20th Kepong Juniors Open Chess Tournament: Under-8 Namelist

Due to wrong category placement in earlier posting, this category will see a total of 90 players registered. This category has an allocation for max. 45 boards. Their names are listed as follow:-

NO	NAME
1	Aadhavan
2	Adi Alfie Najat Mohd Fazli
3	Amir Faiz Amirul
4	Anchana Ramya Sivananda Perumal-G
5	Angus Yew Jin Heng
6	Anushka Sarkar-G
7	Arden Choong Jia Tung
8	Arif Danish Khamarul Ariffin
9	Asia Moo Xin Yue-G
10	Beenasri Mathialagan-G
11	Chai Song Qi
12	Chong Yan Zhe
13	Dharsha Raj Susil Raj-G
14	Gavy Poon Khay Jie
15	Giam Kee Hung
16	Herrish Mohan Kumar
17	Irrin Hanna Izwan Hasli-G
18	Iskandar Haikal Zulkippli
19	Jaiden Ti Jia Yi
20	Jarvis Ti Jia Xie
21	Jaydon Ishaan Narendiran
22	Joel Wong Jia Huai
23	Khoo Teng Liang
24	Kong Ren Ji
25	Kuhen Ravendran
26	Laksshman Kumaraguru
27	Lee Minson
28	Lee Yao Ming
29	Lee Yean Herng
30	Lim Zhang Yan
31	Low Chee Fatt
32	Low Hong Hao
33	Lucas Ren Sreenivasan
34	Lucas Yip Zhen-Yu
35	Meenavarshini Sivakumar-G
36	Megat Imran Megat Mohd Khushairi
37	Megat Musa Megat Mohd Khushairi
38	Megat Zaid Megat Mohd Khushairi
39	Miithran Guna Balan
40	Mithrra Vasuthevan-G
41	Muhd Hazim Irfan Mohd Zakiyuddin
42	Ng Chun Yein
43	Ng Guan Yu
44	Ng Wen Hui
45	Ng Wen Juin
46	Nicholas Kenawang Tumbai
47	Nicholas Khow Jin Kai
48	Nikita Asha Kaur Randhawa-G
49	Nirupam Mathu
50	Nur Alimah Zahra-G
51	Nur Syahirah Mohd Jamil-G
52	Olivier Printemps Tan Zhy Ley
53	Ong Zhen Sean
54	Prahlad Ravindran
55	Praveer Kashyap
56	Rajarshi Karmakar
57	Risshe Gehshan Mathialagan
58	Ryan Joo Rui An
59	Sabreena Kovalan-G
60	Sachindran Loganderan
61	Samanyu Gaur
62	Sanjaanah Arumugam-G
63	Shalini Soh Nee Sha-G
64	Shatishwaran Baskaran
65	Shavitashree Tirugana Kumeren-G
66	Somessh Kumaresan
67	Soo Zhi Jun
68	Tan Wei Yuan
69	Tang Ming Zhi
70	Teh Yi-Lynn-G
71	Thanushree Tirugana Kumeren-G
72	Thavaneish Kishor Kumar
73	Thirisha R. Ashockumar-G
74	Vaidik Shivaji
75	Visakan Sivakumar
76	Vishal Ashton Jeyabalan
77	Wong Qi Han
78	Wong Qi Zhi
79	Wong Sheng Yao
80	Wong Xin Yi-G
81	Woo Ka Wai
82	Wun Hui Qi-G
83	Yadhesh Somorajah
84	Yap June Yi
85	Yap Yang
86	Yaush Paul Nambiar
87	Yeo Jien Sern
88	Adam Daniel Muhd Imran
89	Muhd Amtad Amiruddin
90	Nur Ismahani Khairul Nizam-G

MCF Chess Rating: October 2014 Official Release

In this October 2014 release, there are 19,869 chess players. An increased from 18,838 chess players in July 2014. Of which more than 18,500 Malaysians in our chess rating database. A unique MCF Chess Rating ID contains 9-Alphanumeric ID was introduced in the October 2013 edition. Please refer to here for more info.

 

Please remember your MCF Chess Rating ID to facilitate registration process of National-rated Events and insist on the Event Organisers to key-in your MCF Chess Rating ID into IDNo column of the Swiss Manager file to avoid any rating discrepancies.


Click here to download the complete list of MCF Chess Rating List.

