5th Summit Subang USJ Juniors Open: Name List

A total of 265 school-going children have registered as of 12th February 2016 for the event to be held on 10th April at The Summit Subang USJ Mall. The registration was forced to close just after 18 days of advertising or 20 days ahead of the actual closing day when it has exceeded the capacity limit of 250 participants. In summary, there are 55 children in U8, 82 children each in both U10 & U12, and 46 children in U16.

Due to space limitation, the event has to be capped at around 250 pax. The Organiser is unable to free-up more space to allow more participants - All in all there are 40 other players whom entries can't be accepted due to space limitation.

The list of players as listed below:-

No	Name	Seq	Sex	Cat.	MCR-ID
1	Abbaycharan	#156	M	U08	Nil
2	Adi Alfie Najat Mohd Fazli	#213	M	U08	MCR002856
3	Ahmad Danial Hafizin Mohd Hafarizam	#214	M	U08	MCR017727
4	Angus Yew Jin Heng	#162	M	U08	MCR015352
5	Araviendhra Magenthiran	#150	M	U08	Nil
6	Arvind Arumugam	#239	M	U08	MCR019144
7	Beh Keat Ket	#119	M	U08	MCR019816
8	Brandon Phun Kai Jie	#052	M	U08	MCR021309
9	Chan Jie Yi-G	#116	F	U08	MCR019819
10	Chloe Wong Yen Li-G	#142	F	U08	MCR021332
11	Derek Loh Chen Kang	#094	M	U08	MCR017840
12	Dinesh T. Loganathan	#063	M	U08	Nil
13	Evan Kong Tze Shern	#012	M	U08	Nil
14	Fasha Qaisara Hairul-G	#014	F	U08	MCR017874
15	Goh Li Fan	#165	M	U08	MCR019880
16	Hafiy Iman Farid Wajdi	#211	M	U08	Nil
17	Intan Nuralya Batrishia Mahmood Shah-G	#016	F	U08	MCR016462
18	Ivan Liong Wen Chiat	#080	M	U08	MCR016477
19	Jayden Tay Ming Shen	#143	M	U08	MCR021458
20	Kaseh Irsya Dania Mohd Nurul Izani-G	#005	F	U08	Nil
21	Khathiresh Murugesan	#177	M	U08	MCR021489
22	Kyan Tan Kye Ren	#048	M	U08	Nil
23	Le Hao Ming	#037	M	U08	MCR020626
24	Leslie Wong Kee Liang	#083	M	U08	MCR019941
25	Lim Ze Xuen	#169	M	U08	MCR019947
26	Lucas Oh Li Jye	#097	M	U08	MCR020660
27	Megat Musa Megat Mohd Khushairi	#261	M	U08	MCR018059
28	Megat Zaid Megat Mohd Khushairi	#262	M	U08	MCR003242
29	Miithran Guna Balan	#167	M	U08	MCR004003
30	Mithran Prasad Kumar	#100	M	U08	MCR021570
31	Mohd Mumtazi Shah Mohd Kamil	#028	M	U08	MCR020697
32	Muhd Hariz Fikri Mohd Fadzly	#002	M	U08	Nil
33	Muhd Haziq Fikri Mohd Fadzly	#001	M	U08	Nil
34	Narmatha Sivakumar-G	#191	F	U08	MCR021838
35	Nasuha Marissa Mohd Bahroddin-G	#035	F	U08	Nil
36	Nevethaa Sivakumar-G	#190	F	U08	MCR021844
37	Nithyanantha Nimalan Rao Gunalan-G	#067	F	U08	Nil
38	Nur Adlina Marissa Maszahari-G	#236	F	U08	Nil
39	Nurnayli Farisah Noorazizi-G	#205	F	U08	Nil
