KL Open 2010

KL Open 2010 Pictorial Crosstable

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Click here to view.

KL Open 2010 Crosstable results

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Here is the interactive crosstable results :-

UKM KL Masters unnofficial blog

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http://ukmmasters2010.blogspot.com

UKM KL Masters starts tomorrow

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The first ever UKM KL Masters will start tomorrow (13th April) and ends on 19 April 2010 at UKM, Bangi.

The Maststers tournament is co-sponsored and organised by UKM for the KLCA (Kuala Lumpur Chess Association) and supported by MCF (Malaysian Chess Federation).

The Players:-

Rk	Title	Name	Fed	Rating
1	GM	Iuldashev Saidali	UZB	2511
2	IM	Tirto	INA	2402
3	FM	Chan Nicholas	MAS	2398
4	IM	Situru Nathanael	INA	2358
5		Thakur Akash	IND	2355
6		Ankit R. Rajpara	IND	2334
7	FM	Fernandez Daniel	SIN	2299
8	FM	Yee Soon Wei	BRU	2209
9		Nirav Y Rajasuba	IND	2183
10		Mohamed Abdul Haq	MAS	2057

90 games of the KL Open 2010

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You can find 10 selected games of the KL Open for each of the 9 rounds at the official website.

For convenience here are direct links to the official site for each of the rounds:-

KL Open 2010 is over – Players depart for airport

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The bus arrives at KL Sentral station where you can catch the express train to KLIA (about 30 minutes journey).
GM Saidali gets off the bus that took him from the Olympic Hotel (KL Open playing venue) and takes down one luggage .

Meanwhile, GM Marat also gets off the bus.

Both Saidali and Marat are close friends. They travel to most tournaments together.
However today, they are not leaving for the airport together. Only Marat is heading to KLIA.

Saidali, on the other hand, is staying back.

That’s because GM Saidali has yet another chess event to participate in. It’s the UKM Masters which is a round robin event consisting of 10 participants.

One of Malaysia’s strongest players, Dr FM Nicholas Chan will be taking part with the aim of securing his first IM norm. Nicholas failed to get an IM norm in the KL Open but came within a hair's breath of achieving it. He played a few 1900+ players in the open which killed his performance rating. He needed a performance rating minimum of 2450 but he only achieved 2411. He met the other requirements of playing 5 titled players.

KL Open 2010 Prizegiving video

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KL Open on national TV

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I was waiting anxiously for the sport section to arrived on our local news station TV3. After badminton than football and than hockey and finally chess. Here is what i recorded.

Final Ranking CrossTable, Kuala Lumpur 2010

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Here are the final ranking crosstable for the top 26 finishers of the Kuala Lumpur Chess Championship 2010 held from 6th April – 12th April 2010 at the Olympic Sports Hotel, Kuala Lumpur.

GM Hou Yifan finished with 7.5 points and in first place followed by GM Nguyen Anh Dung with 7.0 points and GM Mchedishvili Mikheil in third place with 7.0 points as well.

Fourth position belongs to GM Megaranto Susanto with 6.5 points and fifth to GM Luther Thomas also with 6.5 points.

Congratulations to winners, participating players and organisers, alike for the successful finish of the Kuala Lumpur Chess Open 2010! It was no doubt a high class field of players and it was a wonderful spectacle to see world class chess players on our shores playing in a local international chess tournament. Kudos to the organisers of this tournament!

Hope to see you all again next year!

Hou Yifan is KL Open champion!

2010-04-12T01:24:00.001-07:00

Girl wonder and chess prodify GM Hou Yifan from China is the new champion of the 3^rd KL Open Chess Tournament 2010 which concluded today at Hotel Olympic Sports, KL.

Yifan, had a runwaway win after the penultimate round with a commanding one point lead. She took home with her the 1^st prize of RM 10000 and the DYTM Raja Nazrin Shah Trophy.

First game to conclude, championship decided

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9am sharp. Clocks are started but since zero start is not enforced, some participants are a few minutes late.

Megaranto fills in his scoresheet as he starts the clock.

Photographers take the chance to get individual photos of players waiting for their opponents. Including Chessbase correspondence Yana Melnikova (in the background). She is also taking part in the event.

IM Liu Dede at board 4.

