ASEAN AGE GROUP CHESS CH, SUBIC 2010

5 June 2010, Subic – At the 11th Asean Age Group Chess Championship, our Malaysian contingent for the Under-20 Open are doing fairly mixed. Edward Lee Kim Han (pix left) has won both his  first two rounds and will meet Wiwatandate of Thailand in the third round, while Mark Siew lost his second round but has one point from his first round win. Meanwhile Muhd Tariq Amru has a half point from first round draw. Tariq will meet Morazo of Philippines and Mark will meet FM Nguyen of Vietnam in round three tomorrow morning.

 

Meanwhile in the Under-10 Open category of the Asean Age Group, our lone Malaysian representative, Amier Hamzah has scored 1.5 points from two rounds. He will play Doan Nguyen of Vietnam in the third round. Let’s hope Amier Hamzah will continue his fine form.

 

In the Open Under 14, Malaysia is represented by Lim Win Sen has not won in his first two rounds of play so far. Maybe he will chalk up a win in the coming rounds.

In the Under-10 girls category, Nur Faqihah bt Aminuddin of Malaysia has not won any of her first two rounds yet. She will meet WFM Vo Mai Truc of Vietnam in her third round tomorrow morning.

While in the Under-8 girls category, Maisarah Zainoor has not won yet after two rounds of play.

SM’s Chess Workshop – “How To Study Chess Endgame”

4 June 2010, Subang Jaya - Once again, Kompleks 3C (Children Creativity Centre), Subang Jaya Municipal Council (Majlis Perbandaran Subang Jaya), will host a Chess Workshop (Bengkel Catur) during this coming school holidays!
The Chess Workshop will be held on June 8, 2010 (Tuesday) at 9.30am -1.00pm.
The topic - “HOW TO STUDY CHESS ENDGAME”
DON'T MISS IT!! Come join and share the knowledge with Candidate Master (CM) Fadli aka StoneMaster ...

3rd Leg StoneMaster Amateur Special Edition, 27 June 2010

4 June 2010, Kuala Lumpur – Got wind of news that the 3rd Leg of the Stonemaster Amateur Special Edition will be held on the 27 June 2010 at none other than at DATCC, Wilayah Complex, Kuala Lumpur. The event is organised by Cerdik Catur Enterprise. Look out for tournament details at stonemaster.info in the near future.

(Note: Hope everything is okay with Najib Wahab as his original DATCC programme had a DATCC Rapid penned for the 27th June 2010.)

National Chess Close At UKM

4 June 2010, Kuala Lumpur – In today’s The Star, Living, SS Quah talks about the National Closed Championship being organised at the National University of Malaysia (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, UKM) over 16-20th June 2010. At the same time, encouraging former champions like Marcus Chan, Nicholas Chan, Zarul Shazwan to come back and participate in this National Chess Championship again, even though they are already champions.

Please read more from the website of The Star Online under Living, Lifestyle or click here.

Training With Indonesian NM In Segamat

4 June 2010 – Another handphone sms from Mohd Zullghafari regarding a proposed chess training at Sekolah Menengah Seri Kenangan, Segamat, Johor to be conducted by one Susanto Rahman, Indonesian National Master on the 26-27 June 2010. Susanto Rahman has taught his son who has drawn with a GM and Ian Udani in the recent KL Chess Open. Or you may visit 168 chessmaster’s blog or click here.

Rizal’s Chess Simultaneous

4 June 2010, Kuala Lumpur - Just received an sms from Rizal Kamal regarding his proposed conduct of a simultaneous chess exhibition at Neo Manhattan Chess Club, Taman Tun Dr Ismail on the 12-13 June 2010 over three separate sessions.

Please go to Rizal’s blog or click here to read more of the details of his chess exhibition cum training session.

Ziaur Rahman Does A Simul?

