Thursday, July 21, 2011

Battle of Grandmasters

2 comments:

rjsolcruz said...

GM Wesley So strikes again! GM Wesley has turned this National Championship into his personal arena - winning the title for the 5th consecutive time. And this year's edition is said to be the toughest of them all as all our foreign-based GMs: Barcenilla, Sanchez and Salvador; came home to test the "new kid in town".

And the changing of the guards has materialized with IM Barbosa and Bitoon sharing the 2nd and 3rd places.

GM Laylo's 4th place finish can also be considred as part of the changing, though Darwin's Theory has already proven that fact not once, and the most recent of which is the topping of the Vietnam Zonal a few years back.

The 5th placer is an interesting figure, GM Eugene Torre - Asia's first GM. The man many quarters have referred to as the old man of chess has again proven that the mind can still do wonderful things and age does not matter. He is actually tied with Darwin with identical 5.5 points. Thus, we can state this as: Darwin's Theory and Eugene's Experience.

GM Joey Antonio and GM Joseph Sanchez scored 5 points a piece for a tie at 6th-7th place.

There goes the our 2011 PHL Team to the SEA Games this November. I hope so.

rjsolcruz said...

I thought that this is just a 9R event, but I thought wrong. It was 13 rounds and the final results are:

Final Ranking after 13 Rounds
Rk. Name FED Rtg Bdld Pts. TB1 TB2 TB3
1 GM So Wesley PHI 2658 Knt 9.0 0.0 54.50 4.5

2 IM Barbosa Oliver PHI 2514 Knt 8.0 1.0 49.50 4.0

3 GM Torre Eugenio PHI 2491 Knt 8.0 0.0 47.50 3.5

4 GM Laylo Darwin PHI 2528 Knt 7.5 2.5 47.00 4.0

5 GM Antonio Rogelio Jr PHI 2565 Knt 7.5 2.5 46.00 3.5

6 IM Bitoon Richard PHI 2491 Knt 7.5 2.0 44.00 3.0

7 GM Sanchez Joseph PHI 2534 Knt 7.5 2.0 43.75 3.0

8 IM Nolte Rolando PHI 2433 Knt 7.5 1.0 43.00 2.5

9 GM Paragua Mark PHI 2545 Knt 6.0 0.0 39.75 3.5

10 GM Gomez John Paul PHI 2529 Knt 5.5 0.0 32.75 2.5

11 GM Barcenilla Rogelio PHI 2518 Knt 5.0 0.5 32.25 3.0

12 IM Garcia Jan Emmanuel PHI 2404 Knt 5.0 0.5 31.50 2.5

13 GM Salvador Roland PHI 2527 Knt 4.0 0.0 22.75 1.5

14 IM Ranola Yves PHI 2377 Knt 3.0 0.0 17.25 0.5