TAL MEMORIAL CHESS TOURNAMENT 2009

The Tal Memorial Chess Tournament is named after Mikhail Tal the 8th world chess champion.He died at the age of 55 years old in Moscow June 1992.He also known as The Magician From Riga.His is famous for sacrificed material in search for the initiative.

The tournament which started in 2006 now continue with 2009 edition.I had the opportunity to follow the category 21 event last night live.Ten of world class granmasters took part and for those with access with live games sure will enjoy the live broadcast.Round starts at 8.00 pm Malaysia time.

Round 1 however all five boards ended with a draw.Will the defending champion Ivanchuk able to defence the title ?May be we have to wait until the event finished on 14th November.You can go to playchess com to download and also chessdom com to watch live games.

LAGRAVE AND SOUMYA ARE THE WORLD JUNIORS CHAMPION

France Granmaster Lagrave has won the world junior title after completed the 13 round tournament with 10.5points.He won 8 games and drew 5 games including drew with Belarussian Zhigalko in the 6th round.Zhigalko had to be satisfied with the second place due to his lower tie break score.Third place was won by Polish Grandmaster Michal Olszewski with 9 points.


In the girls category India Soumya Swaminathan with 9.5 points was declared as a champion after beating two other girls on tiebreak.Turkish players Yildiz Betul who was leading until 12 round drew againt her opponent from India.






Final standing for boys click here

Final standing for girls click here

SOURCE FROM : ARGENTINA CHESS DEDERATION AND SWISS MANAGER HOMEPAGE AND CHESSBASE

WORLD JUNIOR UNDER 20 UPDATE

GM MAXIME LAGRAVE VACHIER


WIM YILDIZ BETUL CEMRE

World Junior Chess Championship for under 20 in Argentina continues and the final round will be play tomorrow.Grandmaster Zhigalko of Belarus with 10 points is leading with halfpoint over France GM Lagrave.Zhigalko never lost any games in this event and in the final round he is due to play with Ivan Popov of Russia.

In the girls section WIM Yildiz Betul Cemre of Turkey is leading with 9 points and will be playing with India Monisha Mohanty who has 7.5 points.If the Turkish player get a draw she will be install the new world champion and surely will boost morale Turkish chess players in her native country that will host the world youth championship next week.

Click here for boy crosstable
Click here for girl crosstable




SOURCES FROM :SWISS MANAGER HOMEPAGE/CHESSDOM/CHESSBASE

KUALA KRAI OPEN : CLOSING CEREMONY VIDEO

Result for under 12 category click here






My 6 years old son won 1st prize for under 9 category

UIA OPEN RESULT

Below are picture of result UIA open which ended yesterday that I received from Mohd Syazwan Zulkifli.

UIA OPEN: LIM YEE WENG IS THE CHAMP

The Universiti Islam Antarabangsa open rapid event one of the strongest rapid event yet for this year.From the list that I received from Mohd Shazwan Zulkifli the 9th place winner I can see almost country top players were there.From Lim Yee Weng to Nicholas Chan and Ian Udani.Lim Yee Weng emerged a clear winner with 6.5 points from seven games.Sharing second place to fifth place are Nicholas Chan,Sumant Subramaniam,Edward Lee and Jax Tham.Terengganu Nor Ilhamuddin 5 points finished 15th place.

MY FRITZ 12

My frit 12 just arrived and now exploring the function and to get my self familiar with all the function.If you interested to buy the programme please contact me.Original copy at RM300 including delivery charges.

NOVEMBER FIDE RATING LIST

FIDE rating list for November just came out.As expected Topalov of Bulgaria maintained the no 1 spot with 2810.Second on the list is chess prodigy Magnus Calsen who reached 2801 after briliant performence in Nanjing Pearl spring Tournament few weeeks ago.Who knows what this kid will achieved for the next 5 years, will he win the world championship ?

On the Malaysia front Mas Hafizul with 2419 is the number one in Malaysia and Nicholas Chan reached 2402 and IM Mok 2389 still short 11 points from the magic 2400.

And lastly our very own Nor Ilhamuddin is now 2044 and maintained his status as Terengganu number one player.Ilahmuddin played 18 games during the rating period.None other Terengganu players played rated event during that period.Also a few other Terengganu players like Ruzenan Abu Bakar,Abdul Rahim Ramli,Hisamullah Harun and Siti Nuraihan need to play between two or four games in order to be rated.

