28 October 2011, Kuala Lumpur – A friendly reminder from the organisers of the upcoming 3rd Ole Ole Shah Alam Chess Open 2011 on the 12th November 2011 at the Ole Ole Shopping Centre, Section 18, Shah Alam.
Update on pre-registered participants follows:-
PARTICIPANTS
PRE-REGISTER 3rd OSACO, SHAH ALAM
NAME (OPEN) MCF Rating (Oct 2011)
1 IM MAS HAFIZUL HILMI AGUS 2252
2 AHMAD MALIKI MOHAMED 2112
3 NIK AHMAD FAROUQI 1948
4 AHMAD FADZIL NAYAN 1938
5 MUHD SYAZWAN ZULKIFLI 1875
6 ABDULLAH CHE HASSAN 1866
7 KAMALUDDIN YUSOF 1859
8 ZAIDAN ZULKIFLI 1854
9 ZARUL SHAZWAN ZULKAFLI 1807
10 FOO CHEE KIN 1800
11 MUHAMMAD ARSHAD 1781
12 SYED ABDUL RAHMAN SYED MOHD 1709
13 FIKRI SALEH 1698
14 AZHAR ABDULLAH 1686
15 IZUDDIN AHAYAT 1658
16 RAZALI HAMZAH 1654
17 A JALAL MD SHAH 1648
18 AHMAD FIRDAUS MOHD RODZI 1625
19 MOHD EZMI MAHMOOD 1621
20 MUHAMMAD ARIEZ AZMAN 1614
21 MOHD ZULHAIRI MOHD 1610
22 AMIRA SYAHMINA ZULKAFLI 1603
23 SAHIR SARIFDIN 1595
24 ABDUL SALAM MAAMUR 1583
25 NOOR HISYAM AHAYAT 1582
26 AINUL HAKIM ABDUL RAZAK 1542
27 ANIS FARIHA SALEH 1539
28 ISKANDAR RASHID 1536
29 MOHD KHAIRUL NIZAM JOHARIY 1536
30 MOHAMED ISMAIL 1527
31 MURIZA HAZRUL 1516
32 ZAHORINGE BASIRAN 1513
33 MUHD AMIR RIDHWAN MOHD ROHAIZAD 1489
34 SHAHARUDDIN SIDEK 1481
35 MUHAMMAD NOR HIZAD 1467
36 MOHD NIZAM YUSLI 1451
37 SALEH ABDUL LATIF 1430
38 NAYYEF ASHRAF NASRIN 1402
39 WONG GOON SHEK 1380
40 SHAMSUDDIN SABRI 1259
41 RUSHDA ADIBA 1214
42 NOR ZAIASRON YAHAYA N/A
43 CHENG SYAZRIN RAHMAN N/A
44 DEEPA A/P PERIMAL N/A
45 HAMIZAN YAACOB N/A
46 MUHAMMAD SHAFIQ ABDUL RAHMAN N/A
47 KHAIRUL AKMAL AZHAR N/A
48 RAJA ZULIZWAN RAJA ZAINAL N/A
49 AHMAD EFFENDI RIJALLUDIN N/A
50 MOHD NOR AZAM MOHD NOOR N/A
51 MOHAMAD FARIZAL HASSIM N/A
52 MUHAMMAD FIRDAUS N/A
53 NUR HANIM HAMIDON N/A
54 SHAHRIZAl SHAMSUDIN N/A
55 Sri Kembangan 1 (Wan) N/A
56 Sri Kembangan 2 (Wan) N/A
57 Sri Kembangan 3 (Wan) N/A
58 Sri Kembangan 4 (Wan) N/A
59 ALIAS N/A
60 AHMAD FAKRUDEN N/A
61 ABDUL LATIF MOHAMAD N/A
62 KHAIRUL NAJAH N/A
63 SOLOMON NYURANG JUK 1552
NAME (UNDER-12) MCF Rating (Oct 2011)
1 SUBRAMANIAM SIVANESAN 1712
2 NITHYALAKSHMI SIVANESAN 1631
3 FAHIM AL-FAQEH SALEH 1409
4 ZAINOOR IKMAL MAISARAH MOHD NOOR 1339
5 MUHAMMAD HILMI HAMIDON 1234
6 SARAH HANI RIDZAUDDIN 1187
7 AHMAD FAISAL HAKIMI RIDZAUDDIN 1172
8 ZAINOOR IKMAL MUNIRAH MOHD NOOR 1157
9 NUR ATINA ABDUL AZIZ 1144
10 AQIL HAZIQ HAIRULIZAM 1117
11 MUHD SYUKUR RAZALI 1041
12 KABILAN THANABALAN 1030
13 PAVITHRA THANABALAN 1024
14 ALIFF NAZMY AZHAR N/A
15 EISWARI A/P PERIMAL N/A
16 JANE WONG HUEY YUEN N/A
17 SUSENDRAN A/L PERIMAL N/A
18 MADHAVAN N/A
19 MUHAMMAD IZ TAUFIQ MUHAMMAD NASRUDDIN N/A
20 ZAFRAN SAHIR N/A
N/A= Not available in Database MCF Rating October 2011.
Additional Info: 3rd OLE-OLE SHAH ALAM CHESS OPEN 2011 or 3rd OSACO, is an annual chess tournament recommended and organized by My Chess Diary Ent. with cooperation and support from Ole-Ole Shopping Centre. The third edition offers two categories as in previous years, namely Open and Under-12. All participants and chess enthusiasts from around the country, especially from Shah Alam, Selangor are invited to participate in the 3rd OSACO.
For the first two editions, stands OSACC has been used to represent Ole-Ole Shah Alam Chess Championship. This year, the organisers of the event will replace the shortform from OSACC to OSACO. For knowledge, the runner for this event already apply to make 3rd OSACO is National Rated chess tournament that will be included in the Malaysian Chess Federation (MCF) consideration in order to determine MCF National Chess Rating. This is the main reason why the tournament is open to Malaysian chess player only.
2nd OSACC participant were most welcomed when all the participant last year received ad-hoc RM 50 voucher from the sponsors at the very last moment during the registration. This make 2nd OSACC very rare and special event, and hopefully this time, there is some more surprise and let us hoping that way 
3rd OSACO is heartened by the willingness of the country’s number one chess player, IM Mas Hafizul to participate in the 3rd OSACO and to threaten to win the title from 2nd OSACC champion, Kamaluddin Yusoff and 1st OSACC champion, NM Zarul Shazwan Zulkafli. The presence of all three big names will be accompanied by a large number of other players who play a major role in determining the final position of the top 10 places in the Open Category. For the Under-12, their inclusion is expected to make this new generation even more advanced in chess in addition to taking the experience and gain the opportunity to see the country’s greatest chess players compete against each other.
Due to demand of using digital chess clock and tournament standard of chess set, the OSACO event will be using both tools, which is especially booked from the very well-known chess center in Kuala Lumpur, DATCC.
May the upcoming 3rd OSACO become one of the favorite chess tournament crowd in Malaysia.
To read more, please visit the following links:-
http://whitenaval.wordpress.com/
http://whitenaval.wordpress.com/participants/
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(source: Abdul Haq Mohammad@whitenaval)
Pix 1. Wong Jianwen, Malaysia playing first board. 
