Here’s a picture report on the short blitz tournament held right after the Malaysian Open ended.

Junior Edward Lee got to play GM Nguyen Anh Dung and draw!! That’s the fun part of blitz. It’s one of the few instances where you get to butt heads with GMs.

Yeap Eng Cheam vs FM Lim Yee Weng
Max Illingworth vs Irwanto Sadikin

Nope a mixup and they have to reset the board and swap their opponents.

Blitz being a fun event, there are no hard feelings and it’s smiles everywhere.

FIDE Vice-President, Geoffrey D. Borg, is a whiz at blitz finishing in the top 10 position overall. That’s quite a feat when his opponents are GMs and IMs.

FIDE Secretary General Ignatius Leong and Haji Ibrahim Abu Bakar. Ignatius was waiting for the next round of the blitz to start. Yes he took part too!

Ignatius Leong having a friendly game vs Dato Tan

IM Mas vs India’s promising junior Bhuvanesh

IM Nasib Ginting & IM Oliver Dimakiling.

Malaysia’s newest FM, Ooi Chern Ee.

‘Pak’ Utut. He had a tough time in the tournament suffering some upset losses and draws.

GM Zhang Zhong of Singapore vs his ex-compatriot

Blitz finale with a huge crowd watching

Despite complaining about aching joints and feeling old it’s GM Utut Adianto (Pak Utut) who emerges champion of blitz and sweeping aside his younger opponents