Sarawak Open Is Next

Penang Open is over. Sarawak Open is next. It will start on Monday, 12th December 2011 (12.12.11) and end on Friday, 16th December 2011 (16.12.11).

To flash back, GiLoCatur played in the Sarawak Open three years ago. GiLoCatur flew to Kuching, Sarawak with Fikri and Mohd Irfan Haqqim, Azhar's son. Mind you, in 2008 GiLoCatur took part in two standard chess competitions - Selangor Open and Sarawak Open. GiLoCatur's MCF ratings at that time was below 1000.

GiLoCatur at 2008 Sarawak Open

Checking the registered players list in Mr Lim Kian Hwa's website here, several players who played in the recently concluded Penang Open, will play in the Sarawak Open like Kamaluddin Yusoff and Nik Farouqi (local players) and IM Atanu Lahiri, Rhoebel Legaspi and Efren Bagamasbad (foreign players).

After the Sarawak Open, a chess tournament for Malaysian juniors (Under 20) will be held at DATCC. The name of the tournament is the National Junior Chess Championship (NJCC). This year will be its fourth edition.  

(note: You can read the report on 2008 Sarawak Open under 2008 Blog Archive, choose November.)

Fourth Round Sarawak Open

Round 4 Pairing

Obviously from the above pairing, only four players have perfect score. They are FM Mok Tze-Meng, Lim Zhuo Ren who defeated the 5th seed Kamaludin Yusof, Abdullah Che Hassan and David Hukom, an unrated Indonesian player who defeated NM Kamal Abdullah earlier. Ian Udani drew with NM Edward Lee and the young Singaporean FM, Daniel Howard drew with Abang Mohd Reduan. 

Tbl 18: Fikri vs Singaporean Xavier Chua

Fikri was playing white againts Xavier whose FIDE rating is 1731. The mission to get FIDE rating points is achieved tonight when Fikri won. Hopefully he will play againts another FIDE-rated player tomorrow. Up to round 4, Fikri has accumulated 2 and 1/2 points.

Tbl 20: Irfan vs Nadzri Izzabullah Japeri 

By using e4 opening Irfan defeated his opponent in less than 40 moves. With the win, he scores 2 and 1/2 points.

Tbl 33: Ming Jing Lee vs me

This is my fastest and easiest game so far againts an inexperienced local young teenager. I checkmated her after 26 moves. I took the opportunity to enjoy the game. I will publish this game latter.

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