Last night a pretty young Japanese lass surprised the hec out of me when she suddenly blurted out, "salamat". That's "thank you" in Filipino. I won't tell you what she was thanking me for.
Ever since I moved to Japan I've always actually been surprised at how popular the Philippines is among Japanese. Many of them have visited RP and consider Pinoys to be friendly as well as a wonderful people.
However, Pinoys are not always in the good books of all its neighbours. The Malaysians, for example, have a good reason to be unhappy with their RP neighbours, at least with the National Chess Federation of the Philippines.
This weekend the now 7 year old DATMO will begin in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur. But also this weekend is another big event to take place in the Philippines - the inaugural $100,000 Campomanes Memorial Cup! No less than the big honcho himself, current FIDE boss Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, will attend the opening ceremony.
So, here we have a well-established event clashing with a brand new one. What the hell is going on? Australian grandmaster Ian Rogers has the reason.
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