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First seed IM Pascua Haridas was slowed down a bit with a draw versus Pg Md Omar Ak Hafizon in Round 2. He drops down to board 9 to play against Steward Manage on board 9. All the other 3 Grandmasters remain with a perfect 2/2.


Round 3 Pairing

Bo.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Pts.		Name	Rtg
1	GM	Villamayor Buenaventura	2427	2	2		Udani Ian	2234
2	FM	Andyka Pitra	2213	2	2	IM	Llaneza Vega Marcos	2422
3		Ng Tze Han	2184	2	2	GM	Barsov Alexei	2411
4	GM	Fominyh Alexander	2391	2	2	FM	Sonjaya Deni	2208
5		Looi Xin Hao	2122	2	2	IM	Nouri Hamed	2349
6	IM	Senador Emmanuel	2323	2	2		Lye Lik Zang	2183
7	FM	Miciano John Marvin	2260	2	2		Chan Kim Yew	2148
8	IM	Dimakiling Oliver	2412	1½	2		Tan Kok Liang	1770
9		Manaog Stewart	2072	1½	1½	IM	Pascua Haridas	2443
10		Tan Yong Hau	1528	1½	1½		Roque Merben	2318
11		Pg Md Omar Ak Hafizon	2114	1½	1½	FM	Wiwatanadate Poompong	2053
12	FM	Nouri Alekhine	1883	1½	1½	FM	Villanueva Nelson	2081
13		Cantin Loic	2180	1	1½		Abd Rahman Syazrin	1528
14		Bagamasbad Efren	2120	1	1		Sim Jia Ru	1699
15	FM	Hj Azahari Md Aliuddin	2052	1	1		Ang Jing Xuan	1692
16		Abdul Razak Tariq Ziad	1664	1	1		Sabri Mohd Saprin	2032
17		Toh Joseph	1994	1	1		Chembeti Shreesh Amit	1656
18		Low Chee Pang	1656	1	1		Navaratnam Rohan Shan Tze	1963
19		Tan Yong Zhao	1963	1	1		Chia Yu Zhe Ashton	1581
20		Mohd Saprin Amir Muqqri	1630	1	1		Khandhar Kaushal	1945
21		Chong Chor Yuen	1937	1	1		Saw Lye Guan	1541
22		Yeop Mat Zaki	1556	1	1		Chan Sheng Yip	1888
23		Lee Peng Keong	1501	1	1	AIM	Muzzaffar Ahmad	1858
24		Foo Jing Er Claire	1479	1	1		Teh Wee Zhun	1807
25		Kong Ren En	1804	1	1		Sivapragash Maahendar	1436
26		Poh Yu Tian	1464	1	1		Arya Nirag Shah	1788
27		Lieu Chin Yung	1773	1	1		Sathaseelan Dinish	1429
28		Abdul Rashid Hasidin	1347	1	1	WCM	Chua Jia-Tien	1750
29		Rahimie Mustafa	1343	1	1		Cheah Kah Hoe	1712
30	FM	Ismail Ahmad	2025	½	1		Gunn Han Chong	0
31		Chan Yi Meng Ryan	1988	½	½		Chin Yi Hao	1514
32		Aminuddin Muhd Faqih	1667	½	½		Tham Tick Hong Jax	1951
33		Nithyalakshmi Sivanesan	1948	½	½		Ng Jun Fung Isaac	1602
34		Bhandari Neel	1442	½	½		Lee Zhia Chen Zachary	1602
35		Sharikhan Shawal	1852	0	½		Shubh Kapur	1458
36		Chin Shun Yi	1534	0	0		Kebbedies Frank	1775
37		Borigas Edgardo	1767	0	0		Kumar Sri Shiva	1461
38		Tarimo Didik Widiarso	1730	0	0		Aziz Ziz Zam	1430
39		Lee Ryan	1418	0	0		Lim Kian Hwa	1718
40		Ong Weng Yan	1388	0	0		Ragu Ram R.Nadarajan	1663
41		Wong Zi Yue	1627	0	0	AIM	Polavaram Harsha	1365
42		Mahmood Mohd Ezmi	1602	0	0		Nivashan Ram	1215
43	AIM	Chua Chee Sian Sebastien	1595	0	0		Wee Han Xia	0
44	AFM	Polavaram Adhitya	1119	0			bye

