Yeoh Li Tian (born 1999) is a

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player. He was awarded the title

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in 2017.

Chess career

Yeoh won the

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in 2015 and 2016. In 2017 he won the FIDE Zone 3.3 Championship on tiebreak from

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. Thanks to this victory, Yeoh received an automatical award of the title International Master. He also achieved a

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for the title Grandmaster, the first ever by a Malaysian, and became the first Malaysian ever to qualify to play in the

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. In this latter

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, held in

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later in the same year, Yeoh was eliminated by former world champion

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in the first round. In the 2019 Philippines Southeast Asian Games, Yeoh delivered Malaysia's first ever Rapid Chess gold in the Sea Games.

Personal life

Yeoh is a former student of SMJK Katholik. He is currently studying mathematics at

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Yeoh Li Tian
chess games at 365Chess.com * {{chessgames player, id=140133 1999 births Living people Chess International Masters Malaysian chess players SEA Games gold medalists for Malaysia Competitors at the 2019 SEA Games Place of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Malaysian people