USM OPEN

Usm students Council will organise one day chess event at Kompleks Sukan USM Kubang Kerian Campus.This tournamnet will be divided into 3 categories open section, under 18 and under 12.This event will offer small prizes for each category and ideally for local chess players.Please sms to register.First round will starts 9.30 am.

Here list of registed players

1.Open section
2.Under 18
3.Under 12

KASPAROV INTERVIEW WITH CNN

Former chess Champion and also legend had an interview with CNN.He speak about chess and his political ambition.He said he cannot match his success in chess in politic.In politic he starts in total lost position.Enjoy the video.

NANJING PEARL SPRING CHESS TOURNAMENT

Below is Carlsen and Wang Yue 8th round game played today.Now the Norwegian teenager is leading with 2 points ,very big margin considering the status of this event.His rating perfomance is 3016 and gained about 24 points.





Below is pairing table for the next two round

Round 9 on 2009/10/08 at 15:00-20:00


4 RADJABOV TEIMOUR 2757 - CARLSEN MAGNUS 2772
3 WANG YUE 2736 - TOPALOV VESELIN 2813
5 JAKOVENKO DMITRY 2742 - LEKO PETER 2762



Round 10 on 2009/10/09 at 10:00-15:00

6 LEKO PETER 2762 - WANG YUE 2736
2 TOPALOV VESELIN 2813 - RADJABOV TEIMOUR 2757
1 CARLSEN MAGNUS 2772 - JAKOVENKO DMITRY 2742


You can follow live game here

Source official Nanjing Pearl Spring Chess and from Swiss
Manager Home page upload by the organiser.

USM OPEN :REGISTRATION REMINDER

The USM Kubang Kerian open will starts this Saturday.I would like to remind all outstation players please SMS me for tournament information.

MSSM 2010 : LABUAN AGAIN ?

According to my informed sources Labuan will host next year Malaysian School Chess Championship.But it's cannot be confirmed until this December.Labuan was the 2004 host when chess was included back in MSSM calender after 5 years break.According to my sources the championship will be divided into 4 categories only - under 12 boy , under 12 girls , under 18 girl and under 18 boy.This measure is to cut off number of participants , venue and etc.So each state is expected to send 24 players.

But one thing for sure the selection tournament will be fiercely contested and only 6 winners from each category will be selected.The championship is expected to held in 12th to 19th March next year.This year overall championship was won by Selangor who edges out Kuala Lumpur.