Tan Khai Boon Is First Among Equals

NM Tan Khai Boon

Rizal A Kamal

 

16th March 2011, Kuala Lumpur – On boards two and three of the 2nd round of the Malaysian National Close Chess Championship 2011, the veterans demonstrate that age and experience holds the upper hand when defending champion, NM Tan Khai Boon and Loo Swee Leong both won their respective games against young and rising stars, Mark Siew and Wong Jianwen. Among early leaders are Edward Lee, Muhd Syakir Syazmeer Azhar, Yeoh Li Tian, Low Jun Jian and others.

Mark Siew

Kamaluddin Yusof

Open Results, 2nd Round, National Close Chess Championship 2011

Pairings/Results

Round 2 on 2011/03/16 at 2.30pm

Bo.	No.		Name	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	No.
1	28		Looi Xin Hao	1	0 - 1	1		Lee Kim Han Edward	2
2	3		Tan Khai Boon	1	1 - 0	1		Siew Kit-Tze Mark	30
3	29		Wong Jianwen	1	0 - 1	1		Loo Swee Leong	4
4	5		Yeap Eng Chiam	1	½ - ½	1		Fong Yit San	32
5	33		Azhar Muhammad Syakir Shazmeer	1	1 - 0	1		Jamil Mohd Johan	6
6	7		Yeoh Li Tian	1	1 - 0	1		Lim Kian Hwa	34
7	35		Kamin Al-Kamil	1	½ - ½	1		Wahiduddin Mohd Khair	8
8	9		Shafruddin Fariz	1	0 - 1	1		Low Jun Jian	36
9	37		See Kai Loong	1	0 - 1	1		Lim Zhuo Ren	10
10	11		Che Hassan Abdullah	1	½ - ½	1		Lee Kah Meng Elgin	38
11	39		Roslan Mohd Faizal	1	0 - 1	1		Subramaniam Sumant	12
12	13		Ong Thian Loon	1	1 - 0	1		S Balendran	40
13	41		Tan Jun Feng	1	½ - ½	1		Nik Nik Ahmad Farouqi	14
14	15		Azman Hisham Mohd Nabil	1	1 - 0	1		Chin Choong Wee Kenneth	42
15	43		Azhar Muhd Irfan Haqqim	1	1 - 0	1		Abdul Shukor Abdul Aziz	16
16	17		Yusof Kamaluddin	1	0 - 1	1		Ajeet Singh Roshan	44
17	46		William Lee Kah Howe	1	0 - 1	1		Erowan Masrin	18
18	19		Nayan Ahmad Fadzil	1	1 - 0	1		Yahaya Muhammad Nuriman	67
19	68		Tang Wei Kit	1	0 - 1	1		Tan Ken Wei	20
20	69		Subramaniam Shreyas	1	0 - 1	1		Shaik Ali Nor Ilhamuddin	24
21	25		Ismail Ahmad	1	1 - 0	1		Narayanan Sri Shiva Kumar	73
22	77		Mohd Hisham Muhd Hafiz	1	1 - 0	1		Fong Yit Ho	26
23	1	IM	Liew Chee-Meng-Jimmy	½	1 - 0	½		Mahmood Mohd Ezmi	92
24	45		Iskandar Danial Adam	½	0 - 1	½		Aron Teh Eu Wen	47
25	21		Cheah Cheok Fung	0	1 - 0	0		Yahaya Muhammad Nurislam	66
26	23		Fong Choong Ee	0	1 - 0	0		Harun Bustaman	70
27	27		Yeoh Phee Leong Marcus	0	0 - 1	0		Tee Han Kang	71
28	31		Kamal Rizal Ahmad	0	0 - 1	0		Teh Wee Zhun	72
29	48		Low Jun Keat	0	0 - 1	0		Ding Tze How Dilwen	74
30	76		Mohd Hisham Muhd Fareed	0	1 - 0	0		Liew Ken Yew	49
31	50		Sivanesan Subramanian	0	1 - 0	0		Ng Jen Sheng	75
32	78		Aminuddin Muhd Faris	0	½ - ½	0		Ooi Zhi Yang	51
33	52	CM	Amier Hamzah B Mohd Zuhri	0	1 - 0	0		Ng Shi Yang	79
34	80		Hanif Harleiff	0	0 - 1	0		Parimanam Paul	53
35	54		Hamzah Razali	0	1 - 0	0		Abdul Rashid Hasidin	81
36	82		Kughan Ravindran	0	0 - 1	0		Kalivanan Suniil	55
37	56		Saleh Fikri	0	1 - 0	0		Ng Shi Xuan	83
38	84		Sabri Shamsuddin	0	0 - 1	0		Dutton Lucas Matthew	57
39	58		Yap Wan Lin	0	1 - 0	0		Choong Ee Jin Eric	85
40	86		Aminuddin Muhd Faqih	0	1 - 0	0		Yeop Mat Zaki	59
41	60		Wong Yinn Long	0	1 - 0	0		Mohd Jamil Afiq	87
42	89		Ganesh Kuhan	0	0 - 1	0		Teh De Juan	61
43	62		Mustafa Albakri Suhaimi	0	1 - 0	0		Singh Kabir	88
44	91		Sik Kuan Ming Shaun	0	0 - 1	0		Tan Kok Liang	63
45	64		Muhalip Sotimin	0	½ - ½	0		Ong Wei Bin	90
46	93		Ong Aik Liang	0	- - +	0		Zakaria Mohd Fadrus	65
47	22		Saifuddin Muhd Izz	0	0			not paired

