October 1st FIDE Rating List

Here's the official FIDE ratings list for 1st of October. Please go to the FIDE website rating list server to download the full list of players including the non rated. The official FIDE list is published 4 times each year. Below is the list of the top 25 players of the Philippines and 32 of the best player in the planet.

1. 2615 So
2. 2560 Torre
3. 2526 Paragua
4. 2519 Gomez
5. 2515 Antonio
6. 2507 Laylo
7. 2489 Nolte
8. 2471 Sanchez
9. 2469 Gonzales
10. 2468 Villamayor
11. 2464 Salvador
12. 2448 Dimakiling
13. 2439 Bitoon
14. 2438 Dableo
15. 2435 Barbosa
16. 2431 Sadorra
17. 2424 Martinez
18. 2413 Elorta
19. 2410 Ballecer
20. 2409 De Guzman
21. 2401 Causo
22. 2400 Nava
23. 2398 Fernandez
24. 2390 Vuelban
25. 2386 Nadera
26. 2386 Yap

And here's the top 32 players in the world with above 2700 in the FIDE rating system.


1 Topalov, Veselin BUL 2791
2 Morozevich, Alexander RUS 2787
3 Ivanchuk, Vassily UKR 2786
4 Carlsen, Magnus NOR 2786
5 Anand, Viswanathan IND 2783
6 Kramnik, Vladimir RUS 2772
7 Aronian, Levon ARM 2757
8 Radjabov, Teimour AZE 2751
9 Leko, Peter HUN 2747
10 Jakovenko, Dmitry RUS 2737
11 Wang, Yue CHN 2736
12 Adams, Michael ENG 2734
13 Movsesian, Sergei SVK 2732
14 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar AZE 2731
15 Karjakin, Sergey UKR 2730
16 Kamsky, Gata USA 2729
17 Svidler, Peter RUS 2727
18 Shirov, Alexei ESP 2726
19 Eljanov, Pavel UKR 2720
20 Gelfand, Boris ISR 2719
21 Dominguez Perez, Leinier CUB 2719
22 Ponomariov, Ruslan UKR 2719
23 Grischuk, Alexander RUS 2719
24 Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime FRA 2716
25 Alekseev, Evgeny RUS 2715
26 Bu, Xiangzhi CHN 2714
27 Polgar, Judit HUN 2711
28 Ni, Hua CHN 2710
29 Bacrot, Etienne FRA 2705
30 Nakamura, Hikaru USA 2704
31 Gashimov, Vugar AZE 2703
32 Rublevsky, Sergei RUS 2702

SPICE Cup 2008: four co-champions

SPICE Cup 2008 is over. This tough tournament saw four co-champions out of ten participants. Sharing the top spots are GM Pentala, GM Kritz, GM Akobian, and GM Onischuk. SPICE Cup 2008 is a pretty strong tournament boasting an average rating of 2605 good for a category 15 event making it one of the strongest ever held in US soil. Next year GM Wesley So is set to compete in this event and the SPICE is aiming for a category 16-17. Below is one of my game pick from the tournament. It is not the best match of the tourney but I choose it because it is one of the most dramatic. Black has a completely winning position until he blew it all away with a blunder on his 31st moves, forcing him to resignjust seven moves later. Enjoy!






1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Be7 4.cxd5 exd5 5.Bf4 c6 6.e3 Bf5 7.g4 Be6 8.Bd3 Nd7 9.h3 (the game is a Queens Gambit Declined. Other good alternative for white is 9.Qf3 which have been tried and produced good results lately)

9...Nb6 (many thought that this is a drawish move. 9...h5 could be played but quite a risky one for black. say 9...h5 10.gxh5 Ndf6 11.h6 Nxh6 12.Qc2 Qd7.)

10.Qc2 Bd6 11.Nge2 Ne7 12.0-0-0 g6 13.Kb1 Bxf4 14.exf4 Qd6 15.f5 gxf5 16.gxf5 Bd7 17.Ng3 Qf6 18.Nh5 Qh6 19.f6 Qxh5 (an exchange would favored black slightly. Black has nothing to do with his Knight on d7 actually. the passed pawn at d7 hardly posed a threat at all but a liability for white.)