40	Pang Zi Yi	#070	M	U08	Nil
41	Pritive	#174	M	U08	Nil
42	Rayne Achira Daniel	#155	M	U08	Nil
43	Sak Yew Jin	#071	M	U08	MCR022022
44	Santhosh Pillai Ragunathan	#047	M	U08	Nil
45	Shumitraa Vijiyakumar-G	#073	F	U08	MCR020207
46	Siti Sara Iman Ahmad Terrirudin-G	#212	F	U08	Nil
47	Sun Ji Yao-G	#172	F	U08	MCR020217
48	Tam Ru Xuan-G	#243	F	U08	MCR020226
49	Trikant Sethu	#109	M	U08	MCR022115
50	Wong Qi Han	#057	M	U08	MCR018897
51	Wong Qi Zhi	#056	M	U08	MCR015507
52	Woo Xin Ling-G	#164	F	U08	MCR021118
53	Yadhesh Somarajah	#179	M	U08	MCR018899
54	Yap Xin Yao-G	#117	F	U08	MCR021123
55	Yeo Winn Sern	#103	M	U08	Nil
56	Abbiramyy Subramanian-G	#096	F	U10	MCR019740
57	Adam Daniel Muhd Imran	#218	M	U10	MCR017711
58	Adhavan Kumaran	#189	M	U10	MCR013008
59	Adina Shazlin Mohd Nadzir-G	#033	F	U10	Nil
60	Aidyl Syazwan Salehuddin	#217	M	U10	MCR019766
61	Ainin Sofiya Rasidan-G	#077	F	U10	MCR020390
62	Al-Hafiz Alfian	#022	M	U10	MCR020398
63	Ang Qi Rong	#054	M	U10	MCR019798
64	Ashley Tan Jie Yie-G	#049	F	U10	Nil
65	Avaneesh Shetty Ganesan	#200	M	U10	MCR021297
66	Benjamin Ng Wei Min	#126	M	U10	MCR019153
67	Brandon Cheng Jinhong	#129	M	U10	MCR003565
68	Cedric	#091	M	U10	Nil
69	Chai Song Qi	#130	M	U10	MCR018638
70	Chong Vi-Cen	#093	M	U10	MCR019827
71	Choo Zi Yun	#118	M	U10	MCR019171
72	Derrick Loh Chen Jun	#095	M	U10	MCR017841
73	Dhaneiswarran Velu	#170	M	U10	Nil
74	Dharsha Raj Susil Raj-G	#193	F	U10	MCR018654
75	Emanuel Lim Ying Qin	#153	M	U10	MCR020503
76	Erin Kong Tze Hsuen-G	#013	F	U10	Nil
77	Gajavrman Pillai Sathasivam	#133	M	U10	MCR017887
78	Goh Li Yang	#166	M	U10	MCR019881
79	Hakim Mohd Hafizan	#029	M	U10	MCR020529
80	Haresh Dheerendra Kumar	#101	M	U10	MCR021411
81	Harresh Morthi	#253	M	U10	MCR019210
82	Harvey Teng Guan Hua	#040	M	U10	Nil
83	Iris Qistina Mohd Rizwan-G	#006	F	U10	MCR019224
84	Jaiden Ti Jia Yi	#069	M	U10	MCR018675
85	Jarvis Ti Jia Xie	#068	M	U10	MCR018678
86	Joel Wong Jia Huai	#136	M	U10	MCR017956
87	Jovahn Wong Kar Hou	#082	M	U10	MCR019914
88	Kang Min Zhe	#146	M	U10	MCR019917
89	Kesavan	#173	M	U10	Nil
90	Kiren Naidu	#176	M	U10	MCR021492
91	Kishern Vikneswaran	#108	M	U10	Nil
92	Koh Huai Aan	#020	M	U10	MCR020610
93	Lee Jia Yi-G	#084	F	U10	MCR021510
94	Lee Yao Ming	#053	M	U10	MCR018710
95	Lee Yean Herng	#092	M	U10	MCR015737
96	Lee Zhong Lim	#125	M	U10	MCR020640
97	Lim Yi Jun	#151	M	U10	MCR018028
98	Low Chee Fatt	#259	M	U10	MCR003826
99	Low Hong Hao	#134	M	U10	MCR001833
100	Lucas Ren Sreenivasan	#042	M	U10	MCR003637
101	Lucas Yip Zhen-Yu	#110	M	U10	MCR015746
