NOTIS : UITM DUNGUN DITUNDA

Kepada semua pemain catur adalah dimaklumkan kejohanan catur terbuka UITM telah ditunda kepada suatu tarikh yang akan ditetapkan kemudian.Menurut Prof Madya Haji Abdul Rahim Ramli kejohanan tersebut akan dilansungkan selepas sambutan aidil fitri nanti.Kejohanan ini terpaksa ditunda berikutan wabak seselma babi yang yang melanda sekarang.

2ND KUANTAN MASTER RAPID: ABDULLAH SCORED FULL POINTS

Abdullah with his last round opponent

Abdullah received his prizes

Kamalazmi Wahiduddin (R)- Cikgu Ibrahim former Pahang Chess Secreatary

Abdullah Che Hassan wins the 2nd Kuantan Master Rapid Open with perfect score of 7 / 7 .Playing confidently after dismay performances at Temerloh Open Open last week.With this win Abdullah pocketed RM300 and other good worth RM300.Coming second is Hamidi Taib who has 6 points.Third place goes to with 5.5 points is Abdul Khalid Musa.Crosstable is here.Among Terengganu players who played there are yours truly , Nor Azmi Mohd Nor , Khairul Nazrin,Fairul Yusuff,Abdul Rahim Ramli, Ahmad Ariff Abdul Rahim ,Rozamzam Ibrahim , Hamlee Ismail.Norazmi children also played Musfirah ,Mubin Nor Azmi who won the under 12 category.

TEMERLOH OPEN PICTURES

Tournament Director Fazli Zulkarnain

Norazmi Mohd Nor

Ruzenan Abu Bakar

Kurnaini Karim @ Tengku Aspalani

Rosli Mohd Nor and arbiter Sabirin

Shukur Mustaffa

Siti Khadijah

Siti Aisyah

Anis Fariha Saleh

TEMERLOH OPEN : NORAZMI IS THE CHAMPION

Nor Azmi received his prizes from Dato Haji Mohd Sakar Shamsuddin

A few week ago my old friend Rosli Mohd Nor called me to help him organising his Temerloh Open.Well I said ok and he also asked me to bring the equipments.To be Temerloh is always exciting for me because I have many friends that I made in late eighties.Among strong Temerloh chess players are Rosli himself,ShukurMustaffa,UstazJamaluddin,Patahir Akhir,Shaharuddin Mohd Said and veteran Kurnaini Karim also known as Tengku Aspalani or Kasputra are among names that he used during tournamnet.

Temerloh "Chess Center" is located at Seberang Temerloh which is just located under the bridges that cross the Pahang river.At the center you can play chess almost 24 hours daily.Please made sure you pay a visit to the chess center.Dont forget to try the famous ikan patin there.


When I reached Temerloh and saw list of participants I found out that only 3 familiar players ,Ian Udani ,Kamaluddin Yusoff and Abdullah Che Hassan.In my mind Terengganu players should have an equal chances to finish among top winner.


For Norazmi Mohd Nor to finish as the champion will included in his long list of many tournament that he won in his playing career.Click here for cross table.

Open Section winners

1.Norazmi Mohd Nor
2.Ian Udani
3.Ruzenan Abu Bakar
4.Mohd Khair Wahiduddin
5.Kamaluddin Yusof
6.Fairul Yusoff
7.Hamidi Taib
8.Abdullah Che Hassan
9.Abdul Khalid Musa
10.Aidil Othman (Temerloh)

TEMERLOH OPEN UPDATE

Using Gilocatur broadband to update .Sorry for the delay.Last minute I decided to play.Here is the lastest standing for Temerloh Open.

OFF TO TEMERLOH OPEN

I will be going to Temerloh open today as an arbiter.Many Terengganu players also going to play there.Terengganu players who said is playing are Norazmi Mohd Nor,Ruzenan Abu Bakar ,Suhaidi Mustaffa ,Abdul Rahim Ramli ,Zailan Abas , Rozam zam, Adam and maybe Nor Ilhamuddin .I will update this blog during the event.See you all there.Organiser in Temerloh also said Ian Udani , Kamaluddin Yusuf , Abdullah Che Hassan among the players who register.

