel Quizon and Paulo Bersamina, GM John Paul Gomez and IM Jan Emmanuel Garcia on boards two to five, respectively.
But against Aruba, small island from South America, country will field in Quizon, Bersamina, Gomez and Garcia as Sadorra will come in tomorrow in time for third round.
Meanwhile, Wesley So, born and raised Filipino, will play second board for top seed United States of America versus Panama.
Biennial 11-round tournament, gives two points to match win and point for match draw, was actually ushered in Tuesday night at Dr. Jeno Koltai Sports Center also in Hungarian capital in memorable affair that was attended by FIDE president Arkady Dvorkovich as well as local officials and three of the host nation’s best chess products the famous Polgar sisters Judith, Susan and Sofia.
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