102	Mamtaa Thambisamy-G	#206	F	U10	MCR016643
103	Megat Imran Megat Mohd Khushairi	#260	M	U10	MCR003604
104	Mithrra Vasuthevan-G	#115	F	U10	MCR018064
105	Mohd Nazri Aizad Mohd Nazroel	#098	M	U10	MCR019997
106	Muhd Adam Danial Muhd Khairy Ang	#008	M	U10	MCR019319
107	Muhd Amirul Hafiq Egmal	#026	M	U10	MCR020747
108	Muhd Emir Rasyid Emran	#254	M	U10	MCR019365
109	Muhd Hazim Irfan Mohd Zakiyuddin	#215	M	U10	MCR016869
110	Muhd Haziq Khaled	#023	M	U10	Nil
111	Muhd Irfan Danial Mohd Nurul Izani	#004	M	U10	Nil
112	Muhd Muaz Mohd Zuhri	#024	M	U10	MCR020822
113	Nicholas Kenawang Tumbai	#131	M	U10	MCR018804
114	Nicholas Khow Jin Kai	#144	M	U10	MCR001960
115	Nikita Asha Kaur Randhawa-G	#137	F	U10	MCR015883
116	Niveythaa Parthiben-G	#180	F	U10	MCR018305
117	Nuha Maysarah Mohd Bahroddin-G	#036	F	U10	MCR020891
118	Nur Erisya Qistina Amrizal Aziz-G	#234	F	U10	Nil
119	Nur Irdyna Diyanah Yusri Hakim-G	#025	F	U10	MCR021921
120	Nur Ismahani Khairul Nizam-G	#038	F	U10	MCR018356
121	Nur Syahirah Mohd Jamil-G	#216	F	U10	MCR018366
122	Olivier Printemps Tan Zhy Ley	#051	M	U10	MCR001823
123	Pavitheran T. Loganathan	#062	M	U10	MCR021987
124	Pavitra Vijiyakumar-G	#064	F	U10	MCR020172
125	Phevos Khor Kah Hin	#081	M	U10	Nil
126	Praavin Veravijiyan	#231	M	U10	Nil
127	Roshan Morthi	#263	M	U10	MCR003381
128	Ryan Joo Rui An	#197	M	U10	MCR015480
129	Sanjaanah Arumugam-G	#238	F	U10	MCR018460
130	Senojith Wickrama Surendre	#128	M	U10	MCR018480
131	Shaanjhay Sri Ganes	#181	M	U10	MCR017293
132	Tan Chee Lim	#132	M	U10	Nil
133	Vishaantan Retnaswaran	#196	M	U10	MCR020260
134	Wong Sheng Yao	#114	M	U10	MCR003015
135	Yashnavee Kumareshan-G	#168	F	U10	Nil
136	Yeo Jien Sern	#102	M	U10	MCR018583
137	Yusree Nabil Yusfarizal	#232	M	U10	MCR018589
138	Ahmad Nazrul Haryz Ahmad Fuad	#032	M	U12	MCR020383
139	Ainur Natasha Rasidan-G	#078	F	U12	MCR020393
140	Aisya Ariana Rashdan-G	#003	F	U12	Nil
141	Amier Arief Mohd Jalani	#222	M	U12	MCR001129
142	Ammar Farhan Noor Haslizan	#235	M	U12	MCR020415
143	Anders Yew Jin Chen	#161	M	U12	MCR015350
144	Balqis Batrisya Hairul-G	#018	F	U12	MCR003925
145	Brandon Tien Sreenivasan	#041	M	U12	MCR003736
146	Calvin Phang Wei Xiang	#209	M	U12	MCR016297
147	Chew Wei Zhi	#163	M	U12	MCR003517
148	Chew Zhi Qi	#123	M	U12	MCR001254
149	Chia Jun Xin	#124	M	U12	MCR019824
150	Darren Phang Wei Hao	#210	M	U12	MCR016352
151	Gautham Kalaimani-G	#145	F	U12	Nil
152	Hariz Mohd Hafizan	#030	M	U12	Nil
153	Hiu Jack Yuan	#148	M	U12	MCR019890
154	Ilhan Ariff Samsul Ariff	#233	M	U12	MCR019216