MAS HAFIZUL MISSES A GM NORM

Mas Hafizul Hilmi

Malaysia top player Mas Hafizulhilmi Agus Abdul Rahman give commanding performance in qualifying round of world championship in Vietnam last week.He finished 6 points from 9 round game format to produce his best ever result in his quest for norm and ultimately the Grandmaster title.Mas misses GM norm merely by half a point.I think Mas has learnt a lot from this event and hopefully he will improve his games in future tournament.

They are 54 players took part in zonal whereby most of the players are from Vietnam.Majority of them are under twenty and they even field up 3 under 12 players (Le Quan Long ,Nguyen Van Thuan Thanh and Le Huu Thai).Can our junior match thiers? But here in Terengganu they a teachers and parents insist their children played only in age group although they already state junior representative.

Its not that easy as we speak ,Mas really need a dedicated team behind to support him.Look at Indonesia team they always travel with coach and team manager when they played in overseas tournament.At least our player feel comfortable and can concentrate fully on their game.But the bottom line is ringgit and cents.

Zonal cross table here.

MAKSAK 2009 FLASHBACK

Hisamullah Harun & Hashim Jusoh

Md Azizul of Kelantan

Although annual MAKSAK chess event concluded two weeks ago and Sarawak team captured the title but I read interesting game analysis from Kelantan first board player Mohd Azizul Mat Daud about his game against Hashim Jusoh of Terengganu in our last round encounter.Honestly I always warned my players about capabality of players from others teams.Dont take them lightly and don't underestimate them whom "may" do not play tournament regularly.

Everyear I see each team improved their performances and they gave their best.This is contributed by chess activities in their particular states.In this case PDRM , Perlis ,Perak , Pahang are no longer whipping boys.

On the other hand I can also see they are team who selected their players among goodfriend without going through selection tournament.This may hinder the development of chess in their own state.


In the years to come I can see Kelantan ,Selangor will emerged as a strong challenger for Maksak title including traditional powerhouse Kuala Lumpur and Terengganu.I have doubt about Sarawak who have only Abang Mohd Ridhuan and Morsin Ahmad after Lim Kian Hwa retires soon.Our Terengganu players Hashim Jusoh, Hisamullah Harun and Ahmad Rizal may not perform this year but they are good at least for another 20 more years.Article by arch rival here

SYUEN GRANDPRIX

Perak Chess Association will organised yet another event Syuen Hotel on 16 August 2009.This tournament will be divided into 3 categories Open ,under 15 and under 12.Lately chess activities in Perak seems flourish with more tournament compare to last few years.In the nineties Perak had produce promising juniors like Mohd Hussin Jamil and Mohd Johan Jamil sons of Mohd Jamil Yahya the Malaysia Sport Council Technical Chairman for chess.I still remember names like Deon Moh and Aaron Yee both are among top juniors players in Perak during their heydays.More information about Perak Chess event click here.

TEMERLOH OPEN

This weekend there will be another chess tournament at Temerloh Pahang.This time organised by Persatuan Catur Temerloh.The two days event will be played at Dewan UMNO Haji Abdullah Kia which is located at Bangunan UMNO Temerloh in Mentakab.In the open section a total of RM3000 for the top ten winners.They are 10 prizes for local players.Also they are prizes for under 16 , under 12 ,best lady and best veteran.NM Zarul Syazwan is the defending champion.

Date : 1st and 2nd August 2009
Place: Bangunan UMNO.
Time control : 1hour /
Categoriy : Open , Under 16 , Under 12 .
First round starts at : 10.30 Am


PRIZES (Cash prizes and medal)

Open Section.

1.RM1000
2.RM500
3.RM400
4.RM350
5.RM250
6.RM180
7.RM80
8.RM60
9.RM50
10.RM50

UNDER 16
1.RM100
2.RM 50

UNDER 12
1.RM100
2.RM50

BEST LADY
1.RM100
2.RM 70

VETERAN
1.RM100
2.RM70

To register please contact Mr Fazli 019 9299767

DUNGUN OPEN (TEAM MIXED EVENT)

RAHIM & NORAZMI OF UITM DUNGUN

DATE : 14th to 15th August 2009 (FRIDAY & SATURDAY)
VENUE : DEWAN JASMIN , UITM DUNGUN


This event will be divided into two categories.

1). Individual
2).Team Event (Each team consisting 1 man and 1 lady player)


This is an individual event.Players who are registered as a team ( 1 man & 1 lady) qualified to win prizes for team event.Players may register their team member on the day of registration.

