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Jax scores a perfect 11/11 in this event followed by Bernard (8/11) and Woo Beng Keong(7.5/11).

It's 29.90 euro per year for the classic membership which allows you features like playing chess online and watching live games like the current world youth Olympiad live.

According to the current exchange rate...

29.90 Euros = 129.57546 Malaysian ringgits


Works out to around Rm 10+ a month.

Reasonable.

Frank Goon Cup 2011

1 Micheal Angelo Palma 6 1/2
2 Muhd Syazwan Zulkifli 6
3 Robert Suelo 6
4 Mok Tze Meng 5½
5 Ali M. Konkar 5½
6 Nasrul Humaimi Mahmood 5½
7 Zarul Shazwan Zullkafli 5½
8 Mohd Khairul Nizam Johari 5½
9 Sai Jia Chuan 5½
10 Nguyen Tien Thanh 5

PRIZES

Main Prize

1)   Champion           RM 300 + Gold Medal

2)   2^nd                        RM 200 + Gold Medal

3)   3^rd                        RM 150 + Gold Medal

Additional Prize

Open

1)            Best Secondary School Student – RM50 + Silver Medal

2)            Best Primary School Student     – RM50 + Silver Medal

3)            Best Form 4 - Bronze Medal

4)            Best Form 3 - Bronze Medal

5)            Best Form 2 - Bronze Medal

6)            Best Form 1 - Bronze Medal

7)            Best Year 6 - Bronze Medal

8)            Best Year 5 - Bronze Medal

9)            Best Year 4 - Bronze Medal

10)                      Best Year 3 - Bronze Medal

11)                      Best Year 2 - Bronze Medal

12)                      Best Year 1 - Bronze Medal

Insofar Only ( Insofar/ Ex Insofar)

1)                Best Secondary School Student – RM 130 + Silver Medal

2)                Best Primary School Student     – RM 120 + Silver Medal

3)                 Best Form 4 - Bronze Medal

4)                 Best Form 3 - Bronze Medal

5)                 Best Form 2 - Bronze Medal

6)                 Best Form 1 - Bronze Medal

7)            Best Year 6 - Bronze Medal

8)            Best Year 5 - Bronze Medal

9)            Best Year 4 - Bronze Medal

10)                      Best Year 3 - Bronze Medal

11)                      Best Year 2 - Bronze Medal

12)                      Best Year 1 - Bronze Medal

REGISTRATION

To register just SMS

1)  Name

2)  Form /  Year (Standard)

3)  Insofar  / ex insofar /  non Insofar

Before 29^th Oct 2011

(Limited to 32 places only)

Tel – 017 2032051

Anybody can sms name and cancel before 29^th Oct

Malaysia's 4-0 win over Turkey shot them up to 7th position in the standings.

Cut and pasted from the official site:



Standings after 5 rounds.

Rank Team Gam. + = - Pts. BH. 1 Armenia 5 4 0 1 16 58 2 Russia 5 4 0 1 14½ 61½ 3 Georgia 5 4 0 1 13½ 52½ 4 Azerbaijan 5 3 2 0 13 60 5 Iran 5 3 1 1 12 54 6 Czech Republic 5 4 0 1 12 52½ 7 Malaysia 5 3 1 1 12 46 8 India 5 2 1 2 11½ 63½ 9 Kazakhstan 5 3 0 2 11½ 49 10 Switzerland 5 3 0 2 11 57 11 Turkey-Red 5 3 0 2 11 50½ 12 Slovakia 5 2 0 3 11 43 13 Moldova 5 3 0 2 10½ 49 14 Turkey-White 5 2 1 2 10½ 47 15 England 5 2 0 3 10 49 16 Syria 5 2 1 2 9½ 59 17 Kyrgyzstan 5 1 2 2 9 47 18 South Africa-Team-B 5 1 1 3 9 39 19 Scotland 5 2 0 3 8½ 47 20 UAE-Team-B 5 1 1 3 8½ 40 21 Turkey-Turkuaz 5 2 0 3 8 51½ 22 UAE-Team-A 5 2 0 3 8 48 23 South Africa-Team-A 5 1 1 3 7 53½ 24 Turkey-Kocaeli 5 1 0 4 7 39 25 UAE-Team-C 5 1 0 4 4 44 26 Kenya 5 0 0 5 1½ 39½

Curious that Singapore didn't even send a team. Ditto for SEA Games too. What's happening to Singapore chess?