3.3 Asian Zone 2011 Tagaytay City Round 6: Laylo ,maintains solo leadership ; 5 shares Women's lead !

GM Darwin Laylo of the Philippines seeded only 7th ,  maintains the solo leadership after a draw with  veteran Eugenio Torre in the six rounds of the 3.3 Asian Zone 2011.  Kevin Goh Wei Ming (SIN), Mark Paragua (PHI) GM Susanto Megaranto(INA) won their 6th round assignment  to join

2011 FIDE Candidates Matches Final : Boris Gelfand in an unexpected victory! To challenge Anand for the World Championship

With both players contented to draw all the six standard games and fight it out in the Rapid tie breaker. Boris Gelfand accidentally found a novelty in their Gruenfeld game that lead to a brilliant victory in game six to win the final match 3.5 : 2.5  and the right to challenge World Champion Viswanathan Anand of India next year.

Game 1  A. Grischuk            vs   B. Gelfand         draw   QGD  49 moves
Game 2  B. Gelfand              vs   A. Grischuk       draw    English  58 moves
Game 3  A.Grischuk             vs   B.Gelfand          draw   QGD  14 moves
Game 4  B.Gelfand               vs   A.Grischuk        draw    English  18 moves
Game 5  A.Grischuk             vs   B.Gelfand          draw    QGD  39 moves
Game 6  B.Gelfand               vs   A.Grischuk        1 :  0    Gruenfeld 35 moves

3.3 Asian Zonal Chess Round 3: Laylo takes solo lead , Sukandar women's solo leader ;

Darwin Laylo of the Philippines defeated Nguyen Van Huy to take the solo lead after three rounds .Co-leaders GM Mark Paragua and IM Oliver Barbosa draw their game and fell one half point behind together with Cao San and Nguyen Anh Dung of Vietnam

3.3 Asian Zone 2011 Tagaytay City Round 1: 11 year old boy stuns IM Halay , Pascua beat Torre !

The Asian Zone 3.3 Open Chess Championship started May 24,2011 at the Tagaytay International Convention Center,Tagaytay City,Philippines. A total of 48 players(including 12 GM, 11 IM and 11FM) in the Open Division and 36 players (5 WGM , 1 IM, 4 WIM , 7 WFM and 3 WCM)

Asian Youth Blitz Chess 2011 : FINAL STANDINGS :Pascua tops Open 18; Wesley So 2nd! IM norm for Garcia!

Super GM Wesley So join the one day 2011 Asian Youth Blitz Chess Championship winning 4 games with two draws and 1 loss to finished 2nd behind FM Haridas Pascua who scored 6/7. So loss to Urtnasan Nasanjargal of Mongolia