(A section of the participants seen during the players' briefing in last year's Tournament which also witnessed a number of foreign players from the Asean region)
This is the pre-registration namelist that CAS has received as of 22nd April 2009, it contains 24 FIDE-rated players and 41 non-rated players as follows:
1. Abdul Aziz Abdul Shukor
2. Abdul Kadir Jailani Ramli
3. Abdullah Che Hassan
4. Ahmad Eizran Ezra
5. Ahmad Fadzil Nayan
6. Ahmad Faizal Ahmad Fahmi
7. Ahmad Idzuan Rosli
8. Aidi Ahmad Ghazi
9. Ainul Hakim Abdul Razak
10. Anis Fariha Saleh
11. Bakri Abdul Karim
12. Chan Tze Chen
13. Chew Chin Shen
14. Chew Eewen
15. Chew Esheng
16. Collin Ng Kiang Kai
17. Dr Paul Sega
18. Ee Sun-Xin
19. Ethan Wong Hsien Aun
20. Fairul Yusuf
21. Fikri Saleh
22. Francois Wolfaardt
23. George Siew Thain Yong (V)
24. Gerald Soh Han Loong
25. Ian Udani
26. Iskandar Rashid
27. Ismail Ahmad
28. Kaushal Khandhar
29. Khushal Shah
30. Lee Boon Why
31. Lim Yee-Weng
32. Mark Siew Kit-Tze
33. Masrin Erowan
34. Mat Zaki Yeop
35. Mohd Faizal Hafizie Shukri
36. Mohd Faizal Roslan
37. Mohd Khairul Nazrin A Nashir
38. Mohd Zullghafari Saparmin
39. Muhammad Ariez Azman
40. Muhammad Arshad
41. Muhd Asyraf Zakaria
42. Muhd Syazwan Zulkifli
43. Nor Ilhamuddin Shaikh Ali
44. Norazlin Juarih
45. Norazman Ismail
46. Pereira Johnharry
47. Pirrard, Joachim
48. Razali Hamzah
49. Rizal Ahmad Kamal
50. Shamsuddin Sabri
51. Shawn Sik Kuan Ming (Paid)
52. Siddiq Husainy Hasbullah
53. Sim Chung Seng
54. Sri Shiva Kumar Narayanan
55. Syazrin Abd Rahman
56. Syed Abdul Rahman Syed Mohd
57. Syed Iskandar
58. Tan Ken Wei (Paid)
59. Vinton Wong Hsien Loong
60. Wan Aizuddin Wan Razali
61. Winston Chieng
62. Yap Egin (Paid)
63. Yeoh Chin Seng
64. Yeoh Li Tian
65. Zakaria Abd Salam
Interested participants have a few days left before pre registration deadline 25th April 2009
