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:“There is a parallel between the twos and the tens. Tens are trying to test their abilities again, sizing up and experimenting to discover how to fit in. They don’t mean everything they do and say. They are just testing. . . . Take a good deal of your daughter’s behavior with a grain of salt. Try to handle the really outrageous as matter-of-factly as you would a mistake in grammar or spelling.” “Work, as we usually think of it, is energy expended for a further end in view; play is energy expended for its own sake, as with children’s play, or as manifestation of the end or goal of work, as in “playing” chess or the piano. Play in this sense, then, is the fulfillment of work, the exhibition of what the work has been done for.” “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.” |