KL Open Challengers-Round 2: Traffic jam of two pointers

Leading the charge in the Challengers section of the KL Chess Open 2008 is famous Chessbase article contributor Edwin Lam with a perfect 2/2 points. Fighting fiercely for top spot with the same score are Juhaidi, Mat Zaki Yeop, Augustinus, Christine Paragua, Fikri Saleh, Mohd Asman Hisyam, Nur Najiha, Jin Huey Boey, Shreyes Subramaniam and Tan Kien Wei.

  Not to be forgotten are junior talents like Malaysian 9-year old Yeoh Li Tian (picture) and  Indonesian Medina Warda Aulia who are following closely behind the leaders with 1.5 points. Yeoh Li Tian is one of the strongest Malaysia's under-10  player whereas Medina has performed surprisingly well in the latest World Youth Chess Championship held in Vietnam. It will be interesting to see how junior talent fare against the adults taking part.

There are about 66 participants from various countries such as Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines and India taking part in the KL Open Challengers Section.

Round 2 Results

Round 2 on 2008/12/16 at 0900

Bo.	No.		Name	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	No.
1	16	IM	Chiong Luis	1	0 - 1	1	GM	Filippov Anton	1
2	2	GM	Megaranto Susanto	1	1 - 0	1	FM	Anam Khairul	17
3	19	IM	Gokhale Chandrashekhar	1	1 - 0	1	GM	Paragua Mark	3
4	4	GM	Dao Thien Hai	1	1 - 0	1		Sutarno	23
5	20		Anasrullah	1	0 - 1	1	GM	Nguyen Anh Dung	5
6	6	GM	Panchanathan Magesh Chandran	1	1 - 0	1	WGM	Ramaswamy Aarthie	25
7	22		Yu Ruiyuan	1	½ - ½	1	GM	Villamayor Buenaventura	7
8	8	GM	Zaw Win Lay	1	1 - 0	1	WIM	Panneer Ramachandran Priya	27
9	24	FM	Simanjuntak Sebastian	1	0 - 1	1	IM	Irwanto Sadikin	9
10	10	IM	Sadorra Julio Catalino	1	1 - 0	1		Jenius Kaiser	29
11	26		Howard Fernandez Daniel	1	0 - 1	1		Yang Kaiqi	11
12	12	CM	Nguyen Van Huy	1	1 - 0	1		Suyud Hartoyo	31
13	28		Zakaria Fairin	1	0 - 1	1	IM	Wang Rui	13
14	14	IM	Tirto	1	1 - 0	1		Siew Mark	71
15	30	CM	Neubronner Jarred	1	½ - ½	1	IM	Sitanggang Salor	15
16	18	FM	Khamparia Akshat	½	1 - 0	½		Lee Kai Jie Edward	65
17	66		Ong Jun Xue	½	½ - ½	½		Siregar Novian	21
18	32	WIM	Meera Sai	½	½ - ½	½		Tan Ken Wei	51
19	54		S. Balendran	½	0 - 1	½		Koh Jonathan	33
20	34		Bao Khoa	0	1 - 0	0		Capel Evan Timothy	49
21	50		Wee Chu En Kelvin	0	0 - 1	0		Tan Khai Boon	35
22	36		Soh Han Loong Gerald	0	1 - 0	0		Low Jun Jian	52
23	56		Law Mark	0	½ - ½	0		Zhang Jing	37
24	38		Neubronner Shannon Scott	0	1 - 0	0		Mohd Noor Ahmad Eizran Ezra	53
25	58	WCM	Ivana Maria Furtado	0	½ - ½	0		Setiawan Iwan	39
26	40		Yeap Eng Chiam	0	½ - ½	0		Lim Zhuo Ren	55
27	62		Ho Thi Minh Hien	0	0 - 1	0		Lee Kim Han Edward	41
28	42	FM	Kapriaga Rian	0	1 - 0	0		Masters Christopher	57
29	64		Khairul Nazmi Zainol Ariffin	0	½ - ½	0		Soon Wai Cheong	43
30	44		Eng Andre-Jerome	0	½ - ½	0		Lee Kah Meng Elgin	59
31	69		Tay Kiat Boon	0	1 - 0	0		Ong Way Justin	45
32	46		Tan Weiliang	0	½ - ½	0		Jia Hui Rujok, Najwa	63
33	70		Wong Jianwen	0	1 - 0	0		Foo Benjamin	47
34	48		Subramaniam Sumant	0	0 - 1	0		Ow Jun Wai, Ryan	67
35	60		Syed Hussin Syed Iskandar Shah	0	0			not paired
36	61		Chan Michael	½	0			not paired
37	68		Sooi Ching Wei	0	0			not paired

