Friday, February 26, 2010

Malaysian Women Chess Masters 2010 Begins!

Today, 26th February 2010, starts the series of the Malaysian Women Masters 2010 and will go on till 2nd March 2010. Sixteen specially handpicked female chess candidates had been carefully selected based on a strict regime of selection criteria set by the Malaysian Chess Federation.

Two rounds of games had been played today at the Dato’ Arthur Tan Chess Centre located at the Wilayah Complex, Kuala Lumpur and a knock-out system will take place.

    

Wahiduddin, Khairunnisa.   Fong, Mi Yen.

Tomorrow eight players, who have got through the first knock-out round, will play two more rounds of classical chess and on Sunday, 28th February 2010, four winning players will get to play two rounds to determine the final two contestants.

The winner will get to represent Malaysia to the Chess Olympiad to be held in Siberia, Moscow during the later part of this year, 2010.

To follow more of this event, please visit the Malaysian Women Masters 2010 blog or click here.

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