AMPANG CHESSMASTER 2011

The Ampang Chessmaster concluded yesterday with Sumant Subramiam emerging as champion after triumphing over 2 Filipino challengers in the form of Ian Udani in the penultimate round and newcomer Allan Umadhay in the last round. It is a good pick up by Sumant after his almost disastrous qualification for the SEA Games squad.

For his valiant effort, Sumant won the Ampang Chessmaster trophy and was presented the RM500 cash prize by Ampang MP, YB Zuraida Kamaruddin. 3 players tied with 6 points but based on tie break, Ian Udani came in Second after defeating Mohd Fadli Zakari a.k.a Stonemaster (who ended up 9th), Ahmad Fadzil Nayan 3rd after ousting Veteran winner, Norazman Ismail and Kamaluddin Yusoff 4th after his win over Ampang best player winner, Mohd Faizal Roslan.

Filipino Allan Umadhay, a newcomer to be reckon with, came in 5th with 3 other players who sharing the same 5.5 points, Ahmad Rubel 6th, Rizal Kamal 7th, Kamalariffin 8th. Fadli Zakaria and Foo Chee Kin wrapped up the 9th and 10th spot.

During the announcement of the results, there was a slight error on the 5th best player for the Primary school children when Haziq Aiman Nizam name was left out of the winners list. Haziq’s name was accidentally left out and in his place, Chew Zhi Xuan’s name was mentioned. Whilst the winners list and the prizes will not be changed, the organizer have apologized to the parents and moving forward, we will strive to better the process and improve the situation where such error can be minimized further or ultimately eliminated

Next up: DATCC WARRIOR RAPID CHESS WEEKEND on Sunday, 22nd May 2011

Rank	Name	NRtg	Pts	BH.	POSITION
1	Sumant Subramaniam	1957	6½	33½	Champion
2	Ian Udani	2160	6	34½	Second
3	Ahmad Fadzil Nayan	1941	6	33	3rd
4	Kamaluddin Yusof	1932	6	32	4th
5	Allan Umadhay	0	5½	33½	5th
6	Ahmat Rubel Abbas	1762	5½	32½	6th
7	Rizal Ahmad Kamal	1617	5½	31	7th
8	Kamalarifin Wahiduddin	1929	5½	29½	8th
9	Mohd Fadli Zakaria	1822	5	33	9th
10	Foo Chee Kin	1752	5	31	10th
11	Mohd Faizal Roslan	1689	5	31	Best Ampang
12	Muhd Syazwan Zulkifli	1817	5	31	Best IPTA
13	Norazman Ismail	1660	5	28½	Best Veteran
15	Suhaimi Mustafa Albakri	1627	5	28	Best Government
48	Nur Farhana Amir Hafidz	1417	4	20½	Best Lady
56	Syukri Lan	0	3½	23½	Best PBT
53	Ramdan Hussin	0	3½	25	Best MPAJ
18	Ros Syamsul Hamid	1640	5	23½	Menengah 1
19	Noor Hafiz Mohd Nor	0	4½	30	Menengah 2
22	Muhd Taufik Azman	1578	4½	29	Menengah 3
27	Norizzudin Afendi Norazman	1668	4½	26½	Menengah 4
28	Muhd Ariez Azman	1625	4½	26	Menengah 5
25	Bausch Koh Sian Kuan	1377	4½	27	Rendah 1
	Muhd Hafidzuddin Junaidi	1378	4	26½	Rendah 2
51	Jagathees Guna Balan	1456	3½	28	Rendah 3
54	Ang Tsu Jien	1271	3½	24	Rendah 4
64	Haziq Aiman Nizam	1298	3	24	Rendah 5
65	Chew Zhi Xuan	1322	3	24	Rendah 5