Yeap and Izz Co-Leaders In First Saturday Classical Chess 2009

At the end of the first day of plays in the First Saturday Classical Chess 2009 held at the Excel Chess Academy, Yeap Eng Chiam and Muhd Izz Saifudin are co-leaders after three rounds.

Abdullah Che Hassan and Muhd Syakir Shazmeer are trailing by half-point behind the leaders.

Twenty four players are participating in this classical chess tournament, the biggest group so far for the classical chess series conducted by Excel Chess Academy.

Catch the action tomorrow at the Excel Chess Academy, Overseas Union Garden, Kuala Lumpur where three more rounds will be played to decide the winner of the first of the series of First Saturday Classical Chess 2009.

Ranking after round 3 of FSCC12

No. PNo. Name Score WP SB PS rat. TPR W-We

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1. 2 YEAP ENG CHIAM 3.0 3.5 3.50 6.0 1906 2380 +0.72

5 MUHD IZZ SAIFUDIN 3.0 4.5 4.50 6.0 1777 2293 +0.87

3. 1 ABDULLAH CHE HASSAN 2.5 6.0 4.75 5.5 1915 1981 +0.19

4 MUHD SYAKIR SHAZMEER 2.5 5.5 4.25 5.5 1835 1946 +0.37

5. 3 LIM ZHOU REN 2.0 6.0 3.00 5.0 1882 1833 -0.19

7 MUHD NABIL AZMAN 2.0 4.0 1.50 4.0 1745 1778 +0.11

8 MARK SIEW 2.0 4.0 2.00 4.0 1712 1696 -0.07

11 LOW JUN JIAN 2.0 4.5 2.00 4.0 1639 1630 -0.04

12 ALBERT ANG 2.0 4.0 1.00 4.0 1624 1559 -0.25

10. 6 JAX THAM 1.5 5.5 2.00 3.5 1767 1584 -0.72

9 NUR NABILA AZMAN 1.5 6.0 2.25 3.5 1697 1591 -0.42

10 WONG JIANWEN 1.5 4.5 1.75 3.5 1651 1573 -0.33

14 JOSHUA FOONG 1.5 4.0 0.75 2.5 1543 1669 +0.51

22 HEW ZHEN JING 1.5 2.5 0.50 2.5 1324 1544 +0.84

23 NUR NAJIHA AZMAN 1.5 3.0 0.75 2.5 1571 1650 +0.33

16. 16 ANDREW OOI 1.0 3.0 0.00 1.0 1507 1344 -0.65

17 GABRIEL SOONG 1.0 5.5 1.00 2.0 1464 1464 +0.01

18 LIM JING HONG 1.0 5.0 0.00 2.0 1458 1400 -0.23

19 ANDREW SOONG 1.0 4.5 1.50 2.0 1404 1456 +0.19

21 YAT GUO JIE 1.0 5.0 1.00 2.0 1368 1489 +0.43

24 ALEXANDER HOON 1.0 3.0 0.00 1.0 1221 1374 +0.49

22. 13 ZZZ 0.0 4.5 2.25 0.0 1571 - +0.00

15 LOW JUN KEAT 0.0 6.0 0.00 0.0 1531 923 -1.20

20 SOOI CHING WEI 0.0 4.5 0.00 0.0 1394 826 -1.05

25 YAP WING HENG 0.0 4.0 0.00 0.0 1158 853 -0.30

26 YYY 0.0 4.5 2.25 0.0 0000 - 0

Pairing of round 4 of FSCC12

Table White - Black Results

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1 YEAP ENG CHIAM ( 3 ) - MUHD IZZ SAIFUDIN ( 3 ) 2- 5

2 MARK SIEW ( 2 ) - ABDULLAH CHE HASSAN ( 2ｫ) 8- 1

3 MUHD SYAKIR SHAZMEER( 2ｫ) - LIM ZHOU REN ( 2 ) 4- 3

4 ALBERT ANG ( 2 ) - MUHD NABIL AZMAN ( 2 ) 12- 7

5 JOSHUA FOONG ( 1ｫ) - LOW JUN JIAN ( 2 ) 14- 11

6 JAX THAM ( 1ｫ) - WONG JIANWEN ( 1ｫ) 6- 10

7 HEW ZHEN JING ( 1ｫ) - NUR NAJIHA AZMAN ( 1ｫ) 22- 23

8 ANDREW OOI ( 1 ) - NUR NABILA AZMAN ( 1ｫ) 16- 9

9 LIM JING HONG ( 1 ) - GABRIEL SOONG ( 1 ) 18- 17

10 ALEXANDER HOON ( 1 ) - ANDREW SOONG ( 1 ) 24- 19

11 SOOI CHING WEI ( 0 ) - YAT GUO JIE ( 1 ) 20- 21

12 LOW JUN KEAT ( 0 ) - YAP WING HENG ( 0 ) 15- 25

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Loss by default: 13 ZZZ , 26 YYY ,

(source: Jax Tham, Excel Chess Academy)

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