For Malaysia top players list base on rating click here

For world top 100 players click here

NORAZMI CRUISE TO VICTORY

Season chess player Norazmi Mohd Nor from Dungun Terengganu cruised to win the Kuala Krai Open (Kejohanan Catur Terbuka Petra 2)yesterday with perfect score 7/7.One hundred players majority from Kelantan took part in this tournament.Kelantan former top player Muhd Bakri Jusoh score 6 points losing a game to eventual champion to finish second.Izuddin Ahayat also from Kelantan finished 3rd place also 6 points with lower tie break.Former UPSI palyer Nik Mohd Nazri finished 4th place.

Complete table click here.

WORLD JUNIOR UNDER 20 UPDATE

The world junior for under 20 continues and last night round 7 was played.On board 1 they were encounter between GM Lagrave and Li Chao which ended in a drew from petroff opening.This game may attaract Petroff lovers especially my good friend USM open champion Ruzenan Abu Bakar.

After 7 round of play Belarussian GM Zhigalko is the current leader with 6 points ,crosstable click here

CHESS TOURNAMENTS THIS WEEKEND

This weekend there will be 2 chess tournaments one in Kelantan and the other one at the Universiti Islam Malaysia Gombak Selangor.

Below are the particular :-




To register and information please call these number.Participant please confirm your entry in order to avoid any inconvenient.

Norsharmila Zabani (03-6196 5393)
Ahmad Fadzil Nayan (013-9531278)
Nurul Azlina Bakrin (017-4625224)


and for players in East Coast please register with me asap as I will be at Kuala Krai as an arbiter .Temerloh Open Champion Norazmi Mohd Nor alrady confirm his entry to this tounament and my fellow blogger Badbishop will be playing also.I will update the event regularly through chess-result.com if I can access the internet.

WORLD JUNIOR UNDER 20 ROUND 6 UPDATE

The world under 20 chess championship in Argentina continues and French super grandmaster (GM) Vacier lagrave is just ahead of (GM)Zhigalko of Belarus although each have 5 points.Both of them drew when they played in the six round.

Lagrave will be playing with Li Chao of China and the latter will be playing with Rodshtein of Israel.After a few round I noticed that Philipine Wesley So didnt played in this championship.My earlier reports base on info from swiss manager crosstable.

In the girl section Padmini Rout is the sole leader with 5 points and follow closely by Turkish player Betul and Chinese Zhang Xiaowen both have an equal 4.5 points from 6 games.

You may follow live game here which start at 17.00 Argentina time and I believe 5 am Malaysia time.For crosstable click here

KUALA KRAI OPEN / KEJOHANAN CATUR TERBUKA PETRA 2009

TARIKH KEJOHANAN : 31 OKTOBER 2009 (SABTU)

YURAN PENYERTAAN :-

1) KATEGORI TERBUKA : 13 tahun dan ke atas
a) Peserta Daerah Kuala Krai : RM10.00
b) Peserta Luar Daerah Kuala Krai - (Kelantan) : RM15.00;
c) (Luar Kelantan) : RM20.00
d) Pelajar sekolah (RM5.00)
e) kategori bawah 12 tahun RM5.00

HADIAH :-

KATEGORI TERBUKA :
I)JOHAN – RM300.00,
2)NAIB JOHAN – RM200.00,
3)RM150.00, KE-4 – RM100.00,
KE-5 HINGGA KE-10 – RM50.00;
TERBAIK KUALA KRAI – RM50.00


)TERBAIK BAWAH 18 TAHUN DAN 15 TAHUN (LELAKI DAN PEREMPUAN)

JOHAN –RM50.00,
NAIB JOHAN –RM40.00
KE-3 –RM30.00

KATEGORI BAWAH 12 TAHUN (LELAKI DAN PEREMPUAN) :

JOHAN – RM50.00,
NAIB JOHAN – RM40.00,
KE-3 – RM30.00, KE-4 HINGGA KE-10 – SAGUHATI

* SIJIL PENYERTAAN AKAN DIBERIKAN KEPADA SEMUA PESERTA.

