1st The Summit Juniors Open Results

This event was conducted successfully yesterday where 163 had participated in the event.

In the Under-10 category, the pre-tournament favourites were Ahmad Aiman Sahadi from Kelantan with a National Rating of 1559 points, followed by Chew Zhi Xuan (NR 1400), Cheah Kah Hoe (NR 1372), Fahim Al-faqeh Saleh (NR 1370) and Wong Zhi Yue (NR 1365).

All except Cheah had no problem winning all their respective encounters for the first 4 rounds. In Round 5, Fahim had created an upset by winning against Ahmad, while Chew won against Wong to set up top-of-the table clash between 2^nd ranked Chew and 4^th ranked Fahim in Round 6. The latter won the game and the championship with a perfect score. Chew was placed 2^nd, followed by Wong in 3^rd. Ahmad could not recovered from his Round 5 lost and lost again in Round 6 to 14^th ranked Rooshillen and be placed at the tail-end of the top 10 prize winners. Meanwhile, 3^rd ranked Cheah finished the event at 8^th after losing unexpectedly to 26^th ranked Beh Jia Sheng in Round 2 and only obtained a draw against 15^th ranked Lim Kai Xian in the last round.

Next, the Under-12 Category pre-tournament favourites were Puteri Rifqah (NR 1723), Loh Zu Hao (NR 1660), Ng Jen Sheng (NR 1614), Puteri Munajjah (NR 1589) and Jaron Tan (NR 1537). Puteri Rifqah championship campaign had suffered an early set back when she only able to get a draw in Round against Evan Loo (seeded 14^th) in Round 2 and lost the championship when she lost her last round against 3^rd ranked Ng Jen Sheng in the final round.

Loh championship campaign had failed to take-off when he lost to 26^th ranked Ryan Tey in Round 1 and only manage to a draw against 23^rd ranked Jane Wong in Round 3. While, Ng got to a flying start with 4 wins in-a-row before obtaining a draw in Round 5 against Puteri Munajjah. In the last round, Ng who has an inferior tie-break must win the encounter at all cost if he wants to win the title. While, Munajjah was placed 3^rd after drawing the last 3 rounds to score 4.5 points. Jaron who won the first 3 games just like Munajjah can only secure 2 draws in the last 3 rounds to be placed at 10^th position.

Here comes the Under-14 Category where we witnessed 3^rd ranked Subramanian Sivanesan from Negeri Sembilan was crowned as Champion after scoring 5 wins and 1 draw. While, top seed Mohd Faizal Roslan had managed to score 4 wins and 2 draws to be placed 2^nd and 4^th ranked Ethan Wong with 3 wins and 2 draws. In contrast, Dilwen Ding (seeded 2^nd) and Dawson Tan (seeded 5^th) can only secure 3 wins and a draw.

Lastly, the U-16 category saw pre-tournament hot favourite Muhd Irfan Haqqim Azhar from Selangor had secured the Championship easily with 4 wins and 2 draws against Jun Keat and Laila Husna from Kelantan. Jun Keat, who hails from Selangor, own campaign had suffered a huge blow when he lost unexpected to 15^th ranked Lee Kang Jing from Johor in Round 5. However, he still managed to finish the event as Silver medallist. While, the Bronze medal went to Laila. In addition, Fikri Saleh (2^nd ranked) and Vinton Wong (5^th ranked) had finished at 4^th and 8^th position respectively.

 The full result for Under-10, click here.

The full result for Under-12, click here.

The full result for Under-14, click here.

The full result for Under-16, click here.


See you guys again in November 2013!!!

1st The Summit Juniors Open on 11 Nov @ Summit USJ [Update#4]

The total number of players who have made payment to the Organiser stands at 157pax. Another 4 players have their names reserved until Sunday 10am before their seats release to walk-in players. Anyone who wants to take part but yet to register yourself, please walk-in to the VENUE (same venue as the ongoing Popular Bookstore Warehouse Clearance) directly @ 10AM SHARP. The Organiser will allocate a total of 13 more seats (inclusive the 4 reserved names) to walk-in players. All walk-in players can register either in UNDER-12, UNDER-14 or UNDER-16 Category. Pairing for Round 1 will be generated @ 10.30AM on Sunday.