Click here to download the MCF Chess Rating List of 13,715 Malaysian Male Players that represents an additional 610 players (+4.7%) if compared with 3 months ago.

Click here to download the MCF Chess Rating List of 4,798 Malaysian Female Players. A significant increase of 328 players (+7.3%) if compared with 3 months ago. 

 

For update on specific player's rating changes in the last 3 months, click here.

MCF Chess Rating: October 2014 [Pre-release]

The main activities in the last 3 months were mainly relate to Malaysian Chess Festival that took place from 12th Sept until 21st Sept. A festival that I physically was MIA. I did pay a brief visit on 14th Sept. That's all the time I had for the entire festival. Please don't start your own speculation because I did hear a fair bit of story on why I didn't show up for the Closing Ceremony of the Festivals (That was 5 to 6 hrs of valuable time inclusive of transportation time). I was later told that I'm supposed to receive a medal from the Organiser. Due to my no show, Greg had received it on my behalf. Anyway, I would like to thank the Organiser.  

While many people were involved in the Festival either as a player, a parent, an official, an arbiter, or even as a businessman having a brisk business in chess-related stuff, I'm very busy spending no lesser than 10 hours a day calculating rating changes plus some other 'not my job but force to do' since the festival started and it carries on until today. Not many people actually realize the horrendous tasks in doing the National Rating and yet many think that it can be done easily. During the 90's, one chess enthusiast gave up after 2 years in trying to help MCF in setting up a local rating system. In recent months, another organizer too has gone silent on his own rating list that was started two years ago. Why? Go figure out yourself..... The following paragraphs may provide you with some clues .......


Before calculation on ratings for thousands of individual players (with many playing more than 1 event, and some up to 7 events) can actually be started, I must re-align the naming convention for thousands of individual players because Arbiter had spelled their names wrongly (even by 1 letter), manually re-check every single NR for thousands of individual players, re-identify hundreds of game that were not played but Arbiter enter as played game among thousands of players. All these works that I mentioned here are not the job of a Rating Officer. It is the work of the Chief Arbiter that is included in the Chief Arbiter payroll to ensure everything are input correctly.


This same theory applies to FIDE event where FIDE Rating Officer in FIDE will not accept a pairing file that contains 1 character spelling mistake when I submit the file on behalf of Malaysia. Do you think is it FIDE problem in not accepting an Event Rating Report or the Fault of local Organiser who cannot gives a compliant report? 

As a player, didn't you know your name in the player's list is not following the same naming convention as in FIDE list or adopting I couldn't care less attitude at that time. As an Organiser, didn't you know  it is a must to follow the EXACT naming convention as per FIDE list i.e. 1 extra space or character is not allowed?   

And Who is the person ends up cleaning up the mess with the file just for the sake of the event can be rated in time for the month before our players start to 'ask' / blame MCF for no rating change?

A sample of non-compliant in recent FIDE-rated event during the Festival. There were 32 wrong names among 125 contestants. That represents a bizarre 25.6% margin of errors. Check it out!

Here, I've to correct it one-by-one as though I were the CA of the event. This is the tip of an iceberg, it always happen in rating files that I had received in the last 10 years regardless a national-rated or FIDE-rated event.

To follow the same logic applied by FIDE, I should not be accepting any rating file from local chess organizer that can't give me an error free file for my National Rating Calculation / submission to FIDE. Over the last 10 years, I've been kind enough to clean all the mistakes contain in the file whether the file is meant for National Rating or FIDE Rating purposes just to make sure rating can be published on time ........ This will not be going on forever ...... Enough is Enough!  


So what is the job of a Rating Officer?

He is supposed to calculate rating change for each player based on the player's score against each of the player's opponents in an event (by itself is already a tedious task), do the necessary update in ratings change, compile it and update it into the Rating Changes NR list. Repeat the same process for few thousands rounds. Then, clean up the Rating Changes NR list and insert one-by-one unique players into the NR Master List. Re-check the names one-by-one in the Master List (19,900 names for October 2014 release) to eliminate potential duplicates on EXACT same name. Finally, extract the relevant info of each player to be published as the Official Rating Release.


How can you help the Rating Officer in improving the current condition?

Attention to all Result Arbiters: Any unplayed Game must be identified and be marked accordingly. Don't take an easy way out by just giving 1-0 or 0-1. Unplayed game doesn't count for Rating Change. The same applies to FIDE event! 

