Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Asian Continental Chess Championship - Round 6: So, back in form.




I don't want this blog to turn out as a sole Wesley So blog. In fact this blogger has no intention of doing so. But if you are going to check my Google analytics, 7 out of 10 visitors who are visiting this blog indicates that people are hungry about So's progress on the ongoing 8th Asian Continental Championship. Wesley So is just such a phenomena in Philippine chess. One couldn't help writing about him anyway.

Round 6. The most decisive of all Wesley So's game thus far in the tournament. Control aggression, critical, and patient. So gave up his h pawn on his 27th move to gain access of the seventh rank for his rook. Rui resign on Wesley's 32nd move as black will be mated in the next two moves. Black could have simply resign the game on 28th move, Rh1+ but black seems to want to reach the 30 move, to save some face, at least. This is also the first time that So won against 2500 opponent in the championship. So will be facing the "Filipino kiler" of the tournament, IM Al Sayed Moh Mad N of Qatar. Al Sayed defeated Deniel Causo in round 3, GM Eugene Torre in round 4 and GM John Paul Gomez in round 6. Is Wesley next?

In other results, IM Bitoon drew his game against the controversial and scandalous GM Anton Filippov of Ukraine to remain the best performer among the Filipinos in the tourney. GM Rogelio Antonio on the other hand defeated the reigning world junior champion, GM Abhijeet Gupta of India. GM John Paul Gomez, lost for the second time in the tournament against "Filipino killer" IM Al Sayed Moh Mad N of Qatar.

For complete results of Round 6, go HERE. For pairings in round 7, please go HERE.

Need some fixing with the game replayer. Will post the So-Rui game as soon as the problem is resolved.

Rank after Round 6

Rk.
NameFEDRtgPts. TB1 TB2
1GMSandipan ChandaIND25585,025922614
2GMLe Quang LiemVIE25915,025312540
3GMDao Thien HaiVIE25464,525842610
4GMMoradiabadi ElshanIRI25264,525402560
5GMGanguly Surya ShekharIND26254,525122523
6GMAntonio Rogelio JrPHI25184,524662486
7GMYu ShaotengCHN25044,026262638
8
Ding LirenCHN24584,026022607
9IMBitoon RichardPHI24794,025822600
10
Yu YangyiCHN24334,025662581
11GMRahman ZiaurBAN25234,025432565
12GMMurshed NiazBAN24074,025302537
13IMToufighi HomayoonIRI24784,025162557
14IMAl Sayed Moh Mad NQAT24964,025092542
15GMSo WesleyPHI26414,025042506
16GMHou YifanCHN25904,024772488
17GMFilippov AntonUZB25844,024732492
18GMZhou WeiqiCHN25634,024612472
19GMNguyen Ngoc Truong SonVIE25884,024592467
20GMHossain EnamulBAN25314,024292437
21
Xiu DeshunCHN24223,525822598
22IMDimakiling OliverPHI24263,525602567
23
Gao RuiCHN25003,525542596
24GMSasikiran KrishnanIND26823,525432554
25GMLi ShilongCHN25573,525392568
26GMGupta AbhijeetIND25703,525302538
27GMTu Hoang ThongVIE25063,525222569
28GMMahjoob MortezaIRI24983,525072550
29GMNegi ParimarjanIND25923,524932504
30GMKunte AbhijitIND25133,524622489
31GMZhou JianchaoCHN26353,524602466
32GMKazhgaleyev MurtasKAZ26263,524462454
33GMAl-Modiahki MohamadQAT25853,524442451
34GMParagua MarkPHI25293,524312445
35GMMegaranto SusantoINA25533,524112417
36GMNguyen Anh DungVIE25183,524052421
37IMIrwanto SadikinINA24473,025922602
38IMSadorra Julio CatalinoPHI24513,025752592
39GMIuldachev SaidaliUZB24973,025692584
40IMAshwin JayaramIND24133,025652574
41FMVidit Santosh GujrathiIND24413,025552606
42
Wan YunguoCHN24343,025302580
43GMGomez John PaulPHI25383,025212552
44GMLaylo DarwinPHI25093,025182560
45IMHassan AbdullahUAE23223,025172532
46IMKhamrakulov DzhurabekUZB25243,024982513
47FMPriyadharshan KIND24113,024942505
48
Elorta DavidPHI23723,024822502
49IMNolte RolandoPHI24793,024512493
50GMBui VinhVIE25223,024512460
51
Gundavaa BayarsaikhanMGL24613,024502484
52GMTorre EugenioPHI25613,024502459
53GMDeepan Chakkravarthy JIND24823,024322462
54GMGonzales JaysonPHI24652,526272648
55IMHarika DronavalliIND24742,526022615
56
Zhang ZiyangCHN24192,525482590
57FMBatchuluun TsegmedMGL23912,525432554
58FMWahono AwamINA23912,525422548
59
Wang LiCHN24012,525342554
60
Pak EvgeniyKAZ23282,525302546
61IMNguyen Thanh SonVIE24482,525252580
62FMAlhuwar JasemUAE22932,525152520
63IMBancod RonaldPHI23562,524782496
64GMWang RuiCHN24342,524712502
65
Garcia Jan EmmanuelPHI22922,524572468
66
Yang KaiqiCHN24132,524542490
67GMGhaem Maghami EhsanIRI25932,524472452
68GMVillamayor BuenaventuraPHI24742,524272459
69CMNguyen Van HuyVIE24232,025362555
70FMNovita AnjasINA23452,025282535
71
Pascua HaridasPHI23592,025142535
72FMAbu Sufian ShakilBAN23782,025062508
73IMAkshayraj KoreIND24042,025052526
74
Garma EdgardoPHI24212,024932522
75
Olay Edgar ReggiePHI23482,024902499
76
Yu LieCHN23072,024732486
77IMMas HafizulhelmiMAS24252,024702508
78CMNguyen Hoang NamVIE22812,024492456
79
Lou YipingCHN24101,525882607
80FMHoang Canh HuanVIE23781,525212535
81
Jia HaoxiangCHN23441,525022510
82
Causo DenielPHI23671,524992505
83GMKim AlexeyKOR24811,523872393
84
Celis Solomon B IiiMAC20071,024552470
85
Chua AaronMAS21161,024452458
86GMDzhumaev MaratUZB25520,000

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