Aeroflot World Blitz Championship Qualifying : 5 th place finished for Wesley So!! Mamedyarov clinch title .

Wesley So of the Philippines score a total of 13 points out of 18 on six wins 3 draws and no loss to finished a strong fifth at the end of the World Blitz Chess Qualifying Tournament held February 17 at complex "Izmailovo".  So defeated 2011 Aeroflot champion GM Le Quang Liem 1.5: 0.5; GM Ian Nepomniachtchi (2733) of Russia 1.5 : 0.5 ;

Aeroflot 2011 Final Standings: Back to back title for Le Quang Liem !; Philippine's Darwin Laylo 2nd over-all in Group "B"

 Philippines IM Richard Bitoon; IM Oliver Dimakiling and GM Darwin Laylo, GM Laylo increased his Fide rating by 20 points with a 7/9 performance .Laylo finished 2nd over all.IM Richard Bitoon scored a respectable 5.5/9 to finished in 25th place. Its a 50% performance for IM Oliver Dimakiling as he finished with 4.5 points for 52nd place.


It's back to back title for Le Quang Liem of Vietnam as co-leader Ivan Cheparinov

Aeroflot Round 8: Cheperinov outplayed Le Quang Liem; join his victim for the lead!

Ivan Cheperinov of Bulgaria ended Le Quang Liem unbeaten record,winning a turbulent Classical Kings Indian in 45 moves. Le Quang Liem playing aggressively open up his king side playing g4 on the 11th move, Le was already quality up on the 23rd moves and poised for another win ,until Cheperinov launch a counter attack on the king side.The hard earned triumphed by Cheperinov vaulted him into the lead

2011 Aeroflot "A" Round 7 : Le Quang Liem now full point ahead!

Vietnam's Le Quang Liem defeated Mikhail Kobalia of Russia in only 28 moves of an English Opening,Four Knights variation to pad his lead to one point as his nearest pursuer content themselves to a draw.The Zhou Jianchao-Dmitry Jakovenko; Vachier-Lagrave vs Chanda Sandipan; Evgeny Tomashevsky vs Denis Khismatullin

Aeroflot Round 6 : GM So withdrawing from the tournament ? Four shares Group "B" lead.

GM Wesley So is not playing in the 7th round of the Aeroflot group"A", So was held to another draw in the 6th round this time against FM Roman Necheporenko of Russia, So is now in 54th to 69 th place with only 2.5 points or   a minus 14 FIDE rating points performance. In Group "B',

604 Boards World Record Simultaneous Chess Exhibition by GM Ehsan Ghaem Maghami

GM Ehsan Ghaem Maghami of Iran set a new world record of 604 boards for Simultaneous Chess Exhibition by an Individual. The exhibition took 25 hours from 8th to 9th February 2011 at the sports stadium of the Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran,Iran.

1ST CENTO International Festival:GM Roland Salvador shares title!

GM Roland Salvador of the Philippines finished in a three way tie for first in the 1st CENTO International Chess Festival held February 5-13,2011 at the Grand Hotel

Gomez,takes solo lead, Laylo , six others shares 2nd -8th place; Le Quang Liem still solo leader in Group "A"

GM John Paul Gomez of the Philippines defeated four day leader Alexei Gavrilov of Russia to take the lead after 5 rounds of the 2011 Aeroflot Group "B" for players with FIDE rating of 2549 and below. Seven players shares 2nd -