MALAYSIAN CHESS FESTIVAL 2011: August 2011

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Klang Valley Koalas

Muminova Nafisa heads the all ladies team - Klang Valley Koalas

Looking at the final round pairing

Quick cat nap

It takes great skill to steal a few minute sleep just before the next round starts.

Watching soap

Watching Youtube chinese soap operas on ipad while waiting for results

Monday, August 29, 2011

Bulletin team hard at work

The Malaysian Open bulletin team working hard to meet the deadline to come up with bulletins fast.

Sunday, August 28, 2011

Despite the previous events like Rapid Individual, Blitz and Merdeka Team, these kids still can’t get enough chess just before the prize giving of the last event in the Malaysian Chess Festival - Merdeka Team.

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Strongest Rapid in Malaysia

Malaysian Open over but festival marches on

DATMO final standings

The winner of the Malaysian Open GM Li Shilong with 7.5/9.

DATMO live prize giving

Stream videos at Ustream

Lu Shanglei–GM norm

Unofficially Lu Shanglei should get the GM norm for his performance here at DATMO 2011. Confirmation at the prize giving later..

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Waiting for final results

Ian Udani

Ian Udani is all smiles just before his game against GM Saidali.

Ian won by the way..

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Le Tengjie

Le Tengjie of China ELO 2061 doing well by drawing against GM Darwin Laylo in Round 8.

Zaidan Zulkipli

Zaidan was sharing the leading up to round 7 but a loss against Muhd Syazwan gave S M Sharon the sole lead after round 8.

Dato Tan participating in KL Open?

Dato Tan may be participating in the upcoming KL Open from Sept 4-11.

Happy belated Birthday Sri Shivakumar

Round 8 results

Off form GM?

GM Darwin Laylo not doing so well in DATMO 2011 with a draw against a 2000 player in the penultimate round.

Ian Udani

Our strongest “local foreigner” Ian Udani vs Gupreet Singh in Round 8.

Brother vs brother

Elgin Lee vs William Lee in Round 8.

Still fighting

WIM Nguyen Thi Mai Hung still fighting to survive with her 2 Rooks vs Mark’s Queen.

Time Trouble

Round 8. WGM Ju Wenjun on board 8 vs IM Oliver Dimakiling who is on top form in this tournament. Oliver has 44 minutes vs Wenjun’s 40 seconds.

Swensen’s Under 8 winners

Under 18 winners

Swensen’s Age Group Under 18 winners

Swensen’s Age Group

The Iran showed a strong support for this year’s Swensen’s Age group sending 30 representatives to participate. Many of them won prizes and went home happy.

Who is the pretty girl talking to the Chief Arbiter

Quah Seng Sun

Chess journalist, Quah Seng Sun doing well keeping his head above water with a 50% score in a tough KLK Tan Sri Loy Seng Seniors tournament which includes 1 GM, 4 IMs, an FM and a WFM.

Mark Siew

Mark Siew in an interesting position with Q + pawns vs WIM Nguyen Thi Mai Hung’s 2 R + pawns in Round 8.

Interesting final position

Position from Board 31, Round 6 – Wang Yiye vs Ismail Ahmad.

Black resigns here with White to move. Nd6 is the most probably move as it iswhere White weaves a mating net with just 2 Knights.

Dato Tan vs FM Peter Long

Monday, August 22, 2011

Round 6 live cam

Video streaming by Ustream

Sunday, August 21, 2011

MALAYSIAN CHESS FESTIVAL 2011 BLITZ CHAMPIONSHIP

TOURNAMENT DETAILS

Venue - Ballroom, CitiTel Midvalley Hotel

Date - Thursday, 25^th August 2011

Time - 2:30pm

Entry Fee - RM 30 (All players)

Prizes - For TOP 16 players

TOURNAMENT FORMAT

Time Control - 5 minutes to finish

Preliminary Round - 9 Round Swiss

Top 8 Qualify for Knock-out Stage

Knock Out Stage - One game decider / Players to draw colors before start

If draw, player change color and continue with Armageddon tie break

- White has 5 minutes and black has 4 but only needs a draw to win.

