NOT MY DAY

After 2 weeks of break from playing at playchess.com tournament ,this morning I tried my luck again for a lucky win.I think I played quite well today not as my usual  " set up " for lucky win.I am quite satisfied when I managed to increase my rating to 1987 still low.Though I finished with 7 points but I still misses top five place due to my lower tie break.If my buchoz a little bit higher certainly  I will finished among top five and I could had win 30 or 60 days membership extension.

PENANG OPEN HERITAGE CITY OPEN CHESS TOURNAMENT

IM OLIVER VS NM TAN KHAI BOON 

YEOH LI TIAN VS LOO SWEE LEONG

Penang Open Chess tournament ended a few days ago.The defending Internasional Master Dimankiling (IM) defended the title for the second time.He also beat our number one player IM Mas Hafizul Hilmi in round seven.IM Mas however cannot capitalised his advantages as he was having time trouble in the later part of middle game.

Yeoh Li Tian has showned that he is a few class above the rest of juniors in the country when he finishes in fifth position including beating IM Dableo from Philipine who is 300 points higher then his rating.Penang Chess Association has done a good job overall including distributed bulletin during tournament in progress.All result is here. Below is the game between IM Mas and IM Oliver Dimankilling.

ASIAN AMATEUR FINAL RANKING

The asian amateur chess tournament has just finished.They are six Terengganu players are involved and after nine round of play Mohd Syazwan Zulkifli is the  best perfomance with 7 points and securing in the 5th placing.Syazwan has now become the top player for Terengganu for his around achievment in the local chess scene.Second best is Nor Ilhamuddin Shaikh Ali and Fairul Yusoff  all had 6 points.Full result is here

Final Ranking  of Terengganu Players at The Asian Amateur
5	15		Zulkifli Muhd Syazwan	1993	7
11	17		Shaik Ali Nor Ilhamuddin	1984	6
20	28		Yusoff Fairul	1918	6
37	62		Abu Bakar Ruzenan	0	5
43	73		Arshad Muhammad	0	5
49	97		Mohammad Syaahil Hamid	0	5
57	20		Ramli Abdul Rahim	1970	4½

Final Ranking
Rank	SNo.	FED	Name	Rtg	Pts
1	12	MAS	Nayan Ahmad Fadzil	2009	8
2	8	MAS	Azman Hisham Mohd Nabil	2038	7
3	6	MAS	Yap Abel Jinwei	2060	7
4	2	BRU	Hj Azahari Md Aliuddin	2085	7
5	15	MAS	Zulkifli Muhd Syazwan	1993	7
6	21	SIN	Mooi Kok Onn Osric	1962	7
7	5	MAS	Wahiduddin Mohd Khair	2060	6½
8	82	MAS	Foo Chee Kin	0	6½
9	4	MAS	Zulkipli Zaidan	2076	6½
	22	MAS	Wong Jianwen	1960	6½
11	17	MAS	Shaik Ali Nor Ilhamuddin	1984	6
12	96	PHI	Manaog Stewart	0	6
13	9	MAS	Tukiran Taulani	2033	6
14	23	INA	Limono Handjojo	1951	6
15	18	NEP	Shakya Rabindra	1984	6

TERENGGANU PLAYERS IN ASIAN AMATEUR CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP

Below is the list of Terengganu players will take part in Asian Amateur Chess Champiosnhip starting tomorrow at Crowne Hotel until 30th November 2011.Wish all of us good luck.

1.Muhd Syazwan Zulkifli (1993)
2.Nur Ilhamuddin Shaik Ali ( 1984 )
3.Abdul Rahim Ramli ( 1970 )
4.Fairul Yusoff ( 1918 )
5.Ruzenan Abu Bakar (unrated)
6.Muhammad Arshad (unrated )

FIDE INTRODUCES RAPID AND BLITZ LISTS

Fide to introduce rapid and blitz rating list beginning next year.All Fide rating fees  for these events will be waived during 2012.Since there about 50 to 60 rapid tournaments in Malaysia I think that would be a good idea to have our's tournament  rated.Read more here.

ASIAN AMATEUR : PLAYERS LISTING

Terengganu will be represented by five players in the Asian Amateur Chess Championship due on 25 of  November this month at Crowne Plaza Mutiara Hotel in Kuala Lumpur .They are Nor Ilhamuddin  Shaik Ali (Fide rating  of  1984),Abdul Rahim Ramli ( 1918 ) ,Fairul Yusoff  ( 1916 ) ,Ruzenan Abu Bakar  and Muhammad Arshad.Ruzenan and yours truly needs four rated games to get listed in Fide rating.

The champion will received USD1500 while second place is USD 1100 and third prize is USD 800.They are also four unrated prize offered here,the best unrated  will received USD 400,runner up USD 300,third USD 200 and USD 100 for fourth place winner.In this case if  I am lucky enough I will win either one of the prize offered.

