Mas has a chance to catch Mok if he win his last round game and Mok lost . Both of them will have the same 7.5 points but i'm not sure who will have the better tie-break. I hope, Mr.Arshad could help to calculate the possible outcome.
Monday, December 22, 2008
Mok Tze Meng lead into the Last Round !
After 8 round of the Pencarian Jaguh Terengganu (Grand Final), FM Mok Tze Meng is the sole leader with 7.5 points and were followed closely by IM Mashafizul who bagged 6.5 points. Both meet on the 7th round and drew their game. In the final round today , Mok will be paired against NM Zarul Zhazwan and Mas will meet Kamaluddin Yusof.
Sunday, December 21, 2008
KL Open 2008 - Closing Ceremony - Part 1
GM Anton Filippov (right) from Uzbekistan received the KL Open 2008 Champion trophy from DYTM Raja Nazrin Shah
Nur Nabila Azman Hisham won the KL Open 2008 (Challengers) and received the prizefrom Yang Amat Mulia Raja Dato' Seri Azureen binti Sultan Azlan Shah
The closing and prize giving ceremony of the KL Open 2008 was held successfully today at the Legend Hotel, Kuala Lumpur. The ceremony was officiate by the Raja Muda of Perak - Duli Yang Teramat Mulia (DYTM) Raja Nazrin Shah . Among the VIP's is Malaysian Chess Federation(MCF) President - Tan Sri Ramli Ngah Talib, FIDE and ASEAN Chess Confederation (ACC) representative - Ignatius Leong and - Dato' Edmund Santhara - Company Director of the Masterskill - University College of Health Sciences - the sponsored of the event. The tournament was organised by Intchess Malaysia lead by Peter Long.
Two VIP's - Dato' Edmund Santhara from Masterskill and Ignatius Leong - FIDE and Asian Chess Confederation representative delivered their speeches. Dato' Edmund Santhara invite all the players to come back for next year edition... which mean that the tournament will continue next year ! This must be a very good news for local fans, especially after the uncertainty of organizing the previously only international open chess tournament in Malaysia - The Dato' Arthur Tan Malaysian Open or famously known as DATMO which has reach it final year of 5 years "life span" last September.
Ignatius Leong also delivered a good speech. One interesting fact he mentioned was that the KL Open 2008 is the 6th international open chess tournament held in Asia - for this month... and four (4) of it is in ASEAN countries !
Before the official KL Open 2008 closing ceremony, there's three side event being held which is the blitz ( 7 rounds) tournament and two simultaneous display. One by IM Manual Aaron (above) - a chess legend from India against national boy and girl junior players. Another simul is by IM Tirto from Indonesia who take on vissually handicap players in a special chess exhibition match.
Ignatius Leong also delivered a good speech. One interesting fact he mentioned was that the KL Open 2008 is the 6th international open chess tournament held in Asia - for this month... and four (4) of it is in ASEAN countries !
Before the official KL Open 2008 closing ceremony, there's three side event being held which is the blitz ( 7 rounds) tournament and two simultaneous display. One by IM Manual Aaron (above) - a chess legend from India against national boy and girl junior players. Another simul is by IM Tirto from Indonesia who take on vissually handicap players in a special chess exhibition match. 
IM Tirto in a simul against the visually handicap players
Mr.Latif (left) the chief arbiter and Peter Long (right) the chief organiser in "busy mode" right before the arrival of the VIP's
The Organiser - standing from left - Peter Long ( chief organiser) , Rezal (arbiter) , Rizal Ahmad Kamal (arbiter). Siting from left - Haslindah Ruslan ( participant and MCF official), Asmah and Duratul Ain ( arbiters).
In my opinion, this tournament has shown great cooperation between chess organization such as Intchess, MCF, KLCA with corporate sector - Masterskills to promote chess development in Malaysia. I hope that this will be a start for more and successful chess events in the future and let's try to forget all the differences and build on our similarities which is to flourish chess development in Malaysia ! .......sounds like i'm going to be a politician ...but you all know what i mean :)
I will post more photos and videos from the closing ceremony in the next part !
