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Grandmaster Attila Czebe won the Historical Melaka International with a 1.5 point lead over his closest rival. Also, turning out an impressive performance is young Yeoh Li Tian finishing 6/9 missing the IM norm by half a point (accordiing to IM Jimmy Liew’s blog). Final Ranking after 9 Rounds Rk.   Name FED Rtg Pts. TB1 TB2 TB3 1 GM Czebe Attila HUN...

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Round 9 Bo.No.NameRtgPts.ResultPts.NameRtgNo. 16GMDeepan Chakkravarthy J 24615½½ - ½7GMCzebe Attila 24775 210GMLaxman R R 24155½½ - ½5½IMKarthikeyan P 241411 38GMBitoon Richard 24555½ - ½5½GMRomero Holmes Alfonso 25012 41GMArun Prasad S 25175½ - ½5GMFominyh Alexander 24883 516FMHamdani Rudin 232250 - 15Yeoh Li Tian 220418 67IMNolte Rolando 24564½½ - ½4½IMRathnakaran K 241012 79IMDimakiling Oliver 24474½0 - 14½IMPraveen Kumar C 234315 84GMHorvath Adam 24874½ - ½4½FMDjuraev...

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ref link: http://chess-results.com/tnr71314.aspx?art=2&rd=7&lan=1 GM Attila Czebe maintains his one point lead as he draws with one of his nearest rival GM Richard Bitoon in round 8. GM Alfonso Romero Holmes failed to narrow the gap with Czebe when he lost to Indian GM Arun Prasad. The best performing Malaysian is Yeoh Li Tian as he defeated WGM Nadig Kruttika with the white pieces....

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reference link: http://chess-results.com/tnr71314.aspx?art=2&rd=6&lan=1 GM Attila Czebe maintains his 1 point lead over the rest of the field with a win on the Black side against IM Rathnakaran K. Best performing Malaysians are currently IM Mas Hafizulhelmi at 3½ and Yeoh Li Tian and 3 points. Round 6 Bo. No.   Name Rtg Pts. Res. Pts.   Name Rtg No. 1 12 IM Rathnakaran...

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Decisive results on top boards! Board 1-4 registered White wins. IM Mas lost to IM Oliver DImakiling. Yeoh Li Tian again drew with a higher rated opponent. This time it was versus IM Praveen Kumar of India. Zaidan Zulkipli also did well in drawing against WGM Nadig Kruttika of India. GM Attila Czebe is the sole leader with 4.5/5. Round 5 Bo. No....

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Reference link: http://chess-results.com/tnr71314.aspx?art=2&rd=4&lan=1 With a good night’s rest we see more decisive games on all  boards in round 4! Only 4 draws out of 18 boards. IM Oliver Dimakiling playing black was overpowered by GM Alexander on board 1. GM Atilla beat GM Laxman. GM Bitoon beat Deepan. Malaysia’s Yeoh Li Tian held IM Rolando Nolte to a draw. Nolte is 200 ELO...

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Out of 18 boards playing today, 9 turned out to be draws. No surprise as the players had played an earlier morning rounds so more draws in the later evening due to fatique is common. Again, there is no upsets and all the games were won by higher rated opponents except maybe FM Hamdani Rudin holding GM Arun Prasad to a draw on...

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No upsets or suprises on Day 2 of the Melaka International 2012 which saw stronger players expectedly winning their games. On top board Indian Grandmaster GM Laxman triumphed over GM Alfonso Romero Holmes of Spain. A total of 36 participants(not 38 as wrongly reported) are taking part in this event with exactly half are titled and the other half untitled. Round 2 Bo....

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source: http://chess-results.com/tnr71314.aspx?art=2&rd=1&lan=1 Round 1 Bo. No.   Name Rtg Result   Name Rtg No. 1 19   Anasrullah 2127 ½-½ GM Arun Prasad S 2517 1 2 2 GM Romero Holmes Alfonso 2501 1-0   Kharitonov Igor 2106 20 3 21   Nayan Ahmad Fadzil 2072 0-1 GM Fominyh Alexander 2488 3 4 4 GM Horvath Adam 2487 1-0   Suharto Moh Wahyu...

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