Merdeka Festival Blitz

Lim Chong tourney (more pictures!)

Pictures from the last round of the Lim Chong memorial tourney.

Nguyen Van Huy is the sole leader with 5/5 points playing against FM Reyes who is just half a point behind. Tense last round?

Pairing is out !! Who am I playing with ?

Mr Michael Yeap - arbiter

Round 5 Board 1 (live)

Black : GM Jahonghir Vakhidov White : IM Anton Smirnov Live view of the hall

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Live Stream

Start of Malaysian Open !!

Pictures from the first round of the 12th Malaysian Open :-

Uzbek GM Jahongir Vakhidov is the tournament second seed (maybe top seed if Axel Bachmann is indeed not playing)

India's Padmini Rout is last year's Olympiad Gold Medalist and helped India achieved their best ever Olympiad by winning Silver for the women team event.

Top seen GM Axel Bachmann is missing. His opponent didn't turn up too.

This year sees the participation of Malaysia's top player - IM Mas Hafizulhelmi.

FM Nicholas Chan is the Malaysian 2nd seed in the event.

NM Jonathan Chuan Malaysian Chess Festival Blitz 2015

Pictures from Blitz #1

Arbiter of the blitz event - 'Stonemaster' Fadli

Record number for Merdeka Blitz #1 too

Just like the Astro Merdeka Team event the blitz event also managed to attain the highest number of participants.

A total of about 170 players took part in this event. It is on going and results will be posted right after this.

Here are the players taking part. Notice the header there says "Blitz #1" meaning there is a second blitz in the Malaysian Chess Festival so do not fret if you missed the first one. Make sure you do not miss the second!

