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DATMO: Round 1

2011-08-17T23:07:00.000+08:00

Round 1 on 2011/08/18

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	51		Li Panru	2135	0		0	GM	Antonio Rogelio Jr	2565	1
2	2	GM	Wen Yang	2558	0		0		Subramaniam Sumant	2117	52
3	53		Sinha Sushil Kumar	2101	0		0	GM	Sanchez Joseph	2534	3
4	4	GM	Cao Sang	2533	0		0		Zulfic Fedja	2098	54
5	55		Cai Jiaying	2094	0		0	GM	Laylo Darwin	2528	5
6	6	GM	Salvador Roland	2527	0		0		Polao Ben	2094	56
7	57		Chong Chor Yuen	2071	0		0	IM	Lu Shanglei	2526	7
8	8	GM	Li Shilong	2520	0		0		Lei Tingjie	2061	58
9	59		Ong Way Justin	2041	0		0	WGM	Ju Wenjun	2515	9
10	10	IM	Barbosa Oliver	2514	0		0		Masruri Rahman	2035	60
11	61		Gibbons Robert	2034	0		0	GM	Dao Thien Hai	2492	11
12	12	IM	Bitoon Richard	2491	0		0		Nakamura Naohiro	2033	62
13	63	WIM	Guo Emma	2029	0		0	GM	Iuldachev Saidali	2482	13
14	14	GM	Gasanov Eldar	2472	0		0		Zelesco Karl	2013	64
15	65		Cheah Cheok Fung	2008	0		0		Wan Yunguo	2462	15
16	16	IM	Nguyen Duc Hoa	2452	0		0		Lee Kai Jie Edward	2008	66
17	67		Bennett Hilton	1994	0		0	GM	Wang Rui	2436	17
18	18	IM	Rolando Nolte	2433	0		0		Ismail Ahmad	1989	68
19	69		Lee T H Bryan	1988	0		0		Yu Ruiyuan	2431	19
20	20	IM	Gao Rui	2420	0		0		Lee Kah Meng Elgin	1985	70
21	71		Siew Kit-Tze Mark	1972	0		0	IM	Irwanto Sadikin	2417	21
22	22	IM	Dimakiling Oliver	2414	0		0	WFM	Milligan Helen	1965	72
23	73		Iskandar Bin Abdullah	1956	0		0	IM	Yu Lie	2414	23
24	24		Vakhidov Jahongir	2392	0		0		Qiu Mengjie	1941	74
25	75	CM	Goundar Sanmogam	1934	0		0	WGM	Zhang Xiaowen	2389	25
26	26	IM	Lane Gary W	2369	0		0		Klein Gernot Dr	1919	76
27	77		Limono Handjojo	1916	0		0		Jia Haoxiang	2369	27
28	28	IM	Sharma Dinesh K	2350	0		0		Shinoda Taro	1897	78
29	79		Adeimi Michel	1895	0		0	FM	Ikeda Junta	2349	29
30	30	FM	Cheng Bobby	2323	0		0	WCM	Nur Nabila Azman Hisham	1894	80
31	81		Singh Jagpreet	1874	0		0	WIM	Muminova Nafisa	2319	31
32	32		Udani Ian	2307	0		0		Ajeet Singh Roshan	1864	82
33	83		Yong Han Shawn	1824	0		0		Olay Edgar Reggie	2303	33
34	34		Pitra Andika	2303	0		0		Marret Benjamin	1821	84
35	85		William Lee Kah Howe	1800	0		0	IM	Morris James	2300	35
36	36	FM	Kojima Shinya	2300	0		0		Ravry Kazoune	1784	86
37	87		Wolfaardt Francois	1780	0		0		Wang Jue	2294	37
38	38	FM	Wallis Christopher	2287	0		0		Loh Zachary	1769	88
39	89		Camilia Bt Johari	1753	0		0	FM	Yee Soon Wei	2281	39
40	40	WIM	Nguyen Thi Mai Hung	2276	0		0		Narayanan Renitha	1717	90
41	91		Kumar Sri Shiva	1705	0		0	CM	Wang Yiye	2262	41
42	42	IM	Lim Yee-Weng	2253	0		0		Karunanayake Mayuri Pamoda	1667	92
43	93		Tan Fischer	1560	0		0		Mariano Nelson Iii	2242	43
44	44	IM	Salcedo Richilieu	2222	0		0		Ding Tze How Dilwen	1486	94
45	95		Greenwood Martin	0	0		0		Goswami Vedant	2199	45
46	46	WFM	Zhai Mo	2198	0		0		Gurpreet Pal Singh	0	96
47	97		R Ram Prakash	0	0		0		Tan Justin	2161	47
48	48		Lim Zhuo Ren	2155	0		0		Suharto Moh Wahyu Repelita	0	98
49	99		Tanuwidjaja Gunawan	0	0		0		Chen Yibo	2152	49
50	50		Bai Jinshi	2151	0		0		Tumpak Sinurat	0	100
51	101		Watanabe Keisuke	0	0				bye

