Saturday, May 30, 2009

MALAYSIAN CLOSED STARTS TODAY

Mohd Saprin 1st seeded
Alia defending her title
Nazrin versus Chales Lucas of Sabah
Wan Aizuddin Versus Saprin

Malaysia closed chess championship started today at Dato Arthur Tan Chess Center in Kompleks Wilayah Kuala Lumpur.52 players are playing in the men section 22 players in women section.Top players in the men section are Mohd Saprin Sabri and Kamaluddin Yusuf both are the 1st and 2nd seeded players.Saprin and Kamaluddin never won the closed champion.Representing Terengganu in this event are Mohd Khairul Nazrin and Wan Aizuddin.


In women section Alia Azwa Anin Bakri look strong to defend the title she won last year.But the fight is still open as she has to play Nur Najiha Azman Hisham and Amira Syamina and MSSM under 18 champion Nur Munirah Mat Rahim of Perak.

Thursday, May 28, 2009

OIL BUSINESS EMERGED CHAMPION


Pemain Oil Business menerima hadiah

Ruzenan Abu Bakar of Oil Business

Oil business emerged champion in the Petronas East Coast Sport Carnival which was held on 22nd to 23rd May.The Oil Business team comprising all experiened players Ruzenan Abu Bakar ,Affandi Ismail,Zahanuddin Zainal Abidin and Mohd Nizam Awang proved too strong to other team to handle.This year Oil Business without their starplayer Internasional Master Mas Hafizul Hilmi who is playing in the overseas tournament.

Secondplace was won by last winner Gas Business who were 1.5 points behind the Oil Business.Third place goes to Gebeng.Full result here


Thursday, May 21, 2009

SUKAN STAF UITM :UITM TERENGGANU MUNCUL JUARA





Uitm Terengganu terus menguasai acara catur berpasukan campuran buat sekian kalinya dengan memenangi kesemua tujoh pusingan.Pasukan yang diwakili oleh Abdul Rahim Ramli,Norazmi Mohd Nor ,Mohd Zamri Jusoh ,Mohd Jamil Alang Abd Aziz ,Aishah Ismail dan Nur Syazwani Halim terlalu kuat untuk diberikan cabaran.Perebutan untuk tempat kedua dan ketiga ialah diantara pasukan Intec , Pahang dan Johor.Berikut ialah keputusan penuh kejohanan.






Monday, May 18, 2009

SUKAN STAF UITM BERMULA HARI INI




Pagi ini sukan staf UITM sudah bermula.Dalam acara catur senayak 7 pasukan mengambil bahagian setelah pasukan Shah Alam menarik diri disaat akhir.Kejohanan akan dijalan secara liga.Pasukan UITM Terengganu adalah pasukan favourite dalam kejohanan dwi tahunan ini.UITM Terengganu diwakili Prof Madya Abdul Rahim Ramli dan Norazmi Mohd Nor.Setiap pasukan terdiri daripada 4 pemain lelaki dan 2 pemain wanita.


Klik disini untuk maklumat lanjut



GULA PERLIS OPEN CHESS CHALLENGE CROSS TABLE

Fof complete cross table please click here.Only for open section.

Sunday, May 17, 2009

KILANG GULA PERLIS OPEN CHESS CHALLENGE 2009

Kejohanan catur terbuka Kilang Gula Felda Perlis berakhir semalam.Kejohanan tersebut mendapat sambutan yang hangat dari peminat catur tanahair dengan hampir 250 penyertaan.Pemain pemain catur yang akan bertanding dalam sukan universiti juga turut kelihatan.Kejohanan berjalan dengan teratur disamping pihak penaja kejohanan Kilang Gula Perlis yang menaja jumlah hadiah yang besar (RM4000) .Hadiah hadiah telah disampaikan oleh YAB Menteri Besar Perlis.


Berikut senarai pemenang bagi kategori terbuka.

1.Evan Timothy Capel
2.Tan Khai Boon
3.Abdul Haq Mohamad
4.Anthony Leong
5.Zarul Shazwan Zullkafli
6.Abdullah Che Hassan
7.Nur Shazwani Zullkafli
8.Ismail Ahmad
9.Mohd Musa Alansari
10.Mohd Nabil Azman Hisahm

Picture and complete table will upload later.

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

SUKAN STAF UITM


Universiti Teknologi Mara Cawangan Terengganu akan menjadi tuanrumah kepada sykan staf UITM yang akan diadakan pada 18hb hingga 22hb Mei 2009 bertempat di kampus Dungun.Lapan pasukan telah mengesahkan untuk bertanding dalam acara catur berpasukan.Kejohanan akan dijalankan secara liga dalam format berpasukan.Antara pemain yang akan terlibat ialah Abdul Rahim Ramli , Norazmi Mohd Nor kedua duanya bermain mewakili UITM Terengganu.Berikut ialah senara nama pasukan yang akan bertandingan, keputusan akan diupload ke chess result.com
dari masa kesemasa.



Saturday, May 09, 2009

DUNGUN OPEN : MUHAMMAD ARSHAD IS THE CHAMPION


Khair and Rahim playing in the 7th round


Mohd Khair

Norazmi Mohd Nor 2nd place winner receiving prize from Abd Rahim

Annual Dungun open concluded today and 2003 winner Muhammad Arshad score 7/7 from field of strong to emerged the winner.I consider myself lucky to win this event because of my last minutes " mamak " against my opponents that is Fairul Yusuf and Suhaidi Mustaffa.Norazmi Mohd Nor finished second and Abdul Rahim Ramli was third by beating Selangor Open prize winner Mohd Khair Wahiduddin.

Below are list of top ten winners.

1. Muhammad Arshad RM300
2.Norazmi Mohd Nor RM200
3.Abdul Rahim Ramli RM150
4.Suhaidi Mustffa RM100
5.Mohd Khair Wahiduddin
6.Ali Akhbar
7.Ramli Setapa
8.Fairul Yusuff
9.Abdul Kadir Jailani
10. Abdul Khalid Musa

Full cross table here

Monday, May 04, 2009

SELANGOR OPEN CROSS TABLE

TERENGGANU PLAYERS IN SELANGOR OPEN


Nor Ilhamuddin 19th place


Muhammad Syazwan Zulkifli 30th place


The Selangor Open just ended yesterday ,no doubt that Nicholas Chan proved he is among the top chess players in the country with the effortless 2456 rating performance.As for the our Terengganu players who took part in the event the mission are more or less are to get rating,but I think our players give a good fight to higher seeded players in between the round.Overall I am quite happy with our juniors performance in this event.Some of them gained rating after completing this event.Let see how they finished the event.


1.Nor Ilhamuddin Shaikh Ali 5.5 points and 1925 rating performances
2.Khairul Nazrin A Nashir 5.5 points and 1805 rating performance
3.Fairul Yusuf 5.5 points and 1816 rating performence
4.Siddiq Husainy Hasbullah 5.5 points and 1834 rating performance
5.Muhammad Syazwan Zulkifli 5 points and 1935 rating performance
6.Muhammad Arshad 5 points and 1821 rating performance
7.Ahmad Rizal Othman 4.5 points and 1900 rating performance
8.Abdul Kadir Jailani Ramli 4.5 points 1863 rating performance.
9.Muhd Asyraf Zakaria 4.5 points and 1719 rating performances
10.Wan Aizuddin Wan Razali 3.5 points and 1598 rating performance.

Among the Terengganu players Muhammad Syazwan scored the highest rating performance and he is followed by Nor Ilhamuddin Shaik Ali and Ahmad Rizal Othman.

Monday, April 27, 2009

DUNGUN OPEN

To all chess players in east coast especially Dungun Open will be on 9th May at UITM Dungun.Entry fee is only RM10 and first prize is RM300.Please register with Nor azmi Mohd Nor at 012 5560460,

Sunday, April 26, 2009

IM MAS HAFIZUL WINS SMACH OPEN




Internasionalmaster Mas Hafizul easily wins the Smach Open ( Sek.Men,Sains Machang).IM Mas scored 6/6 winning all six games.Full result here.
Result for under 18 here