20.Rhe1 Nbc8 21.fxe7 Nd6 22.Qd2 Bf5 (black is doing fine here as he will gain a tempo in the exchange.) 23.Bxf5 Qxf5+ 24.Ka1 Kd7 25.Re5 Qxh3 26.Qf4 Rhg8 27.Rde1 Rae8 28.a3 Rg4 29.Qd2 Qh4 30.Nxd5 cxd5 31.Rxd5 Rg6?? (a blunder. 31...Re4 was the key move. Now white pounces)

32.Qb4! Rxe7 33.Qxb7+ Kd8 34.Qb8+ Kd7 35.Qxa7+ Ke8 36.Qb8+ Kd7 37.Rc1 Re8 38.Qc7+ White wins 1-0

-Tournament official website

Corrections

IM John Paul Gomez is never from FEU. He's from De La Salle. Some correction. I took a look at my yesterday post early this morning and saw the mistake. I should have added the following words "...IM John Paul Gomez as always, carried the team for De La Salle, winning an unprecedented five straight MVP crowns." Got so excited by FEU's victory that I forgot to include De La Salle. My apologies.

World Ten Ball Championship starts today

PICC-same site as the 1992 Manila Chess Olympiad

The inaugural World Ten Ball Championship, the most prestigious pool tournament, will finally fires off today at the same site where the 1992 Manila chess Olympiad was held, the historic Philippine International Convention Center (PICC) . Pool, another favorite Filipino pass time and sport, is often considered by many as what chess is to the Russians - complete domination of the sport. Two of the best practitioners of the game, Filipino cue artist Efren "Bata" Reyes and Francisco "Django" Bustamante are the Garry Kasparov and Bobby Fischer of pool.

- Tournament official website

We did it again! FEU 3-peat in UAAP chess tournament

It's Grand Slam for my Alma Mater! Far Eastern University defeated Adamson 3-1 to finished the tournament with a total of 36 points to capture the title for the third straight year. IM John Paul Gomez as always, carried the team for De La Salle, winning an unprecedented five straight MVP crowns. Another FEU wood pusher Sheider Nebato was named Rookie of the Year. University of Santo Tomas was second with 33.5 points and Adamson (33) was third.

1st World Mind Games: Philippine chess team

Here's the complete list of the players that will represent the country in the inaugural World Mind Games scheduled Oct. 3-13 in Beijing, China. There will be five mind sports competitions: Bridge, Chess, Go, Draughts, and Xiangqi (Chinese Chess). Philippines will be participating in chess discipline. And don't let your eyes deceived you. Despite the absence of our other top players who were Dresden bound, the list below is still pretty competitive. We're still a dark horse here in Asia. Best wishes everyone!

Note: some of the ratings we provided for each of our players is their projected October 1 FIDE ratings.

Philippine Team Members

Mens team:

GM MARK PARAGUA (2526)
IM ROLANDO NOLTE (2489)
IM JULIO CATALINO SADORRA (2431)
IM CHITO GARMA (still clarifying)
NM LEONARDO CARLOS (still clarifying)

Womens Team

SHERILY CUA
CRISTINE ROSE MARIANO
KIMBERLY JANE CUNANAN
JAN JODILYN FRONDA
RIDA JANE YOUNG

- World Mind Games Official Website

Nothing goes easy for Topalov-Kamsky match

It looks like the Bulgarian Chess Federation will not leave any stone unturned for the forthcoming semi final match between their grandmaster and current world no.1 player, Vaselin Topalov and the new Bulgarian public enemy no.1 US grandmaster Gata Kamsky. Strings of protest from BCF may jeopardized the success of the semi final match up -or it may not:

"We still do not know any details about where and in what conditions will be the match, and the announced by you date November 26th is approaching...Mr Ilymzhinov, please inform me where and when the match will take place.We insist the decision for the match to be reflected in the players contracts, and they to be signed before the other semi final match between GM Kramnik and GM Anand. Further delay could be fatal and to ruin all the efforts so far. I think nobody has interest in the failure of the match Topalov - Kamsky. The Bulgarian chess player who is N1 in the current rank list cannot be eliminated from the competition for the world championship. " Stefan Sergiev wrote, President of BCF to GIDE president Ilyumzhinov Read the rest of the story from chessdom.com

Yup. It is pretty obvious that there's still a lot more work to be done. As for Gata Kamsky. I think he's just more than happy for the opportunity to get a shot for a world title. Anywhere but not in Bulgaria.