Updates in the Malaysian Chess Festival

2011-08-16T16:18:00.000+08:00

With yesterday being the final closing date for the remaining 3 events, the number of participants playing in the Malaysia Chess Festival can now be confirmed as follows:

8th IGB Dato' Arthur Tan Malaysia Open - 96 players (It was 133 players last year)
AmBank Malaysia Chess Challenge - 36 players (It was 52 players last year)
2nd KLK Tan Sri Lee Loy Seng International Seniors Open - 24 players (It was 18 players last year)
Merdeka Individual Rapid Chess Tournament - 76 players (It was 107 players last year)
ASTRO Merdeka Open Rapid Team Chess Championship - 79 teams (It was only 70 teams last year)
SWENSEN Age Group Event - 367 players (It was less than 200 last year)

The number of participants have slightly increased for the Seniors Open event but the ASTRO Merdeka event attracted 9 team more this year compared to last year, and for the SWENSEN Age Group event, the number of children playing is almost double of last year's figure with a plane load of young players coming in from Iran to participate in this year's event.

Although some of the events are registering lesser number of participants compared to last year, the organizer is expecting some last minute entries to be received during the player's meeting tomorrow which may increase the numbers slightly but not drastic enough to exceed last year's participation.

Less than 48 hours to go before Round 1 officially starts....
WELCOME to the 8th Malaysia Chess Festival

Source: DATCC website

Malaysian Chess Festival Official site

2011-08-12T14:30:00.000+08:00

URL : http://datmo.net

2nd KLK Tan Sri Lee Loy Seng 2011 Seniors

2011-08-11T15:38:00.000+08:00

As usual check out the official site http://datmo.net for the latest update on the player's list.

Ambank Challengers 2011 players

2011-08-07T13:57:00.002+08:00

Note that this is the tentative list and may change. Refer to the official website for any updates.

Malaysian Open players 2011 (tentative list)

2011-08-02T19:37:00.003+08:00

The latest participant list for the Dato' Arthur Tan Malaysia Open 2011. The list is tentative and subject to changes.

Please refer to http://datmo.net for the latest player listing.

Closing Dates For Malaysian Chess Festival 2011 Events

2011-07-29T16:52:00.007+08:00

22 July 2011, Kuala Lumpur - The organizers of this year's Malaysian Chess Festival 2011 has made a short announcement of closing dates as follows:-

8th IGB Dato’ Arthur Tan Malaysia Open Chess Championship

6th AmBank Malaysia Chess Challenge

2nd KLK Tan Sri Lee Loy Seng International Seniors Open

01 August 2011

2nd Swensen’s Age-Group Rapid Chess Championship

2nd Merdeka Individual Rapid Open Chess Championship

31st ASTRO Merdeka Rapid Open Team Chess Championship

15 August 2011

To read similar posts, please click here.

(source Abdul Hamid Majid)

Malaysian Chess Festival & DATMO 2011 is on!!

2011-06-04T10:06:00.001+08:00

The Malaysian Chess Festival which includes:-

8th IGM Dato' Arthur Tan Malaysian Open Chess Championship
Malaysian Chess Challenge
2nd Tan Sri Loy Seng - International Seniors Open
Merdeka Individual Rapid Open Chess Championship
31st Atro Merdeka Rapid Open Team Chess Championship
2nd Swensen's OPen Rapid Age Group Chess Championship

You can download all the entry forms for all the mentioned events below.