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

SELANGOR OPEN


NOR AZMI FORMER SELANGOR OPEN CHAMPION


Terengganu players will take part in the Selangor Open open starting on 30th April to 3rd May 2009 at Dato Arthur Tan Chess Center ,Wilayah Complex Kuala Lumpur.Norazmi Mohd Nor also the former winner of the Selangor Open in 1998.Among who has confirmed to take part are Muhd Syazwan Zulkifli,Fairul Yusuf ,Abdul Kadir Jailani Ramli ,Siddiq Husainy Hasbullah ,Muhd Khairul Nazrin Ahmad Nashir and Muhammad Arshad.The objective of Terengganu players in the prestigious Selangor Open are to obtain FIDE rating.Syazwan , Kadir and Fairul needed 4 games to confirm their internasional rating.So far Terengganu have 3 rated players Nur Ilhamuddin Shaik Ali , Mohd Hafez Hilmi Harun and Munir Azmi Mohd.With Selangor Open participants we will have another 3 to 4 rated players by next listing.Wish them all good luck .

Below are list of Terengganu players for the Selangor Open

1.Mohd Syazwan Zulkifli Fide 5706408 Rating Performence 1906 ( 6 game )
2.Abdul Kadir Jailani Ramli Fide 576319 Rating Performence 1998 ( 6 game)
3.Fairul Yusuf Fide Fide 5706378 Rating performence 2014 ( 6 game)
4.Siddiq Husainy Hasbullah 5706181 Rating performence 1819 ( 3 game )
5.Khairul Nazrin a.Nashir 5706068 ( no rated games )


Monday, April 20, 2009

KEJOHANAN CATUR TERBUKA MUSYTARI DUNGUN

Tarikh kejohanan : 9hb Mei 2009.
Tempat : UITM Dungun.
Kategori : Kategori terbuka sahaja
Format : 7 pusingan Swiss
Kawalan masa : 20 minit seorang nagi pusingan 1 dan 2 dan 30 minit utk pusingan berikutnya.
Pendaftaran & Pengesahan : 8.15 hingga 8.45
Yuran masuk :RM10.00

Jadual

Pusingan 1 . 9.00 hingga 9.40 pagi
Pusingan 2 . 9.50 hingga 10.30 pagi
Pusingan 7 . 5.00 hingga 6.00 petang


Hadiah

1.RM300 + Piala Pusingan
2.RM200
3.RM100
4.RM50
5.RM50
6.RM20
7.RM20
8.RM20
8.RM20
9.RM20
10.RM20

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

DUNGUN OPEN ON 9TH MAY

ABDUL RAHIM RAMLI

According to Prof Abdul Rahim President of Terengganu Chess Association ,the first chess tournament in Terengganu will be on 9th May at UITM Dungun.More details later on.Total prize money about RM1500.00.Please take note that this tournament is only open to players from Pahang ,Kelantan and Terengganu only.


Tournament Director : 012 556 0460
Tournament Arbiter : 013 933 3393

Tuesday, April 07, 2009

THAILAND OPEN

The Thailand Open just concluded yesterday.The Malaysian players headed by IM Mas Hafizul Hilmi and FM Mok, Ismail Ahmad and two Sarawakian.I also noticed that David Gates and Francois Wolfaard also played in that event , both players also took part in the GrandFinal of Pencarian Jaguh Catur Terengganu in Disember Last year.Full result here

Monday, April 06, 2009

NASTIONAL AGE GROUP CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP










The annual age group chess championship just ended yesterday.Nearly 500 players from all over the country took part in this event.Terengganu juniors players also took part in this event but coming under their own initiative.This is the list of Terengganu players who took part in the event.The best performances player in all category is Mohd Khairul Nazrin who scored 5 points to finished 9th place.This is followed by Arif Farae Mohd Salim also with 5 points to finished 11th in under 12 category.


