Chessmoso

The online chess blog of Francisco "Boy" Pestano that contains chess articles also submitted to Cebu's daily newspaper, Sun Star.

Saturday, October 30, 2004

Strange but true

By Frank "Boy” Pestaño Chessmoso IN 1918, the famous chess player Ossip Samoilovich Bernstein (1882-1962), a Hungarian grandmaster, was...

Saturday, October 23, 2004

Chess player’s head explodes

By Frank "Boy" Pestaño Chessmoso AFTER the recent Cepca vs. Cebu Selection matches last week, a few of us gathered for dinner, and...

Saturday, October 16, 2004

Chess vs. sex

By Frank 'Boy' Pestaño Chessmoso “CHESS is better than sex.” This famous line by Bobby Fisher was controversial at that time and rai...

Saturday, October 2, 2004

Shields, Brando among others

By Frank 'Boy' Pestaño Chessmoso HERE are some interesting information about well-known personalities who not only enjoy the game of...

Saturday, September 25, 2004

Lincoln, Jefferson and others

By Frank "Boy" Pestaño ABRAHAM Lincoln was a keen chess player and one of his chess sets is displayed in the Smithsonian. Whenever...

Saturday, September 18, 2004

Julia Roberts, Humprey Bogart et al.

By Frank "Boy" Pestaño Chessmoso ACTRESS Julia Roberts of Pretty Woman and Erin Brokovich fame is reputedly a chess fanatic and ha...

Saturday, September 11, 2004

Cepca through the years

By Frank "Boy" Pestaño Chessmoso I HAVE been writing about Cepca tournaments and members ever since the start of this column and i...

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