Individual Tie break : Number of points,Solkoff ,SB , PE, kumulatif

Team Event tie break : Total number of points collected

Entry Fee RM15.00 (Open Trg ),RM5.00 for Under 18.



PLAYING SCHEDULE :

Day 1 ( Friday 14 August)

8.00 - 9.00 Registration

Pusingan 1. 9.30 -11.00 am
Pusingan 2. 11.15 - 12.45 pm
Pusingan 3. 3.00 - 5.00 pm
Pusingam4. 5.15 - 7.15 pm

Day 2 ( Saturday 15 August)

Pusingan 5.8.30 - 10.30 am
Pusingan 6.10.45 - 12.45 pm
Pusingan 7.2.30 - 5.00 pm


Prizes (Individual category)

1.RM300
2.RM200
3.RM150
4.RM120
5.RM100
6.RM80
7.RM70
8.RM60
9.RM50
10.RM50

Team Category

1.RM200
2.RM180
3.RM150
4.RM100
5.RM100

Special prizes RM50 each for two best players for

1).University or college students
2).Under 18
3).Under 12
4).Best lady

Players who won main prize and team event not qualified to win this special prizes.

To register please call Mr Nor Azmi Mohd Nor mobile number 012 556 0460.

UTP OPEN CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP

Universiti Teknologi Petronas in conjunction with its Convo Fair will organised open chess tournament at Chancellor Hall.This tournament will be divided into 3 categories open, under 15 and under 12.A total of 22 cash prizes worth RM1830 to be distributed.In open section 1st prizes is worth RM500.To take part contact call Ummu Hani : 013 - 990 9501 or Bukhari 019 523 0131.

THE SARAWAK FIDE RATED TEAM EVENT

Mr Lim Kian Hwa of Sarawak Chess Association

Sarawak will host another FIDE rated event ( article below) on 25th to 27th Disember 2009 at Hotel Premier Sibu Sarawak.This event is open to all state representative.Each state will be represented by four players and will be provided food and lodging.Playing format is simple you will not be paired againts your state teammate.And at the end of the seven round , your points will be total up with your state teamate in order to determine the state champion and total prizes sum of RM5000.How that interesting.Last time state affiliate organised team event was in 1991 at Sabah where by Terengganu won and second place Kuala Lumpur.

Back to Sarawak event, this will be a FIDE rated event and it is possible to get rated altough the this event will be play on 7 round basis.Furthermore this event will be play in 3 days.According to FIDE regulation chapter 15 :

Rate of play :

1.1. For a game to be rated each players must have the following mininum periods in which to complete all the moves assuming the game last 60 moves.

1.11 Where at least one of the players in the tournament has a rating 2200 or higher .each players must have a minimun 120 minutes.

1.12 Where at least one of the players in the tournament has a rating 1600 or higher , each players must have a minimun 90 minutes.

1.13 Where all the players in the tournament are rated below 1600,each players must have a minimun 60 minutes.

Article 3.0

Number of round perday

3.1. No more then three round per day and total playing time of no more then 12 hours.


So state players get yourself ready for this event and contact your state association and book AIR ASIA ticket now.

THE UNIVERSAL CHINESE SPORT- KEJOHANAN CATUR MALAYSIA TERTUTUP 2009

The Sarawak Chess Association one of active chess assocition in Malaysia will organise a FIDE rated event on 25th Disember to 27th Disember at Hotel Premier ,Jalan Kampung Nyabor Sibu
Sarawak.This tournament is jointly organise with Lanang Chess Association.

Term and Conditions

1.This championship is open to all Malaysian citizen only.However players who have represented Malaysia in the last Chess Olympiad are not permitted to take part.

2.All players shall take part in a seven round swiss individual event.

3.The Organizer WILL PROVIDE 3 NIGHTS HOTEL ACCOMMODATION and food for four State players of the following state : Sabah , Sarawak , Johor ,Melaka , Negeri Sembilan,Selangor
Perak,Kedah, Perlis,Kelantan , Terengganu ,Pahang and Wilayah Persekutuan.Others interested players shall take part at their own expenses.

4.State represented from the same state would not be paired against each other.

5.The state representatives' results shall be added to contribute to the State Team standings.

6.Swiss manager program will be used for pairing.

7.IA Hamid Majid will be the Cheif Arbiter for the event.

