Malaysians in DATMO
By GilaChess on Aug 28, 2007 in Malaysian Open
There is a record-breaking 23 Malaysians taking part in the Malaysian Open making it the biggest number of Malaysians taking part in DATMO this year.
The Malaysians taking part are:
- IM Mas, Hafizulhelmi
- FM Mok, Tze-Meng
- FM Anas Nazreen Bakri
- Ismail, Ahmad
- Tan, Khai Boon
- Yeap, Eng Cheam
- Abang, Mohd Reduan
- Lim, Kian Hwa
- Low, Jun Jian
- Edward Lee Kim Han
- Mohan, Raj
- S., Balendran
- Evan Timothy Capel
- Japeri, Reduan
- Ahmad, Morsin
- Fong Wei Chern, Gavin
- Abang Azman Draup
- Abang Draup
- Elgin Lee Kah Meng
- Thong Ying Chen
- Jimmy Liew
- Lim Yee Weng
- Fairin Zakaria
:P
Congratulations to all who Malaysians who participated.
Can you also make a count on how many juniors actually participated?
I am told that the tournament fees is quite high. Did we manage to help out these promising juniors and give them a chance to spar with top quality grandmasters?
We spent much money organising these tournaments, so I believe sponsoring some of these junior players should have been considered. No point bringing in all the GMs and IMs but in the end we didn’t make use of them to the maximum.
Again why in the world was the AmBank challenge organised? It should not have been held at the same time as this tournament. We have enough local tournaments. We should have just focused on getting our local players maximum exposure to the foreign GMs and IMs
John Koh | Aug 30, 2007 | Reply