IM Mas Lost To Top Seed In Singapore

In Singapore, our top Malaysian chess players are competing in the Open category of the Singapore Chess Festival 2009 which runs from the 9th-15th December 2009. The field of players is small with 25 players all and with no grandmasters in sight for this Open category.

It is somewhat of a let down from the organisers with no Grandmasters from the ASEAN or Asian countries participating, considering that the ASEAN Chess Federation is organising this major event.

During the sixth round of play held on the 12th December 2009 (Saturday), IM Mas met the top seed from India, IM Ashwin Jayaram (2448) and lost that round. So far, IM Mas has won twice, draw three times and lost one with a total of 3.5 points. His rating performance is now at 2362 compared to this international rating of 2419, means it is below par.

Table 1. IM Mas Hafizulhelmi’s performance up to the sixth round. He has won 2 game, drew 3 and lost 1. He will meet IM Gokhale Chandrashekhar from India (2259) in the seventh round tomorrow, Sunday, 13th December 2009.

Table 2. Ranking Crosstable After Round 6.

From the table 2, IM Mas is now in 6th position, IM Yee Weng in 11th position and NM Edward Lee Kim Han in 14th position. Both Yee Weng and Edward Lee have 3.0 points each from six rounds of play.
(posted by firey_rook; http://fireyrook.blogspot.com)