The Philippines International Chess Championship 2015 was organized by the National Chess Federation of the Philippines from November 9th to November 14th, 2015, in Subic Bay Peninsular Hotel, in Olongapo City, in the Philippines.
The event was a 10-round Swiss open tournament with an average Elo rating 2434 and tempo of play 90’ + 30”.
Ukrainian GМ Vitaly Sivuk collected 7/9 points to emerge a solo winner with half point advantage ahead of the nearest followers.
The second place was shared in a seven-way tie by GM Anton Demchenko (Russia), GM Anton Shomoev (Russia), GM Boris Savchenko (Russia), GM Abhijeet Gupta (India), GM Chakkravarthy J. Deepan (India), IM Narayanan Sunilduth Lyna (India) and GM Shanglei Lu (China), after the whole group finished the event with 6.5 points.
Final standings (top 30):
1 GM SIVUK Vitaly UKR 2512 7
2 GM DEMCHENKO Anton RUS 2592 6.5
3 GM SHOMOEV Anton RUS 2565 6.5
4 GM SAVCHENKO Boris RUS 2567 6.5
5 GM GUPTA Abhijeet IND 2633 6.5
6 GM DEEPAN Chakkravarthy J. IND 2479 6.5
7 IM SUNILDUTH LYNA Narayanan IND 2481 6.5
8 GM LU Shanglei CHN 2615 6.5
9 IM LIN Chen CHN 2520 6
10 GM SMIRNOV Pavel RUS 2617 6
11 GM ZUBOV Alexander UKR 2630 5.5
12 IM NOLTE Rolando PHI 2417 5.5
13 GM MOZHAROV Mikhail RUS 2573 5.5
14 DOCENA Jerad PHI 2319 5.5
15 GM BELOUS Vladimir RUS 2573 5
16 GM NGUYEN Duc Hoa VIE 2500 5
17 GM LAYLO Darwin PHI 2471 5
18 GM ANTONIO Rogelio Jr PHI 2478 5
19 GM TORRE Eugenio PHI 2468 5
20 GM BITOON Richard PHI 2417 5
21 IM BERSAMINA Paulo PHI 2361 5
22 GM KOTANJIAN Tigran ARM 2479 5
23 IM PURANIK Abhimanyu IND 2443 4.5
24 FM ROHAN Ahuja IND 2411 4.5
25 IM RANOLA Yves PHI 2373 4
26 ABELGAS Roel PHI 2316 4
27 IM DIMAKILING Oliver PHI 2372 4
28 WIM FRAYNA Janelle Mae PHI 2273 4
29 GOTEL Michael PHI 2204 4
30 IM PASCUA Haridas PHI 2462 4