1st ASEAN MASTER CHESS CIRCUIT 2008 - Round 4 updated!

GM Tournament A

IM MasHafizul draw another game in round 4 in the GM Touramanent A against Pinoy National Master Nouri Hamed (2404). He so far has draw 4 straight games and collect 2 points to obtain 4^th placed. However, as I mentioned before in my previous post, this standing is less accurate because there are six players in this group are playing one less game after failing to appear in the 1^st round due to flight delay. They however were allowed to postponed their game later. IM Nathanael Situru (2375) from Indonesia is the leader of this group with 3 points from 4 game. I remember this guy is quite famous when in Moscow Olympiad 1994 he beat England GM John Nunn with black in Sicilian English Attack! GM Zhang Zhong playing one game less is on third spot with 21/2 points.

GM Touranament B

FM Mok Tze Meng (right) take another beating this time from another Pinoy Oliver Barbosa (2410). This made him the tail ender of his group. (GM Tournament B). Lack of tournaments play must be the reason of his rusty performances so far especially in this kind of tournaments . First seeded GM Mark Paragua ( 2521) another Pinoy is leading this group with 3 game sonly!

Result Round 4 on 2008/01/11

GM TOURNAMENT "A"

HAMED Nouri 2404 ½ - ½ IM HAFIZULHELMI Mas 2382

GM TOURNAMENT "B"

BARBOSA Oliver 2410 1 - 0 FM MOK Tze Meng 2346

Rank after round 4

GM TOURNAMENT "A"

1 IM SITURU Nathanael 2375 INA 3 /4

2 FM PURNAMA Tirta Chandra 2383 INA 2½/ 4

3 GM ZHANG Zhong 2617 SIN 2½/ 3

4 IM HAFIZULHELMI Mas 2382 MAS 2/ 4

5 IM TIRTO 2413 INA 2 /4

6 GM MEGARANTO Susanto 2563 INA 2/ 3

7 HAMED Nouri 2404 PHI 1½ /3

8 IM GINTING Nasib 2393 INA 1½/ 4

9 GM TORRE Eugenio 2519 PHI 1½ /3

10 FM KOSASIH Cecep 2408 INA 1/ 4

11 GM SO Wesley 2526 PHI 1/ 3

12 IM NADERA Barlo 2417 PHI ½ /3

GM TOURNAMENT "B"

1 GM PARAGUA Mark 2521 PHI 3/ 3

2 FM MAHMUD Syarif 2344 INA 2½ /4

3 IM SITANGGANG Salor 2410 INA 2½/ 4

4 IM NADANIAN Ashot 2431 ARM 2/ 4

5 GM ARDIANSYAH H 2409 INA 2/ 4

6 BARBOSA Oliver 2410 PHI 2/ 3

7 IM GONZALES Jayson 2455 PHI 2/ 3

8 FM NOLTE Rolando 2412 PHI 2/ 3

9 GM BARUS Cerdas 2479 INA 1½/ 4

10 PRAYITNO Sugeng 2312 INA 1½/ 4

11 WIM SUKANDAR Irine K 2266 INA ½/ 4

12 7 FM MOK Tze Meng 2346 MAS ½/ 4