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Today is the 31st of August - Malaysia’s 66th Independence day so it was appropriat

e before the start of the AGE GROUP event that these 3 cheers were done. The Age group is part of the Malaysian Chess Festival 2023.

 Indonesian 19 year Zacky Dhiaulhaq , who is untitled is the surprise sole leader of the Malaysian Open 2023 after 4 rounds. In round 3 and 4 he beat International Masters Ameya Audi (from Indonesia) and Jagadeesh Siddharth (from Singapore) respectively. However 9 players are following closely just half a point behind with 3 and half points. They are : IM Nitin S. , GM Laylo Darwin , GM Mitrabha Guha , GM Sivuk Vitaly , Bacojo Mark Jay , IM Garcia Jan Emmanuel , IM Concio Michael Jr. , FM Poh Yu Tian 2377 and IM Kushagra Mohan.

There are 5 more rounds to go.

Round 1

Results from round 1 was as expected which was the stronger ELO players overpowering the weaker except for the following:

• Kaushal Khandar playing Black, held GM Deepan Chakkravarthy to a draw.
  
  
• WFM Diajeng Theresa Singgih held FM Wong YInn Long to a draw. There is a 500 points rating difference between the two but probably not surprising as the WFM is under-rated having lost ELO points over the years with her highest rating being 2164.
  
  
• GM Nguyen was held to a draw by Lasama, Claudio Vargues Vasco. The latter was playing White.Steven Tan defeated FM Masruru Rahman.
  
  
• WGM Janelle Mae Frayna was held to a draw by Marrhuimawan, Maximiliano who is about 500 ELO points lower than the WGM.

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