Semi Final / Final - Race to 2 games

In case of a tie (1-1), player redraws color for sudden death decider

If still tied, draw for color to continue with Armageddon tie break

- White has 5 minutes and black has 4 but only needs a draw to win.

PRIZE MONEY

Qualifier for Knock-Out stage:

Champion - RM 400 (1 player)

2^nd - RM 250 (1 player)

Semi Finalist - RM 125 each (2 players)

Qualifiers (First Round) - RM 70 each (4 players)

Preliminary Winners

Top 9 – 16 - RM 40 each (8 players)

TOTAL PRIZE FUND = RM 1,500 (16 players)

For enquiries and registration, please kindly approach Mr Hadi Hamid at the Bulletin’s Table

GM Li Shilong leads Malaysian Open

GM Li Shilong became the sole leader of the Malaysian Open 2011 after defeating IM Oliver Barbosa in the fifth round. He will be meeting his closest rival, IM Oliver Dimakiling who is just half a point behind him in Round 6.

Round 4 on 2011/08/20 at 09:00

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	6	IM	Lu Shanglei	2526	3		3	IM	Dimakiling Oliver	2414	21
2	16	GM	Wang Rui	2436	3		3	GM	Li Shilong	2520	7
3	36		Wang Jue	2294	3		3	IM	Barbosa Oliver	2514	9
4	20	IM	Irwanto Sadikin	2417	2½		2½	GM	Cao Sang	2533	3
5	4	GM	Laylo Darwin	2528	2½		2½		Vakhidov Jahongir	2392	23
6	14		Wan Yunguo	2462	2½		2½		Bai Jinshi	2151	49
7	18		Yu Ruiyuan	2431	2½		2½	IM	Rolando Nolte	2433	17
8	2	GM	Sanchez Joseph	2534	2		2½	IM	Morris James	2300	34
9	32		Olay Edgar Reggie	2303	2		2	GM	Wen Yang	2558	1
10	5	GM	Salvador Roland	2527	2		2	FM	Kojima Shinya	2300	35
11	10	GM	Dao Thien Hai	2492	2		2	IM	Lim Yee-Weng	2253	41
12	40	CM	Wang Yiye	2262	2		2	IM	Nguyen Duc Hoa	2452	15
13	38	FM	Yee Soon Wei	2281	2		2	IM	Gao Rui	2420	19
14	22	IM	Yu Lie	2414	2		2	WIM	Nguyen Thi Mai Hung	2276	39
15	24	WGM	Zhang Xiaowen	2389	2		2	WFM	Zhai Mo	2198	45
16	44		Goswami Vedant	2199	2		2	IM	Lane Gary W	2369	25
17	26		Jia Haoxiang	2369	2		2		Tan Justin	2161	46
