Singapore Chess Festival 2009 – Update 1

Here are some results of round 1 based on chess-results.com updates for the first day of tournament play at the Singapore Chess Festival, 9th-15th December 2009.

In the open category, IM Mas won, IM Yee Weng drew and NM Edward Lee Kim Han lost his game in their round 1 games as shown in Table 1 below.

 Table 1. Round 1 Results – Open Category
In the challengers section, Olivia Madhavan won her game and so did Yat Guo Jie and Ismail Ahmad.

Table 2. Round 1 Results – Challenger Category.

Others – Yat Guo Jie won his first round game against a Singaporean. Albert Ang Keliang, Tang Hang Sing and Aron Teh Wu Wen also won their first round game.

Table 3. Challengers Section – Round 1 Results (bottom half).
In the Under 20/Under 16 category, the biggest casualty was the loss of Yeap Eng Chiam in his first round game. Ong Way Justin and Tan Jun Feng won their respective games as shown in Table 4 below.

Table 4. Round 1 Results  – Under 20/Under 16 Category.
In the Under 12 category, Tan Wei Hao got a winning start by beating a Singaporean in his first round game.
 Table 5. Round 1 Results – Under 12.
(source: chess-results.com)
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