Hou Yifan Meets Megaranto In Final Round, KL Open 2010

Here are the round 9 pairings of the Kuala Lumpur Chess Open 2010 for tomorrow morning, 9 am, 12th April 2010.

Hou Yifan will finish the tournament by facing off with Indonesian GM Megaranto Susanto who has six points, trailing by a full point behind, Hou Yifan. Her domination in this tournament is complete if she either draws or wins against Megaranto. Hou Yifan  has stayed at the top  board throughout this tournament,  except for the first round, her favourite table, it seems.

Round 5 pairings

Bo.	No.		Name	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	No.
1	2	GM	Hou Yifan	4		4	GM	Nguyen Anh Dung	11
2	1	GM	Mchedlishvili Mikheil	3½		3½	IM	Ashwin Jayaram	12
3	9	IM	Khamrakulov Dzhurabek	3½		3½	GM	Rahman Ziaur	4
4	13	IM	Swapnil S, Dhophade	3½		3½	GM	Megaranto Susanto	6
5	3	GM	Luther Thomas	3		3	IM	Purnama Tirta Chandra	24
6	5	GM	Cao Sang	3		3	FM	Chan Nicholas	28
7	7	GM	Dzhumaev Marat	3		3	WFM	Bhakti Kulkarni	52
8	27	IM	Tirto	3		3	GM	Iuldashev Saidali	8
9	25		Praveen Kumar C	3		3	IM	Dimakiling Oliver	14
10	55	FM	Das Sayantan	3		3	IM	Duong The Anh	16
11	19	IM	Saptarshi Roy	3		3	FM	Yee Soon Wei	56
12	21	IM	Irwanto Saidikin	3		3		Vakhidov Jahongir	60
13	41	FM	De Ramos Julius Joseph Z	3		3	GM	Murshed Niaz	22
14	38	WGM	Hoang Thi Bao Tram	2½		2½	GM	Bui Vinh	10
15	17	IM	Liu Dede	2½		2½		Ram S. Krishnan	42
16	45	IM	Desmukh Anup	2½		2½	IM	Nguyen Van Huy	18
17	47	IM	Chan Peng Kong	2½		2½	IM	Yap Kim Steven	20
18	77		Yeoh Li Tian	2½		2½	IM	Prathamesh Sunil Mokal	26
19	31	IM	Situru Nathanael	2½		2½		Lim Chuing Hoong Ronnie	44
20	63		Ocantos Manuel	2½		2½		Ankit R. Rajpara	36
21	37		Pak Yevgeniy	2½		2½	CM	Farid Firman Syah	50
22	15	IM	Wohl Aleksandar H	2		2	WIM	Hoang Thi Nhu Y.	58
23	23		Palit Somak	2		2	FM	Ghosh Diptayan	62
24	29	GM	Wong Meng Kong	2		2		Vakhidov Nodir	64
25	57		Zhou Guijue	2		2		Ansari Mohd Athar Dr	30
26	32		Thakur Akash	2		2		Shanmuganathan T.R.	66
27	59		Nirav Y. Rajasuba	2		2	WIM	Muninova Nafisa	34
28	35	FM	Khairul Anam	2		2		Foo Benjamin	67
29	61		Navalgund Niranjan	2		2	WGM	Sukandar Irine Kharisma	39
30	71		Ismail Ahmad	2		2	IM	Liew Chee-Meng-Jimmy	40
31	43	WGM	Fatianova Tatiana	2		2		Mohamed Abdul Haq	70
32	73		Yeoh Phee Leong Marcus	2		2		Udani Ian	46
33	75	WFM	Mitali Madhukar Patil	2		2	WGM	Melnikova Yana	48
34	49	FM	Smith Robert W	2		2		Capel Evan Timothy	72
35	51	FM	Vinoth Kumar M	2		2	WFM	Dewi Aa Citra	82
36	53		Wang Xiaohui	2		2		Laksana Agusta	104
37	101		Andyka Pitra	2		2	FM	Thompson Ian	54
38	65		Nik Nik Ahmad Farouqi	1½		2	FM	Muhd Haikal	83
39	79	WFM	Medina Warda Aulia	1½		1½		Hj Azahari Md Aliuddin	68
40	69		Eng Andre Jerome	1½		1½		Bersamina Paolo	78
41	89	WCM	Ivana Maria Furtado	1½		1½		Armstrong Malcolm J	74
42	33	FM	Mahmud Syarif	1		1½	WCM	Iin Dwijawanti Kadek	85
43	93	WFM	Smith Vivian J	1		1		Azman Hisham Mohd Nabil	76
44	80	WCM	Sihite Chelsie Monica	1		1		Lee Kai Jie, Edward	92
45	81		Khore Bean Hwa	1		1		Sikivou Taione	94
46	84		Rosli Ahmad Afiq Afyfy	1		1		Hamzah Razali	97
47	102		Arjun Vairavan	1		1		Au Hubert David	86
48	87		Limono Handjojo	1		1		Srikanth Bhavisameera	109
49	107		Lee Say Siong John	1		1		Lee Kah Meng Elgin	88
50	108		Muhammmad Adib Syauqi	1		1		Aynechian Alireza	90
51	91	WCM	Nur Nabila Azman Hisham	1		1		Wong Enoch Yat Long	111
52	110		Ting Shih Chieh	1		½		Amier Hamzah B. Mohd Zuhri	96
53	95		Shenvi Pratik	½		½		Saurabh Sable	98
54	99	WFM	Nur Najiha Hisham	½		½		Lee Kah Howe William	106
55	100		Abdul Wahab Najib	0		½		Lau Xian Hui Rudolph	105
56	103		Hatibie Taufan Ariq H.	0				bye

Round 4 Pairings, Kuala Lumpur Chess Open 2010

Here are the round 4 pairings for the Kuala Lumpur Chess Open 2010 to commence at 16:00 hours, 8th April 2010 (Thursday):-

GM Hou Yifan is playing top board against another chinese GM, GM Cao Sang. GM Mchedishvili slips to 5th board, GM Luther Thomas playing second board as black against Vietnamist GM Nguyen Anh Dung. GM Ziaur Rahman playing IM Swapnil S Dhophade, India on fourth board. IM Jimmy Liew, Malaysia is playing IM Saptarshi Roy on 13th board.

Here are the round 3 results of the Kuala Lumpur Chess Open 2010 which was played in the morning of the 8th April 2010.

Fortunes of our Malaysian Players thus far: IM Jimmy won, FM Nicholas lost to GM Luther Thomas, Yeoh Li Tian drew, Ismail Ahmad won against WIM Nafisa, Marcus lost, Mohd Nabil lost, Timothy Capel lost, Nur Nabila won, Najib Wahab lost, Razali Hamzah drew, Abdul Haq drew, Nik Ahmad Farouqi won, Alfred Ting Shih Chieh lost, Nur Najiha lost, and Amier Hamzah lost.