GRANDMASTER Mark Paragua settled for a draw with top seed GM Le Quang Liem on Thursday night and dropped into a tie for the lead with Chinese GM Li Chao after six rounds of the Manny Pacquiao Cup Asian Continental Chess Championship at Midas Hotel in Pasay.
Standings after Round 5: (Open) 4.5 points—GM Mark Paragua (PH); 4.0—GM Julio Catalino Sadorra (PH), GM Le Quang Liem (Viet), GM John Paul Gomez (PH), GM Richard Bitoon (PH), GM Li Chao (Chn); (Women’s) 4.0 points—IM Batkhuyag Munguntuul (Mgl), WGM Mary Ann Gomes (Ind), WGM Guo Qi (Chn), WGM Wang Jue (Chn); 3.5—WGM Huang Qian (CHn), WGM Nafisa Muminova (Uzb), IM Pham Le Thao Nguyen (Viet), WIM Ni Shiqun (Chn), WGM Tan Zhongyi (Chn), WFM Marie Antoinette San Diego (PH)
Super Grandmaster Wesley So continued to make the Philippines proud by ruling the recent 2013 Calgary International Chess Classic in Calgary, Canada.
Filipino Grandmaster Julio Catalino Sadorra continued his rampage in the Manny Pacquiao Cup Asian Continental Chess Championship by dumping erstwhile co-leader GM Mohammed Al-Sayed of Qatar in the fourth round Tuesday night at Midas Hotel in Pasay City.
STREAKING Filipino Grandmaster Julio Catalino Sadorra trounced Chinese International Master Wang Chen Monday night to share the top with Qatari GM Mohammed Al-Sayed in the $100,000 Manny Pacquiao Cup Asian Continental Chess Championships at Midas Hotel in Pasay City.
UNHERALDED Emmanuel Emperado claimed his second straight Grandmaster victim Sunday night to hog the limelight in the Manny Pacquiao Cup Asian Continental Chess Championship at Midas Hotel in Pasay City.
UNITED States-based Julio Catalino Sadorra and fellow Filipino grandmasters Mark Paragua, John Paul Gomez and Richard Bitoon won their opening-round matches Saturday night in the $100,000 Manny Pacquiao Cup Asian Continental Chess Championship at Midas Hotel and Casino in Pasay City.
THE STAGING of the Asian Continental Chess Championship got a massive boost with boxing icon and Sarangani Rep. Manny Pacquiao throwing his support behind the event slated May 18 to 27 at Midas Hotel in Pasay City.
THE COUNTRY’S top players, led by super Grandmaster Wesley So, will join the $100,000 Manny Pacquiao Cup Asian Continental Open and Women’s Chess Championships set May 18 to 26 at Midas Hotel in Pasay City.
GRANDMASTER Wesley So opted for a quick draw with GM Pavel Eljanov Wednesday night and settled for a three-way tie for first with his Ukrainian foe and Egyptian GM Bassem Amin in the Reykjavik Open in Iceland.
FILIPINO Grandmaster Wesley So downed GM Marcin Dziuba of Poland in the ninth round Wednesday to share the lead with GM Pavel Eljanov of Ukraine in the 28th Reykjavik Open chess championships in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Standings after Round 8: 6.5 points—GM Pavel Eljanov (Ukraine), GM Wesley So (PH), GM Marcin Dziuba (Poland), GM Grzegorz Gajewski (Poland), IM Wei Yi (China), GM Ding Liren (China); 6.0—GM Yu Yangyi (China), GM Anish Giri (The Netherlands), GM Ivan Cheparinov (Bulgaria), GM Ivan Cheparinov (Bulgaria), GM Mustafa Yilmaz (Turkey), GM Nils Grandelius (Sweden), GM Erwin L’ami (The Netherlands), GM David Navara (Czech Republic), GM Hannes Stefansson (Iceland), GM Bassem Amin (Egypt), IM Sopiko Guramishvili (Georgia)
ASIA’S first Grandmaster Eugene Torre was conferred the Fide Senior Trainer title by the World Chess Federation (Fide) at its Presidential Board meeting last month in Armenia.