Round 9 pairing and results
Bd Name (White) Name (Black) Results
== =========================== =========================== =======
1 GM Filippov Anton GM Nguyen Anh Dung ½ - ½
2 IM Irwanto Sadikin IM Wang Rui ½ - ½
3 GM Megaranto Susanto GM Panchanathan Magesh ½ - ½
4 IM Sadorra Julio Catalino GM Dao Thien Hai ½ - ½
5 GM Paragua Mark CM Nguyen Van Huy ½ - ½
6 FM Anam Khairul GM Villamayor Buenaventura 0 - 1
7 FM Khamparia Akshat GM Zaw Win Lay 1 - 0
8 Yang Kaiqi Siregar Novian 0 - 1
9 IM Tirto Yu Ruiyuan ½ - ½
10 IM Sitanggang Salor Daniel Howard Fernandez 1 - 0
11 FM Simanjuntak Sebastian IM Chiong Luis ½ - ½
12 IM Gokhale Chandrashekhar Lim Zhuo Ren 0 - 1
13 Sutarno Koh Jonathan 1 - 0
14 Tan Khai Boon Hakiki Kaisar Jenius 0 - 1
15 Soon Wai Cheong WIM Panneer Priya 1 - 0
16 Lee Kim Han Edward Zakaria Fairin 1 - 0
17 Eng Andre-Jerome CM Neubronner Jarred ½ - ½
18 Suyud Hartoyo FM Kapriaga Rian 1 - 0
19 WIM Meera Sai Foo Benjamin 1 - 0
20 Tan Weiliang Yeap Eng Chiam ½ - ½
21 Ong Way Justin WGM Ramaswamy Aarthie 0 - 1
22 Zhang Jing Wee Chu En Kelvin ½ - ½
23 Ho Thi Minh Hien Neubronner Shannon Scott 0 - 1
24 Setiawan Iwan Subramaniam Sumant 1 - 0
25 Law Mark Anasrullah 0 - 1
26 Masters Christopher Bao Khoa 0 - 1
27 Mohd Noor Ahmad Eizran Ezra Soh Han Loong Gerald 0 - 1
28 Capel Evan Timothy Tay Kiat Boon 1 - 0
29 Wong Jianwen Tan Ken Wei ½ - ½
30 Siew Mark Low Jun Jian ½ - ½
31 WCM Ivana Maria Furtado Ow Jun Wai, Ryan ½ - ½
32 S. Balendran Khairul Nazmi ½ - ½
33 Lee Kah Meng Elgin Jia Hui Rujok, Najwa 1 - 0
34 Ong Jun Xue bYE
Round 9 Selected Games KL Open
[Event "KL Open 2008"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2008.12.21"]
[Round "9.1"]
[White "GM Anton Fillipov"]
[Black "GM Nguyen Anh Dung"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C42"]
[PlyCount "26"]
[EventDate "2008.09.16"]
[SourceDate "2008.12.21"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 d6 4. Nf3 Nxe4 5. d4 d5 6. Bd3 Nc6 7. O-O Be7 8. c4 Nb4 9. cxd5 Nxd3 10. Qxd3 Qxd5 11. Re1 Bf5 12. Nc3 Nxc3 13. Qxc3 Be6 1/2-1/2
[Event "KL Open 2008"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2008.12.21"]
[Round "9.2"]
[White "IM Irwanto Sadikin"]
[Black "IM Wang Rui"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D15"]
[PlyCount "39"]
[EventDate "2008.09.16"]
[SourceDate "2008.12.21"]
1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. c4 c6 4. Nc3 a6 5. c5 Bf5 6. Bf4 e6 7. e3 Nbd7 8. Bd3 Be7 9. Bxf5 exf5 10. Qc2 Ne4 11. h3 Qc8 12. g4 Ndf6 13. gxf5 Qxf5 14. Nd2 g5 15. Ndxe4 Nxe4 16. Nxe4 Qxe4 17. Qxe4 dxe4 18. Bg3 h5 19. Ke2 Kd7 20. Raf1 1/2-1/2
[Event "KL Open 2008"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2008.12.21"]
[Round "9.4"]
[White "IM Julio Catalino Sadorra"]
[Black "GM Dao Thien Hai"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D38"]
[PlyCount "20"]
[EventDate "2008.09.16"]
[SourceDate "2008.12.21"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Nf3 d5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 c5 7. cxd5 Nxd5 8. Qd3 O-O 9. e4 Ne7 10. Be3 Nbc6 1/2-1/2
[Event "KL Open 2008"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2008.12.21"]
[Round "9.5"]
[White "GM Mark Paragua"]
[Black "CM Nguyen Van Huy"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "E92"]
[PlyCount "29"]
[EventDate "2008.09.16"]
[SourceDate "2008.12.21"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. c4 Bg7 4. Nc3 O-O 5. e4 d6 6. Be2 e5 7. dxe5 dxe5 8. Qxd8 Rxd8 9. Nd5 Nxd5 10. cxd5 c6 11. Bc4 b5 12. Bb3 Bb7 13. dxc6 Nxc6 14. Bg5 Re8 15. Bd5 1/2-1/2
GM Anton Fillipov Won KL Open 2008 !
Uzbek GM - Filippov Anton (FIDE 2543) won the 2008 KL Open after finishing with 7 points from 9 rounds. He tied with Chinese IM Wang Rui who has the same points but Filippov (photo left) have a better tie break to claim the trophy.
Congratulation for Filippov for winning the tournament but...i hope..he would improve his HANDWRITING..because i found that it's almost impossible to read his score sheet!
The prize giving ceremonies will be held tomorrow at the Legend Hotel , Kuala Lumpur.
Game between IM Wang Rui and eventual winner GM Anto Fillipov in the earlier rounds. Anton held on hoping for a win but the game was drawn. Wang Rui looked at Anton expecting a draw acknowledgement but Anton played one more move before giving in to the draw.
Nur Nabila Azman Hisham Win the Challengers Section !
