Susanto Megaranto (born 8 October 1987) is an Indonesian

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player. In 2004, he became the youngest Indonesian ever to qualify for the title Grandmaster at 17, beating out

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's record by four years. He won the Indonesian Chess Championship four times in a row from 2006 to 2010. He graduated from Gunadarma University. In 2004 he tied for 2nd-3rd with

Eugenio Torre Eugenio "Eugene" Torre (born November 4, 1951) is a Filipino chess player. In 1974, at 22 years old, he became not just the first Filipino but also the first Asian to qualify for the title Grandmaster. Torre did this by winning the silver meda ...

in the

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in Vietnam. In the same year he tied for first with

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in the

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Masters Open and won the event on tie-break. In 2007 he tied for 3rd-8th with

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, Zhao Jun, Wen Yang,

Darwin Laylo Darwin Laylo (born 1980) is a Filipino chess grandmaster. Laylo won the Philippine national championship in 2004 and 2006. These wins earned him a place on the Philippine teams in the 2004 Calvià Olympiad and in 2006 at Turin. In 2006 he ...

and

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in the

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. In 2008, he tied for 3rd-7th with Marat Dzhumaev,

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and

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in the 5th

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Malaysia Open Championship in

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and tied for 3rd-6th with Nguyen Anh Dung, Irwanto Sadikin and Magesh Chandran Panchanathan in the Kuala Lumpur Open. He took part in the

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, where he was eliminated in the first round by

Lê Quang Liêm Lê Quang Liêm (born 13 March 1991) is a Vietnamese chess grandmaster, the top-ranked of his country. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2006. Liêm is the current Asian champion and was the World Blitz Chess Champion in 2013. ...

. In 2015, he won the first Asian University Chess Championship, which was held in

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.1st Asian University Chess Championship Men's group
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