Julio Sadorra

The team ended in 9th place among 30 teams.

Julio Catalino Sadorra (born September 14, 1986) is a Filipino chess grandmaster.

In 2008, then still an International Master (IM), Sadorra played for the Club Intchess Team of Singapore in the 1st Asian Club Chess Cup held in Al-Ain, Abu Dhabi, UAE, manning Board 2 with an ELO of 2431 where he scored 4.0/7 (+4 =0 -3) for a 57.1% winning rate and a Tournament Performance Rating (TPR) of 2400.

Sadorra, still an IM then, took part in the 10th Dubai Open (2008) held on April 6–15, 2008 and won by fellow Filipino (at that time) GM Wesley So where he finished in a tie for 40th-56th places eventually ending up in 42nd place scoring 5.0/9 posting 4 wins, 2 draws and 3 losses with a TPR of 2387 as opposed to his ELO then of 2455.

His 2 draws were against highly-rated GMs Li Chao of China (2581) and David Arutinian of Georgia (2593) in the 4th and 5th rounds, respectively.

In 2009, Sadorra moved to the United States to pursue an education.

He attended the University of Texas at Dallas on a chess scholarship, where he was a team member that went to the Final Four twice.

Sadorra was part of the University of Texas (UT) Dallas team that won the Pan-American Intercollegiate Championship in 2010, 2011 and 2012.

GM Sadorra participated in the 112th US Open, a 9-round Swiss System event held from July 30 - August 7, 2011 at Orlando, Florida where he tied for 14th-35th places with a score of 6.5/9 (5 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss) where he had an ELO of 2561.

He tied for first place in the U.S. Open Chess Championship in 2013.

He graduated with a bachelor's degree in Business Administration in 2013, and received the title of Grandmaster while pursuing his studies.

GM Sadorra tied for first in the 2013 US Open held in Madison, Wisconsin from July 27-August 4.

His eight wins and one loss put him on 8/9 and he finished tied with eventual winner GM Joshua Friedel and IM Mackenzie Molner.

Friedel and Molner advanced on tiebreaks to a blitz playoff, which Friedel won as Sadorra eventually finished in 3rd place.

Sadorra has represented the Philippines at the Chess Olympiad since 2014.

GM Sadorra has already played for Team Philippines thrice in the Chess Olympiad, 2014, 2016 and 2018 editions where he played Board 1 in all three (3) olympiads:

He also won the Continental class(2) championship at Virginia in June 2016.

Sadorra won the 3rd Washington Chess Congress held on October 5–16, 2016 in Arlington, Virginia.

He actually ended up in a tie with 4 others: GM Gil Popilski, IM Lui Ruifeng, GM Andrey Stukopin and FM David Brodsky all with 6.5/9 (5W 3D 1L) but won the title with better tie-breaks (43).

He won the top prize of US$1,900.00.

He competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2017 where he was seeded 101 and where he lost to the 28th-seeded Super GM Maxim Matlakov, 0.5-1.5.

In 2017, he tied for first with fellow Filipino GM Mark Paragua in the 9th Annual Chesapeake Open with a record of 6-1 (+5 =2 -0) in the tournament that employed no tie-breaks.

Sadorra and Paragua each won US$1,100.00 for their first place tie.

He has coached for the North Texas Chess Academy and UT Dallas.

GM Sadorra, together with GM John Paul Gomez, represented the Philippines in the 5th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games Blitz Men (Chess) held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan on September 17–27, 2017 where the team placed 7th overall with 1 win and 4 draws with Sadorra scoring 3.0/5 with 2 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss as Board 1 player.

After the 2018 edition, Sadorra has already recorded 12 wins, 14 draws and 4 losses for a total of 19 points in 30 games (63.3%).

Sadorra has already taken part in four (4) editions of the Asian Individual Chess Championship also known as the Asian Continental Championship:

Overall, Sadorra already has a total of 21½ points in 40 games (53.8% winning percentage) on the strength of 15 wins, 13 draws and 12 losses.

He has taken part in two (2) editions of the PRO Chess League: