After Round 5

  GM Ian Poudani is currently the sole leader of the Johor Open after 5 rounds of play. He has 4.5/5. Following closely behind just a half point short are:

• GM Fominyh Alexander 
•  IM Kuybokarov Temur 
•  GM Neelotpal Das 
•  IM Nguyen Van Huy 
•  IM Nolte Rolando 
•  GM Schebler Gerhard 

 There are 4 more rounds to to. 8 DGT iive chess games are broadcasted via http://live.catur.org Current Interactive Cross Table - after Round 5  

Johor Open R1: GM Amirezza vs FM Ismail Ahmad

[Event "JOHOR OPEN 2016"] [Site "?"] [Date "2016.12.12"] [Round "1.2"] [White "GM Pourramezanali ,Amirreza (IRI)"] [Black "FM Ismail,Ahmad (MAS)"] [Result "1-0"] [LiveChessVersion "1.4.8"] [ECO "B01"]

Johor Open R1: Lye vs GM Idani

Round 2 pairing

http://www.chess-results.com/tnr253587.aspx?lan=1&art=2&rd=2&wi=821

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	1	GM	Idani Pouya	2534	1	1	IM	Sharma Dinesh K.	2288	19
2	17	FM	Pitra Andika	2308	1	1	GM	Pourramezanali Amirreza	2525	2
3	3	GM	Neelotpal Das	2463	1	1	FM	Alfred Nathan S W	2275	21
4	18	IM	Ramnath Bhuvanesh.R	2297	1	1	IM	Kuybokarov Temur	2457	4
5	5	GM	Fominyh Alexander	2437	1	1	FM	Lee Qing Aun	2249	22
6	7	IM	Nolte Rolando	2419	1	1	IM	Chan Peng Kong	2225	24
7	8	IM	Nguyen Van Huy	2416	1	1	FM	Low Zhen Yu Cyrus	2200	26
8	20	FM	Lim Zhuo Ren	2276	1	1	IM	Vo Thanh Ninh	2413	9
9	27		Navalgund Niranjan	2153	1	1	GM	Schebler Gerhard	2406	11
10	12	GM	Cao Sang	2402	1	1	FM	Wong Yinn Long	2138	28
11	30		Yeap Eng Chiam	2124	1	1	GM	Laxman R.R.	2389	13
12	14	IM	Lioe Dede	2372	1	1	CM	Abdullah Mohd Kamal	2117	31
13	15	FM	Dang Hoang Son	2350	1	1		Molofej Denis	2089	32
14	65		Wee Han Xia	0	1	1	IM	Soozankar A.M.	2345	16
15	23		Norbaev Nabijon	2246	½	1		Vakhidov Daler	1983	43
16	29	WFM	Citra Dewi Ardhiani Anastasia	2133	½	½	GM	Vahidov Tair	2432	6
17	25	WIM	Tejaswini Sagar	2204	½	½		Tarimo Didik Widiarso	1571	57
18	39		Abramowski Joerg	2017	½	½	WCM	Chua Jia-Tien	1565	59
19	10	IM	Cuhendi Sean Winshand	2408	0	½		Lim Zen Hong	1306	63
20	33	FM	Pratama Constantius Leonardo	2071	0	0		Nithyalakshmi Sivanesan	1892	48
21	50		Kebbedies Frank	1877	0	0		Wika Hardiyanto	2071	34
22	52		Narayanan Renitha	1780	0	0		Lye Lik Zang	2067	35
23	36	FM	Ismail Ahmad	2057	0	0		Tan Soon Wei Dawson	1889	49
24	37		Pham Minh Hieu	2026	0	0		Singh Kabir	1829	51
25	54		Cheah Kah Hoe	1665	0	0	FM	Wiwatanadate Poompong	2024	38
26	56		Ang Jing Xuan	1599	0	0		Khandhar Kaushal	2006	40
27	41		Djumaev Bakhtiyor	1999	0	0		Pereira Johnharry	1721	53
28	58		Sim Jia Ru	1569	0	0		Daniel Hermawan Lumban Tobing	1993	42
29	44	CM	Tan Jun Ying	1978	0	0		Mohd Radzuan Muhd Harith Farh	1626	55
30	60		Lim Lui Lung	1557	0	0		Nguyen Truong Bao Tran	1954	45
31	46	WCM	Isha Sharma	1935	0	0		Ng Wee Lok Bryan	1532	62
32	61		Doshi Devansh Sanjay	1535	0	0		Tan Kok Liang	1901	47
33	64		Jaffar Wazir	0	0			bye

Overcoming trauma caused by Exabytes

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The Exabyte nightmare I endured and experienced  for years has resulted me having this phobia of losing content if I posted to a paid hosted website. I do pay for GilaChess.net and it is by far a better platform to host my chess content but I have chosen to post everything to blogspot instead.




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Johor Open after Round 1

A total of 65 players are taking part in the 2016 Johor Open. Titled players comprise 8 GMs, 11 IMs and 8 FMs. After the first round, all the top seeds won as expected. The only notable "upset" is Daler Vakhidov (1983) defeating IM Sean WInshand Kushendi (2408).

