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PH blanks UAE in Chess Olympiad

(UPDATE) JULIO Catalino Sadorra caught another super Grandmaster (GM) in A. R. Saleh Salem in presiding over the Philippines' 4-0 carnage of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that kept it on course on eclipsing its best finish in the 45th FIDE Chess Olympiad at the BoK Sports Hall in Budapest, Hungary.

Throwing a rarely used line against Salem's pet King's Indian Defense, Sadorra caught his befuddled foe grasping for straws in carving out a 35-move victory that he punctuated by sacrificing a bishop and a knight that left his rival's kingside naked.

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