Boys Category
1. Yeoh Li Tian (DC) 1837
2. Muhd Aziz Farhan Noor Akbar 1542
3. Tan Yong Zhao 1495
4. Muhd Sirajuddin Munawwir 1426
5. Mohd Noor Azam 1396
The top 4 players in this list are pitted against each other in Rd 5 action. After this round, the picture will be much clearer for the title race. Mohd Noor Azam only left with mathemathical chances in the race.
Girls Category
1. Nur Najiha Azman Hisham (DC) 1537
2. Puteri Rifqah Fahada Azhar 1566
3. Nithyalakshmi Sivanesan 1439
4. Maisarrah Noor Akbar 1386
5. Siti Khadijah Sabirin 1341
Denfending Champion Nur Najiha is the sole leader with 4 pts. Puteri and Maisarrah are out of the race by dropping 1.5 and 2 pts respectively. Nithyalakshmi and Siti still in the race although both has dropped a point yesterday. 9th Seed Nurul Aina (3.5 pts) is pitted against Najiha in Rd 5 action.
(DC) means Defending Champion for the same age-group. Defending Champion shall be seeded as "No. 1 player" regardless of their current MCF Chess rating.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
NAG 2009 Under-08: Top 5 In Rating List
Boys Category
1. Danish Hamzah Al-Hadi Noor Akbar 1438
2. Amier Hamzah Mohd Zuhri 1324
3. Muhd Najwan Azman Hisham 1319
4. Muhd Zulfikri Mohd Sulkifly 1240
5. Hee Zi Qi 1203
The top 2 seeds will cross action in Rd 5 today. This match is likely to be the title decider for this category. Muhd Zulfikri still has some chance left in his quest with 3 pts from 4 games. The other two contender in the list are out of the race after suffering 2 losses yesterday.
Girls Category
1. Puteri Munajjah Az-Zahiraa Azhar 1502
2. Teh De Zen 1228
3. Sim Mei Shan 1150
4. Nur Islamurni Yahaya 1121
5. Zainoor Ikmal Maisarah Mohd Noor 1081
This group has the most upset result. All except Sim has dropped 1 point. While Sim dropped 3 points. The unexpected sole leader is unseeded Teh Ming Min who created the biggest upset by defeating Sim, Puteri and Nur Islamurni. With the way she played, it seems no one in this group can stop her giant killing act.
1. Danish Hamzah Al-Hadi Noor Akbar 1438
2. Amier Hamzah Mohd Zuhri 1324
3. Muhd Najwan Azman Hisham 1319
4. Muhd Zulfikri Mohd Sulkifly 1240
5. Hee Zi Qi 1203
The top 2 seeds will cross action in Rd 5 today. This match is likely to be the title decider for this category. Muhd Zulfikri still has some chance left in his quest with 3 pts from 4 games. The other two contender in the list are out of the race after suffering 2 losses yesterday.
Girls Category
1. Puteri Munajjah Az-Zahiraa Azhar 1502
2. Teh De Zen 1228
3. Sim Mei Shan 1150
4. Nur Islamurni Yahaya 1121
5. Zainoor Ikmal Maisarah Mohd Noor 1081
This group has the most upset result. All except Sim has dropped 1 point. While Sim dropped 3 points. The unexpected sole leader is unseeded Teh Ming Min who created the biggest upset by defeating Sim, Puteri and Nur Islamurni. With the way she played, it seems no one in this group can stop her giant killing act.
Sunday, March 22, 2009
36th Selangor Open Chess Tournament
Chess Association of Selangor (CAS) is organising the longest running event in Malaysia without any sponsorship. This is a case on the effect from global recession that already hit Malaysia shore. We no longer can be in a state of denial that corporate-sponsored events will not be reduced over the months if economic situation in Malaysia did not see significant improvement in near future.
For the sake of the survival on this longest continuous event in Malaysia, CAS has made a decision to continue the event at least for this year with RM 6,750 prize fund using CAS fund accumulated over the years while cap the entrance fees at RM 90 just like last year. CAS hopes there are 80 players from the chess faternity can come out to support the survival of this long standing event and help CAS to make a smaller losses.
