Sri KL emerges as the New Champion in Individual and Team for the U-12 Boys Category of MSSD Petaling Perdana

After a gruelling neck-to-neck race with SK Bukit Jelutong "A" team from Round 1 until the finishing line, Sri KL has emerged as the New Champion for the Petaling Perdana Zone. Sri KL is the third champion school since the reinstatement of chess into MSSM backed in 2004, after SJK(C) Lick Hung won them from 2005 to 2008, followed by SK Bukit Jelutong in 2009 and 2010.

At the end of Round 7, Sri KL "A" team was leading SK Bukit Jelutong "A" team by half point from the total scores of 4 players. Then, a disaster struck Sri KL on Round 8 where their students could only manage to add 2 points from a maximum 4 points, while SK Bukit Jelutong "A" team contributed 2.5 points to bring both schools level in points into final round. The Sri KL boys did well to collect 3 points in the last round to be crowned as the New Champion.

As for the Individual Championship, Daryl Wong of Sri KL was the sole leader of the tournament after 6 rounds with all wins. However, he suffered an unexpected lost at the hand of Lee Zhi Wei from SJK(C) Ladang Hacroft who was trailing just half point behind. So, Lee was the new leader after 7 rounds. Then, the same thing happen to Lee when he lost unexpectedly to Muhd Faqih of SK Bukit Jelutong on 6 points. This has throwned the race wide open into the last round with 4 students with 7 points.

The tournament witness a mouth watering clashed between the top two seeded players with Identical Nat. Rating of 1363 in the final round. While, two other boys from Bukit Jelutong "A" team played each other since both of them had lost to Daryl in earlier encounters, Faqih won the game and claimed the Silver medal. As for the game of the event, Daryl won it and won the Championship title since Daryl had defeated Faqih in today earlier round. Meanwhile, Lee took the Bronze with 7.5 points by defeating Lim Rong of Sri KL. Fahim Saleh of Bukit Jelutong "B" team took the last qualifying spot by obtaining 7 points with superior tie-break among a bunch of students on same points.

MSS Selangor Zone Chess Event Begins

The MSSD Petaling Perdana begins the campaign to find 4 boys and 4 girls in U-12 Category.

The U-12 Boys Category has a total of 162 players taking part in a two-day event starting today. The top seed for the event is Cheong Yi Yao of SJK(C) Lick Hung with a Nat. Rtg. 1363 as the top seed, followed by Daryl Wong of Sri KL with an identical (how coincident it can be) National Rating. Wong was one of the last yr qualifier from this zone, while Cheong did not play in last yr edition due to illness. The boys will compete in a 9 rounds event.

The U-12 Girls Category has 97 players taking part. The top seed is Nurulhana Syuhada of SK Sri Serdang with a National Rating 1372, followed by Nur Faqihah Aminuddin from SK Bukit Jelutong. The girls will compete in a 8 rounds event.

Reminder: CTEP Camp June 2011

The Chess Training Excellence Programme Camp is to be held on 6th & 7th June 2011 (during the mid-term school holiday break). Three levels will be conducted namely (i) Elementary Level for those with some basic on how chess pieces move, (ii) Intermediate Level 1 for those who already know basic chess openings, tactics and endgame techniques, and (iii) Intermediate Level 2 is specifically build for those with a National Rating between 1200 to 1300.

For more information on this programme, please click here.

For enquiries, please call Coach Lim @ 012 - 298 4922.

38th Selangor Open Namelist [updated 11th Apr]

Source: CAS blogsite

The names as follow:

01. Muhammad Faqih Aminuddin
02. Nur Faqiahah Aminuddin
03. Afiq Mohd Jamil
04. Muhammad Ihsan Syahiran Mohd Najib
05. Mark Siew
06. Lim Kian Hwa
07. Liew Ashton
08. Sotimin Muhalip
09. Alan Lai
10. Abang Mohd Reduan
11. Hasidin Abdul Rashid
12. Haslindah Ruslan
13. Bustaman Harun
14. Kughan Ravindran
15. ARIF Bin MOHD JAMIL
16. Sim Chung Seng
17. Abdul Rahim Ramli
18. Ismail Ahmad
19. IM Jimmy Liew
20. Anis Nabila Ahmad Zuhdi
21. Izzanuddin Irman Aminuddin
22. Ruzenan Abu Bakar
23. Abdul Rahim Ramli
24. Suniil Kalivanan
25. Noor Hafiz Mohd Nor
26. ?


Please send your name to selangorchess@gmail.com if you would like to take part in this event.

MSSWP Chess Final 2011 for Secondary Schools Begin....

This year the MSSWP organiser has reintroduced the team category for boys and girls. There are 24 schools each coming from 4 zones in Kuala Lumpur competing in the team category.

The pre-tournament favourites for the Girls category are SMK Kepong Baru and SMK(P) Convent Sentul. The former is parading three national players, while the latter has two national players. Two other schools have one national player in the team.

The pre-tournament favourites for the Boys category are SMK Kepong Baru, SMK(L) Methodist, SMK Aminuddin Baki (hosting school) and Sek Wesley Methodist. All the schools in this list have the service of national players as well as MSSM players. One of these schools did not even field their two national players in the team (who will be competing in Individual only starting from tomorrow as one of the favourites to qualify representing KL in MSSM this year) to allow other students from the same school to compete. Many other schools "would have die" for the service of national players.

MSSWP 2011 Primary School Champions

The 4-day tournament just concluded at 11am today. The Champions for the 6 categories as listed below:

Primary School Boys' Team Champion >> SJK(C) Kepong 2;

Primary School Girls' Team Champion >> SK Bukit Jalil;

U-10 Boy's Champion >> Kong Dak Nam;

U-10 Girl's Champion >> Mok Shu Zing;

U-12 Boy's Champion >> Tan Yong Zhao;

U-12 Girl's Champion >> Nurul Aina Akmar.

38th Selangor Open Namelist [updated 6th Apr]

Source: CAS blogsite


The names as follow:
01. Muhammad Faqih Aminuddin
02. Nur Faqiahah Aminuddin
03. Afiq Mohd Jamil
04. Muhammad Ihsan Syahiran Mohd Najib
05. Mark Siew
06. Lim Kian Hwa
07. Liew Ashton
08. Sotimin Muhalip
09. Alan Lai
10. Abang Mohd Reduan
11. Hasidin Abdul Rashid
12. Haslindah Ruslan
13. Bustaman Harun
14. Kughan Ravindran
15. Arif Mohd Jamil
16. Sim Chung Seng
17. Abdul Rahim Ramli
18. Ismail Ahmad
19. IM Jimmy Liew
20. ?

Please send your name to selangorchess@gmail.com if you would like to take part in this event