Philippine and far eastern chess: the place they deserved to be in

A common sights in the streets of Manila

Two days ago, I wrote a short, bite-sized post regarding GM Torre's citation on an UK online newspaper, the telegraph.com.uk. This time, one of web's most popular chess site, ChessVibes.com also join in recognition of our hero's recent success. And that is very nice of them. Because it maybe the first time in a long, long time outside his native country that he receives such accolades. Paying tribute to a revered Filipino hero and legend that seems to be completely forgotten is a total breath of fresh air. Not much is being told about chess in the far east for decades now, much about Philippine chess where it is a national pass time. But it is already the age of the internet. There are only two recognizable chess figures in this country at the moment and that is GM's Wesley So and Eugene Torre though it is So who is obviously the more celebrated of the two when it comes to global chess awareness and perhaps responsible for bringing everyone, even Torre back to world chess map. What a heavy load this 14 year old boy is already carrying on his shoulders. Speaking of So heck, some of Wesley's fans (or not), even go beyond of prematurely comparing him to marvelous Magnus Carlsen of Norway and the so called comparison eventually triggered many petty squabbles. I'm not sure about this but after WGM Susan Polgar announced in her blog that Wesley So will be competing in SPICE Cup next year, it creates a wide "disturbance" from the readers of her blog that Susan eventually enable the comment moderation on her blog a day after the post appeared! The irony here is that a small number of unruly Filipinos usually react violently, almost hysterically everytime a foreigners criticized them even if these Pinoys are the ones who started the issues. But not in this case. Although I have to admit that it really did hurt me, more than angered me, every time I read or heard in various popular chess forum and comment box that the Philippines doesn't boast any great chess players in history (okay, we know that, but please don't go far from that) to deserved media attention in the west, Filipinos are pound for pound, one of the most passionate followers of the game. Hundreds of thousands of Filipinos are playing chess. You see them on the streets, prisons, barber shops, clubs, schools and lately, online. Check out any popular online chess sites that offers free membership (we love freebies folks!) and you will see that the Philippines always occupied the top five slots of countries who were playing chess on the web. That said, I hope that someday Philippine and far eastern chess would received more recognition it deserved to the point that I won't need anymore to keep a stress causing blog like our ChessHeroes.

World Chess Championship promotional video

Before we know it there are only less than three weeks away from the much anticipated chess championship match between two of the most successful players at the moment. As we all set into the mood for Kramnik vs Anand duel, here's a short promotional video of the championship produced by chessfilm.net. Although I found this video quite lacking of total creativity (focusing too much on chess pieces and innocent bystanders) this video nonetheless can surely help whet all our appetites.

Torre cited on UK online newspaper

GM Eugene Torre's recent triumph didn't go unnoticed from chess purist and aficionados even from across the globe. Here's another good find on the web about our Filipino chess hero. Telegraph.co.uk journalist Malcolm Pein recognize Torre's recent victory at the just concluded 3rd PGMA Cup here in Manila. Read the full article HERE.

65 million web visits for the 4th European Individual Open Championships

"We truly believe that Internet is for chess what television is for soccer."- Chessdom.

With record breaking of over seven million chess fans a day watched over the internet during the 4th European Open Championships in Liverpool, England internet indeed is just perfect for chess. Branded as the strongest tournament ever held in Britain, it saw 150 top players all over Europe that includes former world title challenger, Nigel Short and Michael Adams. The tournament is won by the 24-year-old grandmaster from the Nedtherlands, Jan Werle. More news from this record breaking chess event at LiverpoolDailyPost.com

- Tournament official website

Wesley So to compete in category 16-17 SPICE cup next year

Tougher, bigger tournaments for 2009

I just dropped by Susan Polgar's blog late last night and I'm very excited to inform you that our very own Wesley So will be competing next year on what could be the highest rated international round-robin chess tournament in U.S. History-a category 16 or 17 being put together in the process by tournament director, WGM Susan Polgar herself. The ongoing SPICE Cup which boast an average rating of 2605 according to World Chess Federation (FIDE) ratings is the highest so far ever held in US soil, a category 15. Wesley's current unofficial Live rating is around 2616. So is also set to compete in one of the biggest annual chess tournament, the Corus Chess Tournament that will be held on January 15 to February 1, 2009 in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands. He will compete in Gandmaster group C.

-Tournament official website

Torre will go to Dresden

It looks like the wound is slowly healing up after all. GMANews.TV reports that 3rd PGMA cup champion GM Eugene Torre was appointed (in compensation perhaps by his recent success) by National Chess Federation of the Philippines (NCFP) as non-playing team captain of Dresden-bound RP chess team .

I guess all's well that ends well for both Torre and Pichay.

We're rank no.1 in Google search!

