Ngoc Truong Son, So, qualify for the World Cup
By Marlon Bernardino
PhilBoxing.com
Tue, 29 Jan 2013
Wesley So.
Final Standings:
(Open Division, Nine Round Swiss-System/ 42 player's field)
7.5 points---GM Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son (Vietnam)
7.0 points--- GM Wesley So (Philippines)
6.0 points---GM Rogelio Antonio Jr. (Philippines), GM Susanto Megaranto (Indonesia)
5.5 points---GM Mark Paragua (Philippines), Nelson Villanueva (Philippines), GM Eugene Torre (Philippines), IM Bayarsaikhan Gundavaa (Mongolia), FM Gombusruen Munkhgal (Mongolia), GM Cao Sang (Vietnam), GM Darwin Laylo (Philippines)
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(Women Division, Nine Round Swiss-System/ 16 player's field)
6.5 points---WGM Nguyen Thi Thanh An (Vietnam)
6.0 points---Bernadette Galas (Philippines), WIM Medina Warda Aulia (Indonesia), WGM Pham Le Thao Nguyen (Vietnam),
5.5 points---WIM Hoang Thi Nhu Y (Vietnam)
5.0 points---WIM Catherine Perena (Philippines), WGM Batchimeg Tuvshintugs (Mongolia), WGM Hoang Thi Bao Tram (Vietnam), IM Munguntuul Batkhuyag (Mongolia)
Tagaytay City---Filipino Grandmaster (GM) Wesley So did what he was supposed to do: simply draw the opponent in his 9th and final-round match in the just ended Asian Zone 3.3 Chess Championship.
The 19-year-old So, the country?s highest-ranked player and the tournament?s top seed with an Elo rating of 2682, took a break from his studies at Webster University in the United States to compete in the event hosted by Tagaytay City Mayor Abraham ?Bambol? Tolentino Jr. and the city council, settled for a draw with Vietnamese GM Cao Sang after 30 moves of Four Knights Game to finish second of the World Chess Olympiad qualifying tournament yesterday (Tuesday) at the Tagaytay International Convention Center here.
So, finished with 5 wins, 4 draws with a total output of 7 points in the Nine Round Swiss-System Tournament organized by the National Chess Federation of the Philippines (NCFP) headed by it's chairman/president Prospero 'Butch' Pichay Jr. which attracted 42 woodpushers.
"Ok lamang draw tiniyak ko na kasi ang pagpasok sa World Cup," said So, who is scheduled to play next month in the tough Reykjavic Open in Iceland.
Second seed Vietnamese GM Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son toppled GM John Paul Gomez to score 7.5 points and the title and joined So for the World Chess Cup.
So and GM Oliver Barbosa are currently the two Filipino bets in the World Chess Championships.
12-time national open champion GM Rogelio 'Joey' Antonio Jr., who hails from Calapan, Oriental Mindoro playing under the baton of NCFP Director Mindoro Oriental Gov. Alfonso Umali halved the point with last year champion Indon GM Susanto Megaranto after 30 moves of Nimzo-Indian defense to finished in a tie for 3rd to 4th places with the latter's (Megaranto). Antonio and Megaranto, both tallied 6.0 points apiece.
"Talagang nauwi sa draw yung laban. Queen, Bishop pawn end game," said Antonio, top player of Philippine Army Chess Team, undefeated in two International Tournament---PSC and Tagaytay Zonal---with seven wins, eleven draws.
"Pinilit kong manalo pero nauwi talaga sa draw," added Antonio, next International Tournament is in Vietnam on March.
Rounding up to the top eleven (11) finishers were GM Mark Paragua (Philippines), Nelson Villanueva (Philippines), GM Eugene Torre (Philippines), IM Bayarsaikhan Gundavaa (Mongolia), FM Gombusruen Munkhgal (Mongolia), GM Cao Sang (Vietnam) and GM Darwin Laylo (Philippines).
Villanueva defeated Malaysian Yeoh Li Tian and earned his outright Fide Master title.
In other results, Paragua beat IM Nguyen Duc Hoa of Vietnam, Torre subdued IM Nguyen Van Huy of Vietnam, Gundavaa beat GM Richard Bitoon, Munkhgal drew Laylo.
Fide Master Mari Joseph Turqueza, stalwart of San Sebastian College halved the point with IM Farid Firman Syah of Indonesia after 32 moves of Queens Pawn game to scored 5.0 points and obtained his first International Master result.
Michael Gotel, Ateneo chess coach and Nelson 'Elo' Mariano III, UE chess trainer and playing under the banner of Chesskidzllp, agreed their game into a 31 moves draw of King's Indian skirmish to enroute their outright Fide Master Title after tallying 4.5 points apiece.
Joining Villanueva, Gotel and Mariano III for the outright FM Title is Manny Yu of GMA-Cavite, who held IM Oliver Dimakiling into a draw after 42 pushes of French defense to finished 4.5 points.
Meanwhile, WGM Nguyen Thi Thanh An of Vietnam bowed to WIM Catherine Perena of the Philippines but still this year's women's division champion and advanced to the Women's World Chess Championships with 6.5 points.
Bernadette Galas of the Philippines, meanwhile defeated WGM Hoang Thi Bao Tram of Vietnam to gain her outright Woman International Master title. Galas finished 6.0 points, the same output of WGM Pham Le Thao Nguyen of Vietnam and WIM Medina Warda Aulia of Indonesia.
Galas, a graduating high school student from Gen. Pio del Pilar in Makati City is the youngest Woman International Master at the age of 16.
NCFP Chairman/ President Prospero 'Butch' Pichay Jr. elated the feat of (Wesley) So and (Bernadette) Galas. -Marlon Bernardino-
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