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- ↑ Welcome to the Chessmetrics site
- ↑ Lian-Ann Tan player profile and games at ChessGames.com
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysian_Chess_Championship
- ↑ Zonals in USSR, CIS and Asia Archived 5 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ World Chess Championship Index of FIDE Events 1948-1990
- ↑ OlimpBase :: the encyclopaedia of team chess
- ↑ OlimpBase :: Men's Asian Team Chess Championship's Overall Statistics
- ↑ The Week in Chess 478
- ↑ 1973 Petropolis Interzonal Tournament mark-weeks.com