Download HERE

Tournament website: http://datmo.net

DATMO Titled Norms

2010-09-09T08:25:00.001+08:00

GM Norm

Nguyen Van Huy

IM Norm

Wan Yunguo
FM Nguyen Duc Hoa
Wang Chen
Lim Chuin Hoong
Wang Li
Guo Qi
Yu Ruiyuan

WGM Norm

Guo Qi

Malaysian Open Discovered On Chessdom Website Too!

2010-09-08T13:30:00.001+08:00

8 September 2010, Kuala Lumpur – Discovered that the Dato’ Arthur Tan Malaysian Open 2010 was reported in the Chessdom website today by GM Neelotpal Das, who played in the same event in Kuala Lumpur.

Thank you to Chessdom.com for reporting the DAT Malaysian Open event on your website.

To read more of GM Neelotpal’s report of the event, please visit http://chessdom.com or click here.

Malaysian Open 2010 Found On The Week In Chess!

2010-09-08T10:06:00.001+08:00

8 September 2010, Kuala Lumpur – The recently concluded 7th IGB Dato’ Arthur Tan Malaysian Chess Open 2010 has been seen to be reported on The Week In Chess website!

You may visit the website “The Week In Chess” or click here. A sampling of the chess games up to round 6 can be found there as per the official website http://datmo.net.

DATMO Prize Giving video (recorded)

2010-09-07T23:35:00.001+08:00

DATMO: Live Prize giving

2010-09-07T18:26:00.001+08:00

1st Tan Sri Lee Loy Seng International Seniors Open Final ranking

2010-09-07T17:04:00.001+08:00

Final Ranking after 7 Rounds

Rk.		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	GM	Kayumov Dimitry	UZB	2460	6,5	28,0	26,00	26,5
2		Gross Ronald Joseph	USA	2183	5,0	29,0	18,00	21,5
3	IM	Tan Lian Ann	SIN	2224	5,0	29,0	18,00	20,0
4	FM	Jones Brian	AUS	2079	4,0	29,0	15,00	18,5
5		Lim Kian Hwa	MAS	1959	4,0	28,0	12,75	17,0
6	IM	Giam Choo Kwee	SIN	2145	4,0	27,5	13,00	16,0
7		Chan Kwai Keong	HKG	1867	4,0	26,5	11,75	17,0
8		Ramiah Subramaniam	MAS	0	4,0	21,0	10,00	14,0
9		Quah Seng Sun	MAS	0	4,0	20,0	10,50	13,0
10		Harsh S L	IND	2193	3,5	27,5	11,50	15,0
11		Feng Lin	CHN	0	3,5	27,0	12,50	14,0
12		Choo Min Wang	MAS	1506	3,0	24,5	7,50	14,0
13		Kuich Gero	SUI	0	3,0	19,0	4,75	10,5
14		Kwan Nam Seng Eddy	MAS	0	2,5	21,5	4,50	10,5
15		Ummer Koya P T	IND	0	2,5	20,5	7,50	9,0
16		Dato` Tan Chin Nam	MAS	1349	2,0	23,5	2,50	8,0
17		Brodie James	MAS	0	1,5	21,0	2,00	5,5
18		Sun Lian Zi	CHN	0	1,0	18,5	0,50	2,0

