GM Attila Czebe maintains his one point lead as he draws with one of his nearest rival GM Richard Bitoon in round 8. GM Alfonso Romero Holmes failed to narrow the gap with Czebe when he lost to Indian GM Arun Prasad.
The best performing Malaysian is Yeoh Li Tian as he defeated WGM Nadig Kruttika with the white pieces. Yeoh Li Tian is now 4/7.
Round 7
Bo. | No. | | Name | Rtg | Pts. | Result | Pts. | | Name | Rtg | No. | 1 | 5 | GM | Czebe Attila | 2477 | 5½ | ½ - ½ | 4½ | GM | Bitoon Richard | 2455 | 8 | 2 | 1 | GM | Arun Prasad S | 2517 | 4 | 1 - 0 | 4½ | GM | Romero Holmes Alfonso | 2501 | 2 | 3 | 4 | GM | Horvath Adam | 2487 | 4 | 0 - 1 | 4 | GM | Fominyh Alexander | 2488 | 3 | 4 | 6 | GM | Deepan Chakkravarthy J | 2461 | 4 | ½ - ½ | 4 | IM | Karthikeyan P | 2414 | 11 | 5 | 16 | FM | Hamdani Rudin | 2322 | 3½ | ½ - ½ | 4 | IM | Rathnakaran K | 2410 | 12 | 6 | 9 | IM | Dimakiling Oliver | 2447 | 3½ | 1 - 0 | 3½ | FM | Djuraev Sokhib | 2377 | 14 | 7 | 10 | GM | Laxman R R | 2415 | 3½ | 1 - 0 | 3½ | IM | Mas Hafizulhelmi | 2377 | 13 | 8 | 22 | | Suharto Moh Wahyu Repelita | 2066 | 3 | ½ - ½ | 3½ | | Ismail Ahmad | 2007 | 26 | 9 | 19 | | Anasrullah | 2127 | 3 | 0 - 1 | 3 | IM | Nolte Rolando | 2456 | 7 | 10 | 15 | IM | Praveen Kumar C | 2343 | 3 | ½ - ½ | 3 | | Nayan Ahmad Fadzil | 2072 | 21 | 11 | 18 | | Yeoh Li Tian | 2204 | 3 | 1 - 0 | 3 | WGM | Nadig Kruttika | 2238 | 17 | 12 | 25 | | Manaog Stewart | 2043 | 3 | ½ - ½ | 2½ | | Fong Yit Ho | 2001 | 28 | 13 | 20 | | Kharitonov Igor | 2106 | 2½ | ½ - ½ | 2½ | | Sugeng Mulijanto | 0 | 36 | 14 | 23 | | Zulkipli Zaidan | 2066 | 2½ | + - - | 2 | | Vinod G | 2044 | 24 | 15 | 29 | WFM | Bakri Alia Anin Azwa | 1975 | 2 | 1 - 0 | 2 | | Lim Kian Hwa | 1891 | 30 | 16 | 35 | | Hendrik Maha | 0 | 2 | ½ - ½ | 2 | | Camilia Bt Johari | 1780 | 32 | 17 | 31 | | Tan Li Ting | 1844 | 1 | 0 - 1 | 2 | | Fong Yit San | 2002 | 27 | 18 | 33 | | Ooi Zhi Yang | 1769 | 1½ | 0 - 1 | 0 | | Abd Rahman Syazrin | 1556 | 34 | |