The list of players who have registered with payment as of 9th Nov 2012 for UNDER-10 Category as follows:

1	Aaren Tan Whei Lung
2	Ahmad Aiman Sahadi
3	Ahmad Faisal Hakimi Ridzauddin
4	Ahmad Haikal Nazmi Ridzauddin
5	Aliff Nazmy Azhar
6	Allaida Siow
7	Amir Faiz Amirul
8	Arif Alauddin Wafi Akhramsyah
9	Chan Kit Wai
10	Cheah Jason
11	Cheah Kah Hoe
12	Chew Zhi Qi
13	Chew Zhi Xuan
14	Chiah Enyo Jing Chi
15	David Tan Chin Wei
16	Dragon Tan Chin Long
17	Evelyn Tan Eng Thong
18	Fahim Al-Faqeh Saleh
19	Firaas
20	Hafiz Borhanudin
21	Ivan Sean Yap Sheuan
22	Jessica Tan Sue Ann
23	Joanne Chin Zhi May
24	Joel Pang Ze Minn
25	Joelle Tan Sue Ai
26	Joshwa Yeong Zherui
27	Lean Yew Ming
28	Lim Jun Shen
29	Lim Kai Xian
30	Lim Yern Sern
31	Lim Zheng Xue
32	Lim Zheng Yan
33	Lim Zheng Yu
34	Low Chee Fatt
35	Lum Ting Fang
36	Muhd Aliff Nor Amli
37	Muhd Harith Fahmi Muhd Radzuan
38	Muhd Haziman Aiman Halim
39	Muhd Ilhan Mansiz Hairul
40	Nur Faiqah Aminuddin
41	Nurul Farhana Halim Shuhaimi
42	Nurul Farlana Halim Shuhaimi
43	Ong Zhiqian
44	Ong Zhiwei
45	Pua Juin Feng
46	Raja Bazilah Bot Raja Badli
47	Rooshillen Jayakumar
48	Samuel Kuar
49	Saranya Rajadurai
50	Beh Jia Sheng
51	Sim Jingjia
52	Siti Nur Atterah Abdul Manan
53	Tan Hou An
54	Tan Hou Ping
55	Tan Hou Sheng
56	Tan Hougen
57	Tan June Ling
58	Tan Xuan Yan
59	Tan Yong Hau
60	Tang Ming Hao
61	Teng Jian Wei
62	Teoh Nuon Ning
63	Valerie Wong Tsai Ling
64	Vignaraajaa
65	Wai Chee Yin
66	Wan Adalia Rasya Ayib Rosdi
67	Wong Zi Yue
68	Woo Khai Yuan
69	Yap Rou Xin
70	Yap Zheng Xian

The list of players who have registered with payment as of 9th Nov 2012 for UNDER-12 Category as follows:

1	Aqil Ainuddin Naufal Akhramsyah
2	Ayesha Ashifa Saakeena Akhramsyah
3	Beh Jia Hao
4	Bryan Yap Chuan Yoong
5	Cheah Eason
6	Christine Lee Mei Yen
7	Dhurrjaraj Koran
8	Ernesto Chong Wei Loong
9	Evan Loo Hsien Rong
10	Giam Kee Wern
11	Gohshalan Naidu Shanmugam Naidu
12	Jane Wong Huey Yuen
13	Jaron Tan Xe Yung
14	Jason Tan Wye-Ki
15	Kong Dak Nam
16	Lee Zhi Yan
17	Lim Jun Hong
18	Lim Yern Fay
19	Loh Zu Hao
20	Low Chee Pang
21	Lum Sun Yuan
22	Meor Airil Rahimi Ayib Rosdi
23	Muhd Amirul Hafiz Abdul Manan
24	Muhd Hazid Ekquan Haruddin
25	Narmatha Murugesu
26	Ng Jen Sheng
27	Ngai Shen Yao
28	Nur Faqihah Aminuddin
29	Nurol Aiman Rasli
30	Nurul Izzah Halim Shuhaimi
31	Prashanth Ramasamy
32	Praveen Raaj Anandaraj
33	Puteri Munajjah Az-Zahraa
34	Puteri Rifqah Fahada Azhar
35	Ryan Tey He Yang
36	Samuel Fang Wei Liang
37	Sarah Hani Ridzauddin
38	Sean Ooi Zhi Jian
39	Steven Wong Zhuliang
40	Tan Hou Yuan
41	Tan Qian Hui
42	Tharanidharan Rajadurai
43	Wong Quinn Wai
44	Wong Zhu Hock
45	Yee Jian Yang
46	Yoong Hong Shoon