18	27	IM	Sharma Dinesh K	2350	2		2		Lim Zhuo Ren	2155	47
19	28	FM	Ikeda Junta	2349	2		2		Gurpreet Pal Singh	0	93
20	30	WIM	Muminova Nafisa	2319	2		2		Sinha Sudhir Kumar	0	94
21	66		Lee Kah Meng Elgin	1985	2		2		Udani Ian	2307	31
22	8	WGM	Ju Wenjun	2515	1½		1½		Cai Jiaying	2094	53
23	51		Subramaniam Sumant	2117	1½		1½	IM	Bitoon Richard	2491	11
24	12	GM	Iuldachev Saidali	2482	1½		1½		Ong Way Justin	2041	56
25	48		Chen Yibo	2152	1½		1½	GM	Gasanov Eldar	2472	13
26	55		Lei Tingjie	2061	1½		1½	FM	Cheng Bobby	2323	29
27	78		Li Ting Tan	1846	1½		1½		Pitra Andika	2303	33
28	87		Narayanan Renitha	1717	1½		1½	FM	Wallis Christopher	2287	37
29	42		Mariano Nelson Iii	2242	1½		1½		Iskandar Bin Abdullah	1956	69
30	68	WFM	Milligan Helen	1965	1		1	IM	Salcedo Richilieu	2222	43
31	70		Qiu Mengjie	1941	1		1		Li Panru	2135	50
32	52		Zulfic Fedja	2098	1		1		Wolfaardt Francois	1780	83
33	72		Klein Gernot Dr	1919	1		1		Chong Chor Yuen	2071	54
34	74		Shinoda Taro	1897	1		1		Gibbons Robert	2034	57
35	58		Nakamura Naohiro	2033	1		1		Adeimi Michel	1895	75
36	85		Loh Zachary	1769	1		1		Cheah Cheok Fung	2008	61
37	62		Lee Kai Jie Edward	2008	1		1		Kumar Sri Shiva	1705	88
38	97		Tumpak Sinurat	0	1		1		Bennett Hilton	1994	63
39	64		Ismail Ahmad	1989	1		1		Watanabe Keisuke	0	98
40	96		Tanuwidjaja Gunawan	0	1		1		Siew Kit-Tze Mark	1972	67
41	59	WIM	Guo Emma	2029	½		½		William Lee Kah Howe	1800	81
42	60		Zelesco Karl	2013	½		½		Yong Han Shawn	1824	79
43	77		Ajeet Singh Roshan	1864	½		½		Lee T H Bryan	1988	65
44	82		Ravry Kazoune	1784	½		½	CM	Goundar Sanmogam	1934	71
45	86		Camilia Bt Johari	1753	½		½		Limono Handjojo	1916	73
46	89		Karunanayake Mayuri Pamoda	1667	½		½	WCM	Nur Nabila Azman Hisham	1894	76
47	95		Suharto Moh Wahyu Repelita	0	½		0		Kia Fatemeh	1772	84
48	80		Marret Benjamin	1821	0		0		Greenwood Martin	0	92
49	91		Ding Tze How Dilwen	1486	0		0		Tan Fischer	1560	90