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Hi everyone! Here's a piece of good news. Our ChessHeroes is rank no.1 in Google for the keyword “3rd President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Cup International Chess Championship". And has regularly taken top 3 spots for both "4th Pichay Cup" and "2008 Tal Memorial". The latter was quite surprising and flattering since Moscow is nearly four thousand miles away from Manila! It is good to see that my relatively new blog is well indexed by Google although there is quite a number of both official and unofficial websites and media partner for those tournaments. Anyway thank you everyone!

A notable game from 3rd PGMA cup: Torre vs. Li Chao

Here's one of my pick from the just concluded 3rd President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's Cup which is won by Philippine chess hero, Eugenio Torre. Okay this may not be the best performance for Torre neither for the defending champion Li Chao but the game itself is a total cliff hanger. Enjoy!




1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 (Li Chao may not be aware that along with Giuoco Piano, the Scotch is one of the most popular opening among the majority of Filipino club players so Torre is quite at home with the opening.)

3...exd4 4.Nxd4 Bc5 5.Be3 Qf6 6.c3 Nge7 7.Bc4 Ne5 8.Be2 d5 9.0-0 0-0 10.Nd2 (a more sharper line for white is the immediate push 10.f4 followed by 11. e5 where white leaves the option for black to exchange his dark squared bishop for the knight on d4. My Rybka 3 suggested this line which gives white more playing chances 65/35 in white's favor: 11...Qg6 12.Qd2 Bxd4!? 13.cxd4 h5 14.Nc3+=)

10...Bb6! (black is quite happy for this safe haven for his bishop where he hope it will play a big part for much of the game.)

11.f4 Ne5-c6!? (an interesting choice for Torre. Rybka is dying for 11...Qh6!)

12.e5 Qh6 13.N2f3 Nxd4 14.Nxd4 Nf5 15.Bf2 (white opt not to exchange pieces at the moment 15.Nxf5 because black's Queen is somewhat out of place and could be a perfect target for an attack with his more active pieces thus gaining an overwhelming tempo advantage for white.)

15...Nxd4 16.Bxd4 c5?! (a bit of a dubious push for Torre of not exchanging his bishop as he will gain the tempo for doing so but instead chooses a more complicated line for black. Perhaps he was playing a mind game against his aggressive and much younger opponent?)

17.Be3 d4 18.Bd2 Bf5 19.Bf3 Rad8! (trade mark Torre!)

20.c4 (20.Bxb4? 21.dxc3 and black has a clear advantage.)

20...Qe6 21.b3 Qe7 (giving way for his bishop's retreat)

22.Qe2 Rfe8 23.g4 Bc8 24.Qg2 Qc7 25.a3 Ba5 (Torre by now may have questioning himself by not exchanging the bishops early)

26.b4 Bb6 27.Rac1 a5 (itching to exchange his dark squared bishop for white's dark)

28.b5 a4 (this finally solved black's problem)

29.Be4 Ba5 30.Bxa5 Qxa5 31.Bd3 Qc7 32.Rce1 g6?! (checking my Rybka after this push, the program actually giving white a slight advantage +=. We are of the same opinion)

33.Qg3 Re7 34.f5 Rde8 35.b6 Qb8 36.Qf4 Rxe5 37.fxg6 fxg6 38.Qf7+ Kh8 39.Qf6+ Kg8 40.Be4 (now white commits a very important decision here by rejecting the threefold repetition and go for the win. White may have a reason. He still has all the resources to mount a violent attack against black.)

40...Be6 41.Bxg6 (A very bold sacrifice. But in time trouble, anything can happen. We have now entered the most exciting part of the game.)

41...Rxe1 42.Rxe1 hxg6 43.Qxg6+ Kf8 44.Qh6+ Kf7 45.Qh7+ Kf6 46.g5+ Kxg5 47.Qg7+ Kf5 48.Rf1+ Ke4 (Both players may have been blitzing by now for miscalculation is everywhere.)

49.Qg6+ Ke3 50.Re1+ Kd2 51.Qb1?? (a huge blunder! Now black's king survived on the enemy's harsh territory.)

51...Rg8+ 52.Kh1 Bg4! 53.Rf1 Qe8 54.h3 Bf3+ 55.Rxf3 Qe1+ 56.Qxe1+ Kxe1 57.Rf7 d3 0-1

Not a perfect game for the tournament winner but Torre shows us some of his over forty decades of experience on the board on what supposed to be a a lost end game for black. He keeps his nerve and concentration against his more younger and highly aggressive opponent.