The list of players who have pre-registered without payment as of 9th Nov 2012 for UNDER-12 Category as follows:

47	Ghanaharithiran Sivakumar
48	Leong Ca Tjun
49	Maahendhar Sivapragash

The list of players who have registered with payment as of 9th Nov 2012 for UNDER-14 Category as follows:

1	Anis Fariha Saleh
2	Chang Wei Jin
3	Cheong Jie Yao
4	Chew Zhi Jing
5	Dawson Tan Soon Wei
6	Dilwen Ding Tze How
7	Ethan Wong Hsien Aun
8	Ho Chen Ee
9	Lee Zhi Wei
10	Meor Adib Rusyaidi Ayib Rosdi
11	Mohd Faizal Roslan
12	Muhd Fahmi Farizal
13	Muhd Fikri Farizal
14	Muhd Harith Farhan Muhd Radzuan
15	Ng Jun Khai
16	Preveena Murugesu
17	Risantini Murugan
18	Subramanian Sivanesan
19	Tan Jun Hong
20	Tan Keigen
21	Vijay Karthekeyan Ravichandran
22	Wong Goon Shek

The list of players who have pre-registered without payment as of 9th Nov 2012 for UNDER-14 Category as follows:

23	Chang Chye Yan

The list of players who have registered with payment as of 9th Nov 2012 for UNDER-16 Category as follows:

1	Adiba Shahrul Baharin
2	Asadullah Qamar
3	Bryan Chan Chi Hoe
4	Chin Wan Seng
5	Farah Amirah Farizal
6	Fikri Saleh
7	Joyce Tan Sue Lee
8	Laila Husna Sahadi
9	Lee Kang Jing
10	Low Jun Keat
11	Marcus Woo Ming Leang
12	Muhd Irfan Haqqim Azhar
13	Naveen Vikneswaran
14	Shashmitha Anandaraj
15	Tan Kah Kheng
16	Tan Shie Mei
17	Teoh Poh Jian
18	Veylamuthen Murugan
19	Vinton Wong Hsien Loong

1st The Summit Juniors Open on 11 Nov @ Summit USJ [Update#3]

Good News!!! The Organiser of the Event has decided to give Certificate of Participation to all players who take part in this upcoming event. On top of this news, the Organiser has managed to get a corporate sponsor namely Popular Bookstore to give out additional Cash Vouchers on top of the advertised Cash Prizes for the prizewinners.

The Venue for this event is located on the Ground floor of the Shopping Mall. The same area where Popular is having the Warehouse Clearance Sale. All participants who have made their payment DO NOT NEED to arrive early. You just need to be there before 10.45AM. While, those who didn't make payment (less than 10pax) must reach the venue by 10AM, else your place will be given away to any walk-in participants who reach there early. So, I strongly recommend that you make payment before this Sunday.  The complete set of names will be published on 10th Nov 2012.

The quota as of 7 Nov 2012 as follows:
Under-10: ZERO [All 70 pax had paid-up];
Under-12: 11 more seats available [If you are U10, you can sign-up in this category].
Under-14: 2 more seats available.
Under-16: 6 more seats available.