Date: 30th April (Thursday) to 3rd May 2009 (Sunday)
Venue: DAT Chess Centre, 4th Floor, Wilayah Complex, Jalan Munshi Abdullah, KL
Time Control: 90 minutes plus 30 seconds increment from move 1
(30/4) Registration 12.30 pm - 01.30 pm
(30/4) Round 1 @ 02.30pm, Round 2 @ 07.45pm;
(01/5) Round 3 @ 09.00am, Round 4 @ 02.30pm;
(02/5) Round 5 @ 09.00am, Round 6 @ 02.30pm, Round 7 @ 07.45pm;
(03/5) Round 8 @ 09.00am, Round 9 @ 02.30pm.
For the sake of the survival on this longest continuous event in Malaysia, CAS has made a decision to continue the event at least for this year with RM 6,750 prize fund using CAS fund accumulated over the years while cap the entrance fees at RM 90 just like last year. CAS hopes there are 80 players from the chess faternity can come out to support the survival of this long standing event and help CAS to make a smaller losses.
Date: 30th April (Thursday) to 3rd May 2009 (Sunday)
Venue: DAT Chess Centre, 4th Floor, Wilayah Complex, Jalan Munshi Abdullah, KL
Time Control: 90 minutes plus 30 seconds increment from move 1
(30/4) Registration 12.30 pm - 01.30 pm
(30/4) Round 1 @ 02.30pm, Round 2 @ 07.45pm;
(01/5) Round 3 @ 09.00am, Round 4 @ 02.30pm;
(02/5) Round 5 @ 09.00am, Round 6 @ 02.30pm, Round 7 @ 07.45pm;
(03/5) Round 8 @ 09.00am, Round 9 @ 02.30pm.
Congratulation to all 18 students in MSSM
With here, I would like to congratulate 18 of my current and former students who have qualified themselves in MSSM 2009 via Kuala Lumpur (11 pax) or Selangor (7 pax) representation. For the record, each State is allowed to send 36 players to MSSM with the host can add another player to any Individual Category to even up the number of players in the Category.
This year, I've spent the March school holiday helping those who did not make it to MSSM in improving their game for the coming National Age-Group schedules on 4th and 5th April 2009.
I seldom get myself involve with MSSM players during MSSM because I believe preparation towards MSSM must be done prior to the event itself. As an example, I conducted a 15-member elite group training in Dec 2008 and am happy to see many of them qualified into MSSM 2009. My duty as a coach is to provide the basic necessary skills for them to compete against their peers for a place into MSSM. My vision is to see those who have put in effort in improving their games eventually qualifying themselves to MSSM. In over the years, I've always try my VERY best to stay neutral without taking any side to win the MSSM championship as I always tell them the best players (collectively) will win the MSSM Championship.
This year edition saw my students help KL and Selangor to win (1 gold - 1 silver - 1 bronze) from the Individual category, and (2 golds - 3 silvers - 1 bronze) from the Team category. This give a total of 3 golds, 4 silvers, and 2 bronzes. For the record, KL and Selangor won a total of 8 golds, 6 silvers and 3 bronzes from 12 categories contested.
Will they improve their performance in MSSM 2010? Time will tell........
This year, I've spent the March school holiday helping those who did not make it to MSSM in improving their game for the coming National Age-Group schedules on 4th and 5th April 2009.
I seldom get myself involve with MSSM players during MSSM because I believe preparation towards MSSM must be done prior to the event itself. As an example, I conducted a 15-member elite group training in Dec 2008 and am happy to see many of them qualified into MSSM 2009. My duty as a coach is to provide the basic necessary skills for them to compete against their peers for a place into MSSM. My vision is to see those who have put in effort in improving their games eventually qualifying themselves to MSSM. In over the years, I've always try my VERY best to stay neutral without taking any side to win the MSSM championship as I always tell them the best players (collectively) will win the MSSM Championship.
This year edition saw my students help KL and Selangor to win (1 gold - 1 silver - 1 bronze) from the Individual category, and (2 golds - 3 silvers - 1 bronze) from the Team category. This give a total of 3 golds, 4 silvers, and 2 bronzes. For the record, KL and Selangor won a total of 8 golds, 6 silvers and 3 bronzes from 12 categories contested.
Will they improve their performance in MSSM 2010? Time will tell........
MBSSKL is U-18 Boys Team Champion in MSSMKL 2009
I've not been updating this blog for a very ...... long time due to various commitments in the past 1 year. Let starts with this article.