DATMO: Round 3 results

Round 3 on 2011/08/19 at 15:00

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	3	GM	Cao Sang	2533	2	½ - ½	2		Yu Ruiyuan	2431	18
2	19	IM	Gao Rui	2420	2	0 - 1	2	IM	Lu Shanglei	2526	6
3	7	GM	Li Shilong	2520	2	1 - 0	2	IM	Yu Lie	2414	22
4	9	IM	Barbosa Oliver	2514	2	1 - 0	2	WGM	Zhang Xiaowen	2389	24
5	21	IM	Dimakiling Oliver	2414	2	1 - 0	2	GM	Dao Thien Hai	2492	10
6	34	IM	Morris James	2300	2	½ - ½	2		Wan Yunguo	2462	14
7	15	IM	Nguyen Duc Hoa	2452	2	0 - 1	2		Wang Jue	2294	36
8	93		Gurpreet Pal Singh	0	2	0 - 1	2	GM	Wang Rui	2436	16
9	1	GM	Wen Yang	2558	1½	½ - ½	1½	IM	Sharma Dinesh K	2350	27
10	29	FM	Cheng Bobby	2323	1½	0 - 1	1½	GM	Laylo Darwin	2528	4
11	31		Udani Ian	2307	1½	½ - ½	1½	GM	Salvador Roland	2527	5
12	49		Bai Jinshi	2151	1½	1 - 0	1½	WGM	Ju Wenjun	2515	8
13	17	IM	Rolando Nolte	2433	1½	1 - 0	1½		Li Ting Tan	1846	78
14	37	FM	Wallis Christopher	2287	1½	0 - 1	1½	IM	Irwanto Sadikin	2417	20
15	23		Vakhidov Jahongir	2392	1½	1 - 0	1½		Mariano Nelson Iii	2242	42
16	94		Sinha Sudhir Kumar	0	1½	½ - ½	1½		Jia Haoxiang	2369	26
17	50		Li Panru	2135	1	0 - 1	1	GM	Sanchez Joseph	2534	2
18	11	IM	Bitoon Richard	2491	1	½ - ½	1		Chen Yibo	2152	48
19	13	GM	Gasanov Eldar	2472	1	½ - ½	1		Subramaniam Sumant	2117	51
20	25	IM	Lane Gary W	2369	1	1 - 0	1		Zulfic Fedja	2098	52
21	54		Chong Chor Yuen	2071	1	0 - 1	1	FM	Ikeda Junta	2349	28
22	61		Cheah Cheok Fung	2008	1	0 - 1	1	WIM	Muminova Nafisa	2319	30
23	63		Bennett Hilton	1994	1	0 - 1	1		Olay Edgar Reggie	2303	32
24	33		Pitra Andika	2303	1	½ - ½	1		Lei Tingjie	2061	55
25	35	FM	Kojima Shinya	2300	1	1 - 0	1		Nakamura Naohiro	2033	58
26	83		Wolfaardt Francois	1780	1	0 - 1	1	FM	Yee Soon Wei	2281	38
27	39	WIM	Nguyen Thi Mai Hung	2276	1	1 - 0	1		Lee Kai Jie Edward	2008	62
28	98		Watanabe Keisuke	0	1	0 - 1	1	CM	Wang Yiye	2262	40
29	41	IM	Lim Yee-Weng	2253	1	1 - 0	1		Ismail Ahmad	1989	64
30	43	IM	Salcedo Richilieu	2222	1	0 - 1	1		Lee Kah Meng Elgin	1985	66
31	88		Kumar Sri Shiva	1705	1	0 - 1	1		Goswami Vedant	2199	44
32	45	WFM	Zhai Mo	2198	1	1 - 0	1	WFM	Milligan Helen	1965	68
33	46		Tan Justin	2161	1	1 - 0	1		Tanuwidjaja Gunawan	0	96
34	47		Lim Zhuo Ren	2155	1	1 - 0	1		Tumpak Sinurat	0	97
35	76	WCM	Nur Nabila Azman Hisham	1894	½	0 - 1	½	GM	Iuldachev Saidali	2482	12
36	53		Cai Jiaying	2094	½	1 - 0	½		Ajeet Singh Roshan	1864	77
37	56		Ong Way Justin	2041	½	1 - 0	½		Ravry Kazoune	1784	82
38	57		Gibbons Robert	2034	½	½ - ½	½		Loh Zachary	1769	85
39	65		Lee T H Bryan	1988	½	0 - 1	½		Narayanan Renitha	1717	87
40	69		Iskandar Bin Abdullah	1956	½	1 - 0	½		Suharto Moh Wahyu Repelita	0	95
41	79		Yong Han Shawn	1824	0	½ - ½	0	WIM	Guo Emma	2029	59
42	81		William Lee Kah Howe	1800	0	½ - ½	0		Zelesco Karl	2013	60
43	67		Siew Kit-Tze Mark	1972	0	1 - 0	0		Marret Benjamin	1821	80
44	84		Kia Fatemeh	1772	0	0 - 1	0		Qiu Mengjie	1941	70
45	71	CM	Goundar Sanmogam	1934	0	½ - ½	0		Camilia Bt Johari	1753	86
46	90		Tan Fischer	1560	0	0 - 1	0		Klein Gernot Dr	1919	72
47	73		Limono Handjojo	1916	0	½ - ½	0		Karunanayake Mayuri Pamoda	1667	89
48	92		Greenwood Martin	0	0	0 - 1	0		Shinoda Taro	1897	74
49	75		Adeimi Michel	1895	0	1 - 0	0		Ding Tze How Dilwen	1486	91