SNo.		Name	NRtg	IRtg	FED
1	GM	Vakhidov Jahongir	0	2532	UZB
2	GM	Vahidov Tair	0	2445	UZB
3		Fang Yuxiang	0	2445	CHN
4	IM	Pascua Haridas	0	2430	PHI
5	IM	Dimakiling Oliver	0	2377	PHI
6		Nicholas Chan	0	2372	MAS
7	FM	Yeoh Li Tian	0	2356	MAS
8	IM	Senador Emmanuel	0	2332	PHI
9	FM	Hague Ben	0	2321	NZL
10	FM	Sonjaya Deni	0	2306	INA
11	IM	To Nhat Minh	0	2304	HUN
12	FM	Mariano Nelson Iii	0	2301	PHI
13	IM	Lim Yee-Weng	0	2296	MAS
14		Villanueva Nelson	0	2294	PHI
15	FM	Sinurat Tumpak	0	2287	INA
16	FM	Reyes Narquinden	0	2285	PHI
17	FM	Ding Tze How Dilwen	0	2274	MAS
18		Docena Jerad	0	2270	PHI
19	CM	Lubis Endar Sakti	0	2255	INA
20		Syaiful Hidayat	0	2252	INA
21	FM	Lim Zhuo Ren	0	2247	MAS
22	NM	Chuah Jin Hai Jonathan	0	2223	MAS
23		Panopio Jr Rodolfo	0	2223	PHI
24	FM	Hafiz Arif Abdul	0	2213	INA
25		Ng Tze Han	0	2200	MAS
26		Marcus Chan	0	2179	MAS
27	WIM	Fronda Jan Jodilyn	0	2129	PHI
28	FM	Wong Yinn Long	0	2123	MAS
29		Ibrahim Mohd Irman	0	2104	MAS
30	FM	Jones Lee	0	2102	AUS
31		Iskandar Devry	0	2091	INA
32		Nik Nik Ahmad Farouqi	0	2088	MAS
33		Abdullah Mohd Kamal	0	2085	MAS
34		Ng Jimmy	0	2072	SIN
35		Yeoh Chin Seng	0	2059	MAS
36		Loo Swee Leong	0	2049	MAS
37		Alahakoon Isuru	0	2041	SRI
38		Looi Xin Hao	0	2040	MAS
39		Purnomo Eri	0	2034	INA
40		Sahari Abang Mohd Reduan	0	2031	MAS
41		Zulkifli Muhd Syazwan	0	2031	MAS
42		Steve O'reilly	0	2014	MAS
43	CM	Tan Jun Ying	0	2013	MAS
44		Shaik Ali Nor Ilhamuddin	0	1994	MAS
45		Vakhidov Shahzod	0	1984	UZB
46		Erowan Masrin	0	1969	MAS
47		Ng Ee Vern	1958	0	MAS
48		Vakhidov Daler	0	1949	UZB
49		Zaini Mohd Razief Hakiem	0	1947	MAS
50	CM	Bennett Hilton	0	1932	NZL
51		Foo Chee Kin	0	1925	MAS
52		Kawatu Yansen	0	1925	INA
53		Ooi Zhi Yang	1924	0	MAS
54		Chibnall Alana	0	1922	AUS
55		Abu Bakar Ruzenan	0	1917	MAS
56		Lye Lik Zang	0	1907	MAS
57		Rosli Ahmad Afiq Afyfy	0	1904	MAS
58		Ooi Li Tao	1903	0	MAS
59		Abdul Shukor A Rajah	1854	0	MAS
60		Mohd Noor Mohd Amin	0	1851	MAS
61		Hamzah Baharuddin	0	1840	MAS
62		Yusoff Fairul	0	1832	MAS
63		Aulia Virda Rizka	0	1827	INA
64		Najarin Nazir	0	1821	MAS
65		Darrel Yap Egin	1808	0	MAS
66		Lim Kian Hwa	0	1797	MAS
67		Yeoh Thean Jern	1785	0	MAS
68	FM	Teh De Juan	0	1781	MAS
69		Bakar Nurul Najmi	0	1733	MAS
70		Emir Rusyaidi Ahmad Nazari	1733	0	MAS
71		Azman Muhd Ariez	0	1724	MAS
72		Chen Meng Boon Marcus	0	1715	SIN
73		Thang Kit Han	1701	0	MAS
74		Heng Aik Kiat	1697	0	MAS
75		Iskandar Abdullah	1691	0	MAS
76		Zairudin Muhd Luqman Iskandar	0	1633	MAS
77		Daryl Wong Cheng Lim	1628	0	MAS
78		Chen Yi Jing Alvin	0	1621	SIN
79		Wan Abd Rahim Wan Mohd Azmie	0	1620	MAS
80		Tin Shan Ze	1618	0	MAS
81		Asyrafi Mohd Ruqaim	0	1613	MAS
82		Iskandar Haikal Zulkippli	1613	0	MAS
83		Lum Sun Yuan	0	1608	MAS
84		Tiong Kung Ming	1608	0	MAS
85		Low Chee Pang	0	1601	MAS