Actually i've plan to go to the bed early tonight but after reading Marcus Yeoh's midnight posting about the Challenger Final standing, i was so shock to found that Nur Nabila Azman Hisham won the Challenger section of the KL Open 2008. She collected 7.5 points to finished clear first against 7 pointers - Edwin Lam - Chessbase.com columnist, Yeoh Li Tian and Singaporean Tan Kien Wei .As many local chess fans already know, Nabila recently won the National Junior Championship and i predict a great future for this young girl. Congratulation to her parent especially Nabila father - Mr.Azman Hisham - my MAKSAK teamate who give 100% support for his kids to excell in chess.
P/S : Nabila photo is taken from the recent National Juniors Championship.
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Round 8 Pairing and Results (Open)
Bd Name (White) Name (Black) Results
== ============================= ======================== =======
1 GM Dao Thien Hai GM Filippov Anton ½ - ½
2 IM Sadorra Julio Catalino GM Megaranto Susanto 0 - 1
3 GM Villamayor Buenaventura IM Wang Rui 0 - 1
4 IM Chiong Luis GM Nguyen Anh Dung 0 - 1
5 GM Panchanathan Magesh IM Tirto 1 - 0
6 Yang Kaiqi IM Irwanto Sadikin 0 - 1
7 GM Zaw Win Lay FM Simanjuntak Sebastian ½ - ½
8 CM Nguyen Van Huy IM Gokhale Chandrashekhar 1- 0
9 Koh Jonathan IM Sitanggang Salor 0 - 1
10 WIM Panneer Priya GM Paragua Mark 0 - 1
11 Zakaria Fairin FM Anam Khairul 0 - 1
12 FM Khamparia Akshat Suyud Hartoyo 1 - 0
13 Siregar Novian WIM Meera Sai 1 - 0
14 Yu Ruiyuan Tan Weiliang 1 - 0
15 Lim Zhuo Ren Sutarno ½ - ½
16 Daniel Howard Fernandez Soon Wai Cheong 1 - 0
17 Hakiki Kaisar Jenius WGM Ramaswamy Aarthie 1 - 0
18 Foo Benjamin CM Neubronner Jarred ½ - ½
19 Bao Khoa Tan Khai Boon 0 - 1
20 Anasrullah Eng Andre-Jerome 0 - 1
21 Soh Han Loong Gerald Ong Way Justin 0 - 1
22 Subramaniam Sumant Zhang Jing ½ - ½
23 Wee Chu En Kelvin Setiawan Iwan ½ - ½
24 Yeap Eng Chiam Law Mark 1 - 0
25 Chan Michael Lee Kim Han Edward 0 - 1
26 FM Kapriaga Rian Capel Evan Timothy 1 - 0
27 Tay Kiat Boon Ho Thi Minh Hien 0 - 1
28 Neubronner Shannon Scott Wong Jianwen 1 - 0
29 Tan Ken Wei Masters Christopher ½ - ½
30 Low Jun Jian WCM Ivana Maria Furtado ½ - ½
31 Jia Hui Rujok, Najwa Eizran Ezra 0 - 1
32 Ow Jun Wai, Ryan S. Balendran ½ - ½
33 Khairul Nazmi Zainol Ariffin Siew Mark ½ - ½
34 Ong Jun Xue Lee Kah Meng Elgin 0 - 1
Lee Kai Jie Edward
Round 7 - KL Open 2008
Below are the round 7 photos of the KL Open 2008, held in Commonwealth Hall ,Majlis Sukan Negara, Bukit Jalil.
The backdrop stated that the main trophy will be the DYTM Raja Nazrin Shah Trophy.
Dewan Komanwel or Commonwealth Hall is the tournament hall for the KL Open 2008
IM Wang Rui of China 
Round 7 Table 1 saw GM Filippov Anton (left) beat GM Bong Villamayor (right) 1-0
IM Gokhale Chandrasekhar (FIDE 2332) from India
Hakiki Kaiser Jenius (FIDE 2189) - from Indonesia is brother to WGM to be - Irene Sukandar !
Did Justin Ong forget that there's no time increment?
Justin Ong (photo right below) was beaten by India WIM Meer Sai (FIDE 2155) (left) in the 7th round. I witness how the games ends and i was amused why Justin "let" his time drop easily. Actually in the time scramble ( both have about 1 minutes each) , Justin had about 10 seconds more but somehow he"freeze" and lost on time. Probably he was to used to play with increment time control and "forgot" about his time whereas the Indian WIM blitz her moves.
WIM Meera Sai (2155) - Justin Ong (2044)
KL Open 2008 (Round 7), 19.12.2008
Below was the critical position i witness during the game. Both players are in serious time trouble and have around 1 minutes each . If i'm not mistaken below is how the game ends.
1...Qd1+ 2.Kh2 d2 3.Rc5 Not just preventing Qh5+ by black, white also plan to play Rg5 and later Rxg7 3...Qe2 4.Rg5 Kh8?? A blunder that turn the table. 4...h6 making more room for his king is the winning move. 5.Rxg7+ Kxg7 6.Qe5+ Kg8 7.Qg3+ Kh7 and white have no more check left and black should win. 5.Rxf7 1–0 And Justin time drop in already difficult position. In fact Fritz announced mate in 9# (maximum)
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