Under 16.
1.Mohd Khairul Nazrin A Nashir score 5 points.
2.Siddiq Husainy Hasbullah score 4.5 points
3.Mohd Amirul Zahanuddin 3.5 points

Under 12
1.Siti Asiah Sabirin score 4.5 points

Under 10
1.Siti Khadijah Sabirin 4.5 points

Under 14
1.Nurul Iryani Mazlishah 4 points
2.Nurliayana Zulkifli 4 points
3.Musfirah NorAzmi 3 points

Under 12
1.Arif Farae Mohd Salim 5 points
2.Mubin Norazmi 4 points




Wednesday, April 01, 2009

TERENGGANU JUNIORS WILL PLAY IN NASTIONAL AGE GROUP

MOHD AMIRUL ZAHANUDDIN

About 10 juniors players will be playing in the Nastional Age Group that will be held in Pearl Point in Jalan Klanag Lama Kuala Lumpur.They will be leading by Mohd Amirul Zahanuddin and Mohd Khairul Nazrin both will be playing in under 16.Siti Aisyah Sabirin also will be playing in under 12 girl and she will be put up a strong challenge in her category.In MSSM last month Siti Aisyah finished 5 place.Good luck to all of them.

MALAYSIAN IN APRIL FIDE RATING LIST

Mas Hafizul Hilmi Malaysia top player
Nor Ilhamuddin Shaikh Ali officially no 1 ranked Terengganu player 2025

Mohd Hafez Hilmi Harun 1994 now ranked second in Terengganu



Munir Azmi Mohd ranked 3 with 1720


Topalov is now the world no 1 chess player with a rating of 2812 with 29 points different from Anand who has 2783.Topalov who played 17 rated games for April rating period.More Malaysia are rated including Munir Azmi Mohd with 1720 and my former padawan Mohd Hafez Hilmi Harun with 1994.The first Terengganu player who gained FIDE rating is Nor Ilhamuddin Shaik Ali with 2025 .

Internasional Master Mas Hafizul Hilmi now ranked no 1 in Malaysia with a rating of 2425.He is followed by Internasional Master Wong Zi Jing with 2410 .Third in the april listing is Nicholas Chan with 2386.Full details here

Hopefully more Malaysian will gain rating and I hope a few more Terengganu players will gain rating by next January listing.













Saturday, March 28, 2009

1st SILENT KNIGHTS RAPID CHALLENGE UPDATE

Abdullah Che Hassan - Sulaiman Johari bermain dipusingan kelima



Aisyah Sabirin - Wan Mohd Adli


About 110 players currently are playing in the first chess tournament for this year in Kelantan.In the open section Abdullah Che Hassan is leading other players with 3 points by winning his first 3 rounds.Abdullah who won two chess tournament back to back in the 2 weeks is clear favourite to win this event.But he will be challenges strongly by Nik Ahmad Farouqui the second seeded player who won an event last week.In Under 18 gold medalist in in under 15 MSSM team player Laila Husna Sahadi is favourite to win this category.


Full result for this event click here





Wednesday, March 25, 2009

1ST SILENT KNIGHT RAPID CHALLENGE

Norazlin Juarih chess player now becoming chess organiser will organise above mentioned chess tournament at Hotel Raudah ,Jalan Maju Kota Bharu Kelantan.This is the first chess event for this year in Kelantan organise by an individual.This event will offer total prize money about RM1500.00.Detail of this event please click here.


To register please call tournament director Nor azlin Juarih Tel 013 922 3707

Those who are interested can also call tournament arbiter Muhammad Arshad 012 921 0841

Full result will be upload after the event finish at here.

Monday, March 23, 2009

ANALISA PENCAPAIAN TERENGGANU DI MSSM

Kalau diikutkan memang saya tak ada kena mengena dengan pengelibatan MSST dikejohanan catur MSSM di Selangor minggu lepas, tetapi saya rasa perlu jugak menyuarakan rasa terkilan saya dengan pencapaian pasukan Terengganu dikejohanan peringkat Kebangsaan.

Saya terfikir program pencarian jaguh catur Terengganu (PJCT) tahun lepas tidak berkesan untuk menaikkan mutu permainan pelajar sekolah sekolah Terengganu.Ratusan ribu ringgit telah dibelanjakan untuk menjalankan program tersebut dan telah tidak menampakan hasilnya Terengganu terus gagal untuk membawa pulang walaupun sebutir emas.Kelantan ,Perak dan Melaka walau pun tidak mempunyai program tersebut tersenyum bangga kerana dapat membawa pulang pingat emas , kenapa tidak Terengganu ?

