Cuba overtakes the Philippines in the overall standings after a Vietnam player gets disqualified.
The Philippine Paralympic team's virtual bronze finish in team competition of the 4th World Chess Championship went for naught after the tournament's late discovery of an engine cheater.
Cuba then overtook the Philippines by only half a point, 26 to 25.5 points, in the fight for the team bronze or the third-place honor.," FIDE Master Sander Severino, the reigning International Physically Disabled Chess Association champion, told Rappler on Saturday, November 20. "Vietnam player ang nag-cheat. So, na-fourth na lang 'ta officially kay ang usa nga nakalaban sa Cuba nag engine mao nag plus one pa sila sa final standings
His output also put Lopez in the company of the top-seeded Polish Grandmaster Marcin Tazbir and five others, sharing the 9th to 15th spots.
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