155	Irfan Rozaine Merican	#039	M	U12
156	Isaac Lee Shang Zhe	#045	M	U12	MCR021440
157	Iskandar Haikal Zulkippli	#112	M	U12	MCR001419
158	Ivan Sean Yap Sheuan	#201	M	U12	MCR000721
159	Izzuddin Irsyad Aminuddin	#230	M	U12	Nil
160	Jayarish Murugesan	#175	M	U12	MCR021453
161	Joelle Tan Sue Ai-G	#160	F	U12	MCR003418
162	Jonathan Teh	#158	M	U12	Nil
163	Kavenesh Georgie Ganesan	#198	M	U12	MCR017969
164	Keshver Gunalaraj	#106	M	U12	Nil
165	Kon Hao Jie	#138	M	U12	MCR003288
166	Kon Shi Kei-G	#139	F	U12	MCR019928
167	Kong Dak Seng	#183	M	U12	MCR003479
168	Kukanes Georgie Ganesan-G	#199	F	U12	MCR017989
169	Leikaasri Sri Ganes-G	#182	F	U12	MCR016592
170	Leong Qing Ling-G	#237	F	U12	MCR016594
171	Lim Yi Kai	#152	M	U12	MCR018029
172	Lina Izzani Kamaruzzaman-G	#228	F	U12	MCR018036
173	Loo Jing Heng	#085	M	U12	MCR019951
174	Meshvinjeet Singh	#009	M	U12	MCR009528
175	Mickie Chin Mei Qi-G	#248	F	U12	MCR016659
176	Mohd Amar Hakimi Mohd Zamri	#015	M	U12	MCR021574
177	Mohd Shahir Shaik Mahaboob Saleem	#058	M	U12	MCR003000
178	Mohd Shamil Shah Mohd Kamil	#027	M	U12	MCR020705
179	Muhd Eimran Hazmi Mohd Bahroddin	#034	M	U12	MCR020769
180	Muhd Firas Mohd Muzamir	#219	M	U12	Nil
181	Muhd Haziq Izzuddin Mohd Zakiyuddin	#223	M	U12	MCR016873
182	Muhd Mikhail Taufiq	#011	M	U12	Nil
183	Muhd Rizal Nor Akmal	#031	M	U12	MCR020836
184	Mukhriez Shah Mahmood Shah	#021	M	U12	MCR001145
185	Myftzal Dzaeffran Qayyum Mafeitzeral	#225	M	U12	MCR018280
186	Nadish Navindren	#194	M	U12	Nil
187	Ng Yuan Xin-G	#249	F	U12	MCR018298
188	Nicholas Chee Zheng Jack	#122	M	U12	MCR021852
189	Nik Muhd Shaheen Mohd Sufian	#224	M	U12	MCR018302
190	Nur Aina Fateehah Mohd Rahiman-G	#017	F	U12	MCR021886
191	Nur Faiqah Aminuddin-G	#220	F	U12	MCR000672
192	Octavius Ete Tan Zhy Lam	#050	M	U12	MCR002936
193	Perrynia Christianus Lim-G	#140	F	U12	MCR020173
194	Pheng Fook Weng	#087	M	U12	MCR020174
195	Pheng Win Xie-G	#088	F	U12	MCR003765
196	Puteri Qistina Kamalulariffin-G	#227	F	U12	MCR018434
197	Raeshinya Somarajah-G	#178	F	U12	MCR018439
198	Raja Adib Muhaimin Raja Zameri	#226	M	U12	MCR019590
199	Raja Bazilah Bot Raja Badli-G	#221	F	U12	MCR001908
200	Raphael Michael Azman	#154	M	U12	MCR018444
201	Roy Yap Chung Yeen	#246	M	U12	MCR002694
202	Ryan Seow Chun Hong	#072	M	U12	MCR002816
203	Samuel Lim Ying Yau	#265	M	U12	MCR022025
204	Shaun Choo Yi Hao	#250	M	U12	Nil
205	Shreesh Amit Chembeti	#255	M	U12	MCR001368
206	Sriraam Vikneswaran	#107	M	U12	MCR022068
207	Tam Li Zhang	#242	M	U12	MCR015495
208	Tan Hougen	#241	M	U12	MCR008980
209	Tan Li-Zhang	#086	M	U12	MCR003758
