DAT Malaysia Open - Round 6 & 7 Update

Round 6 : Results

source : NWM's chess blog of http://setiachess.blogspot.com/

The Top 5 boards :

(1) GM Marat Dzhumaev (4.5/6) of Uzbekistan lose to GM Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son (4/6) won

(2) GM Negi Parimarjan (4/6) won againts Gao Rui of China (4/6)

(3) Senador Emmanuel (4/6) and GM Ehsan Ghaim Maghami of Iran (4/6) drew

(4) Yu Yangyi (4/6) of China defeated GM Ziaur Rahman (4/6)

(5) Ma Qun (4/6) and Xiu Deshun (4/6), both from China, drew

Some Malaysian players:

(11) FM Mok Tze-Meng (3.5/6) drew with GM Nguyen Anh Dung (3.5/6) of Vietnam

(13) IM Jimmy Liew (3/6) drew with IM Ashot Nadanian (3/6)

(15) NM Ronnie Lim (FIDE 2281) (3/6) won againts IM Irwanto Sadikin (FIDE 2429) (3/6) Syabas!

(19) FM Lim Yee-Weng (3/6) drew with Li Hanbin (3/6) of China

Round 7 : Pairing

source : NWM's chess blog of http://setiachess.blogspot.com/

It's very interesting matchup between two teenage Grandmasters on the first board in the seventh round between GM Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son (white) of Vietnam and GM Negi Parimarjan (black) of India after both won their respective opponents in the sixth round. Both are among the current leaders with 5 points beside Yu Yangyi from China. Whereas the defending champion, GM Li Chao will play againts Indonesian International Master, Tirto, on board 6 after a draw with Rostum Tolentino.

While Uzbek GM, Marat Dzhumaev, will play white againts Yu Yangi of China on the second board. On the third board, it will be a battle between Iran (GM Ehsan) and Germany (GM Schebler).

Let's see how the results going to be towards the final three rounds. Would it be the Vietnamese chess prodigy or the Indian chess wizard that will march forward to be the champion? Or they just draw and Yu Yangi takes over as the leader? How about GM Li Chao, the defending champion? Can he catch up?

Stay tuned!

DAT Malaysia Open - Round 4 Results & Round 5 Pairing

Round 5 Pairing

Round 4 Results

Ambank Challenge - Pairing & Results

Round 3 - Pairing & Results

On Board 1, veteran Mat Zaki Yeop could not manage to win againts the second seed, Panopio

On Board 2, Mohd Fadli aka Stonemaster unfortunately lose to unrated Lim Samson Jr

On Board 3, another Malaysian veteran Jax Tham won againts Heng Fook Liang

Round 4 - Pairing & Results

On Board 1, Ilhamuddin and Panopio of Philippine drew

On Board 2, Lim won againts Jax Tham

OnBoard 3, Izz Saifuddin won againts Teh Wee Zhun

Round 5 - Pairing

Tuesday, 25th August 2009, 9.00 am (Malaysian time)

On Board 1, Malaysian junior Izz Saifuddin will play white againts the only perfect scorer of 4 points player from Philippine, Lim Samson Jr. His countryman, Panopio Rodolfo Jr, will play white againts his opponent, Cheah Cheok Fung. While both local players, Jax Tham and Ilhamuddin, will play on the third board.

GM Negi Parimarjan

Source : http://en.wikipedia.org

DAT Malaysia Open 2009 is very proud to have several young chess talents and prodigies. The top three of them in the starting list are the most notable and what GiLoCatur means. GM Li Chao (China), GM Nguyen Ngoc Truoc Son (Vietnam) and GM Negi Parimarjan (India) have created history in the world of chess. It would be incredible if GM Wesley So of Phillipines could also participate in the tournament. They are among the top world chess juniors and teenagers.

The above is some statistics about his opening repertoire from chessgames.com. It looks like that his favorite one is Sicillian. He became the second youngest GM ever after Sergey Karjakin in July 2006 after earning the third and final GM norm at Chelyabinsk Region Superfinal Championship.

However GM Negi once was defeated by our own IM Mas (visit the report here as reported by Hairulov) in the 9th round of the Parsvnath Commonwealth Chess Championship 2007 held at India. Our young chess players should make this feat as a motivation that they can be strong chess masters too and become Grandmasters provided that they work hard to achieve the dream. Eventhough many of our young players do not have the opprtunity and chance to have a strong Grandmaster as their trainer and coach as GM Negi has GM Nigel Short as one of his trainers and coaches. Hard work and strong will with current advanced technology and IT surely will help them to achieve the dream.

DAT Malaysia Open - Round 2 Pairing

(Note : The pairing is correct as of 4.00pm today. )

Dato' Arthur Tan Malaysia Open Blog

GiLoCatur has joined several Malaysian chess bloggers in covering the on-going 6th Dato' Arthur Tan Malaysia Open being held in Mid Valley. Please visit the link at http://malaysianopen.blogspot.com/.