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Live game from round 7

GilaChess — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 02:04:01 +0000

Click here to watch it live. Already on move there is an interesting Knight sac on f7.

Back to the office sofa

GilaChess — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 22:34:24 +0000

Back to the office sofa

Originally uploaded by gilachess

Timing is just perfect. Call of work and I have to spend another night at the office. Sunday is a free day so I won’t miss any round of DATMO. I will miss the age group though.. but I am sure someone will do a better job posting the results..

Reminder: Age group

GilaChess — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 12:13:31 +0000

BALLROOM, 5^th FLOOR,

CITITEL MIDVALLEY HOTEL

TOURNAMENT: 5 Age Groups in 2 categories (Boys & Girls)/ 7 rounds SWISS, Time Control: 25 minutes to finish

U-8

Date of Birth

On or after 2002

U-14

Date of Birth

On or after 1996

U-10

Date of Birth

On or after 2000

U-16

Date of Birth

On or after 1994

U-12

Date of Birth

On or after 1998

Participants are requested to bring along their I/C or B/C for verification.

DATE

TIME

PROGRAMME

VENUE

29 August 2010 (Sun)

0930 – 1300

Registration

Bintang Ballroom, CitiTel Mid Valley

05 September 2010 (Sun)

0900 – 1200

Round 1 – 3

Bintang Ballroom, CitiTel Mid Valley

1230 – 1400

Lunch-Time Chess Lecture by US National Master Ron Gross

1400 – 1800

Round 4 – 7

Bintang Ballroom, CitiTel Mid Valley

1800

Prize Giving

ENTRY FEES: 1. RM25.00 for all Age Groups. (Registration after closing date on 29.08.10 – RM50.00).

ENTRIES AFTER 29 AUGUST 2010 WILL BE ACCEPTED ONLY AT THE DISCRETION OF THE ORGANIZERS.

MODE OF PAYMENT (Bank In)

1. The entry form and a copy of pay-in-slip MUST be faxed to 03-40244337. (Attn: Encik Abd. Hamid Majid, not later than Sunday, 29 August 2010)

Bank Account: DAT CHESS CENTRE – Maybank Current Account: 5145 9822 0396

Jalan Bunus, 50100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. NO REGISTRATION BY TELEPHONE OR SMS.

2. Direct submission of entry form with cash to Abd Hamid Majid (019 3158098 – aham@pc.jaring.my, aham4you@gmail.com), not later than 29 August 2010.

TIE-BREAK: 1) Solkoff, 2) S.B. 3) Cumulative

MERDEKA NATIONAL OPEN RAPID AGE-GROUP CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP 2010

CATEGORY

PRIZES

BOYS

GIRLS

U-8 / 10 / 12 / 14 / 16

Champion

Gold Medal

2^nd

Silver Medal

3^rd

Bronze Medal

4^th

Medal

5^th

Medal

6^th

Medal

7^th

Medal

Prize Winners in all Age Groups will also receive Certificates of Achievement.

DATMO Chief Arbiter

GilaChess — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 12:02:59 +0000

DATMO chief arbiter Encik Najib Wahab busy making sure the projectors are showing the top boards.