Challengers Round 1 and 2 results

Round 1 on 2008/12/15 at 1600

Bo.SNo. Name            Pts Res. PtsName SNo.
1  1    Lam Edwin         0 1 - 0 0 Lee Kah Howe, William  
2  36   Lee Kah Teng      0 0 - 1 0 Yeoh Li Tian           
3  3    Chan Cheng-Hoong  0 1 - 0 0 Lee Tze Jiet           
4  38   Low Jun Keat      0 0 - 1 0 Yeop Mat Zaki          
5  40   Mappa Saharuddin  0 0 - 1 0 Agustinus              
6  6    Ahmad Johari Mohd 0 0 - 1 0 Miranda Shawn Edgar    
7  43   Mohd Jalani Affan 0 0 - 1 0 Ajeet Singh Roshan     
8  8    Amier Hamzah Mohd 0 1 - 0 0 Khaw Yew Onn           
9  44   Ng Jen Sheng      0 0 - 1 0 Aminuddin Muhd Faris   
10 10   Arminuddin Nur    0 0 - 1 0 Paragua Christine      
11 46   Purnamasari       0 0 - 1 0 Asman Hisyam Mohd Nabil
12 12   Aulia Medina Warda0 1 - 0 0 Rashid Bin Jamaluddin   
13 48   Rusdi Tahir       0 ½ - ½ 0 Azman Hisyam Nur Nabila
14 14   Azman Hisyam Nur  0 1 - 0 0 Ruslan Haslindah        
15 50   Saleh Anis Fariha 0 0 - 1 0 Boey Jin Huey           
16 16   Boey Jin Wern     0 0 - 1 0 Saleh Fikri             
17 52   Salleh Akmal      0 ½ - ½ 0 Demudu Subramaniam      
18 18   Ee Sun-Xin        0 0 - 1 0 See Kai Loong           
19 54   Shamsudin Amir    0 - - + 0 Foong Wai Lund, Shawn   
20 20   Farrukh Aziz      0 1 - 0 0 Shieta Nyimas           
21 57   Sooi Ching Wei    0 0 - 1 0 Halil Nur Fique         
22 22   Howard Fernandez  0 0 - 1 0 Sonya Nyimas            
23 58   Subramaniam Sarika0 1 - 0 0 Jeng Kuen Yong          
24 24   Johari Camilia    0 0 - 1 0 Subramaniam Shreyes     
25 60   Syed Baharom Syed 0 - - - 0 Johari Nikk             
26 26   Joni              0 1 - 0 0 Syed Sobri Syed Remizan
27 62   Taibon Awaluddin  0 0 - 1 0 Junaidi                 
28 28   Khaw Yew Meng     0 0 - 1 0 Tan Kien Wei            
29 64   Wahyuza Andre     0 1 - 0 0 Khaw Yew Tong           
30 31   Kok Cher Zheng    0 0 - 1 0 Yap Qian Zhang, Jonatha
31 66   Yat Guo Jie       0 ½ - ½ 0 Lam Wai Hong            
32 33   Latifah Kaiyisah Bt Mohd Lati 0 ½ - ½ 0 Yeap Khuan 
33 68   Yew Chor Kuan 0 1 - 0 0 Latifah Syamimi Mohd Latib 
34 41   Mat Idris Saman 0 0 - 1 0 Manoharan Dinesh S.       
69      Zakaria Mohd Faizal 0 ½ - - Bye


Round 2 on 2008/12/16 at 0900

Bo.SNo. Name                Pts Res. Pts Name               
1  21 Halil Nur Fique         1 0 - 1 1 Lam Edwin           
2  2  Yeoh Li Tian            1 ½ - ½ 1 Joni                
3  27 Junaidi                 1 1 - 0 1 Chan Cheng-Hoong Joe
4  4  Yeop Mat Zaki           1 1 - 0 1 Manoharan Dinesh S. 
5  5  Agustinus               1 1 - 0 1 Miranda Shawn Edgar 
6  7  Ajeet Singh Roshan      1 0 - 1 1 Paragua Christine   
7  51 Saleh Fikri             1 1 - 0 1 Amier Hamzah Mohd Zu
8  9  Aminuddin Muhd Faris    1 ½ - ½ 1 Subramaniam Sarika  
9  11 Asman Hisyam Mohd       1 1 - 0 1 Wahyuza Andre       
10 53 See Kai Loong           1 ½ - ½ 1 Aulia Medina Warda  
11 56 Sonya Nyimas            1 0 - 1 1 Azman Hisyam Nur Naj
12 15 Boey Jin Huey           1 1 - 0 1 Yew Chor Kuan       
13 59 Subramaniam Shreyes     1 1 - 0 1 Foong Wai Lund, Shaw
14 63 Tan Kien Wei            1 1 - 0 1 Farrukh Aziz        
15 65 Yap Qian Zhang, Jonathan1 1 - 0 ½ Latifah Kaiyisah Bt 
16 13 Azman Hisyam Nur Nabila ½ 1 - 0 ½ Salleh Akmal        
17 17 Demudu Subramaniam      ½ 1 - 0 ½ Yat Guo Jie         
18 32 Lam Wai Hong            ½ 1 - 0 ½ Zakaria Mohd Faizal 
19 67 Yeap Khuan Yee          ½ + - - ½ Rusdi Tahir         
20 37 Lee Tze Jiet            0 0 - 1 0 Ahmad Johari Mohd Fi
21 38 Low Jun Keat            0 1 - 0 0 Arminuddin Nur Farih
22 40 Mappa Saharuddin        0 1 - 0 0 Boey Jin Wern       
23 41 Mat Idris Saman         0 1 - 0 0 Ee Sun-Xin          
24 43 Mohd Jalani Affan Amrish0 0 - 1 0 Howard Fernandez Mic
25 23 Jeng Kuen Yong          0 1 - 0 0 Ng Jen Sheng        
26 47 Rashid Bin Jamaluddin   0 1 - 0 0 Johari Camilia      
27 49 Ruslan Haslindah        0 1 - 0 0 Khaw Yew Meng       
28 29 Khaw Yew Onn            0 0 - 1 0 Purnamasari         
29 30 Khaw Yew Tong           0 0 - 1 0 Saleh Anis Fariha   
30 55 Shieta Nyimas           0 1 - 0 0 Kok Cher Zheng, Davi
31 34 Latifah Syamimi Mohd    0 1 - 0 0 Sooi Ching Wei      
32 35 Lee Kah Howe, William   0 1 - 0 0 Taibon Awaluddin    
33 61 Syed Sobri Syed Remizan 0 0 - 1 0 Lee Kah Teng, Benjam