Attention to all Chief Arbiters: It is your duty to ensure a file with all correct inputs to be submitted. Your duty don't finish on the event day itself. Also, it is a must to include player's gender, MCF ID and date of birth in the pairing file.

Attention to all Chess Organisers / Tournament Directors: Please make sure you get your Chief Arbiter and Result Arbiters to perform their job professionally. Please pay them more so that you can get the right people who can perform job professionally.

Attention to all Chess Players: Please put in an effort to remember your MCF ID, latest national rating (in this case Oct rating list for this 3 months usage) and most importantly your names are spelled correctly. In addition, you must remember your FIDE ID, latest FIDE rating and the naming convention in FIDE list if you are taking part in FIDE-rated event.  Ensure all the relevant data are input correctly in the Chess Pairing Program used by the Chief Arbiter.

Now lets get back to the rating changes:-

A total of 19 events were rated nationally in Q3 2014. There were 2,287 unique players among 3,263 entries. Any event that did not meet the submission deadline on 30th Sept 2014 shall be included in January 2015 release.

The events that were included in the Oct 2014 release are listed as follows:-

1.      The Summit USJ Juniors Open 2014

2.      The MBSSKL Juniors Open 2014 

3.      The SSTwo Mall Age-Group 2014 

4.      The SSTwo Mall Open 2014

5.      The SMK Ahmad Open 2014

6.      Johor Juniors Open 2014  

7.      Swensen Juniors Open 2014 

8.      Bukit Kiara Rapid Open 2014 

9.      ASTRO Merdeka Rapid Team Open 2014

10.   IGB Malaysia Open 2014 (FIDE rated)

11.   Bukit Kiara Chess Challenge 2014 (FIDE rated)

12   KLK Seniors Open 2014 (FIDE rated)

13.   Perlis Open 2nd Series 2014

14.   SMK Clifford Team Open 2014

15.   Pahang Open 2014

16.   Politeknik Malaysia Open 2014

17.   POLISAS Classical Open 2014

18.   Sabah Tuaran KENT Open 2014

19.   Johor Age-Group 2014

 

A copy of the rating changes for 2,287 players in Q3 2014 can be downloaded from here.

While, a copy of the Top 20 Most Improved chess players in Q3 2014 can be downloaded from here.

The complete version of MCF Chess Rating List shall be uploaded officially in the next post. 

20th Kepong Juniors Open Chess Tournament: No More Registration

Dear chess friends, Please do not post anymore entries to the school. The registration is closed. The school has received more than 360 entry forms. The maximum capacity for the venue is 350 pax with every 6' canteen table to be used by putting 3 boards on each table. This means the top players who use to enjoy the luxury of having 2 boards in each table as per last year arrangement no longer entitle for such luxury.

Some may have to play inside the Arbiter Room! Alternatively, the school will reject some entries and refund the money! It is very likely the latter will be chosen.


The complete name list will be published on this website on 20th Oct.

Warmest regards.

Bottom Line ...... No More Registration. Thank you.

Kepong Juniors Open: Last day Registration (10/10/2014)

Due to overwhelming response in entries received by the school so far, the closing date for the event is tomorrow (instead of 20/10). Any registration after tomorrow shall be refunded. The namelist will be published here on 20/10 when all names from various sources are compiled. Thank you.

20th Kepong Juniors Open Chess Tournament on 9th Nov 2014

On behalf of SJK(C) Kepong 2, I'm pleased to announce that this year Kepong Juniors Open will be held on 9th November 2014 at the school premise. This is a National-rated Event.

Click here to download the entry form.

The Infosheet:-

The Rules and Regulations:

The Entry Form:

3rd Summit Juniors Open: Final Result

This 1-day national-rated event was divided into 5 categories with a combined of 254 players taking part. In line with the latest trend, the Under-10 category had attracted the largest crowd with 112 players, followed by the U-12 category with 54 players despite only a handful 12 y.o. took part due to UPSR preparation. While, the Under-7 category had a significant increased from 28 players last year to 41 players this year. As for the U-14 and U-16, these categories had 49 players in total.

 

This is the third national-rated event in Malaysia to be implementing with the Revised Laws of Chess. Among the changes from 1st July 2014 is a player shall lose the game in the 1st occurrence of an Illegal move.

