MOULTHUN LY (born Nov-20-1991, 33 years old) Australia [what is this?] Titles awarded: FIDE Master (2011); International Master (2011); Grandmaster(1) (September 2016). Moulthun Ly is one of Australia's top players. Championships <Youth> Moulthun Ly scored 5.5/9 in the World U14 World Championship in Greece in 2004. <Junior (U20)> He won the 2004 Australian Junior masters in 2004 and became Australian Junior champion in 2005. <Australia> Ly came =2nd in the Australian Championship of 2014, with 7.5/11. <World> He came =3rd at the 2011 Oceania Zonal in Rotorua, the result earning him his FM title. Standard Tournaments Ly was =1st in the 2011 Australian Open with 8.5/11. Ly's three IM norms came at the 34th World Open in Philadelphia in 2006, the Essent Open in 2006 and the Doeberl Cup in early 2010. Ly started 2012 auspiciously with strong showings in the Australian Championship (6.5/11) and in the Queenstown Chess Classic (2012) (6/9), raising his rating to 2402, his highest to that date. In June 2012, he came =2nd at the 2012 Gold Coast Open with 5/6. 2013 saw him place =2nd at the Australian Open, scoring 8.5/11, and =4th at the annual Doeberl Cup in Canberra, scoring 6.5/9. In 2014 he has so far scored a solid 5.5/9 at the 19th International Grandmaster Open in Kolkata in India, 6/9 (=8th) at the International Open in Kuala Lumpur and 6.5/9 (=5th) at the annual Doeberl Cup to raise his rating and ranking to its highest level so far. He followed up with a par for rating result of 6.5/9 at the Doeberl Cup and capped it with a stunning outright win at the Sydney International Open with 7/9 ahead of Liviu Dieter Nisipeanu, Loek van Wely, Levente Vajda and the rapidly rising stars Australian IM Junta Ikeda and untitled (but with 4 GM norms!) Chinese player Mu Ke, also winning his first GM norm for himself. In July 2014, he scored 7.5/10 at the Politiken Cup (2014), placing =6th. At the Australiasian Masters GM Tournament in December 2014, Ly started the event with a disastrous three losses in the first three rounds, but scored 4.5 in the final 6 rounds to all but make up lost rating ground, for a final score of 4.5/9. 2015 started with =3rd at the Australian Open, scoring 7.5/11. Team events In August and September 2012, he put in a very strong performance as Australia's board 2 in the Chess Olympiad (2012), scoring 7/10 for a TPR of 2541, and helping Australia to a comparatively excellent placing of 32nd, 29 places higher than its seeding. He played board 2 for Australia at the Chess Olympiad (2014), again helping Australia to a placing 29 higher than its seeding, namely 31st place ahead of its #60 seeding. Blitz In December 2014, Ly won the Victorian Blitz Championship with 11/13. He was =3rd at the Australian Blitz Championship 2015. Rating and ranking Ly's highest rating was 2466 in May 2014 and has ranked #4 in Australia, his highest ranking to date, since 2014. References / Sources (1) https://ratings.fide.com/title_appl... (confirms GM title requirements).> Wikipedia article: Moulthun Ly Last updated: 2020-11-20 04:34:52

