The Malaysian Chess (Closed) Championships was held from 29 June to 3 July 2018 at the Universiti Teknologi Petronas in Sri Iskandar, Perak, with the winners guaranteed places in the national team to the coming Batumi World Chess Olympiad.
Fong Yit San was declared champion on tie-break after being joined on 7/9 by FM Lim Zhou Ren and top seeded Lye Lik Zang in a representative field of 69 players.
In the women’s champion, WFM Tan Li Ting, Malaysia’s No. 1 woman player who is already a many times national champion, dominated, her final score of 8/5/9 a whole 1.5 points more than second placed WFM Alia Anin Azwa Bakri. The poor turnout of just 18 players must however be of some concern.
Full results:
Men/Open: http://chess-results.com/tnr363162.aspx?lan=1&art=1&rd=9&turdet=YES
Women: http://chess-results.com/tnr363176.aspx?lan=1&art=1&rd=9&turdet=YES