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Monday, May 29, 2006

Olympiad 2006 Round 7: Malaysia 0 - Germany 4



Malaysian team were crushed 4-0 by the mighty Germany who have 1077 elo rating higher than Malaysia . Germany proved too powerful for Malaysia that they even rest their first two board player GM Arkadij Naiditsch (2664 FIDE Rating) and Arthur Jussupow (2608 FIDE Rating-and former Candidate Semi-Finalist!!!)
Mas lost to GM Jan Gustafsson (2603 FIDE rating) without any real fight. Only Mok show some promise and he’s actually manage to get a slight advantage in the middlegame against GM Thomas Luther (2593 FIDE rating and German Champion in 1993, 2002, and 2006) but he failed to mantain his advantage and get a passive position. Although he have the bishop pairs, it was locked by their own pawn and Mok have to sacrifiece two pawns just to release them and later Mok blundered with 50..Be6 where as 50...Bb7 offer drawing chances.
FM Lim Yee Weng played a theoritical opening against Christopher Lutz (2608 Fide rating and German Champion in 1995 and 2001). He seems like he don’t have a plan in the middlegame and later he have to defend his isolated d pawn but to no avail. NM Jonathan Chuah lost easily to Alexander (Nenashev) Graf former Ubzekistan no. 1 player.