Pairings For Round 4, First Saturday Classical Chess January 2010

The Classical Chess series is a six round swiss chess tournament that uses the classical chess time of 90 minutes plus 30 second increment. This edition of the January 2010 has 18 players participating.

Currently a pack of five players have identical scores of 2.5 points that includes Abdullah Che Hassan, Lim Zhou Ren, Jax Tham, Nik Ahmad Farouqi and Joshua Foong. Justin Ong has dropped back to number sixth with 2.0 points. While Andrew Ooi, Haslindah and Andrew Soong are fast catching up from behind with 2.0 points as well.

Who will be the new FSCC January 2010 champion? Come see the action at the Excel Chess Academy and find out who will be the champion!

The following two tables summarises the pairings of round 4 which will be played at 9.00 am, 3rd January 2010.

Pairing of round 4 of FSCC1

Table  White                     - Black                                Results

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  1    LIM ZHOU REN        ( 2.5) - ABDULLAH CHE HASSAN ( 2.5)     2-  1       

  2    NIK AHMAD FAROUQI   ( 2.5) - JAX THAM            ( 2.5)     4-  5       

  3    ANDREW OOI          ( 2 ) - JOSHUA FOONG        ( 2.5)     8-  7       

  4    ANDREW SOONG        ( 2 ) - JUSTIN ONG          ( 2 )    11-  3       

  5    MUHD ZHARIF MOKHTAR ( 1.5) - HASLINDAH RUSLAN    ( 2 )    20-  9       

  6    GABRIEL SOONG(14B)  ( 1.5) - YAT GUO JIE(16B)    ( 1.5)    10- 13       

  7    HO JOON MING        ( 1 ) - SHUM RUI YUAN       ( 1 )     6- 17       

  8    HEW ZHENJING(14B)   ( 1 ) - GOH XIN YEN         ( 1 )    16- 14       

  9    MOHD SAFRI SAID     ( 0 ) - VINTON WONG         ( 1 )    19- 18       

 10    SHAMSUDDIN SABRI    ( 0 ) - ETHAN WONG          ( 0 )    15- 12       

 

Ranking after round 3 of FSCC1

No.  PNo.  Name                       Score WP    SB     PS    rat.  TPR  W-We

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  1.    1  ABDULLAH CHE HASSAN         2.5   5.5   4.25   5.5  1915 2225 0   

        7  JOSHUA FOONG                2.5   5.0   3.75   5.0  1543 2141 0   

        2  LIM ZHOU REN                2.5   4.5   3.25   5.0  1882 2302 0   

        4  NIK AHMAD FAROUQI           2.5   4.5   3.25   5.5  1834 1981 0   

        5  JAX THAM                    2.5   2.5   1.75   5.0  1767 1699 -0.14

  6.    3  JUSTIN ONG                  2.0   6.0   3.50   5.0  1846 2144 +0.09

       11  ANDREW SOONG                2.0   4.5   2.00   3.0  1404 1919 0   

        9  HASLINDAH RUSLAN            2.0   3.0   1.00   4.0  1467 1169 -0.09

        8  ANDREW OOI                  2.0   2.0   1.00   3.0  1507 1304 -0.52

 10.   10  GABRIEL SOONG(14B)          1.5   6.5   2.75   4.0  1464 1767 +0.36

       13  YAT GUO JIE(16B)            1.5   3.5   0.75   2.0  1368 1625 0   

       20  MUHD ZHARIF MOKHTAR         1.5   3.0   0.75   2.0  0000  787 0   

 13.   18  VINTON WONG                 1.0   6.5   2.00   3.0  1242 2184 +0.82

        6  HO JOON MING                1.0   6.0   1.00   3.0  1548 1090 -0.22

       14  GOH XIN YEN                 1.0   4.5   0.00   2.0  1365  830 -0.31

       17  SHUM RUI YUAN               1.0   4.5   0.00   2.0  1301 1435 0   

       16  HEW ZHENJING(14B)           1.0   3.0   0.00   1.0  1324  871 0   

 18.   15  SHAMSUDDIN SABRI            0.0   6.0   0.00   0.0  1352  960 0   

       12  ETHAN WONG                  0.0   5.0   0.00   0.0  1403  -   +0.00

       19  MOHD SAFRI SAID             0.0   4.0   0.00   0.0  0000  739 0    

There will be three more rounds of play tomorrow, 3rd January 2010, to complete the First Saturday Classical Chess January 2010.

(source: Jax Tham, Excel Chess Academy)