4th Leg – Lumut Perak Grand Prix Chess Ch 2010

TAN SRI LEE LOY SENG

Perak Grand Prix Chess Championship 2010

4th LEG - LUMUT (Sponsored by Kuala Lumpur Kepong Bhd.)

Organized By: Perak International Chess Association (PICA) & Dato’ Arthur Tan Chess Centre (DATCC)

Date : 16 May 2010  postpone to 23rd May 2010 (Sunday)
Venue : Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Methodist (ACS) Sitiawan, Perak
Due to a mix up in the booking of the tournament hall, we have to postpone the above tournament from 16th May to 23rd May 2010.

(source: perakchess.blogspot.com)

DATCC last board win!

22 May 2010, Kuala Lumpur – Last Wednesday the DATCC Chess Team played against the teen’s team called First Saturday Chess Team in the 8th round of the 3rd DATCC KL Chess Team League 2010. The match ended in a 2-2 draw. However, DATCC’s player on third board, Suhaimi Mustafa Al-Bakri, played a magnificient game against the talented Yat Guo Jie of First Saturday Chess Team.

The Pirc Defence transpired during the game. Suhaimi played black and employed the Pirc Defence against Yat’s pawn storm on the king-side.

Pix 1. White castles queenside and played 9. Kb1 to protect the a2 pawn.

Pix 2. By move 22, black swings his knight into attack with 22…Nc3+.

Pix 3. By move 28…cxb3, it was obvious black had its own pawn storm on the queenside that was unstoppable. White had two last checks on the black king with 29.Qg5+ and black pushed its king to safety 29… Ke8. The last check by white was 31. Rd8+ and it was downhill for white after that.

Pix 4. White is under check with 36…Qa3+ and if Kxd2, then the c2 pawn queens and white loses his precious queen. With black’s two queens against white’s lonely bishop prospect in the end game, white resigned. 0-1 to black.

Suhaimi Mustafa played a cunning cat-and-mouse game in the Pirc Defence. White lost a few critical tempo to allow black to enter the game. The critical move 28.fxe5 was considered a blunder by Fritz and was the straw that broke the camel’s back. Congratulations to Suhaimi for his excellent win on board three for the DATCC chess team.

Berita Catur Di Utusan Online

22 May 2010 - Berita Utusan hari ini membawa sedikit cerita catur dibawah tajuk Rekreasi. Ia mengisahkan dua adik beradik yang bermain catur. Hint berita catur ini juga dibawa oleh hairulovchessmaniacs.blogspot.com.

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Weekend Office Meeting

22 May 2010, Port Dickson - Fireyrook wanted to enter the Chess Assoc of Selangor Closed this weekend but alas my office has organised a working meeting retreat in Port Dickson. My best wishes to those players and CAS members participating in CAS CLOSED held on Sunday, 23 May 2010. Also to my sister who is having her daughter's wedding reception in USJ 5 today 22 May 2010, my sincere wishes of apology. Official duties comes first. :)

Chess Overboard On Implementing Structured Development Programmes For The Talented Young Malaysian

21 May 2010 – In Chess Overboard by Lim Chong, he discusses how talented young chess players such as Rosazman Mat Rosley,  once found, disappears into thin air the next. He then makes comparisons of IM Mok’s rise to International Master which took him 10 years and achieved at the ripe age of 39. At this rate, it will take another generation of players to see Malaysia’s chances of seeing a grandmaster in the making.

With GM resident Ziaur Rahman’s presence in Malaysia, this should be made full use by the talented group of chess players to guide and accelerate their progress and achievement for the country. A push by MCF in the right direction for this group of kids would do a world of good for the country and create better opportunities for Malaysia to ever see her first grandmaster in chess.

Please read more from Lim Chong’s article on “Fulfilling The Promise” or click here.

Nakamura And 3 Others Lead In U.S. Chess Championship 2010

21 May 2010 – At St. Louis, USA, Nakamura and 3 others are leading with 5.0 points after 7 rounds of play so far. Today is a rest day for the players. It is a 9 round Swiss Tournament. However the top 4 after 9 rounds will be separated to slug it out over a round-robin.

Looks like Gata Kamsky, Yuri Shulman and Alexander Onischuk are the likely three other candidates to join Hikaru Nakamura in the round-robin finals to decide the new U.S. Chess Champion 2010. They all have 5.0 points out of 7 rounds.

Here is a game in round 7 of the US Chess Championships 2010 between IM Irina Krush and IM/GM Alex Lenderman of “The Kings Of New York”-fame. The Exchange Gruenfeld transpired during the game and Alex more or less got into a losing position by move 71. IM Irina Krush has 4.0 points and is currently in the top 11 of the 24 participating players in the tournament. The game was extracted from the ICC website.

Rankings After Round 7

Draws, Draws And More Draws

21 May 2010 – In today’s Chess Column in The Star, Living, SS Quah discusses the Sofia Rule being employed during the recently concluded World Chess Championship between GM Anand, the reigning world champion and GM Topalov, the challenger at Sofia, Bulgaria.

The Sofia Rule dictates that players could not draw their games by agreement. They could have technical draws through stalemate or three-fold repetition of position or the 50-move rule or through insufficient material, but that was all.

There were no less than 7 draws made during the recent World Chess Championship from the series of 12 games played.

Please read more from The Star, Living or click here.

Gula Perlis Open Chess Challenge 2010, 12 June 2010

21 May 2010 – Here is a new chess tournament in Kangar, Perlis, to be held on the 12th June 2010. The flyer for the tournament from En. Syaifulzamani b Ismail, the tournament director, is as follows:-

(source: Syaifulzamani b Ismail)

Round 8 Full Results, 3rd DATCC KL Team Chess League 2010

20 May 2010, Kuala Lumpur – Think Big continues the steamroll by beating Nusa Mahkota Chess Club 4-0 and leads the chess league with 14 match points and 22 board points.

In a close second is Team AU who also won their match against Sea Horse with 2.5-1.5 score and have accumulated 13 match points and 23 board points.

In third place is Excel Chess Team who beat Tan&Tan Chess Team 3.5-0.5 and have 6 wins and 2 losses so far. Excel have 12 match points and 23 board points

Ranking of Teams After Round 8.

(results are courtesy of Najib Wahab, joint arbiter of the event)

Round 8 DATCC Chess Team League 2010- Picture Gallery

20 May 2010 – Here are a few pictures of the scenes of the teams playing during the 8th round of the 3rd DATCC KL Chess Team League 2010 on the evening of 19th May 2010.

   

Pix 1. Black Pearl.                     Pix 2. Sea Horse.

    

Pix 3. Team AU.                       Pix 4. Excel Chess Team.

     

Pix 5. Hamid (Ad-Hoc) vs WisePawn(PWC). Pix 6. UKM in full force.

   

Pix 7. CS Solutions Ladies Team.   Pix 8. First Saturday Chess Team.