IM Mas and IM Yee Weng In Singapore

Both IM Mas and IM Yee Weng were spotted on the internet at Chess-results.com to have entered the Singapore International Chess Festival 2009 – Open category from 9th-15th December 2009.

Both Malaysian players will be just fresh from Vietnam open tournament which concluded last Tuesday, 8th December 2009. This will be a back-to-back chess tournament for Malaysia’s top chess players, allowing further opportunity for them to excel in their chosen sport of chess.

Below are some details of the tournament schedule for our players in Singapore:-

SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL CHESS FESTIVAL 2009

- Commonwealth Open Championship,
Commonwealth Age-Group Championships & Challengers Tournaments

Tournament Schedule

9^th December : Arrival of Players
9^th December : Technical Meeting – 2000 hour
(players not present shall not be paired for Round 1)
10^th December : Round 1 – 0900 hour;
Round 2 – 1600 hour
11^th December : Round 3 – 0900 hour;
Round 4 – 1600 hour
12^th December : Round 5 – 0900 hour;
Round 6 – 1600 hour
13^th December : Round 7 – 0900 hour;
Round 8 – 1600 hour
14^th December : Round 9 – 0900 hour;
Closing Ceremony – 1500 hour
15^th December : Departure of Players

Besides, IM Mas Hafizulhelmi and IM Lim Yee Weng, the name of Edward Lee Kim Han, Malaysia, also appears on the chess-results.com. All three players will be participating in the Singapore Open Chess category.

For the challenger’s group, some familiar names are Ismail Ahmad, Yat Guo Jie (my DATCC team-mate), both from Malaysia.  From Malaysia, last count was seven players all. But this is just for the challengers’ group.

For the age-group bracket, some familiar names from Malaysia are in the list. In the Under-20 /Under-16 age bracket, ten names are listed from Malaysia. One of them is Justin Ong Way and another, my DATCC team-mate, Tan Jun Feng. While in the under-12, there are about nine players listed from Malaysia. Tan Wei Hao, (1870) is notable as he played in the Individual DATCC Fide-rated Weekender in November 2009 recently and also fresh from Jakarta, Indonesia, held in early November 2009.

All in all, quite a big crowd of twenty-two Malaysian players are participating in Singapore from 9th-14th December 2009. Best of luck to our Malaysian players!

(source: chess-results.com)

(posted by firey_rook; http://fireyrook.blogspot.com)