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The Malaysian Chess Festival is just finished but the local chess scene shows no signs of taking a break and continues this weekend with the ICE U-1600 tourney. Start Date2018-09-01 End Date2018-09-02 VenuePuchong StateSelangor LiveNo More InfoContact: 0196675675 Emran 0175605071 Shin ...

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Photo by Khong Wai Cheong Standings (taken from http://chess-results.com/tnr371453.aspx?lan=1&art=4)

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15th Dato' Arthur Ran Malaysian Open draws to a close today with the last round being played at 9am. GM Wang Hao is now leading after beating 2016 Johor Champion GM Idani Pouya in Round 8. However close behind him just half a point behind is Oliver Dimakiling. GM Oliver Dimakiling outplayed GM Susanto Megaranto in a 4 Queen endgame to set up...

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Top seed GM Wang Hao lost the lead for a while but is now back sharing the lead with GM Firouzja Alireza after 7 rounds. Both have 6 out of 7 points. With 2 more rounds to go it will be a close fight as there are many players just half a point from the two leader. They are IM Le Tuan Minh,...

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After 5 rounds, 15 year old Iranian GM Firouzja Alireza leads the Malaysian Open after top seed GM Wang Hao drew vs IM Yeoh Li Tian in Round 5. ...

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In an arguably the strongest one day rapid tournament seeing 4GM, 1 IM and 6 FMs taking part, 17 seeded Vietnamese FM Dang Hoang Son emerged champion. Despite it being the only "rest day" for the Open, about half were titled players taking part in the 6 round rapid. FM Dang Hoang Son finished clear first with 5.5 out of 6 points. ...

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No. FED Federation Count 1 MAS Malaysia 32 2 INA Indonesia 31 3 IND India 28 4 PHI Philippines 26 5 CHN China 9 6 SGP Singapore 9 7 VIE Vietnam 5 8 AUS Australia 2 9 IRI Iran 2 10 SRI Sri Lanka 2 11 THA Thailand 2 12 USA United States of America 2 13 CAN Canada 1 14 ESP Spain...

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Today is the 4th day of the Malaysian Chess Festival. After the The Merdeka Team and Age group event is over the other main events starts today. This includes the Open, Challenger and Seniors which starts simultaneously today and it's a record for all sections: Open - 155 Challenger - 187 Seniors - 47 Dato Tan officiated the opening ceremony by making first...

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Highlights: 1 hour wait time before a player forfeits on time. OKU section so if player with * beside their name in pairing, go to the OKU section to play instead of the regular playing area. All watches not allowed - digital OR analog. ...

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It's here again!! So popular the organisers have no choice but to limit the places every year. Details:- v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} Normal 0 false false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Continue Reading

Recently posted on Facebook that MCF EXCO meeting took place and Encik Hamid Majid is chosen as the new MCF secretary. ...

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Today is a sad day as I found out that IM Giam Choo Kwee passed away 2 days ago. I didn't know him well but I did know of him all the way from the first Malaysian Open which was 15 years ago. It was only the last 4 years we got to talk - my fault as I am not a very...

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GM Pacher Milan won the event on tie break over FM Chekletsov Ilya. Both had 7.5 points out of 9 rounds. So, why is a distant tournament in Praque, Czechoslovakia posted on this blog? Apparently there was a Malaysian finishing at position 114. Though it looks unimpressive but due to the strong field this Malaysian got an ELO +15 overall. Congrats!! ...

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These are the Malaysian representative to the 2018 Batumi Chess Olympiad: Seed: 105       Malaysia (Average Rating:2206) Captain: Nik Nik Ahmad Farouqi Bo. Name Rtg 1 CM Fong Yit San 2108 2 FM Lim Zhuo Ren 2166 3 Lye Lik Zang 2345 4 Mahmood Shah Mukhriez Shah 1821 5 CM Zulkipli Zaidan 2203 ...

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Malaysian Players listed with titles in FIDE Online Arena FIDE ID Name Title 5751624 Hendra, Alfaldo Riski  AFM 5743001 Md Yazid Luqman Nur Hakim  ACM 5701791 Nik, Nik Ahmad Farouqi AGM 5701945 Loo, Swee Leong AGM 5706548 Azman, Muhd Ariez AGM 5721865 Singh, Eshwant AGM 5700175 Muzzaffar, Ahmad  AIM 5703549 Hamid, Hairul Abdul  AIM 5704308 Saleh, Fikri  AIM 5709180 Guna Balan, Jagathees  AIM...

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