Hence, 19 seats left. Hurry, register yourself by 8th Nov by SMS to me @ 012 - 298 4922. No penalty will be imposed if you do it by 8th Nov. From 9th Nov, a late charges of extra RM10 shall be imposed. For details on this event, click here.

18th Kepong Juniors Open Results

This event was conducted successfully yesterday where 250 players from 264 registered names turn-up for the event. The largest category, Under-12, saw a turnout of 91 players which is also the highest pax in 18 years of Kepong Juniors Open history.

The top two players for this category are Tan Yong Zhao (Kepong 2 student) and Nithyalakshmi from Negeri Sembilan. Both players are our official representatives in Under-12 (Boy's and Girl's Category) to the World Youth Chess Championship. They had used this event as their final preparation before heading to KLIA tomorrow for their journey to World Youth. Both players play to expectation yesterday by finishing 1-2 in the event. With the expected result, I wish both of them have a pleasant journey ahead and play well in the upcoming World Youth.

Meanwhile, 3rd seed Emir overcame a bad start to his campaign with a lost on Round 2 before bouncing back to win 4 games in-a-row and get a draw against Nithyalakshmi in the last round to finish 5th in the event. Where as, 4th seed Ng Jen Sheng lost his only game to Yong Zhao in Round 5 to secure the Bronze medal. Evan Loo, 17th seed, has regained back his form and score a handsome plus rating by finishing 4th and his only lost was to Nithyalakshmi. For your information, he was a regular top 5 pre-tournament favorites in many U12 events until recently because he had lost a massive 202 rating points in the 3rd quarter 2012. So, the top five were not a surprise prize winners at all.

Next, the Under-8 Category saw a turnout of 45 players. Pre-tournament favourite, Cheah Kah Hoe, was unable to live up to his top billing because he lost the crucial encounter to Dinessh Kumar, 4th seed, in Round 6 but bounced back to win in the last round and clinched the Bronze medal on much superior tie-break. While, Dinessh had a nail-biting finish against 4th seed Muhd Haziman from Johor with the result ended in a draw. So, Dinessh claiming the Gold medal and Haziman had to settle for a Silver.

Kepong 2 hopeful Chew Zhi Qi, ranked 3rd, championship campaign came to an end when he lost his Round 5 and Round 6 encounter to the eventual Gold and Silver medalist and had to finish at 6th place. Where as, Wong Zi Yue, 2nd seed, championship campaign suffered a serious knock when he lost again to Ivan Sean Yap in Round 2. A week earlier, both players met during 13th CAS Quarter Allegro where the result in favour of the latter. In Round 5, he lost to Evelyn Tan and with this result he had finished a distant 10th placing, while Ivan took a quick in the final round against Tan Hougen to finish the event at 4th placing.

As for the Under-10 Category, the event was won by Nurul Farnana from Johor, 2nd seed, with 5 wins and 2 draws. She drew both her games against top billing Chew Zhi Xuan and 3rd seed Kabilan. In fact Chew is on course to win the U-10 after becaming the sole leader after 6 rounds. However, he suffered an unexpected lost to Tan Yong Hau, 6th seed, in the last round and ended in 5th place only. With this result, Yong Hau had clinhed the Silver medal and a fairy tale ending after losing unexpectedly in Round 1.

Meanwhile, Kabilan championship campaign came to a halt when he lost to 4th seed Jovel Ernesto in Round 6. The latter championship campaign ended a round earlier when he lost to Chew. As for the 5th seed Lim Jun Shen (Kepong 2 student) lost his campaign when he lost to his team mate Chew in Round 4. Where as, 17th seed Chin Yi Hao had managed to win the Bronze medal with 6 wins. His only lost was to Kabilan in Round 3.

