Asia Continental Chess Championship 2010

Asia Continental Chess Championship 2010
participants and pairings

For yet another year The Philippines Chess Federation is holding the Asia Continental Chess Championships. The 2010 edition of the competition is going to take place in Subic, April 21-30 and the opening ceremony date will coincide with the opening of the WCC match Topalov – Anand. The Asia Continental will feature a large prize fund of 65 000 USD, of which 50 000 for the open section, and 15 000 for the women.

A total of 32 Grandmasters, 23 International masters, and a total of 63 titled participants start at the men section of the Asia Continental Chess Championship. Top rated Le Quang Liem and Krishnan Sasikiran have close competitors – local hero Wesley So, top Chinese Ni Hua, Pentala Harikrishna, Zhou Jianchao, Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son, Li Chao B, Zhang Zhong, and GN GOpal, all rated above 2600. Here are the pairings for round 1.

Results round 1

1 IM KUDERINOV Kirill 1 – 0 GM LE Quang Liem
2 GM SASIKIRAN Krishnan 1 – 0 IM DIMAKILING Oliver
3 IM WOHL Aleksandar H 0 – 1 GM NI Hua
4 GM SO Wesley 1 – 0 IM NGUYEN Thanh Son
5 LOU Yiping 1 – 0 GM HARIKRISHNA P
6 GM ZHOU Jianchao 1 – 0 IM GOH Weiming
7 IM DUONG The Anh ½ – ½ GM NGUYEN Ngoc Truong Son
8 GM LI Chao B 1 – 0 WAN Yunguo
9 IM NOLTE Rolando 0 – 1 GM GEETHA Narayanan Gopal
10 GM ZHANG Zhong ½ – ½ IM NADERA Barlo A
11 SENADOR Emmanuel 0 – 1 GM ZHOU Weiqi
12 GM GHAEM MAGHAMI Ehsan 1 – 0 DARINI Pouria
13 IM GINTING Nasib 0 – 1 GM YU Yangyi
14 GM ANTONIO Rogelio Jr 1 – 0 IM YANG Kaiqi
15 WANG Chen 0 – 1 GM DING Liren
16 GM GUPTA Abhijeet 1 – 0 WANG Li
17 FM PASCUA Haridas 0 – 1 GM RAHMAN Ziaur
18 GM LAYLO Darwin 1 – 0 FM BATTULGA Namkhai
19 ZENG Chongsheng 0 – 1 GM MEGARANTO Susanto
20 GM DAO Thien Hai 1 – 0 LU Yijie

More info here: http://previews.chessdom.com/asia-continental-chess-2010