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| Top Seed Tan Khai Boon takes Grand Prix Open 3! |
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| Written by PS Lim | |
| Tuesday, 04 December 2007 | |
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Previously, GP1 Report , and GP2 Report .
Tan Khai Boon's National Rating shows an increase of 40+ points and thus, take over as top seed. He then show his class by taking the title of the last leg of grand prix with 6/7. 
Grand Prix Open, final Leg The final leg of Grand Prix is affected by ASEAN Team chess championship at Kuala Lumpur where Penang has sent around 40 players there. With this, the final leg only has around 60 registrations. However, the last leg saw a few "long laid off players" came back to heat up the Grand Prix namely, Victor Hong Wee Liam, Ung Tay Aik and Terry Ong. They are a bit rusty now but still they did show their class : 
Stopped for at least 5 months, Victor Hong(Fide Rating 2196) beat the winner of GP3, Tan Khai Boon in round 4 
Ung Tay Aik took out National Closed runner up Tan Eu Hong at round 4. 
Top 30 finsiher in GP open 3 : 1 Tan Khai Boon, 6 32.0 27.50 24.0 1000.00 2 Do Thi Thuong, 6 32.0 27.00 26.0 981.15 3 Loo Swee Leong, 6 30.0 24.00 24.0 962.30 4 Tan Eu Hong, 5.5 32.5 24.50 23.5 943.45 5 Keok Kai En, 5 29.0 19.50 19.0 924.60 6 Ung Tay Aik, 5 29.0 14.00 25.0 905.75 7 Terry Ong Liang Kheng, 5 28.5 19.50 20.0 886.91 8 Ong Kwok Ren, 5 27.5 18.00 20.0 868.06 9 Ong Kwok Teng, 5 26.5 17.50 17.0 849.21 10 Tan Yik Ping, 5 25.0 15.00 18.0 830.36 11 Victor Hong Wee Liam, 4.5 33.0 19.00 23.5 811.51 12 Lim Cheng Kuan, 4.5 29.5 17.25 18.5 792.66 13 Lee Chan Tung, 4.5 29.5 16.75 19.0 773.81 14 Amaluddin Bin Bebakar, 4.5 29.5 16.25 16.0 754.96 15 Mohd Hafizan Bin Omar, 4.5 29.0 16.25 18.0 736.11 16 Lim Chuin Khai, 4.5 28.0 15.25 17.5 717.26 17 Tan Yik Shen, 4 32.0 17.00 20.0 698.42 18 Choo Ting Wei, 4 30.5 16.50 17.0 679.57 19 Quah Fu Yong, 4 28.0 12.50 17.0 660.72 20 Janet Tan Jia Yin, 4 27.5 12.50 16.0 641.87 21 Lee Jing Xuan, 4 26.5 11.00 19.0 623.02 22 Abdul Aziz Mohsid, 4 24.5 11.00 16.0 604.17 23 Lim Winsen, 4 23.5 9.00 17.0 585.32 24 Andre Cheong Kai Bin, 4 23.0 9.00 14.0 566.47 25 Anban Thirumamani, 4 22.0 8.00 13.0 547.62 26 Sanjeevwa Sritharan, 3.5 29.5 12.75 19.0 528.77 27 Jason Teh Chee Ying, 3.5 27.0 9.25 14.0 509.92 28 Lim Yu Ning, 3.5 23.5 9.75 11.0 491.08 29 Joanne Lim Ping Chuen, 3.5 22.5 7.75 13.5 472.23 30 Leow Yong Jie, 3 25.5 10.00 15.0 453.38 For detail result, please visit PCA website or Chess.EuHong.NET Before the final round of the tournament, the organiser announce that there is a slight change in the Grand Prix final - there will be 20 players (instead of 16). This change is made to compensate those who perform quite well and miss the last leg due to their participations in ASEAN Team Chess Championship at KL. And so the 20 players qualify for final Grand Prix are : 1 Loo Swee Leong 2 Chuah Heng Meng 3 Do Thi Thuong 4 Tan Eu Hong 5 Anthony Liong Ing Kiats 6 Evan Timothy Capel 7 Tan Khai Boon 8 Fong Wei Chern Gavin 9 Thong Yung Chen 10 Keok Kai En 11 Hoh Tjun Yee 12 Wong Hao 13 Ong Choon Yong 14 Lee Chan Tung 15 Choo Ting Wei 16 Sanjeevwa Sritharan 17 P'ng Ren Chi 18 Teoh Ern Tek 19 Lim Chuin Khai 20 Hoh Tjin Hui For detailed Grand Prix points, please visit PCA website or Chess.EuHong.NET Some visual from the GP3 : 
Hot shot Do Thi Thoung finished second in GP3 without dropping a game. She take revenge on Loo Swee Leong by beating him as black; and she also took down old timer Ung Tay Aik. 
The colourful Anban... perhaps he is on holiday here :) 
Round 2 in progress 
Ex-Malaysia player, Eric Cheah(from Penang, FIDE rating 2255) checking out result with Mr. Tan Eng Seong. 
Round 6, Ung Tay Aik vs Do Thi Thoung at table 1 (0-1) 
Final round - Table 1 Do Thi Thoung vs Tan Eu Hong (0.5-0.5) and Table 2 Tan Khai Boon vs Ung Tay Aik(1-0). Khai Boon overtakes Miss Do at last round. 
The last one made it to GP final - Lim Chuin Khai 
As usual, PS Global Marketing corner for chess improvement.  About AuthorPS Lim is a chess enthusiast. He is also a successful coach in Penang, having produced two U12 Penang champions for two consecutive years in 2006 and 2007. Before becoming a coach in 2006, he was active in competitive chess for many years. His "retirement" from competitive chess has not stopped him from investing his time and efforts in the development of chess in Penang, especially in guiding young players to become successful chess players. |
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