Some of the pre-tournament favorites' are the reigning top 4 Malaysian players in their respective category based on the results at Nat. Age Group held in April this year. The pre-tournament favourites' as follows:-

Under-7 Open 

1	Yap Heng Yi (Nat U6B Champion)	1389
2	Beenasri (Nat U6G Champion)	1325
3	Adi Alfie Najat Mohd Fazli	1319

4	Megat Zaid Megat (Nat U6B 4th)	1297
5	Wong Qi Zhi (Nat U6B 3rd)	1283

Under-10 Open 

1	Mohd Shahir Shaik Mahaboob	1595
2	Ivan Sean Yap Shuean	1519
3	Shreesh Amit Chembeti	1443

4

Chew Zhi Qi

1438

Under-12 Open 

1	Jagathees Guna (Nat U12B 2nd)	1691
2	Chan Kim Yew	1558
3	Muhd Luqman Iskandar Zairudin	1537
4	Dinessh Kumar (Nat U10B 2nd)	1536

Under-14 Open 

1	Emir Rusyaidi Ahmad Nazari	1735
2	Nithyalaksmi (Nat U14G 2nd)	1724

3

Muhd Azim Mohd Ismail

1625

4        Praghashkumar Thanasegeren		1610

Under-16 Open 

1	Subramanian Sivanesan	1720
2	Yee Jian Yang (Nat U14B 3rd)	1657
3	Cheah Eason	1646
4	Muhd Faqih Aminuddin	1640

This event was concluded ahead of schedule at 5.30pm. The fight for the Championship in this event was so intense until none of the pre-tournament top seed had emerged as Champion. 

In the U7 category, Yap was the overwhelming favourite, however, he was stopped by Wong in whom he defeated during NAG 2014. This lost had cost him the Championship when Wong continues to pick up the remaining 2 points to score a perfect 6!

 

In U10 category, anyone who dropped more than 1 point will be out of top 10 bracket theoretically and a perfect 6 was needed to win this Championship. The 1st casualty among the tournament favourites was top seed Mohd Shahir who lost to 34th ranked Olivier in Round 2 followed by 4th ranked Chew lost to 21st ranked Muhd Al-Waqeef in Round 3. With the lost of a point by 2 pre-tournament favourites, the other favourites Ivan and Shreesh had a perfect 5 before playing the final round were in driver seat to claim the Championship. 6th ranked Looi also with perfect 5 was pitted against Ivan, and Shreesh played Muhd Luqman who is trailing half point behind. On paper, Ivan and Shreesh who are 110 points stronger (at very least) in playing strength than their respective opponent should at least get a draw if not a win BUT alas both the players lost and the crown went to Looi.
 

In U12, Jagathees hopes on the title was shattered when he lost to Dinessh in Round 4. While, Muhd Luqman Championship quest was lost too when he lost to Chan in Round 5. Both Dinessh and Chan played each other in the final round to decide the Championship. However, the game had ended in a draw. The former who had a superior 2nd tie-break was declared as the Champion. For the record, Dinessh was among the 'late entries for U10' who didn't get a place in U10. Who say a U10 player cannot win a prize in U12. In fact, he won the event!  

 

In U14, Emir and Nithyalaksmi were the only players with perfect 4 after 4 rounds of play. In Round 5, the latter won the game and the Championship was more or less decided when she was pitted against 5th ranked Kabir who lost to Emir in Round 4. True enough, she had scored a perfect 6!

 

In U16, top seed Subramanian had failed to do a double for his family when he can only drew with Cheah in the last round. Earlier, he had suffered an unexpected lost to 11 y.o. Muhd Faqih in Round 3. While, Cheah had his Championship quest ended prematurely with a first round lost to Ng Jun Khai. While, Yee title hopes ended after a draw in Round 2 and a lost to Subramanian in Round 4. Muhd Faqih celebration on winning the Championship had to be put on hold when he lost to Cheah in Round 5 after scoring a perfect 4 including a win against Shivendran in Round 4. Nevertheless, he drew his last round against Yee and was crowned as Champion based on his superior 2nd tie-break over Subramian, Shivendran and Cheah. Now, we have a 11 y.o Boy winning U-16 Championship.

 

Who say a small boy (in age) can't defeat the bigger boys.

 

A tip for parents "Age is insignificant in Chess, it is the knowledge in Chess that matter most!!!" 

  

You can obtain the complete results from the following links.

For U-7 Open, please click here.
 

For U-10 Open, please click here.

For U-12 Open, please click here.

For U-14 Open, please click here.

For U-16 Open, please click here.

 

See you guys again in 2015!