IM Swapnil S, Dhopade

Singaporean GM Wong Meng Kong vs IM Desmukh Anup on board 20.

CM Farid Firman Shah waiting for his compatriot IM Situru Nathanael on board 21.

Marcus Yeoh vs fellow Malaysian

Back at board 1, Hou Yifan finally arrives but only 5 minutes late.

Chief Arbiter, Luxman, sensed there may be a high chance of quick draws reminded the players the 30 rule move requirement before a draw can be mutually agreed to.

Hou Yifan opened with 1.e4 and the game went into a Ruy Lopez.

20 minutes later, board 1 drew !!

It was even drawn before 30 moves. It seemed that there are other ways of drawing :)

The players drew via 3 fold repetition!

With 7½/9 Hou Yifan is KL Open 2010 champion !!

Hou Yifan Meets Megaranto In Final Round, KL Open 2010

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Here are the round 9 pairings of the Kuala Lumpur Chess Open 2010 for tomorrow morning, 9 am, 12th April 2010.

Hou Yifan will finish the tournament by facing off with Indonesian GM Megaranto Susanto who has six points, trailing by a full point behind, Hou Yifan. Her domination in this tournament is complete if she either draws or wins against Megaranto. Hou Yifan has stayed at the top board throughout this tournament, except for the first round, her favourite table, it seems.

Round 8 Results, KL Open 2010

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Here are the confirmatory round 8 results of the Kuala Lumpur Open 2010 held at the Olympic Sports Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, this afternoon 11th April 2010.

Hou Yifan is the only player with the seven points entering the ninth round. The other players who have six points include Nguyen Anh Dung, Megaranto Susanto (picture above), Irwanto Saidikin, Iuldashev Saidali, Murshed Saidali, Mchedishvili Mikheil.

Other takes of the tournament: FM Nicholas Chan lost his game, IM Jimmy Liew lost his afternoon game, Yeoh Li Tian also lost his, Ronnie Lim won his game against WFM Mitali Madhukar Patil, WGM Melnikova lost, GM Ziaur Rahman won, Ismail Ahmad won his, Mohd Nabil lost, Capel Evan Timothy drew, Najib Wahab lost, Nur Najiha lost, Abdul Haq drew his game, Nik Ahmad Farouqi drew with fellow Malaysian Rosli Ahmad Afiq Afyfy, Alfred Ting lost, Marcus Yeoh won, Nur Nabila lost, Razali Hamzah lost.

Hou Yifan Wins In Round 8!

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11th April 2010, Kuala Lumpur - Tonight Hou Yifan beats Marat to win the 8th round at the Kuala Lumpur Chess Open Championship 2010. With an unstoppable c-pawn about to queen and the white king very exposed, his two pieces (bishop and knight) were about to fall, white resigned.

Pix 1. Marat (left) – Hou Yifan, Round 8, KL Open 2010, top board.

However, earlier on Marat avoided a mating attack at the expense of further exposing his king and losing the exchange with his back rank rook. White's queen-side pawn storm lost steam as Hou continually checked the white king to pile the pressure on the white king. With no checking attacks for white and in a hopeless position, white resigned.

GM Hou Yifan is now destined to be the champion of the Kuala Lumpur Open 2010. Nobody is in sight of nearly challenging her commanding 7.0 points lead going into the final ninth round tomorrow morning, 12th April 2010.

2 wins today for Hou Yifan

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Hou Yifan had two wins a row today. She beat Dimakiling this morning using the White pieces.

Marat extends his hands in resignation giving Hou Yifan giving her an unassailable 7/8 going into the final round. This win practically gives her the championship for the KL Open 2010. Tomorrow’s fight will be at the lower boards for 2nd prize onwards.

Hou Yifan Dominates KL Open 2010

2010-04-11T02:22:00.001-07:00

11th April 2010 - Here at the Olympic Sports Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, the dynamic Hou Yifan of China won her seventh round game against Filipino IM Dimakiling Oliver. This makes her the outright leader with 6 points out of seven rounds.

Hou Yifan (picture above) still has to maintain two more rounds of good score to withstand the chasing pack behind her. The tournament’s top seed, GM Mchedishvili, drew his seventh round game against IM Swapnil while GM Nguyen drew his. GM Luther Thomas lost his game on the third board against GM Meganranto of Indonesia. Having all the five pointer players faltering by the wayside, allows GM Hou Yifan to be the outright leader going into the eighth round of the Kuala Lumpur Chess Open 2010.

