So grabs solo lead in Asian Championships
Monday, 26 April 2010 00:00
Filipino Grandmaster (GM) Wesley So clobbered GM Susanto Megaranto of Indonesia in the fifth round to take the solo lead in the 2010 Asian Individual Chess Championships at the Subic Exhibition and Convention Center.
So improved his score to 4.5 points on four wins and one draw in the $50,000 tournament organized by the National Chess Federation of the Philippines.
“He [Megaranto] never used it against me, so he experimented,” said So. “I just want to make the top five,” said So, referring to the five slots to the 2011 World Chess. “If possible I don’t want to drop a match.”
GMs Li Chao and Ni Hua of China and Narayanan Gopal of India stayed within striking distance with four points.
Li stopped giant-killer Allan Macala of the Philippines, Ni beat compatriot International Master (IM) Yang Kaiqi and Gopal outplayed Filipino GM Darwin Laylo.
Fourth round co-leader GM Yu Yangyi of China is still trying to extract the full point against Gupta (3.0 points) at press time.
Also locked in a tight battle are Filipino GM Rogelio Antonio Jr. and Vietnamese IM Nguyen Thanh Son.
Olympian GM John Paul Gomez bounced back in contention at 3.5 points following a victory over IM Kirili Kuderinov of Kazakhstan.
Gomez, a mechanical engineering graduate of De La Salle, is now tied with GM Zhou Weiqi and untitled Yu Ruiyuan, who drew their match, Megaranto and Chinese GM Zhou Jianchao, who bested Filipino IM Oliver Barbosa.
Other Filipino bets were not a lucky.
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So is rocking!