8.A players represented the state must be currently staying ,working or studing in the state and has domiciled in the state for more then six months or was born in the state.


PRIZES CATEGORY


FOR STATE TEAM EVENT:

1.Champion RM2,000.00 and trophy
2.Runner up RM1,500.00 and trophy
3.Third RM1,000.00 and trophy
4.Fouth RM 500.00 and trophy


FOR INDIVIDUAL CHAMPION
1.RM2000
2.RM1500
3.RM1000
4.RM500
FIFTH PLACE TO 10TH PLACE RM200

The top four winner will be sponsored by The Universal Chinese Sports to take part in the Asian Tournament which will be organized by the Universal Chinese Sport in the near future.

RESULT

Individual result will be based on the following criteria :

1. Final Score
2.solkoff
3.Sonneborn berger
4.Cummulative

Team results will be base on the sum of the state representatives on the following criteria:

1. Final score
2. solkoff
3. Sonneborn berger
4. Cummulative

RECORD OF MOVES

1. A moves must be recorded


TIME CONTROL

Time control is 90 minutes with 30 second increment from move one


REGISTRATION

Registration fee is RM50 per players.Dateline for registration before 15th November 2009 5.pm


PAYMENT

Payment can be made to Lim Kian Hwa Maybank account 111039124500.Please keep the bank in slip as proof of payment.

SCHEDULE

1. 25 Disember ( Friday ) 2.30 pm to 6.30 pm Round 1
7.30 pm to 11.30 pm Round 2

2. 26 Disember ( Saturday) 8.00 am to 12.00 pm Round 3
2.00 pm to 6.00 pm Round 4
7.30 pm to 11.30 pm Round 5

4. 27 Disember ( Sunday ) 8.00 am to 12.00 pm Round 6
1.30 pm to 5.30 pm Round 7
6.30 Closing dinner


Contact person : IR Lim Kian Hwa ( Ikhwa@tm.net.my)
318 , Lorong 9B ,Jalan Kapor
93150 Kuching

Tel : 082 203 202 / 082 427772 /016 8603180 /Fax 082 425240

PICTURES OF MAKSAK MALAYSIA CHESS EVENT

MAKSAK TERENGGANU

NASROL HUMAIMI OF JOHOR

KAMALARIFFIN & AHMAD RIZAL

MARZUKI MAT OF PERLIS

MD FAIZ TAN OF MELAKA

Honestly I am not happy with Terengganu performances in Maksak last week.We are not at our best even losing unexpectedly to teams that we should beat quite easily.Some of our players seem out of touch with the game, losing a complete winning position but I know all of them give all of their best .I know that Terengganu will recover next year and we will clinch the title back .

TERENGGANU GAGAL MEMPERTAHANKAN KEJUARAAN

Abg Ahmad Reduan Pemain Papan pertama Sarawak

Pasukan Catur Maksak Terengganu gagal untuk menjuarai acara catur MAKSAK berpasukan dalam percubaan untuk menyamakan rekod Kuala Lumpur iaitu juara 3 kali berturut.Pasukan Terengganu yang dibarisi oleh Hashim Jusoh,Hisamullah Harun,Ahmad Rizal Othman , Nor Azmi Mohd Nor dan Abdul Rahim Ramli sekadar bermain dibawah keupayaan sebenar. Kesungguhan permainan pasukan Sarawak akhirnya mengulangi kejayaan tahun 2002 dengan muncul juara dengan mengutip 18.5 mata dengan meninggalkan pasukan naib juara Kuala Lumpur yang hanya mendapat 16 mata.Pasukan Pahang yang mengejutkan Terengganu mengumpul 14.5 mata.Pasukan tuahrumah Kelatan mengalahkan Terengganu dipusingan akhir mendapat tempat keempat.Kegagalan pasukan Terengganu untuk mempertahankan kejuaraan diluar jangkaan sama sekali.Klik disini untuk keputusan penuh pusingan pemenang.


