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Malaysia got knocked out of the Men's Rapid Team section. Malaysia lost 1.5-2.5 to heavyweights Philippines and also lost to Vietnam with the same score too. The Malaysian was just unlucky to be paired with the 2 most strongest team there in the first round. Still 1.5 points is a good effort against these chess giants.

Taken from Chess-Malaysia newsgroup regular posts (spotted by Jimmy Liew)
Sometime i fill,sorry not fill anything when a .. Feel or Fill??? if u english cant make it,u talk so much at here... Note: This is just a sample. Most of the discussion there is in better English :)

Fadli Zakaria offers these cash incentives to chess SEA GAMES players for 2005, 2007 and 2009 SEA GAMES. Gold medal for individual -RM1,000 Gold medal for team -RM1,500

This is just a partial result (thanks to Ching Kim Lye for obtaining it). Sea Games Men's Individual Rapid 2005 Final 28/11/2005 FM Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son 1.5-0.5 GM Susanto Megaranto Semi-Finals 28/11/2005 IM Jason Goh Koon Jong 1-1 (0.5-1.5) GM Susanto Megaranto FM Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son 1.5-0.5 GM Eugenio Torre Quarter-Finals 27/11/2005 GM Wu Shaobin 0-2 FM Ngyuen Ngoc Troung Son IM Jason Goh Koon Jong 1.5-0.5 IM Wynn Zaw Htun GM Susanto Megaranto 1.5-0.5 GM Joey Antonio GM Eugenio Torre 1.5-0.5 FM Le Quang Liem 1st Round 27/11/2005 incomplete GM Wu Shaobin 1.5-0.5 IM Mas Hafizulhilmi IM Jason Goh Koon Jong 3-1 (1-1) IM Danny Juswanto GM Joey Antonio 1.5-0.5 Ak Hirawan Mohd Omar GM Susanto Megaranto - FM Nicholas Chan (scores not available yet but Nicholas lost) FM Le Quang Liem vs ?? FM Ngyuen Ngoc Troung Son vs ?? IM Wynn Zaw Htun vs ?? GM Eugenio Torre bye

This is the probable list of the Fide-rated players at the Penang international open chess championship 2005 (7-11 Dec 2005) GM Mark Paragua (PHI) 2596 GM Drazen Sermek (SLO) 2526 GM Bakre Tejas (IND) 2484 GM Bong Villamayor (PHI) 2451 IM Stefan Loeffler (GER) 2440 WGM Tania Sachdev (IND) 2379 IM Chandrashekhar Gokhale (IND) 2377 IM Jimmy Liew (MAS) 2320 Tan Chin Hoe (SIN) 2272 Jonathan Chuah (MAS) 2210 Kannapon Srivatchirawat (THA) 2206 Mohd Fairin Zakaria (MAS) 2190 Fadli Zakaria (MAS) 2185 Kamaluddin Yusof (MAS) 2180 Tan Hong Ghee (MAS) 2140 S. Balendran (MAS) 1975 The list is certainly impressive with super GM Mark Paragua taking part.