Methodist Boy's Secondary School KL (MBSSKL) was declared as a cluster school of excellence on 2 April 2008. There are three niche areas to be developed under this program: ICT, English and Chess. As for the chess programme, the school has engaged me as the chief coach to take charge on developing chess excellency for the school.
In this year competition, MBSSKL sent two national players to represent them on the top 2 boards. Yeap Eng Chiam (14 y.o.), MSSM U-15 champion and 7th strongest U-18 player in Malaysia (based on National Rating release Jan 2009), had spearheaded the school campaign to capture the chess team title for the first time at state level competition. He won all his 5 games on Board 1.
Next, Albert Ang Keliang (13 y.o.) who began learning chess from me when he was 8 years old. Within 2 years, he won the National U-10 title, 2-time MSSM player and have been representing Malaysia in International Age-group event in the past 4 years. He's currently ranked 51st among the Juniors in Malaysia. Playing on Board 2 for this event, he won 3 games and drew 2 games including one against a fellow MSSM player from SMK Kepong Baru.
Jonathan Yap, a very enthusiastic learner in the game, had scored 3 wins in 5 games on Board 3. It's a pity that this will be his last outing in MSSMKL since is taking his STPM later this year.
While, Nixon Saw, a fifth former, had 2 wins and a draw from 5 games played to help the school scored 14.5 points from 5 matches. This outing may also be his last outing in MSSMKL.
Will MBSSKL continues to dominate the KL chess scene in future?
Methodist Boy's Secondary School KL (MBSSKL) was declared as a cluster school of excellence on 2 April 2008. There are three niche areas to be developed under this program: ICT, English and Chess. As for the chess programme, the school has engaged me as the chief coach to take charge on developing chess excellency for the school.
In this year competition, MBSSKL sent two national players to represent them on the top 2 boards. Yeap Eng Chiam (14 y.o.), MSSM U-15 champion and 7th strongest U-18 player in Malaysia (based on National Rating release Jan 2009), had spearheaded the school campaign to capture the chess team title for the first time at state level competition. He won all his 5 games on Board 1.
Next, Albert Ang Keliang (13 y.o.) who began learning chess from me when he was 8 years old. Within 2 years, he won the National U-10 title, 2-time MSSM player and have been representing Malaysia in International Age-group event in the past 4 years. He's currently ranked 51st among the Juniors in Malaysia. Playing on Board 2 for this event, he won 3 games and drew 2 games including one against a fellow MSSM player from SMK Kepong Baru.
Jonathan Yap, a very enthusiastic learner in the game, had scored 3 wins in 5 games on Board 3. It's a pity that this will be his last outing in MSSMKL since is taking his STPM later this year.
While, Nixon Saw, a fifth former, had 2 wins and a draw from 5 games played to help the school scored 14.5 points from 5 matches. This outing may also be his last outing in MSSMKL.
Will MBSSKL continues to dominate the KL chess scene in future?
Friday, April 11, 2008
35th Selangor International Open Chess Tournament - The Invitation
The Chess Association of Selangor invites local and international chess players to participate in our longest running 35th Selangor Open. Due to space constraint we may have to just accomodate up to 80 players only.Please preregister at our email address or submit your application to our sponsor Royal Selangor, Petaling Jaya office.
Persatuan Catur Selangor menjemput pemain catur tempatan dan luar negara mengambil bahagian di Catur Terbuka Selangor yang ke 35, pertandingan catur bertaraf antarabangsa paling lama diadakan di Malaysia. Oleh kerana tempat yang terhad kepada tidak melebehi 80 peserta di harap membuat pendaftaran awal melalui email atau menghantar terus borang penyertaan kepada penganjur, Royal Selangor cawangan Petaling Jaya.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
35th Royal Selangor International Open Chess Championship from 30th April to 4th May
The Champion for this 9 rounds FIDE-rated event will receives RM 2,200 cash plus Royal Selangor Pewterware. The event: 30th April to 4th May 2008 @ Royal Selangor HQ, Setapak Jaya, Kuala Lumpur.
Entrance Fee for CAS Members only >> RM 70, while Others >> RM 110.
For pre-registration, please send an email to selangorchess@gmail.com
Entrance Fee for CAS Members only >> RM 70, while Others >> RM 110.
For pre-registration, please send an email to selangorchess@gmail.com
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