Players list from Datcc

MSSM CHESS 2012 : CONFIRMED TERENGGANU

Terengganu has been awarded by the Education Ministry to host Malaysia School Chess Championship in June next year,it was reported earlier that the championship will be hosted by Perak.The championship is expected to be played in Stadium Negeri at Kuala Terengganu to facilitate bigger participants ,supporters and parents.This is third time in history Terengganu hosted the championship,first time in 1989 in Dungun and few years ago at Unisza.

NO LUCKY PRIZE FOR ME TODAY

Woke up around 4.00 am just to play 3 minutes playchess tournament.The tournament started late due to fall season ( ? ) in europe ,I lost 2 games to lower rated opponents but it was rather careless play by me .After 9 round ended , I finished  at no  45  and that one place up from lucky prize No 44 ,that lucky prize was won by Dg19de another regular lucky prize winner at playchess.com .I will try again tonight.

MALAYSIA BEATS MOLDOVA 2.5-1.5

Below are games of  round 10 

WATCHING WORLD YOUTH U 16 OLYMPIAD

I am watching world youth olympiad under 16 at playchess.com.My screen shoot shown match between Malaysia and Russia.Here I am able to watch 4 boards  simultaneously and also add engine to help me understand the position better.Good luck to our young players and playing at world level definely will help improve their games.

I AM LUCKY AGAIN JIMMY

At no 90

Lucky again last night when I won 30 days membership in sport accord mind games preminary.The top twelve winners will play in round robin and the winner will received all expenses paid trip to Beijing next month.

Over 200 players took part in that tournament last night including " Barbat " who is from Sabah.He narrowlly missed lucky prize for placing 110 when he finished at  no 112.I played with him in the round 15 and beat him.

WIN A TRIP TO BEIJING

Do you want a paid holiday ? well all you have to do is to play chess at Playchess.com server tonight at 8.00 pm Malaysian time or 2.00 pm Central European Time.The champion will received all expenses paid trip to Beijing from 8th to 16th Disember 2011.

This tournament will be played in two stages,in the first stage is an open tournament.Time control for this stage is 3 minutes and 2 seconds  increment with 15 round of play.Top 12 players will qualified for the second stage and will play a round robin to determine 1st place  winner.

I know that i am not in the class to qualify for the final stage.As always I will try to win lucky prize (please check below).There are 16 lucky prizes in term of 30 days memberships at playchess.com.So come and join me tonight at playchess.com , who know you too can win prize like me.To play you dont need to be a paid member on this server , just download playing software at chessbase and you are ready to play.

What do you say IM Jimmy ?

Read more here

Prizes:

1. Final

1st prize	Trip to Bejing, including travel costs and accommodation from 8th until 16th December
2nd prize	ChessBase Megapackage
3rd prize	ChessBase Starterpackage
4th prize	1 year subscription to ChessBase Magazine
5th and 6th prize	Fritz 13 Chess program
7th to 12th prize	6 month premium account to playchess.com

2. Open

Places 1 to 12	place in the final
place 13	150 serverdays (premium)
place 14	120 serverdays (premium)
place 15	90 serverdays (premium)
place 16	60 serverdays (premium)
place 17	30 serverdays (premium)
Lucky wins, 30 serverdays (standard) each: Places: 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 110, 120, 130, 140, 150

SYAZWAN WINS ELITE CHESS TOURNAMENT

SYAZWAN RM200 RICHER TODAY

Muhd Syazwan Zulkifli is too hot to be handle today at Terengganu's elite chess tournament. He simply whacked all top chess players in Terengganu with a score of 9 points out of  9.A senior player in the tournament says to his wife after losing to Syazwan  " I thought I played  fast but he is faster then me".Second place was won by Hashim Jusoh who has 6 points.Yours truly could only finished in the 5th place and failed to win top three prize money. In under 18 section Siti Aisyah Sabirin came out as the winner and her sister Siti Khadijah Sabirin is under 12 champion.

Full result of elite section is here.

UITM INTER CAMPUS GAME

Uitm inter campus sports carnival (Karisma) is in progress at UITM Segamat.As of 6 pm six rounds has been played and tomorrow will be last two games.Below is the current standing:-



1.Shah Alam 19.5
2.Johor 17
3.Pahang 17
4.Perak 16
5.Terengganu 16.

CABARAN CATUR TCA 4 KATEGORI BAWAH 12 DAN BAWAH 18 TAHUN

CABARAN CATUR TCA 4– Bawah 12 dan Bawah 18

 Maklumat Pertandingan:

 

Tarikh            :           26 hb Okt 2011 (Rabu – Depavali))

Tempat :          Bangunan Trasformasi UiTM, Depan Balai Polis Dungun

Syarat dan Format Pertandingan:

Pertandingan ini hanya terbuka kepada pelajar sekolah rendah (Bawah12 tahun) dan sekolah menengah (Bawah 18 tahun).

