This weekend ( 7 th to 8th November ) is the 5th series of Pencarian Jaguh Catur Terengganu before the grandfinal on 18th to 22nd Disember 2008 which is a Fide rated event and the the richest chess event in Malaysia after the Malaysia Open.The Grand final will offer RM18,000 in total prize money and that not included best Terengganu players.The grand final is open to Fide rated players only.In the grandprix point standing Terengganu top player Hashim Jusoh is leading the rest of others players with 320 points ,just 18 points ahead of Norazmi Mohd Nor who have 302.In the third position is Abdul Rahim Ramli who collected 251.This weekend will decide the top 30 players who will qualify to play in the grandfinal.Below is the current standing after 4 series.
Hashim Jusoh 320 points
Norazmi Mohd Nor 302 points
Abdul RAhim Ramli 251 points
Fairul Yusuff 236 points
Abdul Kadir Jailani Ramli 181 points
Heng Aik Kiat 177 points
Gani Kadir 168 points
Suhaidi Mustaffa 165 points
Ahmad Rizal Othman 146 points
Abdul Latif Abd Halim 141 points
Alias Mohd Amin 113 points
Hisamullah Harun 108 points
Muhammad Arshad 107 points ( I played 3 series only )
Izzuddin Abd Salam 76 points
Salleh Omar 75 points
Norazma Adilla Alias 73 points
Mohd Razif Abd Rahman 70 points
Zaharuddin Sulaiman 57 points
Muhd Asyraf Zakaria 56 points
Md Azrul Aminul Rashid 55 points
Ramli Setapa 52 points
Ruzenan Abu Bakar 51 points
Hamedi Zaidi Mamat Sidek 44 points
Wan Tarmizi Wan Sulaiman 42 points
Peteer Jaber 37 points
Md Rosli Abd Rahid 31 points
Muhd Syazwan Zulkifli 30 points
Rozamzam Ibrahim 27 points
Najwah Aziz 26 points
Abd Rahim Jusoh 25 points