Other takes of the round: Yeoh Li Tian lost to Pak Yevgeny, IM Jimmy Liew also lost his round, Mohd Nabil lost to WGM Melnikova, Nik Ahmad Farouqi lost his game, Ismail Ahmad won his game, Timothy Capel won against fellow Malaysian Nur Nabila, Najib Wahab won against fellow Malaysian Marcus Yeoh, Nur Najiha won her game against an WFM, Amier Hamzah won his game and Alfred Ting drew against Indonesia’s WFM Dewi Aa Citra.

Simultaneous Chess Exhibition By GM Nigel Short

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In conjunction with the Kuala Lumpur Chess Open 2010, a simultaneous chess exhibition was conducted by a well-known grandmaster on Saturday afternoon. Here are a few pictures of the simultaneous chess exhibition given by GM Nigel Short, England at the tournament hall of the Kuala Lumpur Chess Open 2010 on the afternoon of 10th April 2010.

There were ten chess boards on the L-shaped table. By the time, I arrived, two tables were done, leaving eight players playing against Nigel Short. The last table to finish was Table 10 where Abdul Haq Mohamed was a piece ahead of Nigel Short. In the end, a draw was agreed by both players and my guess is the overall score for Nigel was 9.5:0.5. Excellent score, I would say.

Pix 1. Nigel does his rounds.

Pix 2. Amier Hamzah (nearest)

Pix 3. Abdul Haq at table 10.

Pix 4. Nigel attends to the tables.

Hou Yifan Continues To Lead Jointly With Four Others, KL Open 2010

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In a top of the seeds clash, Hou Yifan defended well as black and got a draw from Mchedishvili on the first board of the round 6 play this morning, 10th April 2010 at the tournament hall, 2nd Floor, Olympic Sports Hotel, Jalan Hang Jebat, Kuala Lumpur.

While her opponent from Vietnam, GM Nguyen Anh Dung, maintains his pressure on the lead with a draw on board 2.

Luther Thomas (picture above), GER, gets his win and joins Hou Yifan and Nguyen with 5.0 points. Another five pointer is IM Dimakiling Oliver who disposed of GM Cao Sang, CHN, on the fourth board this morning. GM Dzhumaev Marat also won his game against FM Yee Soon Wei on board 6. He too joins the elite group of five pointers.

Other takes of the tournament: IM Jimmy Liew drew with Malaysian chess prodigy, Yeoh Li Tian, Nik Ahmad Farouqi lost against a WGM, Ronnie Lim won his game against Indonesia’s WFM Medina, Timothy Capel lost to GM Wong, Marcus lost his game, WGM Melnikova won her game against Heikal, Mohd Nabil beats Nirav, Abdul Haq won against fellow Malaysian Nur Nabila, Ismail Ahmad lost, Amier Hamzah lost his game, Afiq Afyfy drew against fellow Malaysian Nur Najiha, Najib Wahab won his second point of the tournament, Alfred Ting won his game against Arjun.

