The full results of the recently concluded University of Malaya Team Chess Open Tun Syed Zaharuddin held at the Ninth College, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur on the 28th February 2010.
In all forty-four teams participated in this year’s edition of the team event. Making a total of 176 players in all attending this event.
This is the round-by-round results of each team.
(source: Najib Wahab)
Pix 1. Team SMS Gold, winner of the 2010 UM Team Chess Tun Syed Zaharuddin.
Today, 28th February 2010, Team SMS Gold (comprising of IM Mok, Ismail, Yeap Eng Chiam and Ian Udani) won the six round Swiss University of Malaya team Open Tun Syed Zaharuddin in this year’s annual event. This year’s chess team event were held for the first time in three separate rooms located on the first floor of the Ninth College, University of Malaya.
Here are the final results in brief:
First: SMS Gold
Second: Nameless
Third: Seahorse
Best University Team : University Malaysia Team 1
Best School Team: Skylift
En. Abdul Hamid Majid representing Malaysian Chess Federation gave a warm thank you to the participating players and the new batch of organising committee members at University of Malaya, headed by Sharifah Itasha Jamalullai. En Abdul Hamid mentioned that the UM’s Chess Team Open Event has been an annual event for the last ten to eleven years since its inception. However, since the batch of organising committee members keep changing every year, the historical beginnings of the chess tournament has been lost. As always the case, at this morning’s briefing, En. Abdul Hamid pointed out that out of twenty assistants and helpers at the tournament venue, only three of them know how to play chess. Nevertheless, he appreciated their assistance.
En. Abdul Hamid mentioned the emergency phase about three days before the event, the organising committee discovered to their horror that their tournament hall has been booked by another party and made alternative arrangements for today’s tournament at three separate rooms, two of which are fully air-conditioned. Kudos to the Tournament Director, Sharifah Itasha Jamalullai and her team of helpers for persevering and overcoming extreme conditions to make this tournament another successfully run chess tournament! He also thanked the participating players for fully cooperating with the arbiters and the organising committee with some strict rules but for the increased pleasure of better playing conditions.
Pix 2. Abdul Hamid Majid. Pix 3. Sharifah Itasha Jamalullai.
By the way, should you bump into Sharifah Itasha, you would be surprised to see her with blue sparkling eyes!
Well done to all concerned, be it UM organising committee, MCF arbiters, and participating players!!!!
Chess is the winner!!
As posted previously, three players easily managed to qualify to the semi-finals, which included Nurul Huda, Fong Mi Yen and Alia Anin Azwa bt Bakri.
Pix 1. Nur Nabila. Pix 2. Nurul Huda.
Pix 3. Fong Mi Yen. Pix 4. Alia Anin Azwa.
The last slot of the semi-finals had to go through an additional hurdle of playing two rapid games tonight, 27th February 2010 at the DATCC to determine the fourth candidate to the semi-finals.
As the results show in the table summary below, Nur Nabila bt Azman Hisham prevailed by drawing the first rapid game and winning the second game against Khairunnisa Wahiduddin.
For the Semi-Finals tomorrow, 28th February 2010, first board will played by Nurul Huda against Nur Nabila Azman Hisham and on second board by Fong Mi Yen against Alia Anin Azwa bt Bakri.
For me and a few others, we will be playing in the University Malaya Team Open Tun Syed Zaharuddin at the Ninth College, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur held tomorrow, 28th February 2010.
We wish the best of luck to the last four winning Semi-Finalists!
(source of results: Najib Wahab)
At the Malaysian Women Masters 2010, three players have qualified to the Semi-Finals. The players are Nurul Huda, Fong Mi Yen and Alia Anin Azwa Bakri.
At the moment of blogging, there is an armageddon playoff for the final fourth slot of the Semi-Finals between Nur Nabila-Khairunissa.
To follow live the chess game between Nur Nabila-Khairunissa, please visit the Malaysian Women Masters’ blog or click here.
At the DATCC, the one day event for the DATCC Rookie Tornado Chess event was held and a healthy twenty-nine players participated in the tournament.
The event was held simultaneously as the Malaysian Women Masters 2010 event at the same venue. It provided ample publicity for the Women Masters while allowing others to engage in a parallel chess event at the venue.
Mohamad Raimi Rahim was declared the winner of the Rookie Tornado, while in second place is Ismail Hassim, and third Sunil Kali Vanam, an under-15 participant.
Here is the full list of the final ranking points of the participating players in the debut DATCC Rookie Tornado Chess Tournament 2010:-
Thanks is due to Najib Wahab and Hamid Majid for arbitering the joint event at DATCC.
(source: Najib Wahab, arbiter)
Here are the morning’s round 1 chess game results of the Malaysian Women Masters(MWM) 2010 Quarter Final Round:-
The top three seeds of the MWM 2010 that have won their first round game for the Quarter-Finals were Nurul Huda Wahiduddin, Fon Mi Yen and Khairunnisa’ Wahiduddin. The fourth seed, Alia Anin Azwa bt Bakri, drew her game against National Master Tan Li Ting.
To qualify to the next round, Semi-Finals, the players must ensure a definite win in their two rounds in the Quarter-Finals. If a draw persists, the arbiters will institute Armageddon procedures where players will first play two rapid games. If draw still exists, then this will be followed by two blitz games. If a draw continues to exists, then a further two blitz games to determine the winner of the pairing.
The second round of the MWM 2010 will start at 3.00 pm, 27th February 2010 at the DATCC, Wilayah Complex, Kuala Lumpur.
To read more of the Malaysian Women Masters 2010, please visit the Malaysian Women Masters 2010’s blog or click here or read the previous posts at this blog, please click here.
Here at the Dato’ Arthur Tan Chess Centre (DATCC) is the ongoing DATCC Rookie Tornado Chess Tournament 2010. Twenty-eight players are participating in the one-day 7 Swiss rounds of 25 minutes each per player per round.
Some notables are Syed Remizan, Hew Zhenjing, Goh Xin Yen and Ethan Wong are some familiar faces at Rookie Tornado Tourney.
Pix 1. Syed Remizan Syed Sobri. Pix 2. Hew Zhenjing.
Pix 3. Ethan Wong. Pix 4. Score Board – Rookie Tornado
Pix 5. Rookie Tornado Scoreboard of Round 2.
Pix 6. The section of Rookie Tornado Tournament held at the far end of the DATCC hall.
Pix 7. Goh Xin Yen. Pix 8. Participants of Rookie T.
Here are some pictures of the Malaysian Women National Masters 2010 being held at the Dato’ Arthur Tan Chess Centre, Wilayah Complex, Kuala Lumpur. The quarter-finalists of the Malaysian Women Masters 2010 are as follows:-
Pix 1. Tan Li Ting. Pix 2. Nur Nabila Azman Hisham
Pix 3. Khairunnisa’ Wahiduddin. Pix 4. Amira Syahmina Zulkifli.
Pix 5. Nurul Huda Wahiduddin Pix 6. Fazilah Wahiduddin.
Pix 7. Alia Anin Azwa bt Bakri Pix 8. Fong Mi Yen.
Here are the latest quarter final pairings for the Malaysian Women Masters 2010 being held at the Dato’ Arthur Tan Chess Centre, Wilayah Complex, Kuala Lumpur today, 27th February 2010.
8 players have been eliminated in the first round held yesterday. The players affected were Haslindah bt Roslan, Latifah Syamimi bt Mohd Latib, Hong Wee Ni Winnie, Latifah Kaisiyah bt Mohd Latif, Renitha Narayanan, Fairuz Hamzah bt Ahmad Fuad, Hoh Tjin Li and Nur Najihah bt Azman Hisham. Some armageddon games were held to separate the last eight winners late yesterday afternoon and early evening.
To catch the latest news, please visit the Malaysian Women Masters 2010’s blog or click here.
Here is the picture of the top gun, Lim Zhou Ren (pix 1, below, playing against the new-kid-on-the-block, Alfred Ting) who is currently leading at the CNY Rapids 2010 at the Excel Chess Academy, OUG, Kuala Lumpur being held over 26-27th February 2010.
Pix 1. Lim Zhuo Ren(yellow shirt). Pix 2. Tan Jun Feng
Pix 3. Yeoh Li Tian. Pix 4. Lim Chong.
Pix 5. Iskandar Danial.
A few pictures of the Chinese New Year Rapids 2010 at the Excel Chess Academy, OUG, Kuala Lumpur on 26th February 2010.
Pix 1. Mark Siew Pix 2. Sumant Subramaniam
Pix 3. Jax Tham Pix 4. Yat Guo Jie
Pix 5. Three boards in active play and Raymond Siew (firstGM blogger, standing) observing his son’s playing board.
Today, 26th February 2010, starts the series of the Malaysian Women Masters 2010 and will go on till 2nd March 2010. Sixteen specially handpicked female chess candidates had been carefully selected based on a strict regime of selection criteria set by the Malaysian Chess Federation.
Two rounds of games had been played today at the Dato’ Arthur Tan Chess Centre located at the Wilayah Complex, Kuala Lumpur and a knock-out system will take place.
Wahiduddin, Khairunnisa. Fong, Mi Yen.
Tomorrow eight players, who have got through the first knock-out round, will play two more rounds of classical chess and on Sunday, 28th February 2010, four winning players will get to play two rounds to determine the final two contestants.
The winner will get to represent Malaysia to the Chess Olympiad to be held in Siberia, Moscow during the later part of this year, 2010.
To follow more of this event, please visit the Malaysian Women Masters 2010 blog or click here.
Sebagai pengurus salah satu pasukan catur yang akan bertanding, pihak penganjur Universiti Malaya telah mengirim satu emel menjelaskan kedudukan pihak UM sendiri dan masalah kecil dan cara menangani masalah yang telah wujud untuk maklum para peminat catur tanah air.
Di bawah dipamerkan maklumat emel yang telah diedarkan untuk makluman para peserta Pertandingan Catur Terbuka Tun Syed Zaharuddin di Kolej Ke-9, Universiti Malaya pada 28 Februari 2010 ini.
ASSALAMUALAIKUM DAN SALAM SEJAHTERA,
Kami di pihak penganjur terlebih dahulu meminta maaf atas segala kesulitan yang mungkin dihadapi oleh peserta sepanjang 3 bulan ini.
Segala perancangan berjalan lancar cuma secara jujurnya, kami menghadapi masalah tempat pertandingan. Hal ini terjadi apabila pihak kolej kami secara tidak sengaja menyewa dewan kepada orang lain untuk mengadakan kenduri kahwin.
Pada mulanya kami telah diarahkan oleh penasihat agar menganjakkan tarikh pertandingan atau terpaksa membatalkan pertandingan.
Setelah mendapati sesetengah peserta menghadapi kesukaran, kami bersepakat untuk meneruskan juga pertandingan walaupun tidak dipersetujui oleh penasihat kami.
Tempat yang kami sediakan masih di kolej sembilan Universiti Malaya, Kolej Kediaman Tun Syed Zahiruddin.
Cuma, tempat yang kami sediakan tidak besar tetapi mempunyai penghawa dingin.
Dan, mungkin akan menggangu para peserta dengan bunyi dari orang kahwin di tingkat bawah :(
Jadi, personally, saya ingin bertanya.
Adakah menjadi masalah kepada para peserta dengan masalah2 di atas (bunyi bising) ?
Sila sertakan feedback anda kerana kami inginkan yang terbaik untuk keselesaan peserta kami :)
Maaf atas segala kesulitan, but,
THE SHOW MUST GO ON!!
Berikut merupakan aturcara pada hari pertandingan.
ATURCARA PROGRAM
7.45 am -8.30 am : Pengesahan Pendaftaran peserta
8.30am-9.00 am : Taklimat pertandingan oleh En. Hamid, wakil dari Malaysia Chess Federation.
9.00 am-10.00 am : Pusingan 1
10.00 am-11.00 am : Pusingan 2
11.00 am-12.00 pm : Pusingan 3
12.00 pm-1.30 pm : Makan tengah hari/Rehat
1.30 pm-2.30 pm : Pusingan 4
2.30 pm- 3.30 pm : Pusingan 5
3.30 pm- 4.30 pm : Pusingan 6
4.30 pm- 5.00 pm : Rehat
5.00 pm : Semua peserta berkumpul di dewan
5.00 pm- 5.10pm : Ucapan Pengarah (SAYA, wink wink)
5.10 pm- 5.30 pm : Ucapan Penasihat/Penyelia, Dr Chandran Somasundram.
5.30 pm- 6.30 pm : Majlis Penyampaian Hadiah kepada para pemenang.
6.30 pm : Majlis bersurai.
Selain daripada itu, pihak penganjur meminta agar peserta membawa resit asal pembayaran semasa pengesahan pendaftaran. Harap Maklum.
Ohh ya, kami ada 3 bilik untuk pemain. Dan ketiga-tiga bilik ada air-cond.
So, kepada yang tidak tahan sejuk, bolehlah membawa sweater bersama ;)
Sekian, terima kasih.
Jumpa anda AHAD ini (28 FEBRUARI 2010)
Segala update akan saya postkan di http://pctptsz.blogspot.com/
Yang benar,
Sharifah Itasha Jamalullai binti Syed Nushadil
Pengarah,
Pertandingan Catur Terbuka Tun Syed Zahiruddin 2009/2010,
Kolej Kediaman Tun Syed Zahiruddin,
Universiti Malaya.
pctptsz@yahoo.com
013-7686940
(source: emel dari Sharifah Itasha Jamalullai)
Lim Zhou Ren leads with 3.0 points from three rounds of CNY Rapids 2010. This is followed closely by five players with 2.0 points. Yat Guo Jie, Sumant, Mark Siew, Jax Tham and Yeoh Li Tian are the group of five.
Here are the round 4 pairings and round 3 rankings of the Chinese New Year Rapids 2010.
Pairing of round 4 of CNY123
Table White - Black Results
----------------------------------------------------------------------- round 4
1 LIM ZHUO REN ( 3 ) - SUMANT SUBRAMANIAM ( 2 ) 2- 1
2 MARK SIEW ( 2 ) - YAT GUO JIE ( 2 ) 6- 5
3 JAX THAM ( 2 ) - YEOH LI TIAN ( 2 ) 4- 3
4 TAN JUN FENG ( 1ｫ) - ISKANDAR DANIAL ADAM( 1 ) 8- 10
5 ALFRED TING ( 1 ) - CHIA SOON KEAT ( 1 ) 7- 11
Bye : 9 LIM CHONG ,
Ranking after round 3 of CNY123
No. PNo. Name Score WP SB PS rat. TPR W-We
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1. 2 LIM ZHUO REN 3.0 4.5 4.50 6.0 1885 2390 +0.81
2. 5 YAT GUO JIE 2.0 5.5 2.50 4.0 1697 1758 +0.23
3 YEOH LI TIAN 2.0 5.0 2.00 5.0 1807 2043 +0.95
1 SUMANT SUBRAMANIAM 2.0 4.5 2.50 4.0 1994 2027 +0.11
4 JAX THAM 2.0 4.5 2.50 5.0 1785 1842 +0.23
6 MARK SIEW 2.0 3.0 1.00 3.0 1686 1685 -0.01
7. 8 TAN JUN FENG 1.5 3.0 0.75 2.5 1635 1634 +0.00
8. 7 ALFRED TING 1.0 5.0 0.25 1.0 1635 1083 -0.66
10 ISKANDAR DANIAL ADAM 1.0 4.5 0.25 2.0 1228 1015 -0.10
11 CHIA SOON KEAT 1.0 4.5 0.25 3.0 2235 1224 -1.76
11. 9 LIM CHONG 0.5 5.5 0.75 0.5 1459 1429 -0.10
(source: Jax Tham, ECA)
Three players are head-to-head with 2.0 points. They are Yeoh Li Tian, Lim Zhou Ren and Jax Tham after the completion of round 2 in the morning session of the CNY Rapids 2010 at Excel Chess Academy, OUG, Kuala Lumpur.
All the top five seedings have won their first round games. Sumant, Lim Zhou Ren, Yeoh Li Tian, Jax Tham and Yat Guo Jie are among those that have won their first round games at the Chinese New Year Rapids 2010.
Here are the rankings after round 1&2 and round 2&3 pairings of the Chinese New Year (CNY) Rapids 2010 held at the Excel Chess Academy, OUG, Kuala Lumpur on the 26th February 2010.
Ranking after round 1 of CNY123
No. PNo. Name Score WP SB PS rat. TPR W-We
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1. 11 CHIA SOON KEAT 1.0 0.5 0.25 1.0 2235 - +0.00
1 SUMANT SUBRAMANIAM 1.0 0.0 0.00 1.0 1994 2363 +0.14
2 LIM ZHUO REN 1.0 0.0 0.00 1.0 1885 2312 +0.19
3 YEOH LI TIAN 1.0 0.0 0.00 1.0 1807 2312 +0.27
4 JAX THAM 1.0 0.0 0.00 1.0 1785 2136 +0.13
5 YAT GUO JIE 1.0 0.0 0.00 1.0 1697 1905 +0.05
7. 6 MARK SIEW 0.0 1.0 0.00 0.0 1686 1317 -0.14
7 ALFRED TING 0.0 1.0 0.00 0.0 1635 1208 -0.19
8 TAN JUN FENG 0.0 1.0 0.00 0.0 1635 1130 -0.27
9 LIM CHONG 0.0 1.0 0.00 0.0 1459 1108 -0.13
10 ISKANDAR DANIAL ADAM 0.0 1.0 0.00 0.0 1228 1020 -0.05
Pairing of round 2 of CNY123
Table White - Black Results
----------------------------------------------------------------------- round 2
1 CHIA SOON KEAT ( 1 ) - YEOH LI TIAN ( 1 ) 11- 3 .
2 JAX THAM ( 1 ) - SUMANT SUBRAMANIAM ( 1 ) 4- 1 .
3 LIM ZHUO REN ( 1 ) - YAT GUO JIE ( 1 ) 2- 5 .
4 MARK SIEW ( 0 ) - LIM CHONG ( 0 ) 6- 9 .
5 TAN JUN FENG ( 0 ) - ALFRED TING ( 0 ) 8- 7 .
Bye : 10 ISKANDAR DANIAL ADAM ,
Ranking after round 2 of CNY123
No. PNo. Name Score WP SB PS rat. TPR W-We
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1. 3 YEOH LI TIAN 2.0 1.5 1.50 3.0 1807 2612 +1.34
2 LIM ZHUO REN 2.0 1.0 1.00 3.0 1885 2343 +0.44
4 JAX THAM 2.0 1.0 1.00 3.0 1785 2404 +0.84
4. 1 SUMANT SUBRAMANIAM 1.0 3.0 1.00 2.0 1994 1736 -0.64
5 YAT GUO JIE 1.0 2.5 0.50 2.0 1697 1557 -0.38
11 CHIA SOON KEAT 1.0 2.5 0.25 2.0 2235 1130 -0.93
8 TAN JUN FENG 1.0 2.0 0.00 1.0 1635 1721 +0.24
10 ISKANDAR DANIAL ADAM 1.0 1.5 0.25 1.0 1228 1020 -0.05
6 MARK SIEW 1.0 1.0 0.00 1.0 1686 1727 +0.12
10. 7 ALFRED TING 0.0 3.0 0.00 0.0 1635 1083 -0.66
9 LIM CHONG 0.0 3.0 0.00 0.0 1459 1059 -0.34
Pairing of round 3 of CNY123
Table White - Black Results
----------------------------------------------------------------------- round 3
1 YEOH LI TIAN ( 2 ) - LIM ZHUO REN ( 2 ) 3- 2 .
2 YAT GUO JIE ( 1 ) - JAX THAM ( 2 ) 5- 4 .
3 SUMANT SUBRAMANIAM ( 1 ) - CHIA SOON KEAT ( 1 ) 1- 11 .
4 ISKANDAR DANIAL ADAM( 1 ) - MARK SIEW ( 1 ) 10- 6 .
5 LIM CHONG ( 0 ) - TAN JUN FENG ( 1 ) 9- 8 .
Bye : 7 ALFRED TING ,
