Quizon beats teen Thai star, grabs share of Asian Zonal lead
May 2, 2021 9:32 PM PHT
Rappler.com
Daniel Quizon recovered from an inferior position to trounce 14-year-old Thai Prin Laohawirapap and tie five others for the lead in the second round of the Asian Zonal 3.3 Chess Championships Sunday, May 2.
Prin, who stunned top seed Susanto Megaranto of Indonesia in the first round Saturday, won a pawn and had Quizon on the defensive. But the 16-year-old Quizon, toughened by many games where he was on the ropes, dug in while Prin consumed lots of time to crack the Filipino teener s defenses.
Quizon offered a draw at the 15th move but Prin refused. Such was the intensity of their clash that Quizon and Prin had 30 minutes left before they reached 20 moves. The Thai cracked on the 29th move and Quizon forced the exchange of queens and entered an endgame where his two bishops were vastly superior to Prin, who quit after 44 moves of a Sicilian Defense. ....