Dallas FIDE Open 2013 Rd6 Standings

Rd6 Standings utdallas.edu Spring-fide-open-2013-standings
The strong Dallas tournament has a very international flavor. GM Parimarjan Negi(INA) leads with 5.5/6 with GM Julio Catalino Sadorra(PHI) is second with 4.5/6. IM Hambleton(CAN) has 2.5/6. GM David Berczes(HUN) has 4/6.

Hambleton had a couple of tough losses in rounds 5-6 to fall out of contention after a promising start.

Bio GM Julio Catalino Sadorra Filipinojournal GM-title Sadorra

GM Julio Catalino Sadorra

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The Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation has confirmed the grandmaster title of Filipino Julio Catalino Sadorra during the FIDE second quarter presidential board meeting in Al Ain, UAE early this month.

The US-based Sadorra, a sophomore at the University of Texas-Dallas majoring in Applied Mathematics, earned his third and final GM norm in the UT Dallas Grandmaster Invitational tournament. last March.

The confirmation FIDE, has made Sadorra the 14th Filipino GM. He thus joined the country’s elite circle of GMs that includes the prodigy Wesley So, Eugene Torre, Joey Antonio, Nelson Mariano II, Jayson Gonzales, Bong Villamayor, Rogelio Barcenilla Jr., Mark Paragua, John Paul Gomez, Darwin Laylo, Joseph Sanchez, Roland Salvador and the late Rosendo Balinas.

#	Name	Rating	FED	Total	Country
1	GM Parimarjan Negi	2639	IND	5.5	IND
2	GM Julio Catalino Sadorra	2565	PHI	4.5	PHI
3	IM Salvijus Bercys	2427	USA	4	USA
4	IM David Anton Guijarro	2546	ESP	4	ESP
5	GM Alejandro Ramirez	2535	USA	4	USA
6	GM Ioan Cristian Chirila	2518	ROU	4	ROU
7	GM David Berczes	2526	HUN	4	HUN
8	GM Nijat Abasov	2465	AZE	4	AZE
9	GM Elshan Moradiabadi	2565	IRI	4	IRI
10	IM Kayden W Troff	2407	USA	4	USA
11	GM Valentin L Iotov	2578	BUL	4	BUL
12	IM Darwin Yang	2486	USA	4	USA
13	IM Milos M Pavlovic	2482	SRB	3.5	SRB
14	GM Bartlomiej Macieja	2630	POL	3.5	POL
15	IM Max Cornejo	2370	PER	3.5	PER
16	NM Steven Breckenridge	2291	USA	3.5	USA
17	GM Yaroslav Zherebukh	2623	UKR	3	UKR
18	IM Keaton Kiewra	2415	USA	3	USA
19	FM Samuel Sevian	2373	USA	3	USA
20	FM Jeffery Xiong	2330	USA	3	USA
21	GM Conrad Holt	2504	USA	3	USA
22	IM Alfonso Almeida Saenz	2339	MEX	3	MEX
23	WFM Sarah Chiang	2030	USA	3	USA
24	GM Joshua E Friedel	2502	USA	3	USA
25	FM C J Arvind	2279	IND	3	IND
26	FM Jonathan Chiang	2065	USA	3	USA
27	IM Aman Hambleton	2463	CAN	2.5	CAN
28	NM Artur S Safin	2236	USA	2.5	USA
29	GM Mauricio Flores Rios	2481	CHI	2.5	CHI
30	FM Robby Adamson	2291	USA	2.5	USA
31	WIM Aura Cristina Salazar	2202	COL	2.5	COL
32	Zhichao Li	2145	HKG	2.5	HKG
33	WIM Chardine Camacho	2179	PHI	2.5	PHI
34	FM Tommy O He	2055	USA	2.5	USA
35	IM Arthur Calugar	2299	CAN	2	CAN
36	FM Michael Langer	2211	USA	2	USA
37	NM Francisco Guadalupe II	2214	USA	2	USA
38	FM Michael Feinstein	2229	USA	2	USA
39	NM Faik Aleskerov	2409	AZE	1.5	AZE
40	Leonardo Perez De Aranda	2109	ESP	1.5	ESP
41	FM John N Jacobs	2300	USA	1	USA
42	WIM Daniela De La Parra	1980	MEX	0	MEX