KUALA LUMPUR: The Philippines leaned on chess’ three gold medals as it raked in an eight-gold haul on Wednesday to zoom to fifth spot in the ninth ASEAN Para Games at Hall 3 of the Malaysian International Trade and Exhibition Center here.
FIDE Master Sander Severino drew his sixth and final round match with Vietnam’s Nguyen Anh Tuan to claim the individual gold in standard play of the physically impaired with 5.5 points, half a point ahead of FM Maksum Firdaus of Indonesia, who beat countryman Azhar Panjaitan to pluck the silver.
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