210	Teioh Nuan Ning-G	#141	F	U12	MCR003759
211	Teo Yee Tong-G	#076	F	U12	Nil
212	Tharanitharen Nanthakumar	#202	M	U12	MCR015499
213	Tomi Chong	#075	M	U12	MCR002378
214	Uthman Ul-Haque Mohd Rafi	#204	M	U12	MCR022122
215	Varsha Raj Susil Raj-G	#192	F	U12	MCR018885
216	Wan Nur Asiyah Junaidi-G	#019	F	U12	MCR021113
217	Wong Qi Hao	#055	M	U12	MCR001410
218	Woo Xin Yi-G	#264	F	U12	MCR021120
219	Yaatheisywaran Velu	#171	M	U12	Nil
220	Abdul Hafiz Sham Shizal Fisham	#149	M	U16	MCR020354
221	Beh Jia Hao	#043	M	U16	MCR001656
222	Beh Jia Sheng	#044	M	U16	MCR001889
223	Bryan Yap Chuan Yoong	#252	M	U16	MCR000956
224	Chew Zhi Xuan	#157	M	U16	MCR001024
225	Dallas Yap Ehin	#247	M	U16	MCR000753
226	Danial Armeen Ali Asghar	#195	M	U16	MCR019840
227	Darvinesh Gunalaraj	#105	M	U16	Nil
228	Devendra Rajan	#135	M	U16	Nil
229	Ellie Emira Syamimi Ahmad Nazari-G	#257	F	U16	MCR000916
230	Emir Rusyaidi Ahmad Nazari	#256	M	U16	MCR000199
231	Erwan Nadzman Mohd Fauzy	#147	M	U16	MCR003045
232	Farah Iryna Muhd Khairy Ang-G	#007	F	U16	MCR002974
233	Gerard Chong Woon Kai	#074	M	U16	MCR017890
234	Hisvary R Murali	#104	M	U16	Nil
235	Huong Tai Yu	#244	M	U16	Nil
236	Huong Xie Yu	#245	M	U16	MCR019891
237	Ian Lee Mun Hin	#207	M	U16	MCR001623
238	Imran Shafiq Shahrol Anuar	#186	M	U16	MCR019898
239	Iskandar Hakimi Zulkippli	#111	M	U16	MCR001343
240	Jason Tan Wye-Ki	#203	M	U16	MCR001972
241	Jessica Tan Sue Ann-G	#159	F	U16	MCR008150
242	Joel Pang Ze Minn	#046	M	U16	MCR001046
243	Lee Yu Keat	#089	M	U16	MCR019939
244	Lim Juan Teng	#060	M	U16	MCR001282
245	Lim Jun Hong	#120	M	U16	MCR001292
246	Lim Jun Shen	#121	M	U16	MCR000892
247	Low Chee Pang	#258	M	U16	MCR000367
248	Michellejeet Kaur-G	#010	F	U16	MCR011050
249	Mohd Nazri Aiman Mohd Nazroel	#099	M	U16	MCR018747
250	Mohd Sameer Shaik Mahaboob Saleem	#059	M	U16	MCR001930
251	Ng Hun Ming	#187	M	U16	MCR002502
252	Nhavin Kumaresan	#251	M	U16	MCR008218
253	Nicholas Francis Christian Yap Jin Loong	#188	M	U16	MCR001855
254	Raja Bazil Bot Raja Badli	#229	M	U16	MCR000478
255	Rooshillen Jayakumar	#184	M	U16	MCR001568
256	Sean Lee Mun Kit	#208	M	U16	MCR001690
257	Shanthur Sharan Rao Gunalan	#066	M	U16	MCR002958
258	Tan Xuan Yan-G	#240	F	U16	MCR011968
259	Tan Yong Zhao	#090	M	U16	MCR000138
260	Teng Jian Wei	#127	M	U16	MCR003161
261	Tharuna Ruben Rao Gunalan	#065	M	U16	MCR001877
262	Theenesh Sivakumar	#185	M	U16	MCR002591
263	Wong Zi Yue	#079	M	U16	MCR000496
264	Yasmin Irdina Zulkippli-G	#113	F	U16	MCR001459
265	Yukhaganesh T. Loganathan	#061	M	U16	MCR022165

 

The Summit Subang USJ 5th Juniors Open (10th April): Registration Is Closed

On behalf of the Organiser, IA Lim wishes to inform that the registration for this event is closed officially (21 Days ahead of registration dateline). All 260 seats are filled up in just 18 days of Advertising.

All names whom IA Lim had replied via email on mode of payment but yet to make payment, you have 1 week (19/2) to do so. If your payment fails to reach IA Lim by 19/2 (Friday), then your seat will be given to chess players in the Waiting List.

Next time, please register earlier so that you get a seat to play in event to be organized by IA Lim. Once again, IA Lim wishes to thank all parents / teachers / coaches / players for the support in this event.

With here IA Lim wishes to declare that all new registration from now onwards (9.30pm) shall be treated as Names in the Waiting List. payment Instruction shall be given only after 19/2 if there are seats available.

20th GACC International Inter-Varsity Chess Championship Champion: Tan Wei Hao

　

The Grand Asian Chess Challenge (GACC) is a regional chess competition opens to undergraduates in various Asian universities. The Grand Asian Chess Challenge (GACC) has been renamed to GACC World Inter-Varsity Chess Championship starting from year 2003. Since year 2008, it was renamed to become International Inter-Varsity Chess Championship.

The objectives of this event are:-
(I) To encourage chess activities among the participants from various Asian universities and Malaysian students;
(II) To foster closer ties amongst participants and universities in the whole world;
(III) To promote the games of chess so as to become one of the hobbies among undergraduates around the globe;
(IV) To promote Malaysia’s culture and heritage to the international participants.

The 1st edition of GACC backed in the mid 1990's was a collaboration between Chess Association of Selangor, IA Hamid Abd Majid, and University of Malaya. Many years later, I was engaged as Deputy Chief Arbiter for 2 editions and Chief Arbiter for another edition. This event had contributed 2 International Arbiter norms in my application as an International Arbiter. I remembered in one of the editions that I'm involved - It was a very strong tournament  (to be exact the 2003 edition) with many GM or GM-to-be in the like of GM Li Shilong, GM Zhang Zhong, Russian GM Sergey Iskunyh, FM Wang Yue (today a 2700's Super GM), IM Liang Chong (today a GM), IM Wang Rui (today a GM), IM Yu Shaoteng (today a GM and FST), Zhao Jun (today a GM), and etc. 

Seeing so many talented and hardworking young chess players in one tournament playing at such a high level has inspired myself to focus in producing more national-level players among school boys and girls via Chess Training Excellence Programme (first coined by Chess Association of Selangor back in the mid 1990's) concept. That's the same period I have started serious coaching with school boys and girls aged between 7 and 12.

I didn't have an opportunity to be part of this event as a player. However, my thought back then was how nice could it be if one day in future one of my students who was absolute beginner (then) can be standing on the podium in this event. Well, my dream has turned into a reality today! with Tan Wei Hao emerges as the Individual Champion for the 20th GACC International Inter-Varsity Chess Championship. During his younger days, he won a National Age-Group Championship 3 years in-a-row (2007 - 2009). 

A big congratulation to Tan Wei Hao!

The Summit Subang USJ 5th Juniors Open on 10th April (Sunday)

The Organiser, The Summit Subang USJ, continues to hold the Juniors Open Chess Tournament @ Summit Subang USJ Mall for the 5th consecutive years. This one day tournament shall be divided into 4 categories namely Under-8, Under-10, Under-12 and Under-16. This event is a National-rated Event to be held on 10th April 2016 (SUNDAY).