86		Kabir Singh Ajeet Singh	1597	0	MAS
87		Mohammad Yusop Abu Bakar	1576	0	MAS
88		Tan Yik Chean	1572	0	MAS
89		Gelar Sagara	1568	0	INA
90		Ruben Supramaniam	1564	0	MAS
91		Aid Farhan Maarof	1560	0	MAS
92		Aaron Ch'ng Duan Xian	1552	0	MAS
93		Ng Shi Yang	0	1552	MAS
94		Teh Ren Jie	1550	0	MAS
95		Dharmin Pathamanathan	1547	0	MAS
96		Tin Shan Wen	1540	0	MAS
97		Ahmad Arif Abdul Rahim	1533	0	MAS
98		Mohd Faridzul Asyraf Mat Arifi	1527	0	MAS
99		Eshwant Singh	1520	0	MAS
100		Teh De Yong	1518	0	MAS
101		Mahadi Sharif	1512	0	MAS
102		Chen Tzi Herng	1484	0	MAS
103		Muhd Nazran Mohd Abdul Nasir	1472	0	MAS
104		Pravin Pathamanathan	1468	0	MAS
105		Iskandar Hakimi Zulkippli	1467	0	MAS
106		Cheah Kah Hoe	0	1465	MAS
107	WCM	Goh Jie Yi	0	1462	MAS
108		Cheong Tze Wen Jarell	0	1461	MAS
109		Liu David	0	1461	AUS
110		Teh Ren Xuan	1461	0	MAS
111		David Fernandez	1456	0	MAS
112		Wan Muhd Shafiq Muhd Shukri	1451	0	MAS
113		Mohd Azmir Mohd Zamri	1448	0	MAS
114		Mohd Yusri Mohd Yussaini	0	1448	MAS
115		Mohd Syafiq Ashraff Mohd Sham	1441	0	MAS
116		Olivier Printemps Tan Zhy Ley	1439	0	MAS
117		Alistair Low	1419	0	MAS
118		Lai Zhen Hou	1390	0	MAS
119		Abdul Halim Johari	1388	0	MAS
120		Chen Tzi Xuen	1383	0	MAS
121		Wong Kah Hing	0	1369	MAS
122		Yip Yong	0	1366	MAS
123		Lum Ting Fang-G	1343	0	MAS
124		Luqman Hakim Omar Baki	1342	0	MAS
125		Lee Yib Yi	0	1341	MAS
126		Low Chee Fatt	1322	0	MAS
127		Jeevvanraj Nagaraj	1320	0	MAS
128		Low Hong Hao	1297	0	MAS
129		Yap Ehin Dallas	0	1275	MAS
130		Tan Yian Hau	1273	0	SIN
131		Ku Jet	1265	0	MAS
132		Tan Jiin Yih	1246	0	MAS
133		Nik Afiq Raiyan Nik Ahmad Faro	1239	0	MAS
134		Jonathan Cheah Hoang Vu	1205	0	MAS
135		Clarence Tang Chun Jian	1184	0	MAS
136		Eng Jia Qian	0	1180	MAS
137		Sim Jia Ru	0	1094	MAS
138		Aaryamam	0	0	IND
139		Afrizal	0	0	INA
140		Ansay Linux Louie	0	0	MAS
141		Armaan David	0	0	MAS
142		Chan Jacob	0	0	AUS
143		Chong Ming Ee	0	0	MAS
144		Elan Ritvik	0	0	IND
145		Eng Jia Jean	0	0	MAS
146		Figueroa Ezekiel Joachim	0	0	MAS
147		Gaiser Adolf Emil	0	0	MAS
148		Halim b Led	0	0	MAS
149		Jordan John San Xiang Chan	0	0	MAS
150		Kalagara Aniketh	0	0	IND
151		Khadijah Quratain	0	0	INA
152		Mitsui Ryoya	0	0	JPN
153		Mohd Nasir Hussain	0	0	MAS
154		Posman Pangaribuan	0	0	INA
155		Putra Akbar Adi	0	0	INA
156		Rahmat Zaki Auliya HM	0	0	MAS
157		Reyes Hans Jeremy	0	0	MAS
158		Sumarman	0	0	INA
159		Takumi	0	0	JPN
160		Tatoy Glesit Marie	0	0	PHI
161		Tetali Mithil Reddy	0	0	IND
162	IM	Ramnath Bhuvanesh.R	0	2422	IND
163		Manaog Stewart	0	2087	PHI
164		Marohom De Leon Jr.	0	2260	PHI
165		Paril Gabriel	0	2082	PHI
166		Mohd Faizul Ghani	1427	0	MAS
167		Calvelo Jelvis	0	2090	PHI
168	WFM	Azhar Puteri Rifqah Fahada	0	1901	MAS
169		Ecot Lourecel	0	1964	PHI
170		Low Jun Jian	0	1894	MAS
171		Chan Sheng Yip	0	1951	MAS