Round 8 Rankings - DATMO-AmBank-Senior

IM Lim Yee Weng, Malaysia.

25 August 2011, Kuala Lumpur - Here are the round 8 rankings before the start of round 9 this morning for the top 41 players for 8th DAT Malaysian Open, 2nd KLK Tan Sri Lee Loy Seng Seniors Open 2011 and 6th AmBank Malaysia Chess Challenge 2011.

For the top five of the Malaysian Open, all of the candidates are from China with GM Li Shilong at the top with 7.0 points. The next two are from Vietnam including the defending champion, GM Cao Sang. Followed by two from Philippines - Roland Salvador and Nolte Rolando. No Malaysians inside the top 40 this year. At 41 is Cheah Cheok Fung of Malaysia with 4.5 points.

Round 9 Pairings, AmBank-Senior-DATMO

24 August 2011, Kuala Lumpur - Here are the 9th Round pairings for the Dato' Arthur Tan Malaysian Open, 6th AmBank Chess Challenge and 2nd KLK Tan Sri Lee Loy Seng Seniors Open respectively.



GM Li Shilong of China leads in DATMO with 7 points, S M Sharon of Bangladesh in AmBank with 6.5 points and GM Kayumov Dmitry of Uzbekistan in Seniors Open with 7 points.



Today is another rest day for the participants before they come back tomorrow to complete the final 9th round beginning at 9 am.







Table 1. DATO' Arthur Tan Malaysian Open 2011, 9th Round pairings, 25 August 2011.





Table 2. 2nd KLK Tan Sri Lee Loy Seng Seniors Open 2011, 9th Round, 25 August 2011.






Table 3. 6th AmBank Malaysia Chess Challenge 2011, 9th Round pairings, 25th August 2011.

Updates of DAT Malaysian Open

3 August 2011, Kuala Lumpur - for the upcoming Dato' Arthur Tan Malaysian Open 2011, there are 96 pre-registered players with defending champion GM Cao Sang of Vietnam, 2533, in this list. The highest rated player is GM Zhang Zhong, 2594, of Singapore. The list includes several titled players comprising of 16 GMs, 9 IMs, 2 WGMs, 3 WIMs, 4 FMs, 2 WFMs and 1 CM.

Pix 1. IM Mas Hafizulhelmi, Malaysia.

Malaysia's IM Mas Hafizulhelmi, Lim Zhuo Ren, Justin Ong, Ismail Ahmad, Roshan Ajeet Singh, Mark Siew, Elgin Lee Kah Meng and a few others are participating as well in this year's edition.

Other updates are the 6th AmBank Malaysia Chess Challenge 2011 - 35 players and 2nd Dato' Arthur Tan Malaysia Open 2011 - 24 players, as shown below:-

(source: Abdul Hamid Majid, MCF)