Pertandingan akan dijalankan secara 7 pusingan swiss dengan kawalan masa 20 minit sehingga tamat.

Sistem pemutus: Solkoff, SB, PE, Kumulatif,

Jadual dan Aturcara

 Pendaftaran Ahli : 8.30 – 9.30 pagi       Pusingan 5:        2.30 ptg

Pusingan 1:       9.30 pagi                        Pusingan 6:        3.20 ptg

Pusingan 2:       10.20 pagi                     Pusingan 7:        4.10 ptg

Pusingan 3:       11.10 pagi                    

Pusingan 4:       12.00 t/hari                  Penyampaian Hadiah: 5.00 petang

Hadiah : Sepuluh (10) hamper disediakan dan sijil penyertaan /sijil pemenang

Hadiah wang tunai akan ditambah jika penyertaan mencapai 50 orang.

Yuran : RM10 seorang

Penyertaan terhad kepada 80 orang sahaja. Pendaftaran Awal: Sila hubungi

Cikgu Sabirin (013-9333393) atau Rahim (013-9390419)

MALAYSIAN BLIND CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP 2011

SBM (Malaysia Blind Society) of Terengganu Branch has organised National Chess Championship for blind was held on Sunday at Kompleks Sukan Jalan Pasir Panjang Kuala Terengganu.The one day event was divided into the two categories, total blind (B1 category) and partial blind (B2-B3).

In the B1 category there are ten players took part and was won by national player Amir Shamsuddin of Kuala Lumpur.Second prize was won by Idris Mat Saman from Besut Terengganu.Third place was won by Che Ibrahim Che Man from Kelantan.In the B2 - B3 category was won by Awaluddin Taibon followed by Saharuddin Mappa and third place was won by Mahadhir Gani.

Download full results B1 category here.

Download full results B2B3 category here.

PREDATOR WINS TEAM EVENT AT DUNGUN

Team Predator wins Terengganu Interteam Chess Championship which ended yesterday at Uitm Dungun..Each team consisted of two players and combination of the two must not more then 3250 of the published national rating.My combination with Terengganu's junior player Aiman Zakwan proved lethal as we lead the rest of field right from the start.


Second place was won by team Undisputed trailing by half a points.Team captain Fairul Yusoff lost his game to yours truly when our team met in the 5th round.For team Predator our 6 and seven round opponents just a mere formality because we know the title is ours.


Full result is here

I AM ALWAYS LUCKY

I am lucky prize winner again at playchess.com tournament this morning.I scored 4 points from 9 round of 3 minutes blitz tournament to finish at no 64 from 126 players, mostly from Europe.Ten lucky winners from this tournament will received 30 days membership at playchess.com.

You can join me here if you are a member.If not buy latest version of Fritz13 for about RM260 and you will get membership benefits.

It has been good training preparation for Saturday team event that I am taking part at Dungun on Saturday.I hope me and my teammate Aiman Zakwan will play well.

PERTANDINGAN CATUR OKU

Berikut ialah nama peserta yang telah mendaftar untuk menyertai kejohanan catur OKU peringkat Kebangsaan anjuran SBM yang akan diadakan di Kompleks Belia dan Sukan Jalan Pasir Panjang Kuala Terengganu pada 16hb hingga 17hb Oktober 2011.

1.        En. Hanafi Bin Abdul Rahman.

2.       En. Anwar Bin Ismail.

3.       En. Che Ibrahim Bin Che Man.

4.       En. Ramli Bin Mat Shom.

5.       En. Ibrahim Bin Muda.

6.       En. Maznan Bin Mat Zain.

7.       En. Idris Bin Mat Saman.

8.       En. Ismail Bin Sulong.

9.       En. Mohd. Fekkeri Bin Mat Jusoh

10.   En. Ahmad Razif Bin Embong.

11.   En. Kamarolzaman Bin Abdul Latif.

12.   Pn. Siti Fatimah Binti Abd Hamid.

13.   En. Muhammad Abdul Nasir Bin Malek.

14.   Pn. Rahimah Binti Mohd Khair.

15.   En. Mahadhir Bin Gani.

16.   En. Amir.

17.   En. Ramalik Shah.

18.   Tn. Hj. Abdul Majid.

19.   En. Ishak Ngau.

20.   En. Awaluddin.

21.   En. Salahuddin.

PLAYED BADLY BUT STILL WINS

After weeks of  no lucky prize at playchess.com.I finally strike again by winning 30 days membership .They were 181 regular players took part in the nine round blitz last night. I finished at number 122 with 3 wins and four loses to lower ranked players.But still lucky to win.You can join me in this tournament if you buy the latest version of fritz 13  for RM260 and maybe I can share my secret how to win lucky prize at playchess.com.

