CTEP Camp June 2011

For the first time in my 8 years as a full time Coach, I will be collaborating with my sifu in chess, Coach Seto, and Creative Chess Enterprise, Coach Balen. It is a unique experience to team up with my sifu together with my comrade in chess organisation. With our proven track record in grooming dozens of young children till represent the country, we are putting together a powerful chess training excellence programme camp on 6th & 7th June 2011 for children who inspire to represent Malaysia one day.

In Malaysia, many chess companies / academies / private enterprises have conducted chess camps actively in the past 5 years especially during the school holiday. From the research done, many chess camps just belong to "having some fun" camp category. So, I didn't want to associate with such a camp and would I say will not collaborate with parties in doing such camps. Therefore, I conduct CTEP camp for my own students only, no outsider is allowed.

Why am I collaborating with Others for the first time? It all began from a casual chit chat I had with Coach Balen in one of coffeeshops in town. He was telling me " this and that" on the camps he helped out others. Basically, those are the same reasons (in not many words) why I didn't collaborate with others. So I popped a question, why not you run one yourself? The rest is history. Here, we present to you a chess camp that we called Chess Training Excellence Programme camp.

How is this CTEP camp different from those "having some fun" camp?

1. The camp material will be customised manually based on the students chess understanding / level.

2. The camp material is extracted from a customisable self-develop methodology which is proven to produce more than 3 dozens of children (not just one individual, or 2, may be 3, 5, or 10 individuals) from the rudimental level like just knowing how pieces move until an expert level of representing the country.

3. The coaches share the same kind of believe on what are the best chess ingredients and what it takes for children of rudimental chess knowledge to grow.

4. Feel free to give me a call @ 012 - 298 4922 if you want to know more.

The infosheet:

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The Enrolment Form:

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NAG 2011 Champions

This is an old piece of information but I would like to post it just to have a closure to my earlier article entitled "NAG 2011 Title Contenders" that was posted before the start of the Championship. Sorry to say that I'm unable to post this article earlier as I'm out of the country in the last 2 weeks.

The Champions are listed below:
The Under-18 Boys >> Muhd Nabil Azman Hisham (NR 1893) from Selangor;
The Under-18 Girls >> Latifah Kaiyisah (NR 1548) from KL;
The Under-16 Boys >> Wong Jianwen (NR 1819) from KL;
The Under-16 Girls >> Pavitranayagi Jayamurthey (NR 1560) from KL;
The Under-14 Boys >> Roshan Ajeet (NR 1681) from Selangor;
The Under-14 Girls >> NWM Wendy Tan Li Ting (NR 1688) from KL;
The Under-12 Boys >> Ooi Zhi Yang (NR 1593) from Penang;
The Under-12 Girls >> WFM Nur Najiha Azman Hisham (NR 1748) from Selangor;
The Under-10 Boys >> Teh De Juan (NR 1518) from Penang;
The Under-10 Girls >> Teh De Zen (NR 1376) from Penang;

I'm surprise that I'm able to make a perfect prediction as all names appeared in my list of NAG 2011 Title Contenders. One of the bloggers wrote something in his blog in response to my earlier article before the Age-Group started. I choose not to comment on his article at that time as this may upset some players preparation toward the championship. As for now, I also choose not to comment but all I can say my evaluation did cover a very wide scope (not only technical in chess). You want to know the scope - "Trade secret!".

For the record, I did not make any prediction for both categories in Under-8. The champions as follow:-
The Under-8 Boys >> Tan Jun Ying from Penang;
The Under-8 Girls >> Goh Jie Yi from Penang.

From the stats, Penang won 5 national titles followed by KL with 4 titles and Selangor with 3 titles. So, Penang is the Overall Champion in the Best of the Best Category.

38th Selangor Open Infosheet

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38th Selangor Open 2011

Source: CAS blogsite

This FIDE-rated event (also a nationally rated event) will be organised from 28th Apr to 2nd May 2011 at DATCC, 4th floor, Wilayah Complex, KL. The total prize fund for this event is RM 7,500 with the 38th Selangor Open Champion to receive RM 2,500 in cash.

Confirmation of Participation (28th Apr) >> 4 PM to 5.30PM;
28th Apr >> Round 1: 6.30 PM to 10.30 PM;
29th Apr >> Round 2: 9 AM to 1 PM;
29th Apr >> Round 3: 3 PM to 7 PM;
30th Apr >> Round 4: 9 AM to 1 PM;
30th Apr >> Round 5: 3 PM to 7 PM;
01st May >> Round 6: 9 AM to 1 PM;
01st May >> Round 7: 3 PM to 7 PM;
02nd May >> Round 8: 8.30 AM to 12.30 PM;
02nd May >> Round 9: 2 PM to 6 PM;
Closing Ceremony >> 6.30 PM.

