(UPDATE) JULIO Catalino Sadorra caught another super Grandmaster (GM) in A. R. Saleh Salem in presiding over the Philippines' 4-0 carnage of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that kept it on course on eclipsing its best finish in the 45th FIDE Chess Olympiad at the BoK Sports Hall in Budapest, Hungary. Throwing a rarely used line against Salem's pet King's Indian Defense, Sadorra caught his befuddled foe grasping for straws in carving out a 35-move victory that he punctuated by sacrificing a bishop and a knight that left his rival's kingside naked. Daniel Quizon, Paulo Bersamina and Jan Emmanuel Garcia likewise hurdled their respective assignments — Omran Al Hosani, Sedrani Ammar and Fareed Ahmed — in the lower boards that helped the Filipinos ascend to a big group at top 20 with 12 match points apiece. With two rounds to go, the country also stayed in the hunt of replicating, if not eclipsing, its best finish in the biennial meet at seventh in the 1988 edition in Thessaloniki, Greece, where its current coach, GM Eugene Torre, was then its top board player. The Filipinos clash with the 32nd-seeded, all-GM Georgians in the penultimate round hoping to realize that dream. And it was because of this young man named Sadorra, who has been nothing short of spectacular here in the Hungarian capital as he flaunts an unbeaten score of six points out of seven games that included an impressive score of 3.5 points against four super GMs. Interestingly, one of the super GM victims of Sadorra, Russian émigré Vladimir Fedoseev of Slovenia, shocked former world champion and current No. 1 Magnus Carlsen of Norway that same round. Read The Rest at :