Ramalan saya tentang pencapaian Terengganu dikejohanan ini 95 peratus tepat , saya terlepas pandang tentang pemain bawah 15 tahun Noor Fatin Wan Mohd Zani sahaja.Pasukan bawah 18 tahun lelaki yang saya ramalkan mendapat temapt ke tiga hanya berjaya mendapat tempat keempat.Siti Nor Raihan Mohd Shaifuddin menepati ramalan saya dengan menduduki tempat ke 5.Walau pun beliau berpeluang mengondol emas sekiranya memenangi perlawanan di pusingan ke tujoh.

Pemain bawah 15 tahun Mohd Aiman Zakwan berjaya merebut tempat ke 10 dan Ahmad Syawal tempat ke 9 bagi kategori bawah 12 tahun.Ahmad Faez Azmi dan Mohd Amirul Zahanuddin masing memenangi hadiah papan terbaik bagi papan satu dan empat bagi kategori 15 dan 18 tahun berpasukan.Siti Aisyah Sabirin juga berjaya menduduki temapt ke enam bagi kategori bawah 12 tahun.Jika dinilai hampir semua pemenang dikejohanan MSSM ini aktif dalam program PJCT .Perlu diingatkan bahawa hampir kesemua negeri yang mengambil bahagian lebih memberikan tumpuan kepada acara berpasukan dan membariskan pemain yang " lemah " untuk bertanding dalam acara perseorangan.

Sebenarnya apa yang berlaku semasa program PJCT hendak dilancarkan hampir kesemua guru guru yang terlibat dengan program tersebut menentang cadangan saya untuk menyekat pemain MSST daripada bermain dalam kategori umor masing masing.Ideanya senang sahaja ,kita nak memberikan pendedahan yang maksimun kepada pemain pemain ini, tetapi guru guru yang terlibat lebih suka meraikan " kejayaan " pelajar dalam PJCT ini disekolah masing supaya nampak mereka hebat.Daripada 12 pemain daerah Dungun yang berjaya mewakili MSST hanya 2 orang pemain mereka sahaja yang membawa pulang hadiah.Sebab itu saya awal awal lagi nyatakan Dungun pasukan yang menang sorak sahaja.Tetapi alasan yang biasa saya dengar ialah tu lah yang terbaik yang kita ada dan Jabatan melarang bukan cikgu terlibat.

Memang jelas majoriti pemain yang dipilih untuk bertanding diperingkat daerah kebanyakan main tangkap muat dan dipilih sekadar untuk melengkapkan jadual Jabatan dan sijil penyertaan .Sekiranya guru diperingkat sekolah memainkan lebih berkesan dengan memberikan gambaran yang lebih jelas kepada ibu bapa tentang scenario catur Malaysia sudah tentu adanya lebih banyak perubahan yang boleh dicapai.Saya memahami sikap ibu bapa pelajar sekolah di Terengganu ini ,sekiranya mereka faham situasi sebenarnya sudah tentu mereka boleh bersama sama membantu menaikkan mutu catur di Terengganu.Guru guru pula kalau sibuk dengan program lain dan tak dapat menumpukan perhatian kepada acara catur lebih baik menyerahkan tugas tersebut kepada guru yang dapat menumpukan perhatian.Pelajar pula kalau tak berminat tak payah dipaksa untuk bermain catur.

Saya berpendapat dari skuad MSST sekarang ini pasukan bawah 18 tahun lelaki mempunyai harapan yang cerah di tahun hadapan, manakala pasukan 15 tahun lelaki juga mempunyai peluang juga.Saya fikir sukar pemain generasi sekarang ini untuk menandingi pencapaian Abdul Kadir Jailani Ramli ,Mohd Syazwan Zulkifli dan Siti Nor Raihan Mohd Shaifuddin.Mungkin 5 hingga ke 10 tahun akan datang mungkin kita akan mempunyai pemain sehebat mereka.Untuk keputusan lengkap kejohanan catur MSSM sila klik disini.