Women’s 2nd Round Results, National Close Chess Championship 2011

Pairings/Results

Round 2 on 2011/03/16 at 2.30pm

Bo.	No.		Name	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	No.
1	11		Jayamurthey Pavitranayagi	1	0 - 1	1	WCM	Nur Nabila Azman Hisham	2
2	3		Tan Li Ting	1	½ - ½	1		Nithyalakshmi Sivanesan	10
3	13		Latifah Kaiyisah Bt Mohd Lati	1	0 - 1	1		Azhar Puteri Rifqah Fahada	4
4	5	WFM	Nur Najiha Hisham	1	1 - 0	1		Haslindah Ruslan	12
5	15		Tang Kar Khei	1	½ - ½	1		Madhavan Olivia	6
6	7		Azhar Puteri Munajjah Az-Zahra	1	½ - ½	1		Sarika Subramaniam	14
7	33		Mohd Niza Nor Atiqah	1	0 - 1	1		Zullkafli Amira Syahmina	8
8	9		Camilia Bt Johari	1	1 - 0	1		Ahmad Darji Putri Nurfariza	22
9	1	WCM	Fong Mi Yen	½	1 - 0	0		Hong Wee Ni Winnie	16
10	18		Aminuddin Nur Farihah	0	½ - ½	½		Hong Wee Ki Vickie	17
11	27		Nazri Siti Nadia Qarmila	0	0 - 1	0		Mohd Latib Latifah Syamimi	19
12	20		Saleh Anis Fariha	0	1 - 0	0		Tan Wei Ting	28
13	29		Ganesan Khirranya	0	0 - 1	0		Teh De Zen	21
14	30		Chua Jia-Tien	0	0 - 1	0		Aminuddin Nur Faqihah	24
15	25		Charles Veronica Shalini	0	1 - 0	0		Mohd Hisham Nadia Syafiqah	32
16	31		Mohd Hisham Nur Sabrina	0	0 - 1	0		Mohd Saufi Najihah	26
17	23		Wong Siew Ting	0	0			not paired

   

In the women’s section, WCM Nur Nabila, Puteri Rifqah, WFM Nur Najiha, Camilia Johari, Amira Syahmina Zulkafli are among the early leaders winning both the first two rounds. Defending champion, NCM Fong Mi Yen  is just half point behind the leaders.

Links:

• Chess-results.com
• National Close Chess Championship 2011