Jayson Gonzales is a Filipino

Philippines

The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

 chess

Chess

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 Grandmaster (2008).

He played for the Philippines in the Chess Olympiad

Chess Olympiad

The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams from all over the world compete against each other. The event is organised by FIDE, which selects the host nation.-Birth of the Olympiad:The first Olympiad was unofficial...

s of 2004 and 2008. In 1998, he won the Southern California Open. In 2001, he tied for 4-5th with Alan Sayson in the Philippine Chess Championship

Philippine Chess Championship

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. In 2004, tied for 3rd-4th with Sergei Tiviakov

Sergei Tiviakov

Sergei Tiviakov is a naturalised Dutch chess Grandmaster.Tiviakov won the Dutch Chess Championship in 2006 and 2007. In 2008, in Plovdiv, he won the European Individual Chess Championship with 8.5/11....

 in the Calvia

Calvià

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 Open and came third behind Jaan Ehlvest

Jaan Ehlvest

Jaan Ehlvest Jaan Ehlvest Jaan Ehlvest (born 14 October 1962 is a chess player, who was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1987 and was named Estonian sportsman of the year in 1987 and 1989...

 and John Fedorowicz

John Fedorowicz

John Peter Fedorowicz from the Bronx area of New York is an American International Grandmaster of chess, and a chess writer....

 in the 88th Marshall Chess Club Championship in New York. In 2008, he tied for 2nd-3rd with Ashot Nadanian

Ashot Nadanian

Ashot Nadanian is an Armenian chess International Master , chess theoretician and chess coach....

 in the 1st Leg ASEAN Circuit Chess Tournament in Tarakan and came second in the 1st Subic International Open Tournament.

In the November 2009 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating of 2441. His handle on the Internet Chess Club

Internet Chess Club

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 is "veracity".

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