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Don’t you just hate it when the pairing comes out and you have to squeeze in a crowd all trying to find their names on a small A4 sized paper pasted on a wall.

A projector and a notebook is much preferable way to see the pairings.

I already see this being used in DATCC and KL GP tourneys. I’m sure more organisers will pick up on. It’s small things like these that make the tournament experience that much better.

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After 5 rounds this is the standings

Pictures from Round 6

Battle of the bloggers. Yatzchess vs FireyRook

Result: DRAW

Round 6 pairings

Lunch – RSC Chicken Rice

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Hou Yifan from the 1st World Mind Games, Beijing. She just celebrated her 16th birthday 2 weeks ago.
Picture from www.chessasia.net

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Fairus brother shares the same name as Uncle Siraj

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Nithyalakshmi Sivanesan(left) did well by winning all 3 of her games.

Amira Syahmina (right) held the score by drawing 3 games.

Ismail Ahmad won all his classical games and drew all his rapid games. 3/4.

NM Evan Timothy Capel won 2 games as White and lost 2 as black. 2/4. He won this game against WIM Anjela Khegay (ELO 2184)

Abdul Shukor vs IM Giam Choo Kwee. The Singaporean IM won this game and finish with a respectable 3/4 score.

Encik Najib Wahab (2nd from the right)

Dato Tan Ching Nam vs FIDE Secretary General Ignatius Leong

Singapore ‘Ang Pow’ for players.

Senior Player Jimmy Ng who offered ‘3 figure sum’ Ang Pow bonus for Singapore Players who score three points and more. Crystal Valerie Soh, Selina Sia, Ryan Ow and Christabel Neo were the players with perfect score at Round 3.

~ taken from SCF website here.

MCF Secretary Gregory Lau dressed appropirately in his ‘tiger’ t-shirt working tirelessly in creating the strongest possible line up for each of the four rounds.

NWM Tan Li Ting vs Rachel Soh. Li Ting won this classical game.

Tan Jun Feng (right) on his way to winning Linson Lim De Dao. The former also contributed a plus score to Malaysia. (2.5/4). He was stronger in classical winning both games but drew one and loss one for the rapid rounds.

Wong Jianwen finished with a 3/4 score. Beside him is Yeap Eng Chiam who also finished 3/4.

According to SCF website:-

In the final few minutes of Round 4, with the score at 20 – 17 in favour of Singapore and one board
remaining, Osric Mooi threw in his full weight to beat Malaysia’s latest International Master – Mok Tze Meng
in a nailbiting encounter where both sides had chances, thus giving Singapore a slim 1 point margin
victory. Osric’s  victory gave Singapore the match, 76.5 – 75.5.

Mok vs Osric – draw (first round)

Full results

pictures courtesy of IM Jovan Petronic

Related links:

• FIDE article on Mas-Sin 2010
• Susan Polgar on Mas-Sin 2010

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During a CAS prize giving in 2005 December.

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Crosstable results here

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Yat Guo Jie having nasi Dalcha at Kasim Mustapha shop across the road from Wilayah Kompleks.

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Pictures after the jump..

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I covered the event live but actually forgot to post the final results on gilachess.com. All the other blogs posted it so no information lost there. I only noticed this while doing backup of my harddisk and came across the masters final pictures. I will post the final results later for completeness. Meanwhile here are some pictures ..

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Fairin Zakaria vs Ong Thian Loon (draw)

Mok vs Kamal Ariffin (1-0)

Rizal Ahmad Kamal vs Dr Paul (1-0)

Izz drew against Ismail Ahmad

Razali Hamzah (Ng6)

17ChessClub having a tough time against Storm Warriors (1-3)

Kaushal and Soon Wai Cheong of team AU who emerged overall champion for the second league. Team AU drew all the games except for board 1 where Ooi Chern Ee scored a win against Pricewaterhouse Hazril Husain (2.5-1.5)

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17Chessclub vs Pricewaterhouse. 2-2 draw

The Pricewaterhouse team consisting of Hazril, Ong Thian Loon, Cheah Cheok Fung and Chew Yaw Chong

Tan Ken Wei vs Yeap Eng Cheam ended in a draw when Yeap allowed a 3 fold repetition.

Abdullah Che Hassan got checkmated by Soon Wai Cheong

Ian Udani vs Mas on board one. Result : draw

(left to right) Zul, Jax Tham, Haslindah Ruslan and NWM Roslina Marmono

Haslindah and Roslina are 2 of the 8 members of the DATCC team that were present for today’s round. However, their opponent’s team only had one player and the results was 3.5 to 0.5 in favour of the DATCC team.

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Here are the pictures of the prize winners of the Hari Raya Haji 2009.

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