Top seed in this tournament is 21 year Iranian GM Idani Pouya. -->

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Result		Name	Rtg	No.
1	35		Lye Lik Zang	2067	0 - 1	GM	Idani Pouya	2534	1
2	2	GM	Pourramezanali Amirreza	2525	1 - 0	FM	Ismail Ahmad	2057	36
3	4	IM	Kuybokarov Temur	2457	1 - 0		Pham Minh Hieu	2026	37
4	38	FM	Wiwatanadate Poompong	2024	0 - 1	GM	Fominyh Alexander	2437	5
5	6	GM	Vahidov Tair	2432	½ - ½		Abramowski Joerg	2017	39
6	40		Khandhar Kaushal	2006	0 - 1	IM	Nolte Rolando	2419	7
7	42		Daniel Hermawan Lumban Tobing	1993	0 - 1	IM	Nguyen Van Huy	2416	8
8	43		Vakhidov Daler	1983	1 - 0	IM	Cuhendi Sean Winshand	2408	10
9	11	GM	Schebler Gerhard	2406	1 - 0	CM	Tan Jun Ying	1978	44
10	45		Nguyen Truong Bao Tran	1954	0 - 1	GM	Cao Sang	2402	12
11	13	GM	Laxman R.R.	2389	1 - 0	WCM	Isha Sharma	1935	46
12	47		Tan Kok Liang	1901	0 - 1	IM	Lioe Dede	2372	14
13	49		Tan Soon Wei Dawson	1889	0 - 1	FM	Dang Hoang Son	2350	15
14	16	IM	Soozankar A.M.	2345	1 - 0		Kebbedies Frank	1877	50
15	51		Singh Kabir	1829	0 - 1	FM	Pitra Andika	2308	17
16	53		Pereira Johnharry	1721	0 - 1	IM	Ramnath Bhuvanesh.R	2297	18
17	19	IM	Sharma Dinesh K.	2288	1 - 0		Cheah Kah Hoe	1665	54
18	55		Mohd Radzuan Muhd Harith Farh	1626	0 - 1	FM	Lim Zhuo Ren	2276	20
19	22	FM	Lee Qing Aun	2249	1 - 0		Ang Jing Xuan	1599	56
20	57		Tarimo Didik Widiarso	1571	½ - ½		Norbaev Nabijon	2246	23
21	24	IM	Chan Peng Kong	2225	1 - 0		Sim Jia Ru	1569	58
22	59	WCM	Chua Jia-Tien	1565	½ - ½	WIM	Tejaswini Sagar	2204	25
23	26	FM	Low Zhen Yu Cyrus	2200	1 - 0		Lim Lui Lung	1557	60
24	62		Ng Wee Lok Bryan	1532	0 - 1		Navalgund Niranjan	2153	27
25	63		Lim Zen Hong	1306	½ - ½	WFM	Citra Dewi Ardhiani Anastasia	2133	29
26	30		Yeap Eng Chiam	2124	1 - 0		Jaffar Wazir	0	64
27	32		Molofej Denis	2089	1 - 0		Djumaev Bakhtiyor	1999	41
28	34		Wika Hardiyanto	2071	0 - 1	GM	Neelotpal Das	2463	3
29	9	IM	Vo Thanh Ninh	2413	1 - 0	FM	Pratama Constantius Leonardo	2071	33
30	31	CM	Abdullah Mohd Kamal	2117	1 - 0		Nithyalakshmi Sivanesan	1892	48
31	28	FM	Wong Yinn Long	2138	1 - 0		Narayanan Renitha	1780	52
32	21	FM	Alfred Nathan S W	2275	1 - 0		Doshi Devansh Sanjay	1535	61
33	65		Wee Han Xia	0	1		bye

A total of 8 boards are being broadcasted live for this event.

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Johor Open Round 1 pairing

JOHOR CAUSEWAY OPEN RAPID 2016 (18/12/2016)

JOHOR CAUSEWAY OPEN RAPID 2016 18 Dec 2016 (7 Round Swiss) 36^th FLOOR, Johor Bahru City Square Time Control: 20 mins to finish

Entry Fee is RM50
Johoreans RM35

1st RM2000 2nd RM1200 3rd RM1000 4th RM800 5th RM600 6th  RM400  7th to 16th RM200 each  Best 3 Johoreans     1st RM250; 2nd RM150; 3rd RM100  Best rating < 2000  1st RM200; 2nd RM150; 3rd RM100  Best rating < 1800  1st RM200; 2nd RM150; 3rd RM100  Best rating < 1600  1st RM200; 2nd RM150; 3rd RM100  Best rating < 1400  1st RM200; 2nd RM150; 3rd RM100  Best rating < 1200  1st RM200; 2nd RM150; 3rd RM100  Best unrated            1st RM200; 2nd RM150; 3rd RM100

Entry Fee Payment & Dateline is 12^th December 2016. 

The Organizers reserve the right to accept late entries subject to a surcharge of 50% ,and to make changes to the prizes and schedule without prior notice.

Payments to be made to:

 1) PERSATUAN CATUR JOHOR / JOHOR CHESS ASSOCIATION – RHB BANK CURRENT A/C: 20101700 2072 47 (SWIFT Code: RHBBMYKL)

 EVIDENCE OF PAYMENT TO BE SUBMITTED TO: johorchess@gmail.com CONTACT PERSONS:             

1. STEVEN CHEONG (steven52s@gmail.com – Mobile: + 60 16 7202272
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Players may register online here or by emailing the completed entry form in the prospectus to johorchess@gmail.com .  Click here to download the prospectus.