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1500 !! That's the number we are looking at for the today's Festival Catur Putrajaya (FCP) 2017. It's definitely a record for the biggest number of participants in Malaysia ever. Of course the previous one was marred by bad organisation and controversies. From what I see in the initial first round, this is a very smoothly run Round 1 and the organisers are determined things finish on time at 5 pm!

5 Live boards after round one. Link here.

For the Open it looks like IM Oliver Dimakiling has a walkover win as his opponent didn't turn up. Same goes for the  Sames goes for the 2nd and 5th DGT boards above (Under 9 and Under 18 respectively) Mukriez has a quick win for Under 12 top board.