Ambank 2010 final ranking

2010-09-07T16:51:00.001+08:00

Final Ranking after 9 Rounds

Rk.		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1		Magdalaga Luffe	PHI	2050	7,5	53,0	42,75	39,5
2		Kant Rupesh	IND	2159	7,5	49,5	39,25	37,5
3	WFM	Le Thi Phuong Lien	VIE	2151	7,0	50,5	37,50	34,5
4		Ravi Kumar	IND	2182	6,5	54,5	37,50	36,0
5	CM	Zakaria Mohd Fadli	MAS	2055	6,5	46,0	32,75	30,0
6		Tan Ken Wei	MAS	2000	6,0	54,0	32,00	38,0
7		Sharma Harish	IND	2186	6,0	51,0	32,75	32,0
8		Tong Thai Hung	VIE	2069	6,0	51,0	31,25	33,0
9		Wising Abdul Sahim	MAS	1903	6,0	51,0	31,00	32,0
10		Azhar Muhd Irfan Haqqim	MAS	1769	6,0	43,0	25,00	28,0
11		Andin Faizal	MAS	2003	5,5	49,0	25,00	32,5
12		Azhar Muhammad Syakir Shazmeer	MAS	1904	5,5	46,0	24,25	29,0
13		Tham Tick Hong Jax	MAS	2061	5,5	45,5	24,50	28,5
14		Thong Yung Cheng	MAS	1976	5,5	44,5	27,00	27,0
15		Setiawan Iwan	INA	2053	5,5	43,5	23,75	29,5
16		Ting Shih Chieh Alfred	MAS	1768	5,5	42,0	21,00	26,0
17		Kamin Al-Kamil	MAS	1941	5,0	46,5	23,00	27,0
18	FM	Hamal Manish	NEP	2025	5,0	44,0	15,25	28,0
19		Yeoh Thean Jern	MAS	1729	5,0	43,0	20,25	27,0
20		Nithyalakshmi Sivanesan	MAS	1712	5,0	38,5	18,75	22,5
21	WFM	Nur Najiha Hisham	MAS	1795	4,5	46,5	21,50	26,5
22		Chew Yaw Chong	MAS	2005	4,5	43,0	19,75	25,0
23		Tang Wei Kit	MAS	1434	4,5	42,5	16,50	20,0
24		Azhar Puteri Munajjah Az-Zahra	MAS	1403	4,5	41,5	19,25	23,0
25		Madhavan Olivia	MAS	1810	4,5	40,5	16,25	23,0
26		Wong Yinn Long	MAS	1426	4,5	40,0	17,25	22,5
27		Boey Jin Huey	MAS	1305	4,5	39,5	17,50	19,0
28		Tang Kar Khei	MAS	1525	4,5	39,0	15,50	20,0
29		Zakaria Mohd Faisal	MAS	1607	4,5	38,5	14,25	20,5
30		Azhar Puteri Rifqah Fahada	MAS	1604	4,5	38,0	14,00	21,5
31		Yat Guo Jie	MAS	1851	4,0	41,5	16,00	23,0
32		Sidi Rusdi	MAS	1525	4,0	41,5	14,75	21,0
33		Yap Wan Lin	MAS	1377	4,0	41,0	17,25	20,5
34		Lucas Charles	MAS	1930	4,0	39,5	13,50	19,0
35		Liew Ken Yew	MAS	1783	4,0	37,5	13,75	21,5
36		Teh De Juan	MAS	1460	4,0	36,5	14,00	19,0
37		Chi Yin Phin	MAS	1369	4,0	30,5	10,25	15,0
38		Hemant S	MAS	1355	4,0	29,0	9,00	13,0
39		Dutton Lucas Matthew	MAS	1369	3,5	39,0	12,50	19,0
40		Guo Jamie-Lee	AUS	0	3,5	35,5	10,75	16,5
41		Hasidin Abdul Rashid	MAS	1459	3,5	34,5	10,75	16,5
42		Awang Sabli Awang Yusuf	MAS	1520	3,5	33,5	9,50	15,5
43		Johari Low Nikk	MAS	1229	3,0	36,0	8,50	15,5
44		Koh Bausch Sian Kuan	MAS	0	3,0	34,5	9,75	15,0
45		Teh De Zen	MAS	1367	3,0	33,5	7,00	12,0
46		Nabilatul Nadia Junaidi	MAS	1004	3,0	30,5	10,25	14,0
47		Tasmin Sultana	BAN	0	3,0	30,0	5,50	15,0
48		Lee Benjamin	MAS	1239	3,0	27,5	6,00	8,0
49		Ahmad Fahmi Ahmad Faizal	MAS	1424	2,5	34,0	8,50	16,0
50		Junaidi Muhd Hafidzuddin	MAS	1205	2,0	27,0	3,75	9,0
51		Muhd Najwan Azman Hisham	MAS	1253	1,5	28,0	4,50	3,5
52		Teh Ming Min	MAS	1221	1,0	30,5	1,50	4,0

DATMO top 3 players

2010-09-07T14:18:00.001+08:00

It’s a three way tie between GM Zhou Weiqi, IM Sethuraman and GM Cao Sang are all with 7/9 points. The tie break will determine who is the overall winner. Waiting …

DATMO: Malaysian Open Blitz (7th Sept 2010)

2010-09-07T10:36:00.001+08:00

Just a reminder …

Registration fee:	RM 30
Start time:	3pm
Venue:	Bintang Ballroom, Cititel
Quarterfinal :	4:45pm
Semi Final :	5:15pm
Final:	5:45pm

Come and join the fun! But be here early for registration to avoid disappointment.

