Chess
The UAAP Season 72 chess tournament started on January 10, 2010,Sunday, at the Tan Yan Kee Student Center at the University of Santo Tomas. After 14 gruelling rounds, the FEU Tamaraws came up on top, dominating both the Seniors Men and Women Tournaments. It could have scored a first ever sweep in the UAAP Chess competition but its juniors team finished second to the resilient Baby Falcons of Adamson, which managed to retain their title and score a grandslam in their own side of the competition.
Read more about this topic: UAAP Season 72 Famous quotes containing the word chess:“It’s a great huge game of chess that’s being played—all over the world—if this is the world at all, you know. Oh, what fun it is! How I wish I was one of them! I wouldn’t mind being a Pawn, if only I might join—though of course I should like to be a Queen, best.” “An actress reading a part for the first time tries many ways to say the same line before she settles into the one she believes suits the character and situation best. There’s an aspect of the rehearsing actress about the girl on the verge of her teens. Playfully, she is starting to try out ways to be a grown-up person.” “The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem.... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.” |