1.Sarawak 18.5
2.Kuala Lumpur 16
3.Pahang 14.5
4.Kelantan 14.5
5.Terengganu 14
6.PDRM 11.5
7.Johor 11.5
8.Perak 11.5

DUN SRI ANDALAS RESULTS

OPEN SECTION

63 players

1.Iam Udani 5.5 points
2.Faizal Andin 5.5. points
3.Lim Zhuo Ren 5.0 points
4.Yeoh li Tian 4.5 points
5.Jax Tham 4.5 points
6.Razali Hamzah 4.5 points
7.Ahmad Rubel Abas 4.5 points
8.Yeoh Chin Seng 4.5 points
9.Tun Seri Lanang 4.5 points
10.Azman Hisham Che Doi 4.0 points


UNDER 18

48 Players

1.WCM Nor Nabila Azman Hisham
2.Chong Yan Men
3.Amira Syamina Zullkafli
4.Ashman Raizuddin
5.Check King Leong
6.Nurul Adlina
7.Farah Amirah Farizal
8.Mohd Nabil Danial
9.Tiang Chang Shen
10.Nur Farihah Aminuddin


UNDER 12

43 Players

1.WFM Nur Najiha Azman Hisham 5.5 points
2.Sivanesan Subramaniam 5.0 points
3.SITI AISYAH SABIRIN 5.0 points
4.Mohd Fikri Farizal 5.0 points
5.Anis Fariha Saleh 4.5 points
6.Mohd Irfan Haqqim 4.0 points
7.Mohd Faizal Roslan 4.0 points
8.Puteri Munajah Al Zahra 4.0 points
9.Leong Zhi Chen 4.0 points
10.SITI KHADIJAH SABIRI 4.0 points

MAKSAK MALAYSIA

MAKSAK Malaysia chess tournament started yesterday and primary round just ended on Friday.The final round will be play on Saturday at Kelantan Trade Center.Here is the list of team who will play in the final round.

1.Kuala Lumpur MP 7 , 12 points
2.PDRM MP 7, 10.5 points
3.Pahang MP 6 , 10 points
4.Terengganu MP 5 , 10 points
5.Sarawak MP 5 , 9.5 points
6.Perak MP 5 , 9 points
7.Johor MP 5 , 8 points
8.Kelantan MP 4 , 9.5 points

NATIONAL RATING JULY

National rating just came out.From the list I can see 6829 chess players are at least rated.Probably more then 5 events are not rated officially.To calculate all this is time consuming ( I simply will give up if they ask me to do this) and good in math.Although 6829 are rated I believed several thousand players should be rated ,I say maybe another 5000 should be rated.Out that total figure I believed 2000 is die hard chess players.But it is very hard to find an exact number of chess population in this country.Base on the national rating Ruzenan abu Bakar is the top player and second is Abdul Rahim Ramli.Both are not FIDE rated players but need 4 rated games to be officially rated.Mohd Khairul Nazrin is the highest rating increment by making 259 points due to his participants in various rated event in the country for the past 3 months.


1.Ruzenan Abu Bakar 1711 (1711)
2. Abdul Rahim Ramli 1710 (1710
3.Hashim Jusoh 1708 (1708)
4.Hisamullah Harun 1699 (1699)
5.Mohd Khairul Nazrin 1692 (1433
6.Muhammad Arshad 1689 (1504)
7.Ahmad Rizal Othman 1688 ( 1658)
8.Norazmi Mohd Nor 1683 (1683)
9.Mohd Syazwan Zulkifli 1680 (1651)
10.Heng Aik Kiat 1675 (1675)
11.Fairul Yusuf 1667 ( 1683 )
12.Suhaidi Mustaffa 1658 (1658)
13.Abdul Kadir Jailani 1657 (1672)

DE LAGUNA PORT KELANG ALL RESULT

Kamaluddin Yusuf 2nd Place in Open Section

NWM Wendy Tan Li Ting 1st place in Under 12

Zarul Syazwan Zullkafli continues his good form to win another rapid event.This time he finished 6.5 points to win the De Laguna Port Kelang OpenHe scored five consercutive win before draw one game with secondplace winner Kamaluddin Yusuff and in the last round Zarul beats Ian Udani to become eventual winner.Third place goes to prolifik Mohd Fadli Zakaria with six points.Securing fourth place is Zarul Shafiq Zullkafli with 5.5 who has better tie break from 4 other players.9th place won by 9years old Yeoh Li Tian and Terengganu Mohd Syazwan Zulkifli.The other Terengganu player who also taking part is Hashim Jusoh could only managed to be in 15 place with 5 points with lower tie break.


NWM Wendy Tan Li Ting easily win under 12 category and Roshan Ajeet Singh adn third place was won by Mohd Irfan Haqim.27 juniors players took part in this category.