MAS IN SLOVAKIA (7th round game)

Yesterday Mas Hafizul played with black against GM Tomas Polak.After 7 round of play Mas scored 3.5 points,Mas game yesterday was total disaster for him losing in a tame queen gambit position.



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2nd WORLD WOMEN TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP

Second world women team chess championship ended today at Ningbo China. Ten team took part in this event organized by China Chess Association.Only France ,Germany and Hungary didn’t took part ,these country are among top ten in the world base on their players rating.However China field up their second team ,Vietnam who are ranked 22nd and Armenia world ranking 18th to make up the number.

China field up their starplayer Hou Yi Fang (FIDE 2585) the highest rated player in this tournament.She played 7 games and scored 4 points losing one game to Irina Krush (FIDE 2458) of USA in an exciting Nimzo Indian Classical Variation which is contributed China 1-3 loses to USA.

The loses didn’t stop China to emerged as a champion with 12 match points and 21.5 games points which is just 0.5 ahead from second place team Russia. China second team player Tang Zhongyi won best board prize for board one who scored 5.5 points from eight games.

Here are final ranking:

Rank Team Gam. + = - MP Pts.
1 China Team One 9 5 2 2 12 21½
2 Russian Team 9 4 4 1 12 21
3 Ukrain 9 4 4 1 12 20½
4 Georgian Team 9 5 1 3 11 20
5 Armenian Team 9 4 2 3 10 18½
6 Poland Team 9 4 2 3 10 17½
7 India Team 9 4 1 4 9 17½
8 American Team 9 2 2 5 6 16½
9 China Team Two 9 2 2 5 6 16
10 Vietnam Team 9 0 2 7 2 11



Board 1

Rank Name Rtg Team % Rp Games
1 Tan Zhongyi 2435 China Team Two 68.8 2597 8
2 GM C. Maia 2506 Georgian Team 57.1 2531 7
3 GM Hou Yifan 2585 China Team One 57.1 2498 7



Board 2

Rank Name Rtg Team % Rp Games
1 IM Kosintseva 2493 Russian 72.2 2608 9
2 IM Mkrtchian 2468 Armenian 72.2 2603 9
3 GM Dzagnidze 2535 Georgian 72.2 2580 9


Board 3

Rank Name Rtg Team % Rp Games
1 IM Gaponenko 2438 Ukrain 68.8 2519 8
2 WGM Karavade 2391 India 66.7 2507 9
3 IM Dworakowska 2345 Poland 64.3 2510 7

Board 4

Rank Name Rtg Team % Rp Games
1 WFM Gunina 2437 Russian 81.3 2560 8
2 WGM Huang 2424 China One75.0 2501 8
3 WIM Melekhina 2220 American 66.7 2463 6


Below are game between Irina Krush Versus Hou Yifan (1-0)

EURO CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP

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The Euro Youth Chess Championship just ended yesterday (9th September ).More then 40 European Nations took part in this event which held in Italy.This event was divided into 5 categories Under 18 , under 16,under 14 ,under 12 and under 10 separately for boy and girl.In under 18 boy Ter Sahakyan Samvel (Fide 2480)won this category.He is not a stranger in world junior championship level ,in 2005 he finish equal 1st place with Wesley So ,Srinath Narayanan for under 12 category.Surely he is the one to watch for the coming World Youth Chess Championship to be held from 11th 23rd November in Turkey.Malaysia juniors may play in world.Here is the link to download all the games that may be usefull for Malaysian players.Below is Sahakyan last round game against Maarten Larmuseau.This year world youth host website.

MASHAFIZUL IN SLOVAKIA

Malaysia Grandmaster hopeful Mas HafizulHelmi currently in Slovakia.He is playing in a 9 round robin with an average rating of the participants 2455.This tournament is a good platform for Mas to achieve a grandmaster norm.After 5 round of play Mas rating performances is 2540 second best to Slovakia IM Marian Jurcik so far rating perfomance is 2609.But I think its to early to talk about grandmaster norm let him play at best of his ability in order to achieve command able result from this event.This is link to organiser homepage www.sachprievidza.sk.To download games please click here.


source:from swiss manager homepage

KUALA LUMPUR OPEN CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP

Today is the last day of the Kuala Lumpur Open Chess Championship.The tournament is organized by Kuala Lumpur Chess Association and is being held in Petaling Jaya.The final round will be played will be played at 2.30 pm today.Base on result upload to chess-result by the organizer it’s the young Vietnamese Grandmaster Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son who is leading this event over his fellow countryman Dao Thien Hai.

Also playing in this event is my old friend Ali Nasha Abdul Najid Wahab ( better know as Najid – Hope I get it right ) who has 3 points.The tournament director is Peter Long also frequent participant in Terengganu Open in early nineties.I think I played with FM Peter Long previously but the one that I remember most is in 1991 where he beat me in English Opening but I end up won the second board prize.That was in Sabah during the Interstates Chess Championship.

For complete result here and Kl chess blog is here