Evan Capel Is USM 17th Chess Open Champion 2011

20th January 2011, Kuala Lumpur – The USM 17th Chess Open Tournament 2010/11 was held recently on the 15-16 January 2011 in the Students’ Main Hall (Dewan Utama Pelajar, DPA/DPB), USM Campus, USM, Pulau Pinang.

 

National Master Evan Timothy Capel (pix above) won the event with a 7.5 points over 8 rounds of play. He beat 212 other players in the same Open Individual category.

In second place was Chuah Heng Meng with 7.5 points, too with a slightly inferior tie-break points.

In third place was Elgin Lee Kah Meng with 7 points and in fourth position was Nicholas Chong Ing Hooi also with 7 points.



To see the full results, please visit chess-results.com or click here.

The USM chess team event will take place on the 22-23 January 2011 in USM Main Campus in Pulau Pinang.

Links:

• Penang Chess;
• fireyrook’s blog.

USM Individual/Team Chess Tournament 2011

30 November 2010, Kuala Lumpur – University of Science Malaysia (USM) is organising two chess tournaments in the new year 2011 called Pesta Catur USM ke-17. The USM Individual Chess Tournament will be held from 15-16 January 2011 and the USM Team Chess Tournament will be held from 22-23 January 2011 at the Dewan Utarma Pelajar (DPA/DPB),  USM main campus, USM, Penang.

The tentative programmes for 15-16 January 2011 and 22-23 January 2011 shown below:-

The tournament fees:

Team tournament fees:


Pls contact the following person for information:-
Mr. Tan Eng Seong, Honourary Asst Secretary of Penang Chess Association,
email: estan64@streamyx.com
h/p: 012-4299517

To read more details, please visit penangchess.com or click here.