Sunday, May 2, 2010

Nicholas Is Selangor Open Champion!

2 May 2010 – FM Nicholas Chan beat 70 other players to become the 37th Selangor Open Chess Champion with an unassailable 7.5 points from 9 rounds of gruelling play packed over four days of play. Second was IM Jimmy Liew with 7.0 points and third was Kamalariffin Wahiduddin also with 7.0 points.

While from 4th-7th placings were Yeoh Li Tian, Loo Swee Leong, Zulkifli Muhd Syazwan and Tan Ken Wei all with 6.5 points in that order. While the 8th-10th placings went to Ian Udani, Mohd Khair Wahiduddin and Ismail Ahmad, all with 6.0 points each, in that order.

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Pix 1. Nicholas Chan.   Pix 2. Jimmy Liew.

Here are the final ranking list and the prize winners for the 37th Selangor Open Chess Tournament held from 29th April 2010 to 2nd May 2010.

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The final round 9 results are as shown below:-

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

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