Round 3: Top seeds fall.

The two top seeds IM Jimmy Liew and NM Jonathan Chuah suffered defeats in Round 3.

Jimmy lost to Francis Tan while Jonathan lost to Ismail Ahmad.

Francis Tan coming out of the playing hall after Round 3. 

Round 3 results

Bo.	Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	Liew Chee-Meng Jimmy	2225	2	0 - 1	2		Tan Francis	2043	9
2	Subramaniam Sumant	2068	2	1 - 0	2		Fong Yit San	2167	3
3	Sabri Mohd Saprin	2104	2	½ - ½	2		Siew Kit-Tze Mark	1992	13
4	Wising Abdul Sahim	2033	2	0 - 1	2		Nayan Ahmad Fadzil	2094	5
5	Ismail Ahmad	2009	2	1 - 0	1½	NM	Chuah Jin Hai Jonathan	2273	1
6	Tan Yong Zhao	1696	1½	+ - -	1½		Nik Nik Ahmad Farouqi	2068	7
7	Tham Tick Hong Jax	2054	1½	0 - 1	1½		Shaik Ali Nor Ilhamuddin	2023	11
8	Ong Way Justin	1973	1½	0 - 1	1½		Subramaniam Shreyes	1815	27
9	Ding Tze How Dilwen	1825	1½	1 - 0	1		Goridau Guadis	1949	18
10	Erowan Masrin	1991	1	1 - 0	1		Tan Soon Wei Dawson	1719	34
11	Mahmood Mohd Ezmi	1747	1	0 - 1	1		Fong Yit Ho	1953	17
12	Tan Jun Feng	1916	1	1 - 0	1		Hanif Harleiff	1717	36
13	Lim Ming Xian	1730	1	1 - 0	1		Yusoff Fairul	1915	21
14	Tan Jun Ying	1718	1	1 - 0	1		Lim Kian Hwa	1906	22
15	Tan Wei Hao	1854	1	0 - 1	1		Lye Lik Zang	1655	44
16	Wong Yinn Long	1850	1	1 - 0	1		Ariff Syawal Aqmar Shahrir	1637	45
17	Koh Sian Kuan Bausch	1801	1	1 - 0	1		Mat Isa Shamsuddin	1698	48
18	Lee Zhi Wei	1558	1	0 - 1	1		Sivanesan Subramanian	1783	29
19	Asan Jeppy Tewelu	1605	1	½ - ½	1		Muhalip Sotimin	1748	31
20	Kamin Al-Kamil	1961	½	0 - 1	½		Vellan Paavanan	0	56
21	Hamzah Razali	1683	½	0 - 1	½		Low Jun Jian	1932	19
22	Mohd Saprin Amir Ghaazi	1691	½	1 - 0	½		Razali Faeznor	1863	23
23	Chan Yi Meng Ryan	1710	½	½ - ½	½		Amirullah Muhd Ali Asghar	1677	42
24	Wan Mohd Yusoff Wan Mohamad Amirul	1647	½	0 - 1	½		Ng Jen Sheng	1700	38
25	Yap Egin Darrel	1777	0	1 - 0	0		Muhalip Muhadi	1509	52
26	Mohd Zin Mohd Syakir	1473	0	0 - 1	0		Saleh Fikri	1657	43
27	Mohd Radzuan Muhd Harith Farh	1622	0	0 - 1	0		Asyrafi Mohd Ruqaim	1456	54
28	Chan Kim Yew	1614	0	1 - 0	0		Mohd Radzuan Muhd Harith Fahm	1307	55