Ian, Bersamina Joint Winners of 3rd Leg, KL Grand Prix 2010 Chess

Today, the 3rd Leg of the KL Chess Grand Prix 2010, declared two joint winners, Ian Udani and Bersamina Paolo. Both players are from the Philippines. Both ended with 5.0 points from six rounds of play out of a field of 22 players.

 Pix 1. Ian Udani, joint winner.

Pix 2. Bersamina Paolo, joint winner.

Pix 3. Ahmad Fadzil Nayan, third.

Pix 4. Muhd Nabil Azman Hisham, fourth.

Pix 5. Azman Hisham b Che Doi, fifth.

Here is the final ranking crosstable after 6th round at the 3rd Leg, KL Chess Grand Prix 2010 held at the Royal Selangor Club, Kuala Lumpur over 3rd-4th April 2010.

Ahmad Fadhil Nayan ended in third position with four points and Muhd Nabil Azman Hisham recovered to end up in fourth position with the same four points.
In fifth position is Azman Hisham Che Doi, Muhd Nabil’s dad with four points too!
Jax Tham ended in 13th while blogger Yat Guo Jie in 16th position with 3.0 and 2.5 points respectively.

GM Hou Yifan (pix above) was present today to do the honours of giving out the prizes during the closing ceremony of the 3rd leg, Kuala Lumpur Grand Prix 2010. Picture courtesy of Yatz.
As a sidetrack to our young winner, Bersamina Paolo, from Philippines who is a well known boy wonder and to read more you can go to this website and click here.
Congratulations to all winners and participating players! See you in the fourth leg next month!

(all pictures are courtesy of Yatz)