Lotis key biography of jose

Filipino-American chess grandmaster (born 1993)

In this Philippine name, the middle name or maternal family name is Barbasa and the surname or paternal family name is So.

Wesley Barbasa So (born October 9, 1993) is a Filipino and American chess grandmaster, a three-time U.S. Chess Champion, and the first World Fischer Random Chess Champion. He is also a three-time Philippine Chess Champion. On the March 2017 FIDE rating list, he was ranked number two in the world and had an Elo rating of 2822, making him the fifth-highest-rated player in history.

In 2019, So said his favorite form of chess is chess960 (also known as Fischer random chess). Later that year, So became the inaugural World Fischer Random Chess Champion after defeating Magnus Carlsen to win the FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship.

A former chess prodigy, So became the youngest player to pass a 2600 Elo rating in October 2008, breaking the record previously held by Carlsen. This record has since been broken by Wei Yi and John M. Burke. In early 2013, So passed 2700 and in January 2017 he became the 11th player to pass 2800 Elo.

So represented the Philippines until transferring to the United States in 2014. He won the 2015 Bilbao Chess Masters, the 2016 Grand Chess Tour title after claiming victory in the Sinquefield Cup and London Chess Classic, the 2017 Tata Steel Masters and the 2021 Grand Chess Tour. He represented the US on board 3 at the 42nd Chess Olympiad, winning team and individual

This is the greeting reserved specifically for me, every time I pass through Immigration at NAIA. I’ve come to view it philosophically. It’s a metaphor, isn’t it? For the next ten days, two- thirds of my experiences here will be surreal. You see, I haven’t made a movie in thirty years, Dolphy’s passing was noted by the entire nation; but yes, okay, I am fat. 

So I smile regretfully and say, “Yes. He’s dead. No.” Commiserating, they smile sadly back at me, slam down the stamp, and I am allowed entry into the planet of poetic topsy-turvy.

As a wanderer with more than one cultural heritage, a person who calls more than one place “home,” I make the ten thousand mile trek to Manila twice a year. It’s a long trip, but … there is no other place in the galaxy where my highly developed sense of the ridiculous can be so perfectly exercised. No other place, where if I die, it will be from laughing.

I’ve arrived with a single piece of luggage. Customs is perturbed. One bag? Ano? Ito lang? (What? That’s all?) They say it jokingly, but the wrinkle between their eyes reveals concern. The normal is eight to ten boxes, not including your actual suitcases. Who comes home with only one bag? A poor person, that’s who! Has the girl they loved in high school, the girl who smiled at them in dark movie theaters, has she fallen upon hard times? They look sorrowfully at me, and I feel bad for disappointing them with my poor display.

Conscious that I’ve just landed, and already I’m letting people down, I head out into the torrid night air. I don’t like to be picked up, “fetched” as they say here, because my flights always get in around midnight, and it embarrasses me to disturb either relatives, or household help, for something as elementary as a ride. Anyway, I prefer the freedom of showing up, or not. I drag my bag over to the airport taxi stand, where I’m greeted with, “Si Lotis Key? (It’s Lotis Key?) Looking car and driver? Downstair bottom level ma’am.” The

It is a dream come true for every Filipino artist to be given a break in Hollywood. Some artists are joining different workshops abroad to develop and to get a chance be part of the prestigious Hollywood.

And with the past few years, more Filipinos were given breaks in Hollywood not just as actors and actress but as well as writers, technicians and directors. Let us recall with this list the names of Filipinos who also conquest Hollywood.

1. Vicente Salumbides – known to be the Second Father of Philippine Movies. He worked as extra at the Famous Players Lasky Studio after the First World War while studying writing, acting and directing.
2. Eddie Romero – a National Artist for Film. He wrote many Hollywood co-production ventures.
3. Cirio H. Santiago – part of Santiagos of Premiere Productions and directed and produced films in Hollywood.
4. Barbara Perez – chosen to lead the Hollywood war movie No Man Is an Island, with famous actor Jeffrey Hunter in 1962.
5. Tetchie Agbayani – after her stint as a Playboy magazine model, she had starred in a few Hollywood fares.
6. Lotis Key – (Dolphy’s former sweetheart). She was part of some productions like Untamed Heart with Marisa Tomei and Christian Slater, and Sweet Revenge with Nancy Allen.
7. Robin Aristorenas – eldest son of the late action star Jun Aristorenas. At these days, he is making waves as editor and graphic artist in most major Hollywood films.
8. Phoebe Cates (mix Filipina and American blood) – won the hearts of many people around the globe before Lea Salonga and Charice.
9. Enrique Iglesias – an international singer, who is the son of famous balladeer Julio Iglesias and Filipino socialite Isabel Presyler.

There are also some who were born in the Philippines and now seen in Hollywood. These are:

1. Lou Diamond Phillips – born in in Subic Bay US Naval Station in Zambales Province in the Philippines to Gerald Cornhulio, a naval officer, and Lucita Ar