3 June 2010, Kuala Lumpur – There is a proposed move to have a simultaneous chess exhibition by GM Ziaur Rahman against four pre-selected DATCC Malaysian players. The simultaneous chess exhibition will be held at DATCC, Wilayah Complex, Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday, 9th June 2010, begins at 7 pm sharp.

Those interested to watch can drop by the Dato’ Arthur Tan Chess Center next Wednesday evening to watch the simul exhibition by GM Z Rahman.

Friendly Match MCF vs DATCC

2 June 2010, Kuala Lumpur – Tonight before the friendly match between Malaysian Chess Federation chess team against the scratch DATCC chess team of 8 boards each, a light dinner was served to the officials of MCF and the participating players courtesy of DATCC.

MCF President, Tan Sri Ramli Ngah Talib (pix on left), did the honours of picking the colour of the first board for MCF chess team. Black was chosen and En. Ibrahim of MCF chess team played as black on the first board against Dato’ Tan Chin Nam.

Tan Sri Ramli Ngah Talib was team captain of MCF chess team while Dato’ Tan Chin Nam played as team captain for DATCC chess team.

By 9.00 pm, seven boards were done with the score of 4-3 in favour of MCF chess team. The following picture illustrates the various board scores. The eighth and last board was between Razali Hamzah aka Ng6 for MCF chess team vs Mr Choo Min Wang of DATCC chess team and still playing when I left DATCC, then.
 

This is the final results from Najib (taken off Hairulov's website).

 
1st board. Ibrahim vs Dato’ Tan.  2nd Board. GM Z Rahman vs Haq. 3rd Bd Najib vs Greg.
 
1st, 4th and 5th boards.                    7th board. Mdm. S Sultana vs Zu.
 
6th board. Siraj vs Hairulov.                8th board. Razali H vs Choo Min Wang.

Latest results from Najib Wahab are as follows:

DATCC selection lost to MCF selection 3-5 in today’s friendly team event at DATCC

Full results (DATCC first)

GM Ziaur Rahman beat Abdul Haq
Mrs Ziaur beat MCF Assistant Secretary Puan Zuraihah Wazir
Yeoh Li tian beat Jax Tham
Dato Tan lost to MCF Deputy President Tuan Hj. Ibrahim Abu Bakar
Najib Wahab lost to MCF Secretary Gregory Lau
Shamsuddin Sabri lost to MCF Vice President Haslindah Ruslan
Siraj lost to MCF Commmitte member and blogger Hairulov
Choo Min Wang lost to Ng6 Razali Hamzah

(Note: Apologies to Mr Choo, for misspelling his name. I have corrected the spelling of his name based on feedback from Jimmy Liew. Thanks to Jimmy. :))

Weekend Chess Activities, 5-6 June 2010

2 June 2010, Kuala Lumpur – Looks like this weekend would be a relatively quiet weekend for chess except for the Insofar Categories Tournament and a Malaysian Schools Chess event in Perlis this weekend.

For details of the Insofar Categories Tournament you may read below and click the link for more details:-

a. Insofar Categories Tournament (FIDE-Rated), Kuala Lumpur begins 3rd June 2010, Shah Alam begins 4th June 2010, Bangi begins 5th June 2010. Click here for details. The Kuala Lumpur tourney lacks participants and has been called off by the TD but Bangi and Shah Alam are positively on.

b. Malaysian Schools Chess event in Perlis, 6th-11th June 2010 (fireyrook has no details of it, maybe one can reach at mssm2010.com for details)

However, this evening there will be a friendly chess match between Malaysian Chess Federation officials against a scratch team of DATCC players at DATCC, Wilayah Complex, Kuala Lumpur. Game starts 6.00 pm.

See you there, today.

Malaysians In Asian Jr CHENNAI, INDIA

indianchessfed.org - ASIAN JUNIOR,CHENNAI, yg serentak dgn Nat. Closed, 4 pemain kita confirm, NM Evan Timothy, Najiha, Nabila, Amira Syahmina Zulkafli (sumb. Md Zullghafari)