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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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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