Li Shilong of China wins 4th Prospero Pichay Jr cup International Open Chess Championship

GM Li Shilong

Pairings/Results

Round 9 on 2008/09/19 at 1000

Bo.	No.		Name	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	No.
1	16	GM	LI Shilong	7	½ - ½	6	GM	GHAEMMAGHAMI Ehsan	4
2	6	GM	SO Wesley	5½	½ - ½	6	GM	ZHANG Zhong	2
3	3	GM	MCHEDLISHVILI Mikheil	5½	½ - ½	5½	GM	VILLAMAYOR Buenaventura	23
4	13		NOLTE Rolando	5½	0 - 1	5½	GM	IULDASHEV Saidali	14
5	5	GM	NGUYEN Ngoc Truong Son	5	½ - ½	5	GM	SHANAVA Konstantine	12
6	30		XIU Deshun	5	½ - ½	5		ZHOU Weiqi	7
7	9	GM	MEGARANTO Susanto	5	½ - ½	5	GM	DAO Thien Hai	18
8	17	GM	NGUYEN Anh Dung	5	½ - ½	5	GM	GONZALES Jayson	10
9	11	GM	PARAGUA Mark	5	½ - ½	5	GM	LAYLO Darwin	15
10	19	GM	WEN Yang	4½	½ - ½	5	IM	DIMAKILING Oliver	20
11	25	IM	DABLEO Ronald	4½	0 - 1	4½	GM	KAZHGALEYEV Murtas	1
12	27	IM	BITOON Richard	4½	1 - 0	4½	GM	DZHUMAEV Marat	8
13	21		WAN Yunguo	4½	½ - ½	4½		ZHANG Ziyang	26
14	67		DELA CRUZ Noel	4½	0 - 1	4½	IM	SADORRA Julio Catalino	22
15	43		YANG Kaiqi	4½	½ - ½	4½	IM	GOMEZ John Paul	24
16	42		TOLENTINO Rustum	4	0 - 1	4½		PASCUA Haridas	64
17	37		WANG Li	4	1 - 0	4		CARLOS Leonardo	66
18	47	FM	HOANG Canh Huan	4	1 - 0	4		YU Lie	40
19	51		LEGASPI Rhobel	4	½ - ½	4		NOURI Hamed	44
20	45	IM	ROCA Petronio	4	1 - 0	4		WANG Xiaohui	60
21	50		YAP Kim Steven	4	0 - 1	3½	IM	GOH Weiming	32
22	33	IM	NADERA Barlo	3½	½ - ½	3½		JIA Haoxiang	52
23	57		MAGA Mirabeau	3½	½ - ½	3½	CM	NGUYEN Van Huy	38
24	39	IM	WOHL Aleksander	3½	0 - 1	3½		BAGAMASBAD Efren	53
25	41	IM	BANCOD Ronald	3½	1 - 0	3½		BRANZUELA Ali	62
26	49		SALUBRE Jayson	3	½ - ½	3		BALLECER Dino	28
27	34		FERNANDEZ Ernesto	3	1 - 0	3	IM	GARMA Chito	46
28	35		OLAY Edgar Reggie	3	1 - 0	3	FM	PACIS Adrian Ros	54
29	68		NODADO Jerry	3	½ - ½	3	IM	MALLAHI Amir	36
30	59		GARCIA Jan Emmanuel	3	1 - 0	2½		ZHANG Jing	65
31	58		XU Tong	2½	½ - ½	2½		CANTONJOS Allan	63
32	61		PERENA Catherine	2	1 - 0	2½		ELORTA David	31
33	56	WIM	SUKANDAR Irine Kharisma	2	+ - -	1½		CAUSO Deniel	29
34	48		ANDADOR Rolando	1½	1			bye
35	55		OCHOA Karl Victor	1	0			not paired