GM Dimitry Leads In Seniors Open, Magdalaga In Ambank Challenge

2010-09-07T09:31:00.001+08:00

7 September 2010, Kuala Lumpur – In the 1st Tan Sri Lee Loy Seng International Seniors Open 2010 being held at a slower pace than the Malaysian Open due to fewer rounds, GM Kayumov Dimitry from Uzbekistan is leading into the final 7th round of the Seniors Open with 5.5 points.

He looks set to take the top prize of RM4000 and the challenge trophy as he meets with Lim Kian Hwa of Malaysia in the final round this morning.

FM Brian Jones of Australia is in second place with 4.0 points together with three others. In the four pointer group includes IM Tan Lian Ann of Singapore, Ronald Gross of USA and Lim Kian Hwa of Malaysia.

Meanwhile in the Ambank Chess Challenge 2010, Magdalaga Luffe of the Philippines is leading with 7.0 points. He meets WFM Le Thi Phuong Lien of Vietnam on top board in the final 9th round this morning. While Kant Rupesh of India meets Tan Ken Wei of Malaysia on second board to decide the overall line up of winners. Rupesh has 6.5 points, WFM Le Thi Phuong Lien 6.5 points and Ken Wei 6.0 points.

Best of luck to you all in the final rounds this morning!

Zhou Weiqi, Sethuraman Joint Leaders Into Final Round

2010-09-06T23:13:00.001+08:00

6 September 2010, Kuala Lumpur – GM Zhou Weiqi and GM Gupta Abhijeet ended with a draw in round 8 leaving GM Zhou Weiqi ahead with 6.5 points going into the final, 9th round tomorrow morning. Another player from India also managed a similar 6.5 points, after IM Sethuraman won against Wan Yunguo of China with the black pieces on board 3.

Our Malaysian musketeers, IM Mok Tze-Meng lost to FM Nguyen Duc Hoa of Vietnam on board 9, IM Jimmy Liew drew on the 16th board against IM Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi of India, and, Ronnie Lim drew his 19th board game against GM Das Neelotpal of India.

On the sidelines, Ian Udani of the Philippines overcame GM R R Laxman of India, giving Ian Udani a possible IM norm. Earlier, Ian Udani has beaten two IMs and drew with one IM, and with this GM scalp in this one tournament, makes a possible IM norm in hand for him.

Round 9 pairings is shown below and will start at 9.30 am tomorrow, 7th September 2010, Tuesday. Top board will be GM Zhou against IM Sethuraman, both with 6.5 points each.

To see the full results and pairings of round 8 and round 9, please visit http://chess-results.com or click here.

Malaysian Open Blitz!

2010-09-06T16:41:00.001+08:00

6 September 2010, Kuala Lumpur – Here is a little reminder from the organisers of the Malaysian Open Blitz for tomorrow, 7th September 2010.

The last event for the festival, the Malaysia Open Blitz will clock off tomorrow starting at 3:00pm, after the conclusion of the last round of the 7th IGB Dato Arthur Tan Malaysia Open Chess Championship. The 5-minutes blitz event will be played over 9 rounds with the Top 16 players to receive cash prizes and Top 8 players to qualify for a Knock Out Playing System. The total prize fund is more than RM1,500 with RM 500 going to the eventual winner.

Registration fee is RM 30 each player and the schedule of rounds are as follows:

Round 1 to Round 9 : 3:00pm to 4:45pm
Quarterfinal : 4:45pm
Semi Final : 5:15pm
Final: 5:45pm
(Knock out format is played over 2 games followed by Armageddon knockout if score is tied)

Come and have fun at the BLITZ event and have a chance to meet and beat Grandmasters! There are more than 20 countries participating in this year's Malaysia Chess Festival and more than 50 titled players (including 17 Grandmasters) took part in the various events.