KL Open Round 6 interactive crosstable

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Round 7 pairings

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Bo.	No.		Name	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	No.
1	2	GM	Hou Yifan	5		5	IM	Dimakiling Oliver	14
2	11	GM	Nguyen Anh Dung	5		5	GM	Dzhumaev Marat	7
3	3	GM	Luther Thomas	5		4½	GM	Megaranto Susanto	6
4	13	IM	Swapnil S, Dhopade	4½		4½	GM	Mchedlishvili Mikheil	1
5	21	IM	Irwanto Saidikin	4½		4½	GM	Rahman Ziaur	4
6	31	IM	Situru Nathanael	4½		4½	GM	Iuldashev Saidali	8
7	9	IM	Khamrakulov Dzhurabek	4½		4½	GM	Murshed Niaz	22
8	41	FM	De Ramos Julius Joseph Z	4½		4	IM	Ashwin Jayaram	12
9	5	GM	Cao Sang	4		4	WIM	Muninova Nafisa	34
10	36		Ankit R. Rajpara	4		4	IM	Duong The Anh	16
11	17	IM	Liu Dede	4		4	FM	Yee Soon Wei	56
12	35	FM	Khairul Anam	4		4	IM	Nguyen Van Huy	18
13	23		Palit Somak	4		4		Laksana Agusta	104
14	25		Praveen Kumar C	4		4		Vakhidov Jahongir	60
15	51	FM	Vinoth Kumar M	4		4	FM	Chan Nicholas	28
16	45	IM	Desmukh Anup	3½		3½	GM	Bui Vinh	10
17	15	IM	Wohl Aleksandar H	3½		3½		Ram S. Krishnan	42
18	19	IM	Saptarshi Roy	3½		3½		Lim Chuing Hoong Ronnie	44
19	49	FM	Smith Robert W	3½		3½	IM	Yap Kim Steven	20
20	55	FM	Das Sayantan	3½		3½	IM	Purnama Tirta Chandra	24
21	32		Thakur Akash	3½		3½	WGM	Fatianova Tatiana	43
22	37		Pak Yevgeniy	3½		3½		Yeoh Li Tian	77
23	38	WGM	Hoang Thi Bao Tram	3½		3½	CM	Farid Firman Syah	50
24	101		Andyka Pitra	3½		3½	IM	Liew Chee-Meng-Jimmy	40
25	57		Zhou Guijue	3		3	IM	Prathamesh Sunil Mokal	26
26	27	IM	Tirto	3		3		Vakhidov Nodir	64
27	29	GM	Wong Meng Kong	3		3		Mohamed Abdul Haq	70
28	67		Foo Benjamin	3		3		Ansari Mohd Athar Dr	30
29	39	WGM	Sukandar Irine Kharisma	3		3		Bersamina Paolo	78
30	69		Eng Andre Jerome	3		3		Udani Ian	46
31	76		Azman Hisham Mohd Nabil	3		3	WGM	Melnikova Yana	48
32	75	WFM	Mitali Madhukar Patil	3		3	WFM	Bhakti Kulkarni	52
33	88		Lee Kah Meng Elgin	3		3	FM	Thompson Ian	54
34	86		Au Hubert David	3		2½	IM	Chan Peng Kong	47
35	74		Armstrong Malcolm J	2½		2½	FM	Mahmud Syarif	33
36	53		Wang Xiaohui	2½		2½	WCM	Sihite Chelsie Monica	80
37	79	WFM	Medina Warda Aulia	2½		2½	WIM	Hoang Thi Nhu Y.	58
38	81		Khore Bean Hwa	2½		2½	FM	Ghosh Diptayan	62
39	89	WCM	Ivana Maria Furtado	2½		2½		Ocantos Manuel	63
40	90		Aynechian Alireza	2½		2½		Nik Nik Ahmad Farouqi	65
41	92		Lee Kai Jie, Edward	2½		2½		Shanmuganathan T.R.	66
42	59		Nirav Y. Rajasuba	2		2		Rosli Ahmad Afiq Afyfy	84
43	61		Navalgund Niranjan	2		2	WCM	Iin Dwijawanti Kadek	85
44	71		Ismail Ahmad	2		2		Limono Handjojo	87
45	91	WCM	Nur Nabila Azman Hisham	2		2		Capel Evan Timothy	72
46	73		Yeoh Phee Leong Marcus	2		2		Abdul Wahab Najib	100
47	110		Ting Shih Chieh	2		2	WFM	Dewi Aa Citra	82
48	83	FM	Muhd Haikal	2		2		Hatibie Taufan Ariq H.	103
49	99	WFM	Nur Najiha Hisham	2		1½	WFM	Smith Vivian J	93
50	68		Hj Azahari Md Aliuddin	1½		1½		Lee Kah Howe William	106
51	94		Sikivou Taione	1½		1½		Hamzah Razali	97
52	95		Shenvi Pratik	1½		1½		Srikanth Bhavisameera	109
53	108		Muhammmad Adib Syauqi	1½		1½		Amier Hamzah B. Mohd Zuhri	96
54	98		Saurabh Sable	1		1		Arjun Vairavan	102
55	111		Wong Enoch Yat Long	1		1		Lau Xian Hui Rudolph	105
56	107		Lee Say Siong John	1				bye

