KUALA KRAI OPEN ON 31st OCTOBER

There will be a chess tournament on 31st October in Kuala Krai.The tournament will be divided into 3 category.

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

In the open section will offer 10 cash prizes.First prize winner will received RM300 and second prizes is RM200.To register and infomation please sms me .More details later.

KEJOHANAN CATUR TERBUKA UITM DUNGUN

KEJOHANAN CATUR TERBUKA UiTM DUNGUN TAHUN 2009

SYARAT PENYERTAAN DITETAPKAN OLEH PIHAK PENGANJUR KEJOHANAN

1. TARIKH DAN TEMPAT PERTANDINGAN

TARIKH : 17 – 18 Oktober 2009
HARI : Sabtu & Ahad
TEMPAT : Blok 8, UiTM DUNGUN.

2. SYARAT DAN FORMAT PERTANDINGAN

Pertandingan ini hanya terbuka kepada pemain dari negeri Pantai Timur sahaja. Pertandingan ini mengandungi 2 kategori iaitu
(i) kategori Masters
(ii) kategori Terbuka

Bagi kategori Masters, hanya pemain terpilih sahaja yang dibenarkan bertanding. Manakala semua pemain yang lain akan bertanding dalam kategori Terbuka.

Pertandingan akan dijalan secara 7 pusingan swiss dengan kawalan masa 45 minit sehingga tamat. Sistem pemutus yang akan digunakan adalah seperti berikut.

Bilangan mata, Solkoff dan SB, PE, Kumulatif,

3. Jadual dan Aturcara

Hari Pertama (Sabtu , 17 Oktober 2009) Hari Kedua : (Ahad 18 Oktober 2008)

Pendaftaran : 9.00 pg – 10.30 pagi Pusingan 4 9.00 pg – 10.30 pagi
Pusingan 1 11.00 pg – 12.30 t/hari Pusingan 5 11.00 pg – 12. 30 t/hari
Pusingan 2 2.30 ptg– 4.00 ptg Pusingan 6 2.00 ptg – 3.30 ptg
Pusingan 3 4.30 ptg– 6.00 ptg Pusingan 7 3.45 ptg – 5.15 ptg

Penyampaian Hadiah : 5.30 petang

4. Hadiah Kategori Masters

Johan : RM 500
Naib Johan RM 300
Ketiga RM 200
Keempat RM 150
Kelima RM 100

Kategori Terbuka
Johan : RM 200
Naib johan RM 150
Ketiga RM 100
Keempat RM 80
Kelima RM 70

Hadiah Khas: Hadiah saguhati (RM50 setiap satu) kepada:

(i) 2 pelajar universiti/kolej
(ii) 2 pemain bawah 18 tahun
(iii) 2 pemain bawah 12 tahun
(iv) 2 pemain wanita

Pemain yang memenangi hadiah utama tidak berhak menerima hadiah khas.

5. Yuran :

(i) Pelajar Sekolah Rendah : RM 5.00
(ii) Pelajar Sekolah Menengah/ Kolej/IPT: RM 10.00
(iii) Pemain dalam negeri Terengganu: RM15.00
(iv) Pemain luar negeri Terengganu: RM20.00

Urusetia : Norazmi (012-5560460) dan Siti Naqiah (017-7640764, 0139033181)

USM OPEN :RUZENAN IS THE CHAMP AGAIN

Season chess player Ruzenan Abu Bakar emerged champion in the USM Open which ended yesterday at Kompleks Sukan USM at Kubang Kerian yesterday.He collected 5 points from 6 round.152 players took part in this annual event.Veteran player Ghazali Che Cob Finished second with 5 points and Suhaidi Mustaffa finished third.Complete result below.



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

USM OPEN PRIZE GIVING CEREMONY

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.

DATCC CHESS LEAGUE RATED

The DATCC chess league is officially rated by FIDE.I played two games for Nusa Mahsuri.I beat Lim Chong of BERNAMA formely Malay Mail chess colummist and lose to Kamalariffin Wahiddudin.My former padawan Hashim Jusoh is also played with Nusa Mahsuri.He scored 3 points from 4 games..Here is the tournament report submitted by MCF.

Correction:
Actually I played with Nusa Mahkota not Nusa Mahsuri.Badminton will be always my
favourite sport after chess.You can call me die hard or fanatic badminton fan.Thank you
Hairulov

ORDER YOUR FRITZ 12 HERE

1 AM SELLING THIS ORIGINAL COPY AT RM235.00 INCLUDING POSTAGE.Below is excerpt article from chessbase.


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Fritz prepares you for serious encounters over the chessboard. Have you ever trained with a human grandmaster? Fritz provides you with twelve hours of video lessons for every level of play. Enjoy the instructive analysis of master games, the discussion of clever openings traps, deadly combinations to solve. The video material introduces you to world class grandmasters like Alexei Shirov, Rustam Kasimdzhanov, Vladimir Kramnik, Vishy Anand, even chess legend Garry Kasparov. And if you cannot play chess Fritz will teach you the rules of the games – within an hour you will be playing your first game of chess.


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REMINDER : CHESS TOURNAMNETS IN KELANTAN

Please take note that there are two events coming up in Kelantan for month of October


1. The USM Kubang Kerian Open on 10/10/2009

2. The Kuala Krai Open on 31/10/2009.



More details will be publised in the next few week.To register and information please call me or sms.(Muhammad Arshad 012 921 0841).

SELAMAT HARI RAYA AIDIL FITRI

Kepada semua pengunjung blog ini saya mengucapkan SELAMAT MENYAMBUT AILDIL FITRI.Jika berpeluang anda juga di jemput untuk menghadiri rumah terbuka saya di Taman Semarak Bukit Tunggal pada hari raya kedua bermula jam 12 tengahari hingga 8 petang.

Selamat Hari Raya.

MAS IN SLOVAKIA

Here is the 9th round game played by Mas

MAS IN SLOVAKIA (8th Round Game)

Below is Mas 8th round game yesterday.Today is the final round in this grandmaster tournament.This tournament involving 4 players from host country,2 from Germany ,2 from Czech ,1 from Ukraine and Mas Hafizul.From 40 games played so far statistic show that white wins 13 games,drawn games 20 and black could only managed 7 wins.Mas rating performances is 2462 and gain 5 points (until round 8).




Rank after round 8

Rank SNo.
1 8 IM SIMACEK Pavel 2499 CZE 5½ 19.50
2 1 IM JURCIK Marian 2477 SVK 5 19.50
3 7 GM KRIVOSHEY Sergei 2497 UKR 4½ 19.00
4 4 GM POLAK Tomas 2507 CZE 4 17.50
5 2 GM STOHL Igor 2543 SVK 4 15.25
6 10 IM MAS Hafizulhelmi 2416 MAS 4 14.75
7 5 IM MICHALIK Peter 2439 SVK 4 14.00
8 9 FM CSIBA Dominik 2353 SVK 3 11.75
9 6 IM HIRNEISE Tobias 2427 GER 3 11.25
10 3 FM STRUNSKI Andreas 2394 GER 3 11.00


Below Mas game with Dominic from host country who has rating 2353.

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.



SOURCE : SWISS MANAGER HOMEPAGE (UPLOAD BY)

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