{{short description|Filipino chess grandmaster (born 1969)}} {{Infobox chess player |image = Gonzales jayson2 20081120 olympiade dresden.jpg |name = Jayson Gonzales |caption = Gonzales at the Dresden Olympiad, 2008 |country = Philippines |birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1969|5|2}} |birth_place = Quezon City, Philippines |death_date = |death_place = |title = Grandmaster (2008) |peakrating = 2524 (July 2008) |FideID = 5201080 }}
'''Jayson Gonzales''' (born 2 May 1969 in Quezon City) is a Filipino chess grandmaster (2008).
==Chess career== He played for the Philippines in the Chess Olympiads of 2004 and 2008.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.olimpbase.org/players/r9n3fdrg.html|title=Men's Chess Olympiads: Jayson Gonzales|last=Bartelski|first=Wojciech|publisher=OlimpBase|accessdate=25 November 2009}}</ref> In 1998, he won the Southern California Open.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://theweekinchess.com/html/twic201.html#12|title=TWIC 201: Southern California Open|last=Crowther|first=Mark|date=1998-09-14|publisher=London Chess Center|accessdate=25 November 2009}}</ref> In 2001, he tied for 4–5th with Alan Sayson in the Philippine Chess Championship.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://theweekinchess.com/html/twic336.html#5|title=TWIC 336: Philippine National Championships|last=Crowther|first=Mark|date=2001-04-16|publisher=London Chess Center|accessdate=25 November 2009}}</ref> In 2004, tied for 3rd–4th with Sergei Tiviakov in the Calvia Open<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ratings.fide.com/tournament_report.phtml?event16=29510|title=Tournament report January 2005: I Calvia Intl.Open|publisher=World Chess Federation|accessdate=25 November 2009}}</ref> and came third behind Jaan Ehlvest and John Fedorowicz in the 88th Marshall Chess Club Championship in New York.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ratings.fide.com/tournament_report.phtml?event16=30327|title=Tournament report April 2005: 88th Marshall Chess Club|publisher=World Chess Federation|accessdate=25 November 2009}}</ref> In 2008, he tied for 2nd–3rd with Ashot Nadanian in the 1st Leg ASEAN Circuit Chess Tournament in Tarakan<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ratings.fide.com/tournament_report.phtml?event16=11109|title=Tournament report April 2008: 1st Leg ASEAN Circuit Chess Tournament|publisher=World Chess Federation|accessdate=25 November 2009}}</ref> and came second in the 1st Subic International Open Tournament.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ratings.fide.com/tournament_report.phtml?event16=14164|title=Tournament report July 2008: 1st Subic International Open|publisher=World Chess Federation|accessdate=25 November 2009}}</ref>
On the May 2012 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating of 2405. His handle on the Internet Chess Club is "veracity".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chessclub.com/finger/veracity|title=veracity|publisher=Internet Chess Club|accessdate=21 March 2011}}</ref>
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==External links== *{{chessgames player|id=10121}}
{{Filipino GMs}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Gonzales, Jayson}} Category:1969 births Category:Living people Category:Sportspeople from Quezon City Category:Filipino chess players Category:Chess Grandmasters Category:Chess Olympiad competitors