MANILA, Philippines—Chess Grandmaster Eugene Torre was inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame of the World Chess Federation (FIDE) making him not only the first Filipino but the first man from Asia to be bestowed with the honor.
Torre, the Philippines and Asia’s first Grandmaster, was inducted along Polish-Argentine GM Miguel Najdorf and Hungarian Judit Pulgar from the nominees that the FIDE approved during an online council meeting on April 20 (Manila time).
The Filipino sporting great joins China’s woman chess legend Xie Jun as the only Asians to be inducted into the World Hall of Fame that includes icons such as Garry Kasparov, Anatoly Karpov, and Bobby Fischer amo…
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