Final Ranking after 9 Rounds

Rk.		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2
1	GM	LI Shilong	CHN	2503	7,5	2566	2589
2	GM	IULDASHEV Saidali	UZB	2520	6,5	2545	2565
3	GM	ZHANG Zhong	SIN	2632	6,5	2539	2549
4	GM	GHAEMMAGHAMI Ehsan	IRI	2597	6,5	2484	2500
5	GM	SO Wesley	PHI	2577	6,0	2511	2528
6	GM	MCHEDLISHVILI Mikheil	GEO	2604	6,0	2510	2520
7	GM	VILLAMAYOR Buenaventura	PHI	2469	6,0	2490	2523
8	IM	BITOON Richard	PHI	2439	5,5	2518	2561
9	GM	PARAGUA Mark	PHI	2523	5,5	2506	2523
10	GM	SHANAVA Konstantine	GEO	2522	5,5	2476	2493
11	GM	KAZHGALEYEV Murtas	KAZ	2641	5,5	2474	2485
12	GM	LAYLO Darwin	PHI	2504	5,5	2467	2480
13	GM	NGUYEN Ngoc Truong Son	VIE	2579	5,5	2464	2475
14		XIU Deshun	CHN	2410	5,5	2460	2496
15	GM	MEGARANTO Susanto	INA	2532	5,5	2453	2464
16		ZHOU Weiqi	CHN	2556	5,5	2442	2451
17		PASCUA Haridas	PHI	2174	5,5	2439	2448
18	GM	GONZALES Jayson	PHI	2524	5,5	2436	2446
19	GM	DAO Thien Hai	VIE	2489	5,5	2431	2450
20	IM	SADORRA Julio Catalino	PHI	2470	5,5	2423	2445
21		NOLTE Rolando	PHI	2522	5,5	2416	2426
22	IM	DIMAKILING Oliver	PHI	2479	5,5	2384	2406
23	GM	NGUYEN Anh Dung	VIE	2499	5,5	2373	2401
24		WAN Yunguo	CHN	2471	5,0	2490	2521
25	IM	ROCA Petronio	PHI	2356	5,0	2476	2490
26	IM	GOMEZ John Paul	PHI	2457	5,0	2467	2497
27	GM	WEN Yang	CHN	2487	5,0	2443	2481
28		ZHANG Ziyang	CHN	2441	5,0	2419	2446
29		YANG Kaiqi	CHN	2366	5,0	2399	2426
30	FM	HOANG Canh Huan	VIE	2339	5,0	2383	2407
31		WANG Li	CHN	2392	5,0	2257	2408
32	IM	BANCOD Ronald	PHI	2375	4,5	2512	2522
33	GM	DZHUMAEV Marat	UZB	2549	4,5	2478	2492
34		DELA CRUZ Noel	PHI	0	4,5	2447	2456
35		LEGASPI Rhobel	PHI	2315	4,5	2401	2433
36		NOURI Hamed	PHI	2363	4,5	2391	2413
37		BAGAMASBAD Efren	PHI	2295	4,5	2368	2385
38	IM	GOH Weiming	SIN	2403	4,5	2314	2354
39	IM	DABLEO Ronald	PHI	2444	4,5	2276	2430
40	IM	NADERA Barlo	PHI	2401	4,0	2475	2499
41		YAP Kim Steven	PHI	2321	4,0	2452	2461
42	CM	NGUYEN Van Huy	VIE	2386	4,0	2415	2445
43		WANG Xiaohui	CHN	2215	4,0	2399	2403
44		GARCIA Jan Emmanuel	PHI	2232	4,0	2396	2404
45		FERNANDEZ Ernesto	PHI	2398	4,0	2371	2395
46		CARLOS Leonardo	PHI	0	4,0	2371	2379
47		JIA Haoxiang	CHN	2303	4,0	2366	2413
48		TOLENTINO Rustum	PHI	2375	4,0	2355	2380
49		YU Lie	CHN	2377	4,0	2344	2363
50		OLAY Edgar Reggie	PHI	2398	4,0	2336	2353
51		MAGA Mirabeau	PHI	2256	4,0	2331	2348
52		NODADO Jerry	PHI	0	3,5	2416	2427
53		BRANZUELA Ali	PHI	2209	3,5	2395	2403
54	IM	WOHL Aleksander	AUS	2384	3,5	2348	2367
55		SALUBRE Jayson	PHI	2322	3,5	2345	2365
56		BALLECER Dino	PHI	2419	3,5	2336	2353
57	IM	MALLAHI Amir	IRI	2393	3,5	2245	2394
58	FM	PACIS Adrian Ros	PHI	2278	3,0	2391	2405
59	IM	GARMA Chito	PHI	2346	3,0	2384	2409
60		CANTONJOS Allan	PHI	2205	3,0	2376	2384
61		PERENA Catherine	PHI	2212	3,0	2356	2370
62		XU Tong	CHN	2249	3,0	2341	2360
63	WIM	SUKANDAR Irine Kharisma	INA	2262	3,0	2318	2358
64		ZHANG Jing	CHN	2033	2,5	2353	2366
65		ELORTA David	PHI	2405	2,5	2268	2277
66		ANDADOR Rolando	PHI	2335	2,5	2205	2349
67		CAUSO Deniel	PHI	2410	1,5	2327	2344
68		OCHOA Karl Victor	PHI	2268	1,0	2384	2424