JADUAL PERTANDINGAN :-
8.00 – 9.00 PAGI - PENGESAHAN PENYERTAAN DAN PENDAFTARAN LEWAT
9.00 – 9.30 - TAKLIMAT ARBITER & PESERTA
9.30 – 10.20 - PUSINGAN 1
10.35 – 11.25 - PUSINGAN 2
11.40 – 12.30 PETANG - PUSINGAN 3
12.30 – 2.00 - REHAT
2.00 – 2.50 - PUSINGAN 4
3.05 – 3.55 - PUSINGAN 5
4.10 – 5.00 - PUSINGAN 6
5.30 PETANG - PENYAMPAIAN HADIAH & PENUTUP
(Sebarang pertanyaan dan pengesahan penyertaan, sila hubungi Nik Mohd Azrihan : 019-9866428)

WORLD JUNIOR U 20 UPDATE: ALL IN SPANISH

The world junior championship currently being held in Argentina a spanish speaking country.Except for basic infomation which is in english and the rest is in spanish.I also cannot find games from this championship.From my past experienced to read hand writting from different countries and continents are not an easy task.But luckily the organiser upload result to the chess result.At least we have something to do.

Here is current standing for boys and girls.




SOURCE : FROM SWISS MANAGER HOMEPAGE UPLOAD BY THE ORGANISER

WORLD JUNIOR CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPS U-20 2009

World junior chess championship for under 20 starts on 21st October until 4th November in Argentina.91 players from 46 countries are fighting for the conveted title.Vachier Lagrave Mazime of France is the 1st seeded player with FIDE rating 2718.Tournament 2nd seeded player is Andrekin Dmitry of Russia with FIDE rating 2659.Zhigalko Sergei of Belarus 2646 and ASEAN player Wesley So is seeded 4th with FIDE rating 2644.Magnus Calsen is not playing in this tournament although he is still eligible to play.


In girl section 55 players from 35 countries will be playing and India's WGM Mary Ann Gomes FIDE rating of 2396 is seeded first.China Zhang Xiaowen is seeded second with FIDE rating of 2391

Asean powerhouse Vietnam and Indonesia didnt send their representative in this event.


Tournament facf : 38 GM in boy section and 5 WGM in girl section
: 14 IM in boy section and 16 IWM in girl section
: 13 FM in boy section and 6 WFM in girl section
: 1 CM in boy section.

Source from :Argentina Chess

PICTURE REPORT DUNGUN OPEN 2009

Complete result here

all pictures by asman amin

DUNGUN OPEN : DAY TWO UPDATE

Second day of Dungun,Mohd Khair Wahiduddin is leading the tournament with 4.5 points after beating teammate Abdul Kahlid Musa.His will playing with local player Abdul Rahim Ramli.On the second board Ruzenan Abu Bakar losing to Mohd Khair and will play with Abdul Khalid on the second board.Below is the current standing of the tournament .Round seven will start at 3.00 pm


1.Current standing of Master section

DUNGUN OPEN UPDATE:

About 78 players took part in Dungun Open at UITM Terengganu.18 players took part Master section and 60 players in the open section.Here is the current standing of the tournament:-

1.Master section
2.Open Section

DUNGUN OPEN STARTS TOMOROW

Dungun open starts tomorow.The two days tournament regretly only open to East Coast players and divided into 2 categories master and open section.Each will offer 5 cash prizes.For the master section the winner will received RM500 while the open section the winner will received RM200.They also also category for under 12 and 18.


Below are players who most likely will take part in master section.

1.Ruzenan Abu Bakar
2.Abdul Rahim Ramli
3.Norazmi Mohd Nor
4.Muhammad Arshad
5.Mohd Shazwan Zulkifli
6.Abdul Kadir Jailani
7.Mohd Ariff Ramli
8.Ramli Setapa
9.Abd Khalid Musa
10.Zailan Abas.

I will up date this event through chess-result.com.

NATIONAL RATING FOR OCTOBER: TOP PLAYERS

Below are list top players with the highest national rating.Although Ian Udani winning most of rapid event his national rating is 2147.IM Mas Hafizul continue to stay on top of the list with 2284 and Mok Tze Meng with 2229.


1.Mas Hafizul Hilmi 2284
2.Mok Tze Meng 2229
3.Nicholas Chan 2211
4.Ian Udani 2147

Tq Mr Chew Yaw Cheong for correcting my mistake.