| Mark Paragua | |||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Mark Callano Paragua | ||||||||||||||
| Country | Philippines | ||||||||||||||
| Born | March 29, 1984 Philippines | ||||||||||||||
| Title | Grandmaster (2005) | ||||||||||||||
| FIDE rating | 2453 (October 2024) | ||||||||||||||
| Peak rating | 2621 (April 2006) | ||||||||||||||
| Peak ranking | No. 99 (April 2006) | ||||||||||||||
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Mark Callano Paragua (born March 29, 1984) is a Filipino chess grandmaster. He won the Philippine Chess Championship in 2012. He was the youngest Filipino master ever, at nine years of age. He also became the youngest Filipino GM ever at 20 (until Wesley So surpassed it), beating Eugenio Torre's record by about two years.