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Sumant Subramaniam look set to become Tesco Setia Alam champion after 6 rounds, leading the tournament with 1 point clear the rest of the field. However in the final round he lost to IM Mok Tze Meng allowing a tie. Mok won on tie break and takes first prize. A total of 62 players took part in the Open section. Sumant takes clear...

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After the final round game between Sumant and Mok on board 1 ... ...

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Standings after 6 rounds Sumant is one clear point ahead of everybody and plays white against Mok on top board in the final round.   Look who dropped by just in time for the final round.. Posted with Blogsy Standings after 6 rounds Sumant is one clear point ahead of everybody and plays white against Mok on top board in the final round.   Look who dropped by...

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 Zaidan and Sumant are joint leaders after 5 rounds, one clear point ahead of the rest of the pack. 2 more rounds to go and both of them will play each other in Round 6.    Posted with Blogsy  Zaidan and Sumant are joint leaders after 5 rounds, one clear point ahead of the rest of the pack. 2 more rounds to go and both...

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Mok lost his 4th round game. Zaidan, Kamaluddin and Sumant are the 3 yet unbeaten going into round 5. Organiser have decided to increase the rounds from 6 to 7.Posted with Blogsy Mok lost his 4th round game. Zaidan, Kamaluddin and Sumant are the 3 yet unbeaten going into round 5. Organiser have decided to increase the rounds from 6 to 7.Posted with...

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I count at least 10 players over ELO 2000 in the Setia Alam tourney which I just dropped by to see. Have a look yourself the random pictures I took before the start of round 1. Sponsors for this tournament Lim Chin Lee (a little known ELO 2100 player) Foo Chee Kin Syazrin - the person instrumental in running the whole show Dr...

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Catur.org (Malaysian Chess Portal) moves to a different webhost. Main reason being it's getting expensive hosting on GoDaddy. I recently got double charge after mistakenly clicking renew on GoDaddy. What's worse I cannot get it to reverse charge because of the difficulty in contacting their support. I was unsure whether to renew catur.org but last minute I decided to do so as it...

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This page is memorable for me because it's from New In Chess 2005 edition #8, and it gives credit to me for the pictures back when Wang Hao was still a relative unknown. It was when Malaysia Open was still 11 rounds instead of 9, and Wang Hao scored 10/11 !! ...

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The flood situation on the east coast (Terengganu, Pahang and Kelantan) seems to be getting worse. According to Malaysian Insider: Kelantan has the most number of evacuees with 24,765, followed by Terengganu (21,606), Pahang (10,825), Perak (1,030), Sabah (336) and Perlis (143). This also means that the Kelantan Open that was supposed to be held today and tomorrow is postponed to a later...

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