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Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Philippines Gets their newest Chess Super Grandmaster

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GM Julio Catalino ‘Ino’ Sadorra, the Philippines' 14th Chess Grandmaster (2011), became the Philippines' 3rd Super Grandmaster (SGM) with a FIDE rating of 2605 as of April 2014 FIDE rating list. Sadorra joins the elite group of Filipino Super GMs (2600+) led by Mark Paragua who in Jan 2006 was the 1st Filipino to breach the 2600+ mark with a FIDE rating of 2618 and Wesley So who in Oct 2008 was the 2nd Filipino to breach the SGM mark with his FIDE rating of 2610. -- via philboxing.com


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