Wednesday, January 10, 2007 Dimakiling ranked 6th in RP chess
DAVAO City's International Master (IM) Oliver Dimakiling, who holds a FIDE rating of 2481, is currently No. 6 in men's national ranking.
Based on the FIDE Online.Rating.Com, Dimakiling is 302 points behind world No. 1 Grand Master (GM) Vaselin Topalov of Bulgaria who has a rating of 2783.
But the De La Salle University (DLSU) sports management graduate is just 92 points behind country's No. 1 Grand Master (GM) Mark Paragua who has 2,573 points.
Paragua is world No. 234 while RP's No. 2 GM Rogelio "Joey" Antonio Jr., who records 2551 points, is ranked 319th in the world.
RP No. 3 and first Asian GM Eugenio "Eugene" Torre has 2547 points to land at 345 in the world ranking.
Dimakiling is eyeing his second GM norm in the Asian Zonals set to open on Thursday in Vietnam.
Paragua, Antonio and Torre will also compete along with the rest of the 10-member Philippines contingent. (MLSA)