After the event, the stage will be set for the prize giving and closing ceremony of the 7th IGB Dato Arthur Tan Malaysia Open, together with the AmBank Chess Challenge and the 1st Tan Sri Lee Loy Seng International Seniors Open Chess Championship.
For more information, please call Najib Wahab at (016-338 2542) or najib.wahab@chess-malaysia.com

GM Zhou Wins Over Nguyen

2010-09-06T14:54:00.001+08:00

6 September 2010, Kuala Lumpur – GM Zhou Weiqi made a spectacular knight sacrifice in the 12th move, 12 Nxf7!, finally beats Vietnamese FM Nguyen Duc Hoa in the seventh round of the DAT Malaysian Open 2010.

GM Zhou jumps to top board of the 8th round and leads with 6 points from 7 rounds. Significantly, IM Mok Tze Meng also won his round by overcoming GM Laxman from India. Congrats to both players, Zhou and Mok for their wins!

8th round pairings shown below. Round 8 starts at 3.00 pm, today.

Merdeka Age-Group Results!

2010-09-06T11:26:00.001+08:00

6 September 2010, Kuala Lumpur – Here are the Merdeka Age-Group Rapid results for U16, U14, U12, U10 and U8 categories, which was held all-day yesterday at the playing hall of the CitiTel Mid Valley Hotel, Mid Valley Mega Shopping Mall, Kuala Lumpur.

Congratulations to Muhd Syakir Shazmeer Azhar (Malaysia) for winning the under 16 category, Suvich Tachaplalert (Thailand) for winning the under 14 category, Ooi Zhi Yang (Malaysia) for the under-12 category, Tin Jingyao (Malaysia) for the under-10 category, and Jagathees a/l Gunabalan (Malaysia) for the under-8 category.

Please click on the images of the results to see a slightly bigger and clearer image.

(results courtesy of Kelab Catur Setia Kuantan’s blog)

Live game from round 7

2010-09-06T10:02:00.001+08:00

Click here to watch it live. Already on move there is an interesting Knight sac on f7.

Nabil’s deadly e6 strike

2010-09-05T12:43:00.001+08:00

Here’s a game from the latest round 6:-

[Event "7th IGB Dato' Arthur Tan Malaysia Open"]
[Site "Cititel Midvalley Hotel, Kuala"]
[Date "2010.09.04"]
[Round "6.57"]
[White "Azman Hisham, Mohd Nabil"]
[Black "Nair, Sasidharan C"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A00"]
[WhiteElo "2036"]
[PlyCount "45"]
[EventDate "2010.09.01"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c5 3. e3 dxc4 4. Bxc4 cxd4 5. exd4 Nf6 6. Nc3 a6 7. Nge2 h6 8. Qa4+ Bd7 9. Qb3 e6 10. O-O b5 11. Bd3 Bd6 12. Ne4 Be7 13. Nc5 Bc6 14. Nf4 O-O 15. Ncxe6 Qd7 16. Nxf8 Bxf8 17. Be3 Bd6 18. Rfd1 Qb7 19. d5 Bxd5 20. Nxd5 Ng4 21. g3 Nxe3 22. fxe3 Nd7 23. Be4

1-0

6 Players Jointly Leads In DAT Malaysian Open

2010-09-05T06:36:00.002+08:00

5 September 2010, Kuala Lumpur – Here at the Dato’ Arthur Tan Malaysian Chess Open 2010, the leaderboard shows six players who have the same five points from 6 rounds of play. The six players are Nguyen Duc Hoa (VIE), Wen Yang (CHN), Gupta Abhijeet (IND), Cao Sang (VIE), Zhou Weiqi (CHN) and Wan Yunguo (CHN).

The table below summarises the rankings of the top 28 players after round 6 of play with the nearest Malaysian being Ronnie Lim at 21 and IM Mok Tze Meng at 25, both with 4 points each :-

Today is a rest day for the three concurrent tournaments (Malaysian Open/Seniors Open/ Challengers Open) as the Age-Group competitions take control and centre stage for the whole of Sunday, 5 September 2010.

Round 7 of the Dato’ Arthur Tan Malaysian Chess Open 2010 will commence on Monday, 6 September 2010, 9.30 am.