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page 1 of 12; games 1-25 of 276  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. R Song vs M Ly   0-1 48 2004 AUS-ch op U20 A45 Queen's Pawn Game 2. D Smerdon vs M Ly   1-0 42 2004 Australian op C02 French, Advance 3. C Wei vs M Ly   0-1 42 2005 Wch U14 B40 Sicilian 4. I Chirila vs M Ly   1-0 39 2005 Wch U14 B01 Scandinavian 5. M Ly vs G Pap   0-1 36 2005 Wch U14 C07 French, Tarrasch 6. S Bogner vs M Ly   ½-½ 52 2005 Wch U14 C11 French 7. M Ly vs A Wohl   1-0 48 2005 Australian Championship 2005/06 B32 Sicilian 8. Z Zhao vs M Ly   1-0 28 2005 Australian Championship 2005/06 B40 Sicilian 9. M Ly vs A Guthrie   1-0 42 2005 Australian Championship 2005/06 B30 Sicilian 10. S J Solomon vs M Ly   1-0 55 2005 Australian Championship 2005/06 B42 Sicilian, Kan 11. M Ly vs G Canfell   0-1 37 2006 Australian Championship 2005/06 B82 Sicilian, Scheveningen 12. I Goldenberg vs M Ly   ½-½ 61 2006 Australian Championship 2005/06 E62 King's Indian, Fianchetto 13. M Ly vs A Caoili 1-0 24 2006 Australian Championship 2005/06 B42 Sicilian, Kan 14. J Obst vs M Ly   0-1 57 2006 Australian Championship 2005/06 B30 Sicilian 15. M Ly vs V Smirnov   ½-½ 38 2006 Australian Championship 2005/06 C31 King's Gambit Declined, Falkbeer Counter Gambit 16. R Song vs M Ly   1-0 68 2006 Australian Championship 2005/06 C45 Scotch Game 17. M Ly vs S Booth   1-0 78 2006 Australian Championship 2005/06 B99 Sicilian, Najdorf, 7...Be7 Main line 18. M Ly vs I Rogers   0-1 54 2006 Queenstown Classic A45 Queen's Pawn Game 19. H van Riemsdijk vs M Ly   1-0 36 2006 Queenstown Classic B43 Sicilian, Kan, 5.Nc3 20. M Ly vs B Nijman   1-0 50 2006 Queenstown Classic C04 French, Tarrasch, Guimard Main line 21. A Susilodinata vs M Ly   1-0 44 2006 Queenstown Classic C12 French, McCutcheon 22. M Geveke vs M Ly   ½-½ 64 2006 Queenstown Classic E62 King's Indian, Fianchetto 23. M Ly vs A Wohl   0-1 33 2006 Queenstown Classic B06 Robatsch 24. M Ly vs G Vescovi 0-1 49 2006 34th World Open B42 Sicilian, Kan 25. P M Collier vs M Ly 0-1 33 2006 34th World Open E45 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, Bronstein (Byrne) Variation  page 1 of 12; games 1-25 of 276

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Jul-11-06    Dozy: A GM in the making, Moulthun Ly is something of a phenomenon in Australia. In 2005 he became our youngest ever National Junior Champion and missed out by half a point this year only because he was playing the Junior and Senior Championship simultaneously--juniors each morning, followed by the senior event in the afternoon. Last week he competed in the World Open where he finished with 6/9, only one point behind the winner Gata Kamsky. There's a story about him at http://www.rootyhillchess.org/moult... Oct-31-06    Stevens: there is some video of him here, apparently gaining his second IM norm in October 2006 Jan-13-11    twinlark: His third IM norm has been hard to come by. He hasn't played many FIDE rated games since 2007, and now his =1st in the Australian Open won't gain him his third norm as all his opponents were Aussies. Sep-02-11    twinlark: My bad. He gained his 3rd IM norm at the Doeberl in 2010. He just needed to boost his live rating to 2400 to secure his title, which he now seems to have done. Belated congratulation to IM Ly! Sep-02-11    twinlark: <ozmikey> Any idea how Ly secured his title? He doesn't seem to have achieved a live rating of 2400 until the World Junior, a couple of months after FIDE awarded the title. Sep-03-11    ozmikey: <twinlark> Couldn't tell you I'm afraid. I seem to remember someone saying that the rating points he gained from the Oz Open (terrific performance there, BTW) pushed him over the magic mark, but I may be mistaken. In other news on notable Australian players, incidentally, John Purdy passed away last week. RIP. Sep-03-11    ozmikey: Ah, sorry, just noticed that you've updated that on his player page already. Sep-04-12    andyatchess: Nice 2012 Chess Olympiad game aginst Karttunen Moulthun! Sep-10-13    ozmikey: I challenge sharp-eyed readers to spot the error in the first line of the biography... ;-) Sep-10-13    TheFocus: I saw his name and thought Molten Lava. That was a second bong type of observation. Sep-10-13    twinlark: <ozmikey> oh... Sep-10-13    twinlark: <ozmikey> And then it took another day for me to fix it. lol. Apr-27-14    waustad: Congrats for his win in the Sydney Open, coming ahead of Nisipeanu, van Wely and Melkumyan. http://www.chess-results.com/tnr129... Apr-27-14    twinlark: A great result for the lad. He also picked up his first GM norm for his effort. Congratulations IM Ly! Feb-10-16    CountryGirl: Why no comments about Moulthun's FANTASTIC results at Tradewise Gibraltar? He drew with David Howell, a really strong grandmaster, and with Iturrizaga - and he BEAT both Naiditsch and Ganguly, who are rated hundreds of points higher! Massive result. Well done, Moulthun!! Sep-01-16    ozmikey: Moulthun has just scored his 3rd and final GM norm at the Abu Dhabi Masters, clinching the title with a draw against Efimenko in the last round. Congratulations to Australia's latest GM, a very gracious and likeable young man who has, in the vernacular, done some real hard yards for the title. Just in time for the Olympiad! Sep-28-16    Jonathan Sarfati: Yes, what <ozmikey> said. Ly is a Queenslander as well. Sep-01-22    pazzed paun: This guy makes some good YouTube. Videos!

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