KEJOHANAN CATUR TERTUTUP PETRONAS GAS BERHAD

Ruzenan Abu Bakar in his elements


Ruzenan Abu Bakar easily won Petronas Gas Malaysia Berhad Closed which ended yesterday at Kompleks Penapisan Gas at Paka Terengganu.He easily outsmart all his five opponents with easily.This selection tournament is part of their preparation for next year Petronas Sport Carnival next year.Here all the result.

WORLD YOUTH CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP : MALAYSIA DREAM DASHED

Amier Hamzah during Selangor Open 2009


Malaysia hopes of winning any medal at world age group championship ended yesterday when two of its brightest candidate succumbed to more experience opponents.Amier Hamzah lost his 11th round game to Tanuj from America.Amier Hamzah who played french defence lost in 33 moves.He will creates history for Malaysia chess if he beat his opponent and finished among top 3 winners.

Nur Nabila also played well through out the championship but losing two straight games to more experienced opponents who has better opening preparation.


Generally I think our juniors can make it at this stage as Amier and Nabila proved during this championship.I think what they need is the consistance exposure as their peers.Look at Iran who are now able to win world age group championship consistancely and that we need, and up to the MCF to chart the next course.

WATCHING WORLD YOUTH AT PLAYCHESS.COM

I think it's a rare opportunity to watch live game specially involving Malaysia player at world stage.At the world youth championship the organiser provided live games for top board only at official website.Chess enthusiasts everwhere glued to their computer including me.But I have better option I watched live through playchess.com which provided better coverage,I can add analysis engine to game that being play or watching several board simultaneously.This previlages given to all chessbase products buyer like fritz 12.

WORLD YOUTH CHESS : NUR NABILA LEADING THE CHARGE

Promising junior player Nur Nabila Azman Hisham is leading the Malaysia juniors players in world youth championship for under 12 girls in Turkey with 6.5 points.She need to win last two rounds in order to finish top honour in the 11 round game.

Today Nur Nabila will play American Sarah Chiang with the black pieces.Whatever the outcome of her last two round result she has performed well beyond, considering the chess scenario in Malaysia.Kudos to her parent Azman Hisham and Zaza.The other Malaysia representative in this category is Camillia Johari who now have 4 points.


PAIRING ROUND 10 TODAY 9 PM MALAYSIA TIME

WORLD YOUTH UPDATE : MALAYSIAN PLAYERS

Now that world Youth Chess Championship entered 10th round and with one more round to go Malaysia juniors hopes of winning any medal look promising.Nur Nabila is doing very well now .But they have shown that they have the capacity to progress in chess provided that are given more chances, in that sense more exposure in tournament overseas maybe.By playing 25 minutes chess that we are use to have over the weekend is not going to help them progress further.Nowaday you can stay at home and play some good chess.

I know that their parents sacrifices a lot for them but individual initiative will not enough , what we need is combine efford by MCF in order for our juniors players to progress.I believed most of top achievers in this championship will progress further and I convinced they will reached the ultimate goal.As for me I will push my six years old son to reach the far limit in chess.

WORLD YOUTH UPDATE: MALAYSIA PLAYERS

Malaysian youngsters continue fine perfomance in World Youth Championship in Turkey.Nur Nabila Azman Hisham fine permances so far excited all Malaysian chess community.So far she scored 5 points from 6 round to stay on 3rd place out of 100 players in her group.

And in the next few rounds surely will test her ability and her fighting spirit.I hope that she and the rest of the team will not mentally tired for duration of this championship.


Here are the rest of Malaysia players standing in the championship.

1.Under 8 (boys)

Amier Hamzah 4.5 points currently at 15th place from 129 players

Teh De Juan 3 points currently at 66 place from 129 players.

2.Under 8 girls

Teh De Zen 3 points currently at 47 place from 85 players.

3.Under 10 girl

Nur Najiha Azman Hisham 3 points currently at 51 place from 83 players

4. Under 12 boys

Mohd Irfan Haqim Azhar 2.5 points currently at 103 place from 142 players

5. Under 14 girls

Hoh Tjin Li

6. Under 14 boys

Wong Jian Wen 2.5 points currently at 89 place from 138 players

Elgin Lee 3 points currently at 79 place from 138 players

7. Under 16

Sumant Subramaniam 2.5 points from 78 place from 119 player

WORD YOUTH ROUND ONE RESULTS : MALAYSIAN PLAYERS

1.Sumant(2084)(80) lost to Udeshi Aditya (2330)(21)ndia

2.Hoh Tjin Li(85) lost to Sasmazel Burcu (1891)(36) Turkey

3.Wong Jianwen(1905)(79)lost to Doros Radu-Marian (2260)(10)Romania

4.Lee Kah Meng Elgin(1861)(85)lost to Sahoo Utkal Ranjan(2219)(16)India

5.Nur Nabila Azman Hisham (14)win Biryukova Anna (68)Russia

6.Camilia Bt Johari (71) lost to Mahalakshmi Muganda Kumar(1828)(17)India

7.Mohd Irfan Haqim Azhar Huber Martin Christian(1935)(56)Austria (NA)

8.Nur Najiha Hisham (57) win Ulusoy Nİsan (1612) Turkey

9.Teh De Zen (73)win Golubeva Marija (31) Latvia

10.Amier Hamzah Mohd Zuhri (20)drew with Oboladzer Luka Georgea

11.Teh De Juan (112)lost to Erenberg Ariel (48)Israel

WORLD YOUTH CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP IN TURKEY

Another edition of world youth championship starts today until 22nd November 2009 in Antalya Turkey, talented Malaysian junior players are now taking part in this 11 round event along with nearly 2000 players from more then 70 countries.Malaysia representatives as per list below.

Beside names below there are also Malaysian playing under New Zealand banner,Nurul Farhana and Nurul Izzah daughter of UITM lecturer Halim Suhaimi Yeop Johari who is doing doctorate there.Catur Terengganu wish all Malaysia representative good luck and success.

Under 8 boys
1.Amir Hamzah Mohd Zuhri
2.Teh De Juan

Under 8 girls
1.Teh De Zen

Under 10 girls
1.Nur Najiha Azman Hisham

Under 12 boys
1.Mohd Irfan Haqim Azhar

Under 12 girls
1.Camilia Johari
2.Nor Nabila Azman Hisham

Under 14 boys
1.Wong Jiawen
2.Elgin Lee

Under 16
1.Hoh Tjin Li

Under 16 boys
1.Sumant Subramaniam

BOBBY FISHER STILL IN THE NEWS

Although Bobby Fisher passed last year he is still in the news because of his fortune which awarded to his wife Miyako Watai ( she once played in zonal tournament in Genting Highland some years ago).But there is new claim of his estate from "live in partner".You can read it all here.

ON SALE : CHESS SET AND CHESS CLOCK

For your infomation all the items are for sale.Prices not included delivery charges to your destination.Discount given for purchase above 5 set.Please contact me.


1.Tournament solid chess set and chessboard(vinyl) RM35.00
2.BHB Chess clock RM230
3.DGT Digital chess clock RM280

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