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IM Mok Tze Meng wins Tesco Setia Alam

By GilaChess - December 29, 2014

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 2nd place.

Rank	Name	Rtg	Pts	BH.
1	IM Mok Tze Meng	2372	6	33½
2	Sumant Subramaniam	2107	6	33
3	Kamaluddin Yusof	2065	5½	33½
4	Zaidan Zulkipli	2100	5½	32
5	Chek Kin Kew	1974	5½	31½
6	Fong Yit San	2105	5½	30
7	Mohd Saprin bin Sabri	2143	5	32½
8	Wu Wen Long	1573	5	30
9	Foo Chee Kin	1925	5	29
10	Lim Chin Lee	2115	5	28
11	Amir Ghaazi bin Mohd Saprin	1761	5	24
12	Mohamed Ismail	1749	5	23
13	Fong Yit Ho	1964	4½	30
14	Muhd Syazwan Zulkifli	2063	4½	29½
15	NM Mohd Kamal Abdullah	2177	4½	28
16	Hairul bin Abdul Hamid	1638	4½	24
17	Muhd Sakri Amin	0	4	30
18	Norazwan Kamaruzaman	1662	4	29½
19	Leong Zhi Chen	1529	4	27
20	Amiruddin Zakaria	1650	4	27
21	Amir Qayyim bin Mohd Saprin	1657	4	26½
22	Syawal Aqmar	1701	4	25½
23	Iskandar Danial Adam	1670	4	25½
24	Lee Guang Yang	1457	4	25½
25	Muhd Faqih Aminudin	1718	4	25
26	Mohd Ikhbal Mohd Jowahar	1560	4	23½
27	Yasmin Irdina Zulkippli	1409	4	23
28	Syahril Abdul Jalil	1569	4	22½
29	Iskandar Hakimi Zulkipli	1455	3½	27½
30	Wong Zi Yue	1573	3½	27½
31	Muhammad Asyraaf Fahmi bin Md Yusoff	0	3½	22½
32	Cheah Kah Hoe	1370	3½	22
33	Mok Shu Jing	1551	3½	20½
34	Radzy Razali	0	3	30
35	Mohammad Fahmi Ahmad	1457	3	27½
36	Raja Bazil Bot bin Raja Badli	1524	3	25½
37	Edwin Lam	1966	3	25
38	Iskandar Farhat Zulkippli	1329	3	25
39	Mohammad Yussaini bin Mohamad Yusri	1496	3	24½
40	Jairan Ibrahim	0	3	24
41	Rohisham Ramly	0	3	22
42	Amirullah bin Zainuzzaman	0	3	21
43	Muhammad Fiqri Bin Mohd Farid	0	3	21
44	Raja Bazli Bot Raja Badli	1300	3	20
45	Khairul Nasri b. Mohd Noor	0	3	19½
46	Muhammad Hariz Daniel b. Ahmad Nordin	1218	3	19½
47	Lim Sin Leong	1493	2½	28
48	Abdullah Mazlan	0	2½	20
49	Shahril Anuar Bin Zainudin	1486	2½	18½
50	Nur Faqihah Aminudin	1394	2	23
51	Hafizul Mukmin	0	2	21
52	Lim Wei Chuan	1066	2	20½
53	Muhammad Faris Syahmi Bin Mohd Taufek	0	2	18½
54	Amir Shafiq Rohisham	0	2	16½
55	Mohd Amin Ali	0	1	20½
56	Shahrul Amri	0	1	18
57	Nor Khalilah bt Gusti Hassan	0	1	16½
58	Raja Batrisyia Bot binti Raja Badli	915	1	14½
59	Azmi Othman	1650	0	17½
60	Rusdi Sidi	1710	0	17
61	Noor Azlan bin Bakri	0	0	17
62	Mohd Najmuddin Hassan	0	0	16½

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Alam Setia: more post-mortem

By GilaChess - December 28, 2014

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Alam Setia: Post Mortem

By GilaChess - December 28, 2014

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

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Setia Alam: Going into Round 7 (final)

By GilaChess - December 28, 2014

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..

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R6: Sumant leads after beating Zaidan

By GilaChess - December 28, 2014

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Setia Alam: Round 6 leaders - Sumant & Zaidan

By GilaChess - December 28, 2014

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.

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Setia Alam: Round 5 Board 1

By GilaChess - December 28, 2014

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Setia Alam: 3 Leaders after 4 rounds

By GilaChess - December 28, 2014

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.

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Fourth round clash: Kamaluddin beats IM Mok

By GilaChess - December 28, 2014

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Round 3 pairing

By GilaChess - December 28, 2014

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Round 3 Board 1

By GilaChess - December 28, 2014

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Setia Alam Round 2 board 2 - NM vs blogger

By GilaChess - December 28, 2014

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A first: DGT recording board 1 of a rapid tourney

By GilaChess - December 28, 2014

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Pretty Strong showing at Setia Alam

By GilaChess - December 28, 2014

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 Zaidan

Syazwan Zulkifli

IM Mok Tze Meng

Mohd Saprin Sabri

Sumant, NM Fong Yit San and Fong Yit Ho (not in picture) are also taking part, making this a surprisingly strong tournament for a one day rapid (20 mins time control) !

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catur.org lives again

By GilaChess - December 27, 2014

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 seems many people are still using it to keep updated on chess events.

Catur.org is now hosted on DigitalOcean running on SSD webhost which should see faster performance compared to the previous webhost.

As I am restarting from scracth, I may have missed some chess blogs. Please leave a comment if I have forgotten to add your blog back to the chess portal.

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Memorable

By GilaChess - December 26, 2014

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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Prayers to flood victims

By GilaChess - December 26, 2014

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 date.

Anyway no state of emergency is yet to be declared meaning that the situation is (hopefully) not serious yet.

In denying rumour that an emergency has been declared, Kelantan police chief Datuk Mazlan Lazim also stressed that the flood situation in the state "is under control"

~ from Malaysian Insider.

Whatever it is, prayers and thoughts for the flood victims..

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