Now, lets examine the Category of Death, Under-16. Both Tan Wei Hao (Defending Champion for this category) and Dilwen Ding have an identical National Rating. Dilwen was given the top billing based on alphabetical of player names. Dilwen had a good start to his championship campaign with 3 wins in-a-row. In Round 4, he drew against his best friend Dawson. With this result, no one is anticipating a nightmare has just begun for Dilwen. He was paired against 10th seed Vinton Wong (who is still recovering from lost of form since July this year) and had lost unexpected. Next, he was paired against 3rd seed Subramanian (last year top seed for this category) who was a Category 1 Bronze Medalist in last week CAS Quarter Allegro. Unfortunately, he lost again. His misery continued into the last round when he lost to 8th seed Daryl Wong. What actually has happened to him?

This must be THE EVENT specially made for Wei Hao, a former Kepong 2 student and the ONE AND ONLY Kepong 2 student that won National Age-Group Championship 3 years in-a-row @ aged 10, 11 and 12. I believe this record in NAG will never be broken by any Kepong 2 students in near future. Besides splitting point with Subramanian in Round 4, he won all his encounters including 5th seed Tan Ri Hong, 7th seed Cheong Jie Yao, 4th seed Dawson Tan and 10th seed Vinton Wong.

While, Subramanian who had suffered an embarrased result with a 16th place finishing in last year edition had done relative well this time around by obtaining 4th placing. His only lost was to Dawson in Round 5 and the latter got a Bronze for his effort. The Silver medal was won by Vinton and Ri Hong wrapped up the top 5 standing.

The full result for Under-08, click here.

The full result for Under-10, click here.

The full result for Under-12, click here.

The full result for Under-16, click here.


See you guys again next year!!!







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1st The Summit Juniors Open on 11 Nov @ Summit USJ [Update#2]

The 18th Kepong Juniors Open is conducted successfully today, now we move on to another Age-Group tournament namely 1st The Summit Juniors Open.

As predicted, the enrollment for the Summit event has passed the 150-mark. Today alone, I have received many calls from various parties outside of Kepong event who want to sign-up. The final tally for this event is expected to reach 180 pax (the limit for this event).

As of now, the Under-10 category has reached the quota of 70pax. So, children below age 10 y.o. can no longer be accepted into this category but they are allow to take part in the Under-12 category where 17 seats are still available before reaching the quota of 60pax.

As for the Secondary school categories, the Organiser is limiting each category in-take to 25 pax but still offer 10 prizes in each category. For your information, Under-14 still have 4 vacancy while Under-16 can accomodate another 7 players.

For more details on this event, click here. For registration process, please Call/SMS me ASAP @ 012-298 4922 (Lim).

1st The Summit Juniors Open on 11 Nov @ Summit USJ [Update#1]

This event has received a good response with 112 entries so far. The Under-10 Category attracts the highest number of enrollment with 52 entries, followed by Under-12 with 30 entries, and Under-14 and Under-16 have another 30 entries in total.

This event is expected to surge passed 150 pax comes this Sunday when scores of children who are taking part in the upcoming 18th Kepong Juniors Open Chess Championship will sign-up on the spot. To avoid disappointment, I advise players who are taking part in Kepong event to sign-up ASAP once the Summit Registration counter is set up after Rd 2 begins.

Why?

There are 264 players contesting in Kepong event where approximately 75% of them yet to register themselves for this event. So, 200 players will be fighting for the limited quota that are still available.

The quota for each category for The Summit Chess Championship is listed below:
The Under-10 category: 18 more seats;
The Under-12 category: 30 more seats;
The Under-14 category: 11 more seats;
The Under-16 category: 9 more seats;

Once the quota for any category is fully taken up, the participant will move up to the next available category. So, players who are taking part in the Kepong event must register early comes this Sunday to avoid disappointment.

For those who are not playing at Kepong event, please contact me ASAP @ 012-298 4922 (Lim) to reserve a seat by tomorrow, else all seats will be taken up comes this Sunday (4/11). For more details on this event, click here.