Round 6 results

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Bo.	No.		Name	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	No.
1	1	GM	Mchedlishvili Mikheil	4	½ - ½	4½	GM	Hou Yifan	2
2	4	GM	Rahman Ziaur	4	½ - ½	4½	GM	Nguyen Anh Dung	11
3	12	IM	Ashwin Jayaram	4	0 - 1	4	GM	Luther Thomas	3
4	14	IM	Dimakiling Oliver	4	1 - 0	4	GM	Cao Sang	5
5	6	GM	Megaranto Susanto	4	½ - ½	4	IM	Khamrakulov Dzhurabek	9
6	56	FM	Yee Soon Wei	4	0 - 1	4	GM	Dzhumaev Marat	7
7	8	GM	Iuldashev Saidali	4	½ - ½	4	IM	Swapnil S, Dhopade	13
8	16	IM	Duong The Anh	3½	½ - ½	4	IM	Irwanto Saidikin	21
9	10	GM	Bui Vinh	3½	0 - 1	3½	IM	Situru Nathanael	31
10	18	IM	Nguyen Van Huy	3½	½ - ½	3½		Ankit R. Rajpara	36
11	20	IM	Yap Kim Steven	3½	0 - 1	3½	FM	De Ramos Julius Joseph Z	41
12	22	GM	Murshed Niaz	3½	1 - 0	3½	FM	Das Sayantan	55
13	50	CM	Farid Firman Syah	3½	0 - 1	3	IM	Liu Dede	17
14	43	WGM	Fatianova Tatiana	3	½ - ½	3	IM	Saptarshi Roy	19
15	46		Udani Ian	3	0 - 1	3		Palit Somak	23
16	24	IM	Purnama Tirta Chandra	3	½ - ½	3	FM	Smith Robert W	49
17	52	WFM	Bhakti Kulkarni	3	0 - 1	3		Praveen Kumar C	25
18	26	IM	Prathamesh Sunil Mokal	3	0 - 1	3	FM	Vinoth Kumar M	51
19	60		Vakhidov Jahongir	3	1 - 0	3	IM	Tirto	27
20	28	FM	Chan Nicholas	3	1 - 0	3		Zhou Guijue	57
21	34	WIM	Muninova Nafisa	3	1 - 0	3	WFM	Mitali Madhukar Patil	75
22	64		Vakhidov Nodir	3	0 - 1	3	FM	Khairul Anam	35
23	104		Laksana Agusta	3	1 - 0	3	WGM	Sukandar Irine Kharisma	39
24	40	IM	Liew Chee-Meng-Jimmy	3	½ - ½	3		Yeoh Li Tian	77
25	42		Ram S. Krishnan	3	½ - ½	3		Andyka Pitra	101
26	47	IM	Chan Peng Kong	2½	0 - 1	2½	IM	Wohl Aleksandar H	15
27	58	WIM	Hoang Thi Nhu Y.	2½	0 - 1	2½		Thakur Akash	32
28	63		Ocantos Manuel	2½	0 - 1	2½		Pak Yevgeniy	37
29	65		Nik Nik Ahmad Farouqi	2½	0 - 1	2½	WGM	Hoang Thi Bao Tram	38
30	44		Lim Chuing Hoong Ronnie	2½	1 - 0	2½	WFM	Medina Warda Aulia	79
31	66		Shanmuganathan T.R.	2½	0 - 1	2½	IM	Desmukh Anup	45
32	72		Capel Evan Timothy	2	0 - 1	2	GM	Wong Meng Kong	29
33	30		Ansari Mohd Athar Dr	2	1 - 0	2		Yeoh Phee Leong Marcus	73
34	48	WGM	Melnikova Yana	2	1 - 0	2	FM	Muhd Haikal	83
35	74		Armstrong Malcolm J	2	½ - ½	2		Wang Xiaohui	53
36	54	FM	Thompson Ian	2	1 - 0	2		Limono Handjojo	87
37	76		Azman Hisham Mohd Nabil	2	1 - 0	2		Nirav Y. Rajasuba	59
38	78		Bersamina Paolo	2	1 - 0	2		Navalgund Niranjan	61
39	62	FM	Ghosh Diptayan	2	½ - ½	2	WCM	Ivana Maria Furtado	89
40	82	WFM	Dewi Aa Citra	2	0 - 1	2		Foo Benjamin	67
41	85	WCM	Iin Dwijawanti Kadek	2	0 - 1	2		Eng Andre Jerome	69
42	70		Mohamed Abdul Haq	2	1 - 0	2	WCM	Nur Nabila Azman Hisham	91
43	86		Au Hubert David	2	1 - 0	2		Ismail Ahmad	71
44	88		Lee Kah Meng Elgin	2	1 - 0	1½		Hj Azahari Md Aliuddin	68
45	94		Sikivou Taione	1½	- - +	1½	FM	Mahmud Syarif	33
46	80	WCM	Sihite Chelsie Monica	1½	1 - 0	1½		Shenvi Pratik	95
47	96		Amier Hamzah B. Mohd Zuhri	1½	0 - 1	1½		Khore Bean Hwa	81
48	84		Rosli Ahmad Afiq Afyfy	1½	½ - ½	1½	WFM	Nur Najiha Hisham	99
49	97		Hamzah Razali	1½	0 - 1	1½		Aynechian Alireza	90
50	92		Lee Kai Jie, Edward	1½	1 - 0	1½		Muhammmad Adib Syauqi	108
51	109		Srikanth Bhavisameera	1	½ - ½	1	WFM	Smith Vivian J	93
52	100		Abdul Wahab Najib	1	1 - 0	1		Lee Say Siong John	107
53	102		Arjun Vairavan	1	0 - 1	1		Ting Shih Chieh	110
54	103		Hatibie Taufan Ariq H.	1	1 - 0	1		Wong Enoch Yat Long	111
55	105		Lau Xian Hui Rudolph	½	½ - ½	½		Saurabh Sable	98
56	106		Lee Kah Howe William	½	1			bye

