Results of Round 4 and Pairings of Round 5, First Friday Classical Chess 2009 - 6-8 November 209

The November's series of the First Friday Classical Chess 2009 has entered the second day of play today with three rounds of play held on 7th November 2009 at the Excel Chess Academy, Overseas Union Garden, Kuala Lumpur.

Abdullah Che Hassan has garnered 3.5 points from 4 rounds of play, while Yeap Eng Chiam with 3.0 points in second place. A total of fourteen players are participating for this month's FFCC.

Top: Yeap Eng Chiam, the underdog; Bottom: Abdullah Che Hassan,(in red) top seed and Mark Siew (in white) on board 2.

Below are the results of round 4 of the First Friday Classical Chess of the month of November 2009 and the pairings of round 5 of the FFCC Nov 2009:-

Ranking after round 4 of FFCC11

No. PNo. Name Score WP SB PS rat. TPR W-We
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1. 1 ABDULLAH CHE HASSAN 3.5 9.0 7.50 9.0 1915 1955 +0.10

2. 2 YEAP ENG CHIAM 3.0 10.0 7.00 8.5 1906 1794 -0.44

4 MARK SIEW 3.0 9.0 5.50 7.0 1712 1814 +0.52

11 ALEXANDER HOON 3.0 8.0 6.00 7.0 1221 1548 +1.72

5. 3 JAX THAM 2.5 9.0 4.50 7.5 1767 1697 -0.38

6. 5 JOSHUA FOONG 2.0 7.0 1.00 5.0 1543 1386 -0.84

   6 GABRIEL SOONG 2.0 10.0 4.00 6.0 1464 1552 +0.48

   8 YAT GUO JIE 2.0 9.0 4.00 4.0 1368 1463 +0.52

  12 YAP WING HENG 2.0 7.0 2.00 4.0 1158 1351 +1.00

  13 SHAMSUDDIN SABRI 2.0 7.0 1.00 6.0 1352 1417 +0.36

11. 7 SOOI CHING WEI 1.0 8.5 1.00 3.0 1394 1276 -0.60

      9 HEW ZHEN JING 1.0 6.5 0.00 1.0 1324 1180 -0.72

     10 KUNG KAH HENG 1.0 6.0 0.00 2.0 1260 1229 -0.16

14. 14 EVAN LOO 0.0 6.0 0.00 0.0 1215 693 -1.16



Pairing of round 5 of FFCC11
Table White - Black Results
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1 ABDULLAH CHE HASSAN ( 3ｫ) - ALEXANDER HOON ( 3 ) 1- 11 .
2 MARK SIEW ( 3 ) - YEAP ENG CHIAM ( 3 ) 4- 2 .
3 JAX THAM ( 2 ) - JOSHUA FOONG ( 2 ) 3- 5 .
4 SHAMSUDDIN SABRI ( 2 ) - GABRIEL SOONG ( 2 ) 13- 6 .
5 YAT GUO JIE ( 2 ) - YAP WING HENG ( 2 ) 8- 12 .
6 HEW ZHEN JING ( 1 ) - KUNG KAH HENG ( 1 ) 9- 10 .
7 EVAN LOO ( 0 ) - SOOI CHING WEI ( 1 ) 14- 7 .

Tomorrow, 8th of November 2009, another two more rounds of play will take place to decide the winner of the last of the series of the First Friday Classical Chess. Beginning next month, the chess series will be renamed as First Saturday Classical Chess and this month's FFCC will be the last of the First Fridays.

(source: Jax Tham, ECA)