NUR ILHAMUDDIN IN AMBANK CHESS CHALLANGE

Merdeka chess tournament is a must for every Malaysian chess players.This event initiated by Persatuan Catur Melayu Malaysia in early eighties.Terengganu players never misses this event for many years.Lately we didn't send a representative to this Malaysia premier due to work and family commitment.Anyway we have our very owned Nur Ilhamuddin Shaik Ali who is working in Kuala Lumpur and currently is playing in the AMbank Chess Challenge.

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May be you don't know him well.I came to know him way back in 1987.He started to play chess in primary school and continue to play until now.He won many local tournament in Terengganu and I consider him as very strong among Terengganu top players.Ilhamuddin represent Terengganu in MSSM championship and merdeka team event for many years.He is active taking part in Kelang valley tournament.Recenly he achieved FIDE rating with 2059 thus making him the first Terengganu FIDE rated player

In this on going AMbank chess challenge at Midvalley ,Ilham currently have 2 points from four round losing to Bangladeshi and Indonesian players.Let us wish him good luck and success in this event.

NM ZARUL SHAZWAN TEMERLOH OPEN CHAMPION

Prize winners for Temerloh Open.

• Open section

1. NM Zarul Syazwan Zulkaflli (6.5 points) (RM1000)
2. Abdullah Che Hassan (6.o points) (RM500)
3. Md Izz Saifuddin (5.5 points) (RM400)
4. MD Fadli Zakaria (5.5 points) (RM350)
5. Sumant Subramaniam (5.5 points) (RM250)
6. Abd Khalid Musa (5.0 points) (RM180)
7. Zarul Shafiq Zulkaffli (5.0 point) (RM80)
8. Shaharuddin Said (5.0 points) (RM60)
9. Sulaiman Johari (5.0 points) (RM50)
10. Sukur Mustaffa (5.0 points) (RM50)

• BEST LOCAL PLAYERS

1. Shaharuddin Said (RM250)
2. Sukur Mustaffa (RM200)
3. Zakaria Saleh ( RM150)
4. FAkri Ahmad ( RM100)
5. Jamaluddin Salleh ( RM90 )

• BEST GIRL

1. Amira Syamina Zullkafli (RM100 )
2. Siti Aisyah Sabirin (RM70)

UPDATE TEMERLOH OPEN

A total of 64 players are currently taking part in 3rd Temerloh Open 2008.Majority of participant coming from Pahang and 4 players from Terengganu.Six fide rated players are also taking part in this event.After 3 rounds Abdullah Che Hassan is currently leading the tournament with 4 others players.There are still four more round to play tomorow and Temerloh member of parliment will give away prizes.

PENCARIAN JAGUH CATUR CONTINUES

Pencarian Jaguh Catur Terengganu will continue on 22nd to 23rd August 2008.As usual the tournament will be divided into 3 category open, under 18 and under 12.In the last two series Hashim and Norazmi were champion.This two players are the dominance players in Terengganu chess scenario for the last 10 years.Others players may find difficult to break in unless unexpected results happened.But chances for other players to finished in top five are there if they working hard to improve.

In under 18 section mostly top five winners are dominated by Terengganu representative in MSSM.Seems that gap between state junior players with non state players are wide.The state junior players performance in recent MSSM is very humble ,( except for few players) this what I always believed for long time juniors state players (under 18) only be allowed to play in open section.Without this kind of exposure they will improve.So let non state players play with each other in this section.

Next week will see wheater Md Huzaimi ( I think this boy should play in under 18) could recover from loses to Siti Aisyah in under 12 section.The fast improving Siti Aisyah and her sister Siti Khadijah are catching up with Huzaimi who dominated under 12 section for few years already.Huzaimi is not making any significant progress for the last one year.

Now Pusat Minda Terengganu under leaderships of Dato Saidi and Dr Wan Shaari is planning to have weekly coaching lesson for the selected players.Hopefully this moves will benefits the junior players.Lastly , guys get ready for third series on 22-23rd August , see you all there.