Registration fee:
1. CAS Members with FIDE rating >> RM 70;
2. CAS Members without FIDE rating >> RM 80;
3. Others with FIDE rating >> RM 90;
4. Others without FIDE rating >> RM 100;
5. Schools/Institutions of Higher Learning that send at least 4 players will receive 20% discount.

NAG 2011 Title Contenders

This yr NAG will be held at Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Tronoh, Perak. It is going to be 2 yrs in a row the NAG to be held outside Klang Valley. The number of entries so far stands at 332 pax [revised to 378 pax after submission from late entries taking into account] still a far cry from 450 to 500 pax (if to be held in Klang Valley) but far better numbers representation if we compared with last year edition around 250 pax. The larger number is attributed by a significant increase in children from Klang Valley taking part in this year edition.

The Under-18 Boys Championship title will be a four-corner fight between NM Evan Timothy (NR 2019) from Penang, Sumant Subramaniam (NR 1980) from Pahang, Muhd Nabil (NR 1893) from Selangor, and Fong Yit San from Perak (NR 1760). {Last update 10/3 - Syakir is not in the namelist}

The Under-18 Girls Championship title will be a straight fight between Latifah Kaiyisah (NR 1548) from KL and Winnie Hong (NR 1531) from Selangor after Amira Syamina was slotted wrongly in this category.

The Under-16 Boys Championship title will be a three-corner fight between NJM Yeap Eng Chiam (NR 1995) and Wong Jianwen (NR 1819) from KL, and Elgin Lee (NR 1790) from Penang.

The Under-16 Girls Championship title will be a five-corner fight between Sarika Subramaniam (NR 1584) from Pahang, Goh Xin Yen (NR 1559) and Amira Syamina (NR 1512) from Selangor, Hoh Tjin Li (NR 1558) from Penang, and Pavitranayagi Jayamurthey (NR 1560) from KL.

The Under-14 Boys Championship title will be a four-corner fight between Muhd Irfan (NR 1731) and Roshan Ajeet (NR 1681) from Selangor, Tan Wei Hao (NR 1659) from KL, and Aron Teh [resides in Shanghai] from Perak (NR 1593).

The Under-14 Girls Championship title will be a straight fight between WCM Nur Nabila (NR 1792) from Selangor and WNM Wendy Tan from KL (NR 1688) from KL.

The Under-12 Boys Championship title will be a four-corner fight between Ooi Zhi Yang (NR 1593) and Tang Wei Kit (NR 1538) from Penang, Mohd Noor Azam (NR 1528) from Selangor, and Tan Yong Zhao from KL (NR 1450). {Last update 10/3 - Li Tian is not in the namelist}

The Under-12 Girls Championship title will be a straight fight between WFM Nur Najiha (NR 1748) and Puteri Rifqah (NR 1525) from Selangor.

The Under-10 Boys Championship title will be a five-corner fight between CM Amier Hamzah (NR 1623), Teh De Juan (NR 1518) and Wong Yinn Long (NR 1512) from Penang, Yee Jian Yang (NR 1587) and Emir Rusyaidi (NR 1478) from Selangor.

The Under-12 Girls Championship title will be a straight fight between Puteri Munajjah (NR 1611) from Selangor and Teh De Zen (NR 1376) from Penang.

The Under-08 Boys and Under-08 Girls Championship title will be anybody guessing.

All names mentioned here have been quantified and analyzed based on their chess skills from the namelist published by Marcus Yeoh in his blogsite. Any player whose name does not appear here but have a higher rating than the "weakest" contenders in the category is deemed to have some missing basic chess fundamentals to support his/her quest to win the National Age-Group title.

It's worth mentioning that Gilocatur's blogsite has some evaluation on title contenders too.

Finally, I wish all title contenders to have a pleasant outing and able to scalp new heights in skill towards attaining mastery level in future.

MSSMKL Sentul Zone Primary Schools

SJK(C) Kepong 2 conquered the Sentul Zone with 5 GOLD, 2 SILVER, 1 BRONZE from 6 categories played over 4 days. With this result, SJK(C) Kepong 2 is the most dominant school so far (after 3 zones had completed with 1 zone remaining to contest) in this year zone level chess event.

Also, a big thank you to the Organiser of this zone (Cikgu Azwan and the team) for uploading the full result so fast. The result is uploaded on the same day as the event finished. This is the type of efficiency we are talking.

Boys and Girls Team Results as follow:



Boys and Girls Individual Results as follow:

MSSMKL 2011 Keramat Zone (Girls Result for Primary Schools)

The individual results (courtesy from MSSMKL blogsite) for the U-10 and U-12 category in Girls section as below:


In the U-12 category, SK CBN 1 has 3 contestants qualify into the Final, followed by SJK(C) Nan Kai and SJK(C) Lai Meng with 2 contestants each, while one each from 5 different schools.



After a tough 5 rounds battle, SK Danau Kota leads the way into the Final with 3 contestants, followed by SJK(C) Lee Rubber and SK CBN1 with 2 contestants each, while one each from 5 different schools.