Australian IM Zong Yuan Zhao has had a pretty remarkable 3 months since traveling to the FIDE World Cup Knockout as the Oceania Champion. After being knocked out in Rd 1 by Magnus Carlsen (who just tied for first at Corus btw), he went on to win the December 1st Saturday Tournament in Hungary (GM Norm No.1), then win the Cerrado GM Event in Spain (GM Norm No.2) and is now on 4.5/6 at the
Gibraltar Masters and is looking good for his third and final GM Norm. He has played 4 GM's so far (scoring 2.5/4) and is paired against GM Mikhail Gurevich in Round 7. Zhao's two big games of the tournament was his Round 5 win over GM Hikaru Nakamura (2670) and his Round 6 draw with GM Alexander Beliavsky (2638). Currently he has a performance rating of over 2700 (shades of the 2006/07 Australian Open!), and if he maintains his form, should easily score another GM norm.
Zhao,Z (2487) - Beliavsky,A (2638) [C93]Gibtelecom Masters Gibraltar (6.7), 27.01.2008
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