6th Round Results and Seventh Round Pairings, KL Open 2009

Pic top: Round 7 Pairings, Pic bottom: Round 6 Results.
(click on image to see an enlarge picture of table pairings)

In the afternoon of 7th September 2009, the seventh round of the Kuala Lumpur Chess Open 2009 began with the top board seeing the two top seeds GM Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son (Vie), 2589 and GM Thien Hai Dao (Vie), 2542 play each other.

Picture 1. Hasian Panggabean (Ina), 2262 lost to

NM Edward Lee (Mas) in the sixth round.

Both players have 5 points after six rounds of play and are primed as favourites of the KL Open 2009. A pack of three players are at 4.5 points:- IM Irwanto Sadikin (Ina), FM Pak Yevgeniy (Kaz) and GM Dzhumaev Marat (Uzb). While another big group of 13 players are stack at 4.0 points.

With the Malaysian pack, NM Lee Kim Han (Mas) came out tops with 3.5 points after triumphing over Hasian Panggabean (Ina) while next up is the young gun Wong Jianwen overwhelming the Filipino, Edmundo Legaspi, 2158. Most relieved is to see Haslindah Ruslan breaking the duck with a fine win over Chan Yi Jun Timothy of Singapore in the sixth round.