2nd Subic International open: GM Ghaem Maghami Ehsan is the man!

First from the Middle East, GM Ehsan Ghaem Maghami of Iran

If my memory serves me correctly, no players coming from the Middle East has won a major tournament in the Philippines. So we may be seeing history here. As we have stated before, Filipinos, Chinese and Indians owns local tournaments. Not anymore. Iranian GM Ehsan Ghaem Maghami finally introduced himself to local chess fans by winning the 2nd edition of Subic open that saw the participation of 17 GMs and and 14 IMs, many of them GM candidates. GM Ehsan Ghaem Maghami finished the tournament undefeated as he posted 5 wins and 4 draws for a total of 7 points, half a point behind his 7 pursuers. Magahmi has a performance rating of 2698, a huge improvement from his luckluster performance at Asian Continental Championship of just 2480, finishing only at 37th place. The best finishers among Filipinos are IMs Bitoon, Sadorra, GMs Paragua and Gonzales who only manages to garnered a total of 5.5 points good for 14, 15, 19 and 20th place respectively.

With this, the Subic tournaments finally draw to a close. Now all is quiet again in the Eastern front. It's been three weeks of non stop blogging for us. Hope you will continue to follow this blog as we will continue our usual regular habit of one post per day. Have to gather more information on what's next for our Filipino players and of course for Wesley So. Hope Wesley would quickly recover from the bad tournament and regain his old form in no time.

For complete results of the 9th and final round please go HERE. Replay of the games from the top boards can be view HERE.

Again, many thanks for following!

Final Ranking after 9 Rounds

Rk.		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2
1	GM	Ghaem Maghami Ehsan	IRI	2593	7,0	2489	2500
2		Xiu Deshun	CHN	2422	6,5	2552	2561
3	IM	Yang Kaiqi	CHN	2413	6,5	2535	2540
4	GM	Rahman Ziaur	BAN	2523	6,5	2498	2520
5	GM	Sandipan Chanda	IND	2558	6,5	2486	2496
6	GM	Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son	VIE	2588	6,5	2478	2486
7	GM	Ganguly Surya Shekhar	IND	2625	6,5	2470	2477
8	GM	Gupta Abhijeet	IND	2570	6,5	2411	2420
9		Yu Yangyi	CHN	2433	6,0	2562	2574
10	IM	Ashwin Jayaram	IND	2413	6,0	2444	2477
11	GM	Negi Parimarjan	IND	2592	6,0	2434	2444
12	GM	Dao Thien Hai	VIE	2546	5,5	2511	2525
13	GM	Deepan Chakkravarthy J	IND	2482	5,5	2490	2502
14	IM	Bitoon Richard	PHI	2479	5,5	2476	2500
15	IM	Sadorra Julio Catalino	PHI	2451	5,5	2451	2475
16	FM	Arvind C J	IND	2275	5,5	2447	2460
17	GM	Megaranto Susanto	INA	2553	5,5	2445	2450
18	IM	Tania Sachdev	IND	2423	5,5	2415	2438
19	GM	Paragua Mark	PHI	2529	5,5	2406	2420
20	GM	Gonzales Jayson	PHI	2465	5,5	2391	2407
21	IM	Nguyen Thanh Son	VIE	2448	5,5	2383	2394
22	CM	Nguyen Van Huy	VIE	2423	5,5	2325	2341
23		Jia Haoxiang	CHN	2344	5,0	2427	2467
24	IM	Dimakiling Oliver	PHI	2426	5,0	2419	2443
25		Bagamasbad Efren	PHI	2283	5,0	2418	2440
26	GM	Laylo Darwin	PHI	2509	5,0	2410	2425
27	CM	Nguyen Hoang Nam	VIE	2281	5,0	2401	2416
28	FM	Priyadharshan K	IND	2411	5,0	2398	2425
29	IM	Nolte Rolando	PHI	2479	5,0	2398	2415
30		Gao Rui	CHN	2500	5,0	2396	2409
31	GM	Kunte Abhijit	IND	2513	5,0	2380	2395
32		Milagrosa Alexander	PHI	2227	5,0	2374	2387
33	GM	Villamayor Buenaventura	PHI	2474	5,0	2317	2323
34	IM	Zhang Ziyang	CHN	2419	4,5	2470	2511
35		Habla Jony	PHI	2300	4,5	2466	2493
36		Lou Yiping	CHN	2410	4,5	2451	2494
37		Wan Yunguo	CHN	2434	4,5	2395	2414
38	WGM	Mohota Nisha	IND	2304	4,5	2393	2430
39	GM	Nguyen Anh Dung	VIE	2518	4,5	2371	2384
40	IM	Nadera Barlo A	PHI	2400	4,5	2291	2314
41	FM	Batchuluun Tsegmed	MGL	2391	4,5	2239	2264
42		Yu Lie	CHN	2307	4,0	2473	2482
43		Senador Emmanuel	PHI	2360	4,0	2450	2478
44	GM	Murshed Niaz	BAN	2407	4,0	2446	2477
45	IM	Mas Hafizulhelmi	MAS	2425	4,0	2422	2448
46		Olay Edgar Reggie	PHI	2348	4,0	2409	2451
47		Garcia Jan Emmanuel	PHI	2292	4,0	2408	2437
48		Wang Li	CHN	2401	4,0	2400	2421
49	IM	Tirto	INA	2417	4,0	2396	2420
50		Tejas Ravichandran	IND	2177	4,0	2384	2395
51		Florendo Paulo James	PHI	2257	4,0	2343	2356
52	IM	Irwanto Sadikin	INA	2447	4,0	2301	2307
53		Salcedo Richilieu	PHI	2203	4,0	2293	2318
54	FM	Segarra Randy	PHI	2316	4,0	2292	2321
55		Arroyo Christian	PHI	2213	3,5	2412	2420
56		Lluch Victor	PHI	2260	3,5	2371	2383
57		Portugalera Ric	PHI	2240	3,5	2355	2392
58		Lkhamsuren Uuganbayar	MGL	2038	3,5	2340	2352
59		Legaspi Rhobel	PHI	2358	3,5	2309	2324
60		Andador Rolando	PHI	2286	3,5	2308	2335
61	IM	Bancod Ronald	PHI	2356	3,5	2274	2292
62	FM	Chua Zheng Yuan Terry	SIN	2250	3,0	2400	2406
63	FM	Simanjuntak Sebastian	INA	2260	3,0	2389	2403
64		Li Panru	CHN	2146	3,0	2376	2393
65		Morazo John Ranel	PHI	2133	3,0	2374	2384
66		Ochoa Carl Victor	PHI	2276	3,0	2346	2382
67		Pascua Haridas	PHI	2359	3,0	2331	2346
68		Mariano Nelson III	PHI	2092	3,0	2311	2339
69		Causo Deniel	PHI	2367	3,0	2275	2289
70		Diez Allan	PHI	0	2,5	2286	2313
71	FM	Castellano Christopher	PHI	2295	2,5	2252	2288
72		Fernandez Dandel	PHI	2066	2,0	2311	2327
73	WIM	Nadig Kruttika	IND	2361	2,0	2285	2309
74		Chua Aaron	MAS	2116	1,5	2118	2249