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127 average _{(45 games)}

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122 average _{(81 games)}

While it was relatively late in knowing that the young Wesley So is the world's youngest chess grandmaster, I am still elated at this rather belated but much welcome news. Not that I've been far away from the PC but my mind was preoccupied by the reminiscence of that age in Philippine chess when it was lorded over by the venerable Florencio Campomanes who took under his wing Eugenio Torre of Ilonggo parentage and who honed his mastery over the 64-squared battlefield with daily jousts at La Paz district.

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127 average _{(30 games)}

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^{farrago #0004}

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Having perused the sports item in The Visayan Daily Star, http://www.visayandailystar.com/2008/March/13/sportnews2.htm detailing the efforts of Leonito "Diutay" Lopue of Bacolod City, Philippines to inculcate the love of table tennis to the young, I can't help the stream of memories rushing back to consciousness at our own effort in Iloilo City to help popularize the sport fondly called "pingpong".

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^{art #0002}

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^{essay #0003}