Posts Tagged ‘Roland Salvador’

MANILA, PHILIPPINES---TWO Filipino chessers made the country's proud by winning first and second in just concluded the 11th Open International de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines International Open Chess Championship in France, recently. The newly RP's 11th Grandmaster Joseph Sanchez also the former coach of child prodigy GM Mark Paragua who now lived in the south of France was actually leading until the last round salvage a draw against GM ... Full story

7.5 points--- GM Karen Movsziszian (Armenia) 6.5 points---IM Roland Salvador (PHILIPPINES), GM Yuri Solodovnichenko (Ukraine), IM Lawrence Trent (England) 6.0 points---GM Alexei Barsov (Uzbekistan), IM Malkhaz Sulashvili (Georgia) FILIPINO International Master Roland Salvador (2464) settled for a draw with eventual champion and second seed GM Karen Movsziszian (2558) of Armenia in the ninth and final round to finish in a tie for 2nd to 4th placers at ... Full story

FILIPINO International Master Roland Salvador moved on to threshold of a Grandmaster title when he beat Croatian IM Filip Ljubicic in the seventh round of 29 E. Crespi 2008 Magistrale in Milan, Italy, yesterday. The former San Jose del Monte, Bulacan resident Salvador and currently based in Milan raise his total 5.0 points, the same output of eight round opponent GM Sinisa Drazic of Serbia, GM ... Full story