3rd Round Pairings, Insofar Invitational Rating Tournament 2010, 12 February 2010

At the PKNS, Shah Alam, Selangor on Friday, 29th January 2010, the 2nd round of plays were completed and the new joint leaders that have emerged are Kamaluddin Yusof and surprise, surprise, Sahir Sarifdin, both with 2 full points from two rounds.

Both these players played for the 17 Chess Club team during the recent 2nd DATCC Chess League 2009 in November-December 2009.

Meanwhile four players are bunched up at 1.5 points. The four players are Nik Ahmad Farouqi, Muhammad Ihsan Najib, Muhd Irfan Najib and Ab Rasib Yunus.

The next round will be played two weeks from 29th January 2010, which is the 12th February 2010. Here are the third round pairings for the participating players and readers of this blog :-

Insofar Invitational Rating Tournament Organizer(s) : Insofar Chess Academy Tournament Director : Mat Zaki Yeop Chief or supervising arbiter : Abd Hamid Majid Town : PKNS, Shah Alam, Selangor Rating-Ø : 1391 Date : 12 Feb 2010 Round 3 on 2010/02/12 at 1930 Bo. SNo. Name NRtg IRtg Pts Res. Pts Name NRtg IRtg SNo. 1 1 Yusof Kamaluddin 1906 2178 2   2 Sarifdin Sahir 1649 0 3 2 15 Najib Muhammad Ihsan 0 0 1½   1½ Nik Nik Ahmad Farouqi 1834 2092 2 3 16 Najib Muhammad Irfan 0 0 1½   1½ Ab Rasib Yunus 0 0 13 4 8 Abd Rahman Syazrin 1472 1528 1   1 Yeop Mat Zaki 1620 1650 4 5 5 Hamzah Razali 1567 1675 1   1 Ahmad Johari Mohd Firdaus 1512 0 6 6 7 Ismail Mohamed 1473 0 ½   1 Mohd Jamil Afiq 0 0 14 7 10 Aminuddin Izzanuddin Irman 1151 0 ½   0 Hashim Zafran Nor 979 0 12 8 11 Mohd Jamil Arif 1142 0 0   0 Aminuddin Nur Faqihah 1158 0 9

(source: Abd Hamid Majid, arbiter of the event)