The list of players for Under-10 as follows:

1	Aaren Tan Whei Lung
2	Ahmad Aiman Sahadi
3	Allaida Siow
4	Amir Faiz Amirul
5	Amira Farhana Amirul
6	Chan Kit Wai
7	Cheah Jason
8	Cheah Kah Hoe
9	Chew Zhi Qi
10	Chew Zhi Xuan
11	Chiah Enyo Jing Chi
12	Evelyn Tan Eng Thong
13	Fahim Al-Faqeh Saleh
14	Firaas
15	Hafiz Borhanudin
16	Ivan Sean Yap Sheuan
17	Jessica Tan Sue Ann
18	Joanne Chin Zhi May
19	Joel Pang Ze Minn
20	Joelle Tan Sue Ai
21	Joshwa Yeong Zherui
22	Lim Jun Shen
23	Lim Kai Xian
24	Lim Yern Sern
25	Low Chee Fatt
26	Muhd Ilhan Mansiz Hairul
27	Nur Faiqah Aminuddin
28	Ong Zhiqian
29	Ong Zhiwei
30	Pua Juin Feng
31	Raja Bazilah Bot Raja Badli
32	Rooshillen Jayakumar
33	Samuel Kuar
34	Saranya Rajadurai
35	Sean Khoo Wei Kai
36	Sim Jingjia
37	Tan June Ling
38	Tan Yong Hau
39	Tang Ming Hao
40	Teng Jian Wei
41	Teoh Nuon Ning
42	Valerie Wong Tsai Ling
43	Vignaraajaa
44	Wai Chee Yin
45	Wan Adalia Rasya Ayib Rosdi
46	Wong Zi Yue
47	Woo Khai Yuan
48	Yap Zheng Xian
49	Ian Yoon
50	Tan Hou An
51	Tan Hou Ping
52	Tan Hou Sheng

The list of players for Under-12 as follows:

1	Bryan Yap Chuan Yoong
2	Cheah Eason
3	Christine Lee Mei Yen
4	Ernesto Chong Wei Loong
5	Giam Kee Wern
6	Jaron Tan Xe Yung
7	Jason Tan Wye-Ki
8	Kong Dak Nam
9	Lee Zhi Yan
10	Lim Jun Hong
11	Lim Yern Fay
12	Loh Zu Hao
13	Low Chee Pang
14	Meor Airil Rahimi Ayib Rosdi
15	Ngai Shen Yao
16	Nur Faqihah Aminuddin
17	Nurol Aiman Rasli
18	Prashanth Ramasamy
19	Puteri Munajjah Az-Zahraa
20	Puteri Rifqah Fahada Azhar
21	Ryan Tey He Yang
22	Samuel Fang Wei Liang
23	Sean Ooi Zhi Jian
24	Steven Wong Zhuliang
25	Tan Qian Hui
26	Tharanidharan Rajadurai
27	Wong Zhu Hock
28	Adly Syahromy Abdul Razak
29	Ng Jen Sheng
30	Tan Hou Yuan

The list of players for Under-14 as follows:

1	Anis Fariha Saleh
2	Chang Wei Jin
3	Chew Zhi Jing
4	Ethan Wong Hsien Aun
5	Lee Zhi Wei
6	Meor Adib Rusyaidi Ayib Rosdi
7	Muhd Fahmi Farizal
8	Muhd Fikri Farizal
9	Ng Jun Khai
10	Risantini Murugan
11	Subramanian Sivanesan
12	Tan Jun Hong
13	Vijay Karthekeyan Ravichandran
14	Aiman Syazwan Abdul Razak

The list of players for Under-16 as follows:

1	Bryan Chan Chi Hoe
2	Farah Amirah Farizal
3	Fikri Saleh
4	Joyce Tan Sue Lee
5	Laila Husna Sahadi
6	Muhd Irfan Haqqim Azhar
7	Naveen Vikneswaran
8	Teoh Poh Jian
9	Veylamuthen Murugan
10	Vinton Wong Hsien Loong
11	Adiba Shahrul Baharin
12	Aida Suriana Abdul Razak
13	Chin Wan Seng
14	Sakinah Muryadi
15	Tan Kah Kheng
16	Tan Shie Mei-G