Sunday, March 22, 2009

MSSM CLOSING CEREMONY VIDEO

MSSM CATUR STATES CONTIGENTS PICTURES


PASUKAN SELANGOR JOHAN KESELURUHAN
NAIB JUARA KUALA LUMPUR

KETIGA PULAU PINANG

KEEMPAT PERAK
KELIMA JOHOR
KEENAM KELANTAN
KETUJOH KEDAH
KELAPAN NEGERI SEMBILAN
KESEMBILAN PAHANG
KESEPULOH TERENGGANU
KESEBELAS SARAWAK
KEDUABELAS SABAH
KETIGABELAS MELAKA
KEEMPARBELAS PERLIS
KELIMABELAS LABUAN
KEENAMBELAS PUTRAJAYA

ALL PICTURE COURTESY OF MSSM










































































































































































CATUR MSSM 2009 FULL RESULT

I have upload all the results of MSSM Chess to Swiss Manager home page please click below :-


1. Result for Under 12 girl team event :
2. Result for Under 12 boy team event:
3. Result for Under 15 girl team event:
4. Result for Under 15 boy team event:
5. Result for Under 15 girl team event:
6. Result for Under 18 boy team event:

7.Result for Under 12 girl individual :
8.Result for Under 12 boy individual:
9.Result for Under 15 girl individual:
10.Result for Under15 boy individual:
11.Result for Under 18 girl individual:
12.Result for Under 18 boy individual:

Thursday, March 19, 2009

TERENGGANU GIRL STAND A CHANCE TO WIN GOLD


Siti Nor Raihan Mohd Shaifuddin

Terengganu under 18 girl Siti Nor Raihan Mohd Shaifuddin have a realistic chances to win gold in under 18 individual.She is currently second place with 5 points and will be playing tomorrow with Perak girl Nur Munirah Mat also 5 points.The winner of the game tomorrow will finish first place.If she drew her game tomorrow then she will get second place.In under 15 girl Terengganu Wan Noor Fatin Wan Mohd Zani also have a realistic chances to finish in the top 3 placing.The boy under 18 team have a slim chances to finish 3 place if they able to beat Kelantan and hoping the other team drew with their opponents.

Current standing of all categorie

1. Under 18 boy click here
2.Under 18 girl click here
3.Under 15 boy click here
4.Under 15 girl click here
5.Under 12 boy click here
6.Under 12 girl click here

1. Under 18 boy team click here
2. Under 18 girl team click here
3. Under 15 boy team click here
4. Under 15 girl team click here
5. Under 12 boy team click here
6.Under 12 girl team click here

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

MSSM UPDATE

Today is the third day of Kejohanan Catur MSSM 2009.The Terengganu under 18 boys team beat Selangor 2.5 to 1.5 in the first round.After four round of play Terengganu under 18 boys are currently with 10 game points and 6 match points.As expected Kuala Lumpur easily on top of the table with 12 game points.The Terengganu under 18 boys have realistic chances to finish with silver medal in this categorie.For full table for under 18 click here


In under 18 boys individual Justin Ong of Kuala Lumpur looking strong to win this categories he will be playing Lim Zhuo Rong his teammate.Terengganu representatives in this categorie is standing at the bottom of the table.For standing click here

Monday, March 16, 2009

KEJOHANAN CATUR MSSM STARTS

The first round of kejohanan catur MSSM started today at Hotel Gold course in Klang.More then 500 players from 16 states are currently playing in the six categories.

1.Pairing list for under 12 boy click here
2.Pairing list for under 12 girl click here
3.Pairing list for under 15 boy click here
4.Pairing list for under 15 girl click here
5.Pairing list for under 18 boy click here
6.Pairing list for under 18 girl click here

Sunday, March 15, 2009

ABDULLAH CHE HASSAN WINS UITM OPEN

Abdullah Che Hasan wins the UITM which ended today at Shah Alam campus.He scored five straight and drew with Tun Seri Lanang in the last round to finish with 6.5 points.Tun Seri Lanang created an upset when he beat Ian Udani in the 6th round to finished 3rd place with 6 points.MSS Selangor player Mohd Nabil Azman Hisham finished second place also with 6 points.Ian Udani champion of many speed event have to settle with 5 points.Below are the top ten winner of the event.


1.Abdullah Che Hassan
2.Mohd Nabil Azman Hisham
3.Tun Seri Lanang Othman
4.Kamaludin Yusuf
5.Fariz Shafrudin
6.Mohd Zamri Syarif
7.Ian Udani
8.Nur Mohd Azlam
9.Azman Hisham Che Doi
10.Nohd Hussein Jamil