New FIDE Ratings For May/June Excel Tournament

 

6 July 2011, Kuala Lumpur – Excel Chess Academy has just released the official new FIDE Ratings of players that participated in the May/June Excel FIDE Rating Chess Tournament held in May/June 2011 in OUG, Kuala Lumpur.

 

As seven players started with no ratings and end with new FIDE ratings as shown above, resulting in the creation of about 12000+ new FIDE Rating points. While three other FIDE-Rated players gained points and two lost a few points. However, the sacrifice of two players has given new life and hope to ten other players.

 

 

(source: Jax Tham, Excel Chess Academy)

Bernard Ng Wins Excel FIDE-Rated May-June 2011

12 June 2011, Kuala Lumpur – At Excel Chess Academy, the Excel FIDE-Rated Chess Tournament May-June 2011 has drawn to a close with Bernard Ng (pix below) being declared the Champion of the EXCEL FIDE-Rated Tournament with an unassailable 9.0 points from 11 rounds in a single-round robin format tournament.

 

Pix 1. Bernard Ng, the champ.

Bernard won seven outright games, two drawn and a single loss to  Tan Hong Ghee.

In second place, Jax Tham with 8.5 points. In joint third are Tan Hong Ghee and Najib Wahab. Both scored 7.0 points.

In fourth place, significantly is Kung Soon Heng with 6.0 points.

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(results courtesy of Jax Tham, ECA)

CJ Yao Creates Upset, Bernard Leads

12 June 2011, Kuala Lumpur - At the Excel FIDE-Rated Tournament, CJ Yao created an upset by beating top seed Tan Hong Ghee in a Sicilian Opening. Bernard Ng is leading with 9.0 points. While Jax Tham is second with 8.5 points. But the giant killer was Mr CJ Yao! He scored 4.5 points. Tan Hong Ghee finished with 7.0 points.


Pix 1. CJ Yao in his lethal element.

Pix 2. CJ Yao vs Tan Hong Ghee

Pix 3. Cross Table of Resuts Of Excel FIDE-Rated May-June. 2011.

(source Jax Tham)

Jax Tham Leads In Excel FIDE-Rated May-June 2011

5 June, 2011, Kuala Lumpur - Here are the current results of the Excel FIDE-Rated tournament for the month of May-June 2011.

Jax Tham is leading with 8 points from 10 games and Bernard Ng with 6.5 points from 8 games. The Cross-Table of results is shown below.



Some random pictures of the Excel FIDE-Rated May-June 2011.


Pix 1. (Left to right) Bernard Ng, Kung Soon Heng, Khairul Mastuki.



Pix 2. Alfred Ting



Pix 3. CJ Yao


Pix 4. Najib Wahab


Pix 5. Some of the games played in the morning.



Pix 6. Jax Tham

(results courtesy of Jax Tham, ECA)