2nd Subic International open round 4: Filipinos still struggling; Indian, Chinese still dominating

15 year old untitled Chinese player, Yu Yangyi performing at around 2770 in his last 15 games in Subic.

The 2nd Subic International Championship is not as colorful and well covered as the recently concluded 8th Asian Continental Championship also here in Subic. In fact, some Filipino chess enthusiasts are loosing interest in the tourney. With good reasons. The Philippines top 4 players begged off from the tournament and some top Chinese players returned home for their own national championship. Makes worse by Filipinos continued struggle against their foreign counterparts. Nonetheless the Asian Chess Federation is not abandoning the tournament and still offers live games of top 5 board pairings for the day. Live/replays of games can be view HERE

Going into the fifth round, an Indian and a Chinese leads the tournament, both with perfect score of 4.0 points. So far, IM Julio Sadorra remains the best performer among Filipino players, occupying the 11th spot with 3.0 points a full point behind the leaders. GM Bong Villamayor on the other hand is on the verge of falling to below 2400 Elo rating if he continue to struggle for the remainders of the tournament. Last ACCC, Bong has a performance rating of just 2375. At the ongoing 2nd Subic open, he has thus far a mediocre performance rating of just 2220. Not your usual grandmaster.

Yu Yangyi, the 15 year old Chinese prodigy who finished third place over all last Asian Continental championship continues his impressive runs with a tournament rating performance of 2847. Last ACCC, Yi has a performance rating of almost 2700. Untitled Chinese player, the current leader of the tournament, Xiu Deshun is performing as high as 3156.

Round 5 results is HERE. Round five pairings is HERE.

Rank after Round 4

Rk.		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2
1		Xiu Deshun	CHN	2422	4,0	2570	2579
2	GM	Deepan Chakkravarthy J	IND	2482	4,0	2430	2445
3		Yu Yangyi	CHN	2433	3,5	2596	2609
4	GM	Sandipan Chanda	IND	2558	3,5	2445	2462
5	GM	Dao Thien Hai	VIE	2546	3,5	2435	2448
6	IM	Yang Kaiqi	CHN	2413	3,0	2560	2576
7	GM	Ganguly Surya Shekhar	IND	2625	3,0	2469	2487
8	GM	Rahman Ziaur	BAN	2523	3,0	2460	2518
9	IM	Mas Hafizulhelmi	MAS	2425	3,0	2446	2550
10	GM	Ghaem Maghami Ehsan	IRI	2593	3,0	2442	2457
11	IM	Sadorra Julio Catalino	PHI	2451	3,0	2438	2516
12	GM	Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son	VIE	2588	3,0	2438	2446
13	IM	Tania Sachdev	IND	2423	3,0	2424	2512
14	GM	Megaranto Susanto	INA	2553	3,0	2420	2424
15	IM	Bitoon Richard	PHI	2479	3,0	2399	2445
16		Jia Haoxiang	CHN	2344	2,5	2503	2518
17		Yu Lie	CHN	2307	2,5	2489	2496
18	FM	Priyadharshan K	IND	2411	2,5	2478	2500
19	IM	Nolte Rolando	PHI	2479	2,5	2475	2570
20		Wan Yunguo	CHN	2434	2,5	2429	2502
21		Gao Rui	CHN	2500	2,5	2425	2488
22	IM	Tirto	INA	2417	2,5	2424	2523
23	IM	Zhang Ziyang	CHN	2419	2,5	2406	2520
24	GM	Negi Parimarjan	IND	2592	2,5	2406	2426
25		Lou Yiping	CHN	2410	2,5	2405	2535
26	IM	Nguyen Thanh Son	VIE	2448	2,5	2383	2416
27	GM	Nguyen Anh Dung	VIE	2518	2,5	2373	2386
28	GM	Laylo Darwin	PHI	2509	2,5	2353	2378
29	GM	Kunte Abhijit	IND	2513	2,5	2317	2326
30	GM	Murshed Niaz	BAN	2407	2,0	2480	2494
31	IM	Dimakiling Oliver	PHI	2426	2,0	2467	2571
32	GM	Gonzales Jayson	PHI	2465	2,0	2431	2506
		Wang Li	CHN	2401	2,0	2431	2506
34	GM	Gupta Abhijeet	IND	2570	2,0	2427	2429
35	IM	Ashwin Jayaram	IND	2413	2,0	2426	2501
36	GM	Paragua Mark	PHI	2529	2,0	2413	2419
37		Garcia Jan Emmanuel	PHI	2292	2,0	2385	2477
38	WGM	Mohota Nisha	IND	2304	2,0	2273	2343
39	CM	Nguyen Van Huy	VIE	2423	2,0	2259	2282
40		Senador Emmanuel	PHI	2360	1,5	2560	2581
41		Olay Edgar Reggie	PHI	2348	1,5	2519	2524
42		Habla Jony	PHI	2300	1,5	2512	2518
43		Arroyo Christian	PHI	2213	1,5	2449	2463
44	FM	Simanjuntak Sebastian	INA	2260	1,5	2446	2456
45	FM	Arvind C J	IND	2275	1,5	2438	2479
46		Ochoa Carl Victor	PHI	2276	1,5	2437	2449
47		Milagrosa Alexander	PHI	2227	1,5	2410	2420
48	FM	Chua Zheng Yuan Terry	SIN	2250	1,5	2403	2425
49		Lluch Victor	PHI	2260	1,5	2397	2413
50		Li Panru	CHN	2146	1,5	2394	2414
51	IM	Nadera Barlo A	PHI	2400	1,5	2387	2451
52		Florendo Paulo James	PHI	2257	1,5	2387	2400
53		Fernandez Dandel	PHI	2066	1,5	2382	2401
54		Morazo John Ranel	PHI	2133	1,5	2379	2416
55		Causo Deniel	PHI	2367	1,5	2370	2426
56		Pascua Haridas	PHI	2359	1,5	2356	2409
57	FM	Segarra Randy	PHI	2316	1,5	2353	2483
58		Lkhamsuren Uuganbayar	MGL	2038	1,5	2342	2362
59		Legaspi Rhobel	PHI	2358	1,5	2323	2383
60	IM	Bancod Ronald	PHI	2356	1,5	2322	2411
61	GM	Villamayor Buenaventura	PHI	2474	1,5	2314	2326
62	IM	Irwanto Sadikin	INA	2447	1,5	2290	2297
63	FM	Castellano Christopher	PHI	2295	1,5	2218	2308
64		Bagamasbad Efren	PHI	2283	1,0	2462	2477
65	CM	Nguyen Hoang Nam	VIE	2281	1,0	2446	2458
66		Tejas Ravichandran	IND	2177	1,0	2430	2466
67		Salcedo Richilieu	PHI	2203	1,0	2382	2395
68	FM	Batchuluun Tsegmed	MGL	2391	1,0	2360	2427
69		Andador Rolando	PHI	2286	1,0	2347	2463
70		Portogalera Ric	PHI	2240	0,5	2395	2413
71		Diez Allan	PHI	0	0,5	2393	2412
72		Chua Aaron	MAS	2116	0,5	2374	2387
73	WIM	Nadig Kruttika	IND	2361	0,5	2365	2423
74		Mariano Nelson III	PHI	2092	0,5	2340	2364