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Mas on Board 5 after beating GM Antonio in round 3. He got 2.5 points from Kimberly Jane Cunanan(1), MYA IM Oo Kyaw Tun Nay (.5) and Antonio(1) from 1st 3 rounds. He is playing against Indonesia GM Susanto Megaranto in this round (4). Hope he can keep up his fine run… Wesley ...

Ok. I got the spelling wrong. It should be Filipino, not Philippino as what I found from wikipedia. My apology. More: continued here Powered by SmartRSS

I had updated the top 3 sites where I normally get the results or updates at this blog’s Links, they are: 1. Indonesian Kristianus Liem’s blog. I think he had been very kind to include Mas’s info as no one from Malaysia is in Philippines to cover the updates. 2. NCFP’s official ...

Asia’s 1st GM Eugene Torre is confirmed to play in this tournament. Other players include:Sadorra, Vilamayor, Wesley So, Antonio Jr. Foreign Yuriy Kuzubov of Ukraine & Susanto Megaranto of Indonesia. Taken from The Journal More: continued here

Some results for round 1 of my interest: Wesley won, Mas won, Torre won, Yuriy drew… More: continued here

Looks like the the 2nd Philippines International Chess Open is not only taking a toll on Wesley, the NCFP site is also down Bandwidth Limit Exceeded The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again ...

Finally, the NCFP updated the results. Rank   Name Rtg FED Pts 1 GM Li, Chao 2581 CHN 8 2   Zhou, Weiqi 2560 CHN 8 3 GM Le, Quang Liem 2568 VIE 8 4 IM Sadorra, Julio Catalino 2455 PHI 8 5 GM Villamayor, Buenaventura 2425 PHI 8 6 GM Ghaemmaghami, Ehsan 2604 IRI 7½ 7 GM Mahjoob, Morteza 2488 IRI 7½ 8 IM Purnama, Tirta Chandra 2398 INA 7½ 9 IM Liu, Dede 2398 INA 7½ 10 GM So, Wesley 2540 PHI 7½ 11 GM Antonio, Rogelio 2529 PHI 6½ 12 WIM Zhang, Xiaowen 2361 CHN 6½ 13   Nolte, Rolando 2420 PHI 6½ 14 GM Nguyen, ...

Mistakes in the table from NCFP 5 players actually tied for 1st place and they are: 1-5. GM Li Chao (2581 CHN), Zhou Weiqi (2560 CHN), GM Le Quang Liem (2568 VIE), IM Julio Catalino Sadorra (2455 PHI), GM Buenaventura Villamayor (PHI 2425) 8 6-8. Ehsam Ghaem Maghami (2604 IRI), GM Morteza ...

[Event “2nd Phil. Open Int’l Chess”] [Site “SBECC”] [Date “2008.??.??”] [Round “6″] [White “Jia, H. (CHN).”] [Black “GM So, W. (PHI).”] [Result “0-1″] [PlyCount “58″] [EventDate “2008.??.??”] 1. Nf3 c5 2. g3 Nc6 3. Bg2 e5 4. d3 g6 5. c4 Bg7 6. Nc3 Nge7 7. h4 h6 8. Bd2 d6 9. a3 Be6 10. Rb1 d5 11. cxd5 ...

Mas Lost Again More: continued here

I think the National Chess Federation of Philippines is doing a good job for this tournament. They even have live games for the top 6 boards. Their url is: http://ncfphilippines.org/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1 Well done! More: continued here

Once again, Wesley So kicks start his Chess tournament with a win against Naua. Other top seeds Li Chao, Zhou Weiqi, Megaranto, Antonio, Gomez, Villamayor also won their games. Also, un-confirm news regarding Philippine’s Joseph Sanchez got final GM norm making him the 10th GM of Philippines! More: continued here

2 International Chess tournaments one after the other! I think Malaysian should seriously look at how Philippines develop their Chess talents and learn from them. Just look at how many GMs they produced and how many to come every year. Also don’t forget about Wesley So that going +2600 soon… A  ...

It seems that on 20th last month, there were >100 (actually 101 ) visits to my blog. How interesting. I think that was during my coverage on the Japfa & Wesley vs Susanto match and also the Dubai Tournament… More: continued here Powered by SmartRSS

As perdicted, Wesley So wins Battle of GMs. I am sure we will see more successes from the World’s youngest Grandmaster (hmm…wander how long this will last). 1. So - 8.5 2-3. Torre, Bitoon - 7.5 4. Gomez - 7 5. Antonio - 6.5 6. Sadorra - 5 7-9. Nolte, Barbosa, Donguines - 4.5 10-11. Villamayor, Nouri ...

