Dungun Chess Open - 16th & 17th July 2010 (UPDATE 3)

The Champ - Soon Wai Cheong from Selangor

(photo from stonemaster.info)

Dungun Chess Open ended today. GiLoCatur does not have the official results. Below are the unofficial top 7 winners as per in stonemaster.info website. All the top 7 winners are non-Terengganu players.

1. Soon Wai Cheong (SEL) - the champion
2. Abdullah Che Hassan (KL/JHR) - 2nd place
3. Kamaluddin Yusof (KL/JHR) - 3rd place
4. Ahmad Fadzil Nayan (PRK) - 4th place
5. Mohd Khair Wahiduddin (PHG) - 5th place
6. CM Mohd Fadli Zakaria (KL/JHR) - 6th place
7. Khalid Musa (PHG) - 7th place

Syabas and tahniah to all the winners. For those who did not win, do not give up. Keep learning and practising. If you love playing chess, keep on going ...

Go to stonemaster.info website to view the latest pictures.

Dungun Chess Open - 16th & 17th July 2010 (UPDATE 2)

Below are the latest updates and results for the Dungun Chess Open.

In the fifth round, the top seed drew while playing against the 6th seed at the top board. On the second board, the fifth seed Abg Bro who travel from Kuala Lumpur won his game against his 4th seed opponent. So, he has the full 5 points entering the sixth round and leading with half points. Can he takes the advantage to cruise through to be the champion?

In the sixth round, Abg Bro met the top seed Wai Cheong at the top board. He could not manage to win the 6th round game. Five other players joined him in the five pointers group. Wai Cheong and Abdullah led the tournament with 5.5/6 points.

So, what are the pairings for the 7th round? It is as per below picture.

GiLoCatur notices that three bloggers - Muhammad Arshad of caturterengganu@blogspot, Norazlin Juarih aka Badbishops and Mohd Fadli Zakaria aka stonemaster, will be playing in the top ten boards. The most impressive one is Badbishops since he is ranked 31st. So, what are the results? Just wait for the update ... later. Or you can check out the updates in their respective chess blogs.

Dungun Chess Open - 16th & 17th July 2010 UPDATE

Dungun Chess Open is on-going. The tournament that held in a resort in Terengganu is played on two days - Friday and Saturday. The first day is over. Four rounds had been played. About 100 players including several non-Terengganu participants. Below are the top 25 seeded participants headed by Soon Wai Cheong. Non-Terengganu players dominate the top 10 seedings.

Based on below Round 5 pairings from chess-results.com, three players have the full 4 points entering the fifth round. They are the top seed, Wai Cheong, Abdullah Che Hassan and Kamaluddin Yusof. Can they hold on until the final round? Who will lose point? Is one of the three full pointers will finally be crowned the champion? Or can the defending champion win again this time? We'll find out the answers after the tournament completes later today (Saturday). Good Luck to all the participants!

Go to stonemaster.info to view the pictures during the tournament.

Dungun Chess Open - 16th & 17th July 2010

Do you know and notice that from this weekend until the following four weekends, there will be at least a chess tourney in Malaysia? Wow! What an opportunity and a heaven for Malaysian chess players!

4th July - Telok Gong Pro Am Chess Challenge

10th July - Shah Alam Ole Ole Chess Open

16th & 17th July - Dungun Chess Open

24th July - Perlis Chess Open Team Event

1st August - 21st Tebrau Chess Open (JB)

Below are the details of the Dungun Chess Open.

For Terengganu folks and other nearby areas, let's go to Dungun for an interesting retreat!