KL Open 2008

Four Filipino woodpushers are bannering the Philippine flag in the ongoing KL Chess Open 2008 at Bukil Jalil stadium in Malaysia.

GM Mark Paragua, GM Bong Villamayor, IM Julio Catalino Sadorra, and IM Luis Chiong have strong chances of bringing home the honors as they already stamped their class in the very first round of the tournament.

Here is the Round 1 game of GM Bong:

[Event "KL Open 2008"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2008.12.16"]
[Round "1"] [
White "GM Bong Villamayor"]
[Black "Yeap Eng Chiam"]
[Result "1-0"] [
ECO "D46"]
[PlyCount "71"]
[EventDate "2008.09.16"]
[SourceDate "2008.12.16"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. e3 e6 5. Bd3 Nbd7 6. O-O Bd6 7. Nbd2 O-O 8. e4 dxe4 9. Nxe4 Nxe4 10. Bxe4 f5 11. Bc2 e5 12. Bg5 Be7 13. Bxe7 Qxe7 14. Nxe5 Nxe5 15. Re1 Rd8 16. Rxe5 Qxe5 17. dxe5 Rxd1+ 18. Rxd1 Be6 19. b3 Re8 20. f4 Kf7 21. Kf2 g6 22. h3 Ke7 23. Rd6 Rd8 24. c5 Rf8 25. a3 Rd8 26. b4 Rxd6 27. exd6+ Kf6 28. Bd3 a6 29. Ke3 h5 30. h4 Bd5 31. g3 Be6 32. Kd4 Bd7 33. Bc4 Be8 34. Kc3 Bd7 35. Kb3 Be8 36. Ka4 1-0


Here is the Round 1 game of IM Sadorra:

[Event "KL Open 2008"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2008.09.16"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Soon Wai Cheong"]
[Black "IM Julio Catalino Sandorra"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A14"]
[PlyCount "70"]
[EventDate "2008.09.16"]
[SourceDate "2008.09.16"]

1. Nf3 d5 2. c4 e6 3. g3 c5 4. Bg2 Nc6 5. O-O Nf6 6. b3 Be7 7. Bb2 O-O 8. d3 h6 9. Nbd2 d4 10. a3 a5 11. Qc2 e5 12. e3 Bf5 13. e4 Be6 14. h3 Ne8 15. Rae1 a4 16. Kh2 Nd6 17. Ng1 Qa5 18. f4 f6 19. Ngf3 b5 20. cxb5 Qxb5 21. bxa4 Qxa4 22. Qc1 Rfb8 23. Rf2 Qb5 24. fxe5 fxe5 25. Nb1 c4 26. dxc4 Bxc4 27. Ba1 Na5 28. Nbd2 Rf8 29. Nxc4 Naxc4 30. Bf1 Qb3 31. Bg2 Rxa3 32. Kg1 Bg5 33. Nxg5 Rxf2 34. Kxf2 Qxg3+ 35. Kg1 Ra2 0-1 (source: KL Open)