No crowding please

2010-04-09T23:27:00.001-07:00

The top two boards have already concluded. Hou Yifan drew with Mikheil and Ziaur Rahman drew with Anh Dung.

Board 3 and 4 are of interest in the second time control (last 30 minutes).

Round 6 partial results

2010-04-09T23:01:00.001-07:00

Some games are still being played. Here are the results so far :-

Nik Ahmad Farouqi - FM Muhd Haikal

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Nik (left) seconds before executing the deadly 13.Nf5! against FM Muhd Haikal

Host player and MU`s fan - Nik Ahmad Farouqi was understandably in mourning mode due to his favorite football team lost to Bayern Munich in Champion League recently. However, in round 5, he show no mercy in the chess board with his victory against Singaporean FM - Muhd Haikal in round 5, KL Open 2010.

Nik Ahmad Farouqi (2108) vs FM Muhd Haikal (1939)
KL Open, Round 5, 9.4.2010

Analysed by Hairulov and Fritz

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bg5 e6 7. f4 Be7 8. Qe2

Nik choose a sideline. 8.Qf3 is the main line but Qe2 has it own venom as show in this game

8... h6 9. Bxf6 Bxf6 10. O-O-O Nd7 11. g3 b5?

This natural move is already a mistake. Theory gave 11... Qb6

12. Bg2 Bb7 of course both 12... Rb8 and 12...Ra7 will lost to 13. Nc6

13. Nf5! Now the idea behind the 8.Qe2 move is clear.However 13. e5!! will received two exclamation marks for e.g 13...Bxg2 14. exf6 Bxh1 15. fxg7 Rg8 16. Nxe6 Qe7 (16... fxe6 17. Qxe6+ Qe7 18. Qxg8+) 17. Nc7+ Kd8 18. Qxe7+ Kxe7 19. Rxh1 Rac8 20. Nxa6 Rxg7 21. Nxb5

13... Be7 13... exf5 14. exf5+ Kf8 15. Bxb7 Rb8 16. Bc6 Bxc3 17. Rxd6 Qc7 18. Rxd7 Qxc6 19. Qe7+ Kg8 20. Qxf7+ Kh7 21. bxc3 Rhg8 22. Rhd1 Qxc3 23. R1d6 Qe1+ 24. Kb2 Qb4+ 25. Qb3 with a winning endgame

14. Nxg7+ Another strong move is 14. Nxd6+! Bxd6 15. Rxd6

14... Kf8 15. Nh5 b4 16. Na4 is probably better then16. Nb1 Qa5 17. a3 Rc8

16... Bc6 17. b3 Bxa4 18. bxa4 Qa5

19. f5 White can also play 19. e5! first and then after 19... d5 20. f5!

