Torre bows to Akobian in round 7

Philippine Daily Inquirer; Jun 11, 2006

FILIPINO GRANDMASTER EUGENE TORRE LOST HIS BID FOR A top finish by
bowing to GM Varuzhan Akobian of the United States in the seventh
round of the second San Marino International Chess Open Friday at the
Kursaal Congress Centre in Republic of San Marino.

The win gave Akobian 6 points and a tie for the lead with top seed GM
Sergei Tiviakov of the Netherlands, GM Vadim Milov of Switzerland and
GM Merab Gagunashvili of Georgia.

The 54-year-old Torre, who beat Croatian Fide Master Darko Doric in
the sixth round, got stuck at 5 points and dropped into a big logjam
for 8th to 17th places that includes GM Dmitry Svetushkin of Moldova,
the Filipinos eighth and penultimate round opponent.

GM Mark Paragua, FM Wesley So and reigning national champion Darwin
Laylo all scored 1.5 points in the sixth and seventh rounds to tie
Filipino compatriot and newly installed IM Oliver Dimakiling at 4.5
points.

Paragua, 22, the country’s top-ranked player with an ELO rating of
2617, downed WGM Joanna Dwora-kowska of Poland in then sixth round
and settled for a truce with compatriot Dimakiling in the seventh.

So, 12, and the youngest RP member to the Olympiad, halved the point
with GM Salvador Del Rio Angelis of Spain in the sixth then subdued
IM Jacek Stopa of Poland in the seventh.

Laylo, 26, upset GM Viorel Iordachescu of Moldova in the sixth then
split the point with GM Sarunas Sulskis of Lithuania in the seventh.

Dimakiling had earlier yielded to Ukrainian GM Malakhatko in the
sixth.

Another Filipino entry, NM Rolando Nolte, succumbed to GM Vladislav
Nevednichy of Romania in then sixth then beat WIM Katarzyna Toma of
Poland in the seventh to join the 4-pointers.

Torre and Svetushkin were in the company of GM Vladimir Epishin of
Russia, GM Jaan Ehlvest of Estonia, GM Tomasz Markowski of Poland, GM
Vadim Malakhatko of Ukraine, GM Michele Godena of Italy, GM Nenad
Sulava of Croatia, IM Mikulas Manik of Slovakia and IM Parimarjan
Negi of India.

With 5.5 points each were 16-year-old GM Yuriy Kuzubov of Ukraine, GM
Baadur Jobava and GM Levan Pantsulaia of Georgia with 5.5 points
each.

In other Saturday matches, Paragua faces IM Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi
of India, Dimakiling takes on GM Alexander Aresh-chenko of Ukraine,
So battles GM Pawel Jaracz of Poland, Laylo tackles GM Namig Guliyev
of Azerbaijan and Nolte meets GM Stefan Djuric of Yugoslavia. Marlon
Bernardino, contributor
From: Baghdasarian