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4 leaders emerge after 3 rounds of play in the 45th Selangor Open 2018. They are GM Alexei Barsov, FM John Marvin Miciano, IM Nouri Hamed and GM Alexander Forminyh. All four have 3 out of 3 points. They will meet each other in round 4.



Round 3

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

Round 4 pairings

Round 4 on 2018/04/29 at 09:00

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	5	GM	Barsov Alexei	2411	3		3	FM	Miciano John Marvin	2260	10
2	7	IM	Nouri Hamed	2349	3		3	GM	Fominyh Alexander	2391	6
3	1	IM	Pascua Haridas	2443	2½		2½	FM	Andyka Pitra	2213	12
4	15		Lye Lik Zang	2183	2½		2½	GM	Villamayor Buenaventura	2427	2
5	3	IM	Llaneza Vega Marcos	2422	2½		2½	IM	Senador Emmanuel	2323	8
6	11		Udani Ian	2234	2½		2½	IM	Dimakiling Oliver	2412	4
7	9		Roque Merben	2318	2		2		Kong Ren En	1804	40
8	13	FM	Sonjaya Deni	2208	2		2	FM	Nouri Alekhine	1883	36
9	35		Chan Sheng Yip	1888	2		2		Ng Tze Han	2184	14
10	46	WCM	Chua Jia-Tien	1750	2		2		Cantin Loic	2180	16

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