Seeding chess players to overseas tilts bad for sport, says Mariano

SEEDING  Filipino chess players to major international tournaments such as the World Chess Olympiad  would be detrimental to the development  of the sport in the country and diminishes the hopes of other players to compete for the Philippines overseas.

This was the response of  Nelson Mariano, the country’s latest Grandmaster,  yesterday to plans by the National Chess Federation of the Philippines to seed International Master Mark Paragua to the 36th  Chess Olympiad opening in Majorca, Spain on October 13.