Bo.		Name	Rtg	Result		Name	Rtg
1		Borigas Edgardo	1767	0 - 1	IM	Pascua Haridas	2443
2	GM	Villamayor Buenaventura	2427	1 - 0	WCM	Chua Jia-Tien	1750
3		Tarimo Didik Widiarso	1730	0 - 1	IM	Llaneza Vega Marcos	2422
4	IM	Dimakiling Oliver	2412	1 - 0		Lim Kian Hwa	1718
5		Cheah Kah Hoe	1712	0 - 1	GM	Barsov Alexei	2411
6	GM	Fominyh Alexander	2391	1 - 0		Ang Jing Xuan	1692
7		Aminuddin Muhd Faqih	1667	0 - 1	IM	Nouri Hamed	2349
8	IM	Senador Emmanuel	2323	1 - 0		Abdul Razak Tariq Ziad	1664
9		Ragu Ram R.Nadarajan	1663	0 - 1		Roque Merben	2318
10	FM	Miciano John Marvin	2260	1 - 0		Chembeti Shreesh Amit	1656
11		Low Chee Pang	1656	0 - 1		Udani Ian	2234
12	FM	Andyka Pitra	2213	1 - 0		Mohd Saprin Amir Muqqri	1630
13		Wong Zi Yue	1627	0 - 1	FM	Sonjaya Deni	2208
14		Ng Tze Han	2184	1 - 0		Lee Zhia Chen Zachary	1602
15		Mahmood Mohd Ezmi	1602	0 - 1		Lye Lik Zang	2183
16		Cantin Loic	2180	1 - 0		Ng Jun Fung Isaac	1602
17	AIM	Chua Chee Sian Sebastien	1595	0 - 1		Chan Kim Yew	2148
18		Looi Xin Hao	2122	1 - 0		Chia Yu Zhe Ashton	1581
19		Yeop Mat Zaki	1556	0 - 1		Bagamasbad Efren	2120
20		Pg Md Omar Ak Hafizon	2114	1 - 0		Saw Lye Guan	1541
21		Chin Shun Yi	1534	0 - 1	FM	Villanueva Nelson	2081
22		Manaog Stewart	2072	½ - ½		Abd Rahman Syazrin	1528
23		Tan Yong Hau	1528	½ - ½	FM	Wiwatanadate Poompong	2053
24	FM	Hj Azahari Md Aliuddin	2052	½ - ½		Chin Yi Hao	1514
25		Lee Peng Keong	1501	1 - 0		Sabri Mohd Saprin	2032
26		Toh Joseph	1994	1 - 0		Foo Jing Er Claire	1479
27		Poh Yu Tian	1464	0 - 1		Navaratnam Rohan Shan Tze	1963
28		Tan Yong Zhao	1963	1 - 0		Shubh Kapur	1458
29		Bhandari Neel	1442	½ - ½		Tham Tick Hong Jax	1951
30		Nithyalakshmi Sivanesan	1948	½ - ½		Sivapragash Maahendar	1436
31		Aziz Ziz Zam	1430	0 - 1		Khandhar Kaushal	1945
32		Chong Chor Yuen	1937	1 - 0		Sathaseelan Dinish	1429
33		Lee Ryan	1418	0 - 1		Chan Sheng Yip	1888
34	FM	Nouri Alekhine	1883	1 - 0		Ong Weng Yan	1388
35	AIM	Polavaram Harsha	1365	0 - 1	AIM	Muzzaffar Ahmad	1858
36		Sharikhan Shawal	1852	0 - 1		Abdul Rashid Hasidin	1347
37		Rahimie Mustafa	1343	1 - 0		Teh Wee Zhun	1807
38		Kong Ren En	1804	1 - 0		Nivashan Ram	1215
39	AFM	Polavaram Adhitya	1119	0 - 1		Arya Nirag Shah	1788
40		Lieu Chin Yung	1773	1 - 0		Gunn Han Chong	0
41		Wee Han Xia	0	0 - 1		Tan Kok Liang	1770
42	FM	Ismail Ahmad	2025	0		not paired
43		Chan Yi Meng Ryan	1988	0		not paired
44		Kebbedies Frank	1775	0		not paired
45		Sim Jia Ru	1699	0		not paired
46		Kumar Sri Shiva	1461	0		not paired

The tournament is also broadcasting 4 boards live and you can follow the games via Chess 24 and Follow Chess app and websites.

132 players took part in the Open section 2nd edition of the KIMMA chess tournament held on 14th January 2018. This event was won convincingly by IM Oliver Dimakiling with a perfect 7/7 points.

Missed last year's 1st editition of the KIMMA tourney for the simple reason I didn't know about it.

This year did not plan to go either unless someone 'ajak'. So happen the 'Chess Tourist' from Faccebook did, so I went.



Going alone, it was an adventure. I only knew it was somewhere near the old DATCC centre at Wilayah Kompleks so I started there. Spent 10 minutes time circling Wilayah Kompleks because I wanted free parking and not pay the RM10 at the nearby parking lot.

Using WAZE and Google Maps I found this place:

.. which turned out NOT to be the place.

Third time's the charm. Finally saw this place after figuring out which direction was which in Google Maps.


Some pictures from Round 2 and 3:


Kedai Catur boss - Muhammad Arshad



Chess promoter, DGT broadcaster Norazwan 'Shin Azwan'





Top seed IM Oliver Dimakiling



Group photo with the people from KIMMA



Malaysia's highest rated player IM Yeoh Li Tian


Evan 'The Beast' Capel



FM Lim Zhuo Ren



Francis Tan



Kamaluddin Yusof


IM Mok Tze Meng


IM Pascua Haridas



Lee Soi-Hock



long time local coach S.Balendran who has not played active chess for several years returns to play here.




FM Sumant




FM Kamal Abdullah




Steward Manaog



Teh Wee Zhun


Hamzah 'Ng6' Razali



Cheah Cheok Fung

The Master Class will be held on January 11, 6pm-10pm at ICE.

Screenshot of the Facebook event: