Lim Chong On Days Of The Young Masters

Today the weekly column “Chess Overboard” by Lim Chong discusses the life and times of the up-and-coming young Malaysian chess player, Lim Zhou Ren.

He writes about the trials and tribulations of the young Lim Zhou Ren and the aches and pains of winning and losing to his opponents in the National Age Group chess championships.

Please read more from the DATCChess blog or click here.

Another Busy Weekend Ahead For Chess (29 Jan – 1 Feb, 2010)

This coming weekend will be a long weekend for those staying in Wilayah Persekutuan as the Federal Territories Day will be celebrated on Monday, 1 February 2010. Opportunities galore for chess enthusiasts!

First off will be the Insofar Individual FIDE-Rated 2010 at PKNS, Shah Alam on Friday night beginning at 7.30 pm, 29th January 2010. This event is being held biweekly over 7 rounds Swiss using the Classical Chess time of 90 minutes plus 30 second increment.

If you are in the Shah Alam area, look out for GiLoCatur’s announcement of Friday chess hang out for some fun with chess at some restaurant in-and- around the Shah Alam conurbation.

Then on Saturday, 30th January 2010 three events will occur concurrently. The 1st DATCC Individual FIDE Rated Weekender 2010 will continue with its fifth round play at Wilayah Complex, Kuala Lumpur with some 24 players participating of which 15 players are FIDE-rated players and 9 players are unrated. This DATCC event will continue until 1.00 pm on 1st February 2010.

Meanwhile the Excel Chess Academy, Overseas Union Garden, Kuala Lumpur will hold its Thaipusam Chess Rapid over 30th-31st January 2010 over a 10 round Swiss rapid time of 20 minutes plus 30 second increment. This is opposite to the slower classical chess time in DATCC Weekender and Insofar Individual Rated 2010.
The third concurrent event that will occur is the 2nd Kuala Lumpur Junior Chess Championship over 30th-31st January 2010 at the Cochrane Sports Excellence Center in Kuala Lumpur for the youngsters. The one we had in December 2009 was national. This event is for the kids in and around the Kuala Lumpur area. Phew! Too many choices to choose from...[dizzy and spinning].
Then on City Day, 1st February 2010, a Blitz chess event will be held at DATCC in conjunction with the closing of the 1st DATCC Individual FIDE-Rated Weekender 2010 at 2 pm, Dato’ Arthur Tan Chess Centre, 4th Floor, Wilayah Complex, Kuala Lumpur.

Most of these events are on my blog, so you may search my blog either using the labels on the right or using the search engine provided here on this blog. Or, simply scroll down the webpage till you arrive to the news concerned. For gilocatur’s event on Friday night, please visit his blog at GiLoCatur.blogspot.com.

So chess enthusiasts may pick and choose to hang out at which event and location they pleased. Go enjoy watching the events as a spectator or participate in them. Happy hunting and happy playing chess, simply gilachess. Smile!!

Nik and Jianwen in the lead, 1st DATCC Individual FIDE Rated 2010

At the DATCC, on the 23rd January 2010, after two rounds of play today, Nik Ahmad Farouqi and Wong Jianwen are joint co-leaders with 2 full points and tie-break points of 3.5. Abdullah Che Hassan and Fong Yit Ho also had 2 full points but with 3.0 tie-break points.

The surprised co-leader is Jianwen who beat top-ranked Kamaluddin Yusof in the second round of the Individual FIDE Rated tournament for the year of 2010. Jianwen had both bishops and the Queen cornered and about to make a one move mate on Kamaluddin Yusof who played black.

Roshan Singh also made a killing today by beating Justin Ong Way in the first round of play. Justin Ong Way is also the January 2010 Champion of the First Saturday Classical Chess.

Sahir Sarifdin also surprised higher ranked Nor Ilham Shaik Ali with his first round win over his fifth ranked opponent.

However it is still early days in the tournament and anything may happen.

Here is the results table and the round 3 pairings for tomorrow morning’s play, 24th January 2010:-

Best of luck to all participating players!
(p.s. will be away to Langkawi Island for some work. :-( )

Plenty of Local Chess Action This Weekend! (22-24th January 2010)

Here in Malaysia, we have quite a few of chess activities over the weekend. First off is the 1st DATCC FIDE-Rated Individual Tournament 2010 being held at DATCC, 4th Floor, Wilayah Complex, Kuala Lumpur over two weekends.

Next is the Jeram Chess Rapid in Kuala Selangor area being held on Sunday, 24th January 2010. It will be a one day seven round swiss rapid chess tournament.

And if you had been in the Shah Alam area, GiLoCatur and co. have chess games at pre-selected areas in Shah Alam on Friday nights.

Again, if you would wish to watch chess games once in two weeks, there will be the Insofar Individual Rated Tournament 2010 held at the 3rd Floor, PKNS, Shah Alam, Selangor on a Friday night, too.

You may search my blog for further news of these activities or at gilocatur.blogspot.com for some.

Chess enthusiasts and keen players may head over to those places to watch or play some chess games over the weekend! Happy hunting guys!