19... Qxa4 Black should have played 19... Qe5!? with threat along the a1-h8 diaganol. Possible follow up would be Rc8-Nb6-Nc4-Na3

20. Kb1 Rc8 ? Black should have not allowed white taking on e6. The correct move is 20... e5

21. fxe6 Ne5 21... fxe6 ?? the pawn of course cannot be captured 22.Rhf1+ Bf6 (22... Ke8 23. Ng7+ Kd8 24. Nxe6+ Ke8 25. Qh5#) (22... Kg8 23. Qg4+ Bg5 24. Qxe6+ Kh7 25. Qf7#) 23. e5 with a winning position

22. Rd4 Rc3 Probably better is putting the rook behind the black queen with 22... Rc5 followed by Ra5

23. exf7 Stronger is 23. Qd2! Nc4 (23... fxe6?? the pawn is something Black will choke on 24. Qxc3 bxc3 25. Rxa4 )  24.Rxc4 Rxc4 25.Rf1Rh7 26.e5 dxe5 27.Qd3

23... Rh7  If 23... Ra3 then 24. c3! a deflection idea 24...Rxc3 and now the queen guard the a2 pawn 25. Nf4 Kxf7 26. Nd5

24. Rf1 Rxf7  If 24... Ra3 Fritz also suggest 25. c3! deflection idea for e.g 25... Rxc3 26. Qb2 Nc4 27. Rxc4 Rxc4 28. Nf4 (Threatening checkmate with Ne6+!}28... Kxf7 29. e5 {threatening Bd5+} 29...Rc3 30. exd6 Bxd6 31. Qe2

25. Rf5 25. Qd2! targeting h6 and b4 25... Ra3 26. Rxf7+ !! Another deadly attack

26...Nxf7 27. Qg4  27. Qc4 ! also strong

27... Rxa2?

But even a better move would not have saved the game but it needs a long line to prove it for e.g 27... Bg5 28. Qc8+ Bd8 29. Rxd6 Nxd6 30. Qxd8+ Ne8 31. Qd2 Rxa2 32. Qxh6+ Ke7 33. Qg5+ Kd7 34. Qf5+ Ke7 35. Qe5+ Kf8 36. Qc5+ Kf7 37. Qd5+ Kf8 38. Qxa2

28. Qg7+ Ke8 29. Rc4 Bf8 29... Ra1+ also lost after 30. Qxa1 Qxa1+ 31. Kxa1

30. Rc8+ Kd7 30... Ke7 also mate after 31. Qf6+ Kd7 32. Bh3#

31. Bh3+ 1-0 Black resign because mate will follow after 31... Ke7 32. Qxf8#

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Malaysian performance after Round 5

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Here is the Malaysian list of players sorted according to their positions in the KL Open 2010 after round 5. 3 players have 3/5 points at the moment and they are Nicholas Chan, Jimmy Liew and Yeoh Li Tian.

   Rk.    Name                          Rtg  Pts. FED  
01 26 FM  Chan Nicholas                 2398 3    MAS
02 29 IM  Liew Chee-Meng-Jimmy          2315 3    MAS
03 35     Yeoh Li Tian                  1971 3    MAS
04 53     Nik Nik Ahmad Farouqi         2108 2.5  MAS
05 55     Lim Chuing Hoong Ronnie       2294 2.5  MAS
06 64 WCM Nur Nabila Azman Hisham       1829 2    MAS
07 70     Ismail Ahmad                  2033 2    MAS
08 73     Lee Kah Meng Elgin            1852 2    MAS
09 76     Capel Evan Timothy            2023 2    MAS
10 78     Azman Hisham Mohd Nabil       1981 2    MAS
11 79     Yeoh Phee Leong Marcus        1999 2    MAS
12 87     Mohamed Abdul Haq             2057 2    MAS
13 88     Amier Hamzah B. Mohd Zuhri    1723 1.5  MAS
14 91     Hamzah Razali                 1669 1.5  MAS
15 92 WFM Nur Najiha Hisham             0    1.5  MAS
16 98     Khore Bean Hwa                1946 1.5  MAS
17 99     Rosli Ahmad Afiq Afyfy        1938 1.5  MAS
18 102    Abdul Wahab Najib             0    1    MAS
19 105    Ting Shih Chieh               0    1    MAS
20 110    Lee Kah Howe William          0    0.5  MAS