Too busy to even visit the tournament but luckily Andrew a.k.a. GilaChess is taking part and update the progress at the venue. Happy that I managed to mirror his Twitter updates in this blog (see sidebar). Technology works (with the right people)! More: continued here

With 8 points after 10 rounds and 1.5 points ahead of his closest rivals, Wesley So bagged the Battle of GMs! Most of the latest results are taken from the www.chessgames.com website.                             More: continued here Powered by SmartRSS

Wesley So still leads the battle of GMs after 7 rounds with 5.5 points. He drew with NM Nolte. Following closely is GM Torre. 5.5 So 5.0 Torre 4.5 Antonio, Bitoon, Gomez 3.5 Donguines, Nolte 3.0 Barbosa, Nouri 2.5 Sadorra 1.5 Villamayor 1.0 Gonzales More: continued here

World’s youngest GM, Wesley So still leads after 6 rounds. He drew with NM Nouri in round 5 but continue his winning in round 6 againsts FM Donguines. Placing after 6 rounds are: 1.    Wesley So    5.0 2-3 IM Gomez, GM Torre    4.5 4.    IM Bitton    4.0 5-6    GM Antonio, FM Donguines    3.5 More: ...

Sorry, other results not available [Event “Battle of Grandmasters”] [Site “CITYSTATE Hotel, Manila, PHI”] [Date “2008.04.27″] [Round “3″] [White “Gonzales, Jayson”] [Black “So, Wesley”] [Result “0-1″] [ECO “A38″] [WhiteElo “2468″] [BlackElo “2540″] [PlyCount “79″] [EventDate “2008.04.27″] 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. Nc3 Nc6 4. g3 g6 5. Bg2 Bg7 6. O-O O-O 7. d3 d6 8. a3 ...

Asia’s 1st GM, Eugene Torre put an end to Wesley So’s winning streak with a draw! Results for Round 4: FM DONGUINES 1 - 0 8 NM NOURI 9 GM SO 1/2 - 1/2 7 GM TORRE 10 NM NOLTE 1 - 0 6 GM GONZALES 11 GM VILLAMAYOR 1/2 - 1/2 5 GM ...

Wow! Wesley continue his domination by taking the 1st game from IM Julio Catalino Sadorra. GM Eugene Torre drew with GM Jayson Gonzales in the other featured game. As well as Antonio-Nouri and Barbosa-Villamayor. Gomez won aginst Nolte. Bitoon-Donguines is still unknown. News from Manila Bullettin. More: continued here

Youth Leads… Wesley So and John Paul Gomez leads the Battle of GMs with 2 points… Standings after Round 2 Men: 2 points–W. So, J. Gomez; 1.5–E. Torre, R. Bitoon, N. Hamed; 0.5–R. Antonio, J. Gonzales, B. Villamayor, F. Donguines, O. Barbosa, R. Nolte, J. Sadorra Women: 2–Shercila Cua; 1.5–C. Perena, Sherily ...

Too bad I’m going to miss this I had taken part in both the 2006 & 2007 and in fact my FIDE ratings was obtained from these 2 tournaments. Work commitment is preventing me from taking part as I was originally planned to take part, kind of like repaying the ...

I went visit the Zoo Negara after soooooo… many years. Won’t have gone there if not for the persistency of my son. He had learned it from kinder garden/book/video and is so keen to have a real life experience with this mysterious place called zoo. It had been a while and ...

WIM Irine Kharisma Sukandar (2243, Indonesia) beat WGM Li Ruofan (2423, Singapore) to have a shot for a WGM norm on Sunday. Quite surprising as she managed only 2 points from the 1st half of the tournament. She need 6.5 for the norm. News from Jakarta Post website. More: continued ...

FIDE launched it new website with Global Chess? Anyone have any ideas about this organization? It seems that the url for all the ratings is now changed! If you have any personal cards url posted some where on the Net, it is now 404, the page cannot be found. ~!@#$%^ More: continued ...

Peaceful end for Wesley So & Susanto Megaranto in the 6&last game match. Final result: Wesley So - 4 (1,1,1,0.5,0,0.5) vs. Susanto Megaranto - 2 Irine Kharisma draw the last game against Jana Krivec after being informed that 6 points are enough for the WGM Norm. Congratulation to Irine. Final Standing 1. WGM Li Ruofan ...

An interesting video regarding Wesley and also a short note about player cheating in the Dubai Open using hand phone… More: continued here

Very lucky to witness this historical event in KLCC: Quite heavy downpour this afternoon. Rumours that torch will be sent by van/bus?Finally, runner got into KLCC. FRU are all over the place surrounding the Fountain Area of KLCC where the Closing Ceremony will be held. Torch well guarded by security personnels.   One of ...