GM BALINAS Memorial

To roll-out the 2008 MERALCOLYMPICS, the MERALCO Chess Club held the GM Balinas Memorail Tournament, with National Master rolly Andador as special guest, in honor of former MERALCO employee and our country's second grandmaster ROSENDO BALINAS, who was famous for his Odessa Victory that was even chronicled in Bobby Ang's Chess Piece column of the Business World. Topping the event was Abet Casiano of Baliwag Business Center with Darryl Mata of Sta. Rosa Sector getting the silver and Rolly Sol Cruz of Customer Porcess snatching the bronze. Pau Bersamina won the Best Junior Player award.