FESTIVAL CATUR MELAKA POLITEKNIK MELAKA MERLIMAU

Politeknik Merlimau Melaka akan menganjurkan kejohanan catur terbuka sebagaimana maklumat yang dibawah. Untuk maklumat lanjut serta pendaftaran sila hubungi Encik Khairi Jansar tel no 019 391 4349.

Tarikh Kejohanan 9hb Oktober 2011
Tempat kejohanan :Dewan Platinum Politeknik Merlimau.

Yuran Penyertaan :

Rating 1400 ke atas RM25
Rating 1400 ke bawah RM 20

Bawah 18 tahun

Rating 1400 keatas RM20
Rating 1400 kebawah RM20

Hadiah bagi rating 1400 keatas.
1.RM400 , kedua RM300 ,ketiga RM200 , keempat RM100 , kelima RM70

Hadiah bagi rating 1400 kebawah

1.RM350 , kedua RM250 , Ketiga RM150 , keempat RM80 , kelima RM50

Tarikh tutup penyertaan 6hb Oktober 2011

 

 

 

 

   

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I­t ha­s­ be­a­te­n­­ a­ r­e­i­gn­­i­n­­g Wor­ld Cha­mpi­on­­ i­n­­ the­ ba­ttle­ of ma­n­­ v­s­ ma­chi­n­­e­, a­n­­d i­t ha­s­ wor­k­e­d wi­th Wor­ld Cha­mpi­on­­s­ a­s­ a­ cle­v­e­r­ tr­a­i­n­­i­n­­g pa­r­tn­­e­r­ (Ga­r­r­y K­a­s­pa­r­ov­: “I­ r­e­gula­r­ly a­n­­a­lys­e­ wi­th Fritz”) whi­ch wi­ll e­n­­te­r­ta­i­n­­ you wi­th fr­e­s­h a­n­­d humor­ous­ v­e­r­ba­l comme­n­­ts­.

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· 6 mon­­ths­ pr­e­mi­um me­mbe­r­s­hi­p on­­ Pla­ychess.com

N­­E­W: The­ e­r­gon­­omi­c i­n­­te­r­fa­ce­ gi­v­e­s­ you i­n­­s­ta­n­­t a­cce­s­s­ to a­ll the­ mos­t i­mpor­ta­n­­t fun­­cti­on­­s­. Thi­s­ me­a­n­­s­ mor­e­ comfor­t a­n­­d cle­a­r­e­r­ con­­tr­ols­. I­t i­s­ s­o e­a­s­y a­n­­d fa­s­t, to pla­y wi­th Fritz.

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E­n­­joy the­ i­n­­s­tr­ucti­v­e­ a­n­­a­lys­i­s­ of ma­s­te­r­ ga­me­s­, the­ di­s­cus­s­i­on­­ of cle­v­e­r­ ope­n­­i­n­­gs­ tr­a­ps­, de­a­dly combi­n­­a­ti­on­­s­ to s­olv­e­.

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FR­I­TZ­ he­lps­ you to fi­n­­d fr­i­e­n­­ds­. I­t i­n­­clude­s­ a­ s­i­x mon­­th s­ubs­cr­i­pti­on­­ to Pla­ychess.com, the­ wor­ld’s­ bi­gge­s­t chess s­e­r­v­e­r­. E­v­e­r­y da­y you ha­v­e­ thous­a­n­­ds­ of pla­ye­r­s­ logge­d i­n­­to thi­s­ v­i­r­tua­l chess club.

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R­e­comme­n­­de­d: PC I­n­­te­l Cor­e­ 2 Duo, 2.4 GHz­, 3 GB R­A­M, Wi­n­­dows­ V­i­s­ta­ or­ Wi­n­­dows­ 7, Di­r­e­ctX10 gr­a­phi­cs­ ca­r­d (or­ compa­ti­ble­) wi­th 512 MB R­A­M or­ mor­e­, 100% Di­r­e­ctX10 compa­ti­ble­ s­oun­­d ca­r­d, Wi­n­­dows­ Me­di­a­ Pla­ye­r­ 11, DV­D R­OM dr­i­v­e­ a­n­­d i­n­­te­r­n­­e­t a­cce­s­s­ (pla­ychess.com, upda­te­s­ a­n­­d a­cti­v­a­ti­on­­).

I believed Fritz 13 nothing much difference from previous version.I am quite suprised when Chessbase limit premium membership to playchess.com to six months only from 12 months.But the best part for me , about this programme is that I  can take part in daily tournament and try to win membership extension,which I did in many occasion.You can order from me  now for RM260.00 and delivery will be in 3 weeks from now on.

Source :Chessbase.