Official result and games can be viewed at http://ncfphilippines.org and www.chessasia.net

4th Prospero Pichay Jr cup International Open Chess Championship: Round 7 results

Pairings/Results

Round 7 on 2008/09/18 at 0900

Bo.	No.		Name	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	No.
1	4	GM	GHAEMMAGHAMI Ehsan	4½	½ - ½	5	GM	ZHANG Zhong	2
2	16	GM	LI Shilong	5	1 - 0	4½	GM	DZHUMAEV Marat	8
3	3	GM	MCHEDLISHVILI Mikheil	4½	½ - ½	4½	GM	SO Wesley	6
4	5	GM	NGUYEN Ngoc Truong Son	4	½ - ½	4	GM	LAYLO Darwin	15
5	7		ZHOU Weiqi	4		4	GM	DAO Thien Hai	18
6	12	GM	SHANAVA Konstantine	4	1 - 0	4	GM	WEN Yang	19
7	14	GM	IULDASHEV Saidali	4	1 - 0	4	IM	GOMEZ John Paul	24
8	23	GM	VILLAMAYOR Buenaventura	4		3½	GM	KAZHGALEYEV Murtas	1
9	9	GM	MEGARANTO Susanto	3½	1 - 0	3½	IM	SADORRA Julio Catalino	22
10	30		XIU Deshun	3½	½ - ½	3½	GM	GONZALES Jayson	10
11	27	IM	BITOON Richard	3½	0 - 1	3½	GM	PARAGUA Mark	11
12	41	IM	BANCOD Ronald	3½	0 - 1	3½		NOLTE Rolando	13
13	17	GM	NGUYEN Anh Dung	3½	0 - 1	3½		BRANZUELA Ali	62
14	21		WAN Yunguo	3½		3½	IM	NADERA Barlo	33
15	67		DELA CRUZ Noel	3½		3	IM	DABLEO Ronald	25
16	20	IM	DIMAKILING Oliver	3		3		YAP Kim Steven	50
17	43		YANG Kaiqi	3	½ - ½	3		ZHANG Ziyang	26
18	51		LEGASPI Rhobel	3		3	IM	GOH Weiming	32
19	37		WANG Li	3		3		PASCUA Haridas	64
20	45	IM	ROCA Petronio	3		3		YU Lie	40
21	42		TOLENTINO Rustum	3		3		WANG Xiaohui	60
22	34		FERNANDEZ Ernesto	2½		3		CARLOS Leonardo	66
23	59		GARCIA Jan Emmanuel	2½		2½		BALLECER Dino	28
24	35		OLAY Edgar Reggie	2½		2½	IM	GARMA Chito	46
25	44		NOURI Hamed	2½		2½	CM	NGUYEN Van Huy	38
26	39	IM	WOHL Aleksander	2½		2½		ZHANG Jing	65
27	36	IM	MALLAHI Amir	2		2½		JIA Haoxiang	52
28	47	FM	HOANG Canh Huan	2		2	FM	PACIS Adrian Ros	54
29	49		SALUBRE Jayson	2		2		CANTONJOS Allan	63
30	68		NODADO Jerry	2	+ - -	1½		ANDADOR Rolando	48
31	29		CAUSO Deniel	1½		1½		BAGAMASBAD Efren	53
32	58		XU Tong	1½	1 - 0	1½		ELORTA David	31
33	57		MAGA Mirabeau	1½	1 - 0	1	WIM	SUKANDAR Irine Kharisma	56
34	61		PERENA Catherine	1	1			bye
35	55		OCHOA Karl Victor	1	0			not paired