DATMO Round 6 results

GilaChess — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 11:50:29 +0000

Nadanian in another interesting Ending. ~ a 2 queens ending vs Ziaur Rahman

Round 6 on 2010/09/04 at 3:00pm

Bo.	No.		Name	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	No.
1	1	GM	Gupta Abhijeet	4½	½ – ½	4½	GM	Wen Yang	10
2	24		Wan Yunguo*	4½	½ – ½	4½	GM	Zhou Weiqi	2
3	46	FM	Nguyen Duc Hoa	4½	½ – ½	4½	GM	Cao Sang	4
4	15	GM	Xu Yuhua	4	½ – ½	4		Guo Qi	73
5	5	GM	Arun Prasad S	4	0 – 1	3½	GM	Smerdon David	6
6	3	GM	Rahman Ziaur	3½	0 – 1	3½	IM	Nadanian Ashot	34
7	33	IM	Duong The Anh	3½	0 – 1	3½	IM	Sethuraman S P	8
8	11	GM	R.R. Laxman	3½	½ – ½	3½	GM	Das Neelotpal	27
9	29	IM	Nguyen Van Huy	3½	½ – ½	3½	GM	Xu Jun	12
10	13	GM	Nguyen Anh Dung	3½	1 – 0	3½	GM	Murshed Niaz	37
11	35		Wang Chen	3½	1 – 0	3½	GM	Iuldachev Saidali	14
12	17	GM	Dzhumaev Marat	3½	0 – 1	3½		Yu Ruiyuan*	39
13	19	IM	Vijayalakshmi Subbaraman	3½	1 – 0	3½		Udani Ian	62
14	36	IM	Narayanan Srinath	3½	½ – ½	3½	WGM	Tan Zhongyi	20
15	21	IM	Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi	3½	½ – ½	3½	IM	Suvrajit Saha	41
16	40	WFM	Ding Yixin	3½	0 – 1	3½	IM	Gao Rui	22
17	56		Lim Chuin Hoong Ronnie	3½	½ – ½	3½	IM	Swayangsu Satyapragyan	26
18	9		Xiu Deshun	3	½ – ½	3		Laksana Agusta	45
19	55		Lu Yijie	3	0 – 1	3	IM	Khamrakulov Dzhurabek	16
20	72		Lan Zilun	3	0 – 1	3	GM	Schebler Gerhard	18
21	23	IM	Ashwin Jayaram	3	½ – ½	3		Jia Haoxiang	44
22	52		Li Hanbin	3	½ – ½	3	IM	Goh Wei Ming Kevin	28
23	30	IM	Swapnil S Dhopade	3	1 – 0	3		Vakhidov Jahongir	59
24	31		Zeng Chongsheng*	3	1 – 0	3	FM	Yee Soon Wei	61
25	90		Dotsenko Viacheslav	3	0 – 1	3	IM	Mok Tze-Meng	32
26	96		Capel Evan Timothy	3	0 – 1	3		Wang Li	38
27	42	FM	Pham Chuong	3	1 – 0	3	FM	Kapriaga Rian	83
28	47	FM	Dutta Joydeep	2½	1 – 0	3	WFM	Polovina Elena	89
29	7	GM	Dao Thien Hai	2½	½ – ½	2½		Castellano Christopher	67
30	25	WGM	Huang Qian	2½	1 – 0	2½		Dragicevic Domagoj	70
31	43	IM	Lane Gary W	2½	1 – 0	2½		Loo Swee Leong	77
32	68		Sutarno	2½	½ – ½	2½	FM	Kojima Shinya	49
33	50	FM	Carlos Leonardo	2½	1 – 0	2½		Soon Wai Cheong	85
34	76		Lee Kim Han Edward	2½	0 – 1	2½	IM	Deshmukh Anup	51
35	84		Xu Huahua	2½	0 – 1	2½	WGM	Nguyen Thi Thanh An	53
36	54	FM	Mahmud Syarif	2½	0 – 1	2½		Nakamura Naohiro	87
37	86		Chong Chor Yuen	2½	0 – 1	2½	IM	Liew Chee-Meng-Jimmy	57
38	58	FM	Ton That Nhu Tung	2½	1 – 0	2½		Masruri Rahman	88
39	95		Tan Justin	2½	½ – ½	2½		T.L.S. Aris	64
40	121		Sean Winshand Cuhendi	2½	1 – 0	2½		Bakliwal Gaurav	65
41	133		Zulkhairi	2½	1 – 0	2½		Wang Jue	66
42	48	FM	Rej Tomek	2	1 – 0	2	WFM	Milligan Helen	98
43	60	IM	Morris James	2	1 – 0	2		Uehara Shinpei	99
44	63		Aquino Jr. Jose	2	1 – 0	2		Bennett Hilton	103
45	100		Cheah Cheok Fung	2	½ – ½	2		Panggabean Hasian	69
46	74		Jamals Hendry	2	1 – 0	2		Ismail Ahmad	101
47	127		Firmansyah P. Muhammad	2	0 – 1	2		Hukom David	79
48	80		Yeap Eng Chiam	2	1 – 0	2		Low Jun Jian	109
49	81		Abdullah Al-Saif	2	0 – 1	2		Bakri Alia Anin Azwa	111
50	82		Yeoh Li Tian	2	1 – 0	2		Shinoda Taro	132
51	92		Nayan Ahmad Fadzil	2	½ – ½	2		Dwi Saputra Kurniawan	126
52	104	WFM	Guo Emma	2	½ – ½	2		Safarian Alek	97
53	78		Anasrullah	1½	1 – 0	2		Chen Yang	125
54	112		Verdiana Norasya	1½	0 – 1	1½		F Sayani M Hendrik	71
55	91		Hj Azahari Md Aliuddin	1½	1 – 0	1½		Hetul Shah	105
56	116		Lee Kah Meng Elgin	1½	0 – 1	1½	CM	Xu Yi	93
57	94		Azman Hisham Mohd Nabil	1½	1 – 0	1½		Nair Sasidharan C	130
58	119	FM	Tin Jingyao	1½	0 – 1	1½		Spiller Paul	102
59	120		Azarya Jodi Setyaki	1½	1 – 0	1		Marmono Roslina	107
60	75		Tan Khai Boon	1	1 – 0	1		Limono Handjojo	114
61	108		Nakvanich Sahapol	1	1 – 0	1		Tan Jun Feng	115
62	110		Fong Mi Yen	1	1 – 0	1	WCM	Nur Nabila Azman Hisham	118
63	113	WFM	Ho En Huei Danielle	1	1 – 0	1		Albakh Ghassan Syaqiq	124
64	129		Munir Azizi Bin Ahmad	1	1 – 0	½		Fong Yit San	106
65	122		Haslindah Ruslan	½	1 – 0	0		Tan Fischer	123
66	117		Low Jun Keat	0	1 – 0	0		Lau Chuan Chyi Nicholas	128
67	131		Saw Lye Guan	1	0			not paired

Guo Qi on a roll

GilaChess — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 06:16:35 +0000

In Round 5, IM Jayaram Ashwin was the latest victim to this up and coming chinese player, Guo Qi. This wins rockets the 2165 rated lass to 8th position after Round 5.

Live video at DATMO

GilaChess — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:55:02 +0000

Live video at DATMO

Originally uploaded by gilachess

Just spent rm 50 for a webcam to have a live video feed from the DATMO tournament hall.

It fits!

GilaChess — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:54:52 +0000

It fits!

Originally uploaded by gilachess

The webcam fits perfectly on the cap of a water bottle

Live Video from DATMO

GilaChess — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:30:56 +0000

DATMO goes live!

GilaChess — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:02:03 +0000

The board 2 of round 5 is currently broadcasted live from datmo.net .

Head over there and have a look. Hopefully for round 6 we can broadcast the top 2 boards live too.