Rank after Round 7

Rk.		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2
1	GM	LI Shilong	CHN	2503	6,0	2568	2601
2	GM	ZHANG Zhong	SIN	2632	5,5	2522	2533
3	GM	IULDASHEV Saidali	UZB	2520	5,0	2543	2572
4	GM	MCHEDLISHVILI Mikheil	GEO	2604	5,0	2496	2507
5	GM	SO Wesley	PHI	2577	5,0	2490	2509
6	GM	GHAEMMAGHAMI Ehsan	IRI	2597	5,0	2480	2501
7	GM	SHANAVA Konstantine	GEO	2522	5,0	2454	2474
8	GM	PARAGUA Mark	PHI	2523	4,5	2507	2531
9	GM	DZHUMAEV Marat	UZB	2549	4,5	2477	2497
10	GM	NGUYEN Ngoc Truong Son	VIE	2579	4,5	2453	2467
11	GM	LAYLO Darwin	PHI	2504	4,5	2447	2461
12	GM	MEGARANTO Susanto	INA	2532	4,5	2439	2451
13		BRANZUELA Ali	PHI	2209	4,5	2391	2401
14		NOLTE Rolando	PHI	2522	4,5	2376	2382
15	IM	GOMEZ John Paul	PHI	2457	4,0	2519	2552
16		XIU Deshun	CHN	2410	4,0	2487	2516
17	GM	WEN Yang	CHN	2487	4,0	2482	2517
18	GM	VILLAMAYOR Buenaventura	PHI	2469	4,0	2457	2496
19		ZHOU Weiqi	CHN	2556	4,0	2442	2455
20	GM	GONZALES Jayson	PHI	2524	4,0	2438	2450
21	GM	DAO Thien Hai	VIE	2489	4,0	2386	2404
22	IM	BITOON Richard	PHI	2439	3,5	2563	2571
23	IM	BANCOD Ronald	PHI	2375	3,5	2531	2539
24	GM	KAZHGALEYEV Murtas	KAZ	2641	3,5	2492	2502
25		WAN Yunguo	CHN	2471	3,5	2488	2530
26	IM	NADERA Barlo	PHI	2401	3,5	2476	2504
27	IM	SADORRA Julio Catalino	PHI	2470	3,5	2455	2471
28		DELA CRUZ Noel	PHI	0	3,5	2442	2453
29		ZHANG Ziyang	CHN	2441	3,5	2418	2455
30		YANG Kaiqi	CHN	2366	3,5	2389	2424
31	GM	NGUYEN Anh Dung	VIE	2499	3,5	2323	2353
32	IM	ROCA Petronio	PHI	2356	3,0	2484	2500
33		YAP Kim Steven	PHI	2321	3,0	2470	2485
34		WANG Li	CHN	2392	3,0	2447	2494
35		PASCUA Haridas	PHI	2174	3,0	2441	2451
36		NODADO Jerry	PHI	0	3,0	2424	2441
37		LEGASPI Rhobel	PHI	2315	3,0	2410	2457
38		WANG Xiaohui	CHN	2215	3,0	2404	2409
39	IM	DIMAKILING Oliver	PHI	2479	3,0	2368	2395
40		YU Lie	CHN	2377	3,0	2364	2394
		TOLENTINO Rustum	PHI	2375	3,0	2364	2394
42		CARLOS Leonardo	PHI	0	3,0	2361	2371
43	IM	GOH Weiming	SIN	2403	3,0	2304	2358
44	IM	DABLEO Ronald	PHI	2444	3,0	2211	2413
45	CM	NGUYEN Van Huy	VIE	2386	2,5	2458	2509
46		NOURI Hamed	PHI	2363	2,5	2415	2451
47		GARCIA Jan Emmanuel	PHI	2232	2,5	2409	2421
48		FERNANDEZ Ernesto	PHI	2398	2,5	2403	2441
49	IM	GARMA Chito	PHI	2346	2,5	2392	2428
50		ZHANG Jing	CHN	2033	2,5	2384	2400
51		XU Tong	CHN	2249	2,5	2371	2384
52		OLAY Edgar Reggie	PHI	2398	2,5	2365	2386
53		JIA Haoxiang	CHN	2303	2,5	2347	2410
54		MAGA Mirabeau	PHI	2256	2,5	2342	2358
55		BALLECER Dino	PHI	2419	2,5	2337	2362
56	IM	WOHL Aleksander	AUS	2384	2,5	2336	2361
57	FM	PACIS Adrian Ros	PHI	2278	2,0	2406	2419
58	IM	MALLAHI Amir	IRI	2393	2,0	2392	2427
59		CANTONJOS Allan	PHI	2205	2,0	2381	2388
60	FM	HOANG Canh Huan	VIE	2339	2,0	2377	2411
61		PERENA Catherine	PHI	2212	2,0	2361	2381
62		SALUBRE Jayson	PHI	2322	2,0	2330	2355
63		BAGAMASBAD Efren	PHI	2295	1,5	2385	2411
64		ANDADOR Rolando	PHI	2335	1,5	2339	2401
65		CAUSO Deniel	PHI	2410	1,5	2327	2351
66		ELORTA David	PHI	2405	1,5	2266	2278
67		OCHOA Karl Victor	PHI	2268	1,0	2384	2424
68	WIM	SUKANDAR Irine Kharisma	INA	2262	1,0	2350	2368

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