These 4 categories shall have an accumulated cash prize of RM 2,000 to be distributed among 40 prizewinners. The Champion in each Category shall be receiving RM 150 Cash + Medal + Certificate of Achievements. On top of the main prizes, there will be additional 5 prizes for The Most Promising Girls in each category. In addition, the Organiser has added Best School Prizes (Gold Silver, Bronze) for each category. Eligibility for Best School: A minimum of 4 players per school in same category.

The entry fee for each person is RM 30 only. The first 80 players who registered with payment shall be entitled to attend a chess workshop to be held at the same location one day earlier (9th April).

Due to limited seats available, you need to register yourself as quickly as possible by sending an email with the entry form attached to tsepin@gmail.com. Payment instruction will be given in the replied email. All entries will be accepted based on "first comes first serve basis with payment received" followed by "first comes first serve basis on pre-registration". 

Click here to download the entry form in PDF format.

Please take note: The date on the entry form had revised to 10/4 accordingly.

The Infosheet for the event as listed below:-

The Entry Form for the event as listed below:

MCF Chess Rating: A typical inquiry that I received after every new quarter release

After every rating release, there is always inquiry on how rating calculation is calculated. The first one arrived 3 hours after I released the Pre-release Article on Friday morning. Subsequently, there are couple of more inquiries until the latest one about 2 hrs ago.

Guess who did the inquiry? The one who who gained few hundred rating points or the one who lost few hundred rating points. Sorry ..... No prize for guessing correctly.

First of all, you need to understand F4/F5 Add. Maths on a topic called "Probability". If you have a rating of 1300 and happen to play someone at 1300, then you are expected to score half point i.e. 0.5. If you win, then you have +0.5 from that game,. If lose, then you have -0.5 from the game.

Say. you play all 10 games against players with an average rating of 1300 and won a perfect 10 score. Then, you have scored +5. The K-factor for player from rating 1000 and 1399 is 40. Then you are said to gain (+5 * 40), that is, a massive 200 rating points gained from the event [This is the same algorithm use in FIDE rating calculation]. Now, say you lost all 10 games, then you will lost 200 points too. Usually this kind of extreme scores result seldom happen, however, this quarter we have witnessed at least from one player from each extreme end.

 

Another example at the other extreme end:- A player who supposed to score no more than 1.5 points based on her rating (1145) but did well by scoring 5 points from 9 games including wins against players who are 200 to 300 rating points higher.

 

  

MCF Chess Rating: JAN 2016 Official Release

A happy new year to all my visitors!

 

 

In January 2016 release, there are 23,917 chess players. This represent an increased of 5.8% from 22,613 chess players in Oct 2015. Of which there is more than 22,300 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.


This list was done up after spending 33,000 minutes (equal to 550 hours) in following steps:- (1) players' name synchronization between tournament file and rating database, (2) ratings check on each player in each tournament file, (3) re-edit result on unplayed games but key in as played games by Event Arbiters, (4) ratings calculation of each player (more than 5000 of them - It broke the previous high of 3,773 in July 2014 release), (5) manual assignment of K-factor to each player based on individual rating bands, (6) players' rating tabulation, (7) compilation of multiple entries of a player into one single unique entry (3,218 of them in this quarter) aka Pre-Release Rating document, (8) insert 3,218 new/revised ratings into Master database (22,613 as of Oct 2015 release), and finally (9) the extraction process into January Rating release document. All these were done in the last 75 days excluding 1-week that I'm away without my notebook i.e. 5 hours daily for first 30days, 9 hrs daily for the next 21days (thanks to sch holiday - no more teaching at schools), break-off for my year-end holiday, and followed by 12 hours daily in the last 18 days. Usually, it takes around 300hrs for the whole rating tabulation with an average of 2,500 entries per quarter.

 

This is the first time - I'm experiencing back-to-back Quarter release nightmare that never happen in the past 12 years. For your record, there was only 2,364 entries (Jan 2013), 1,591 entries (Jan 2014), 2,136 entries (Jan 2015). This edition "What a SURPRISE! with 5,007 entries".

 

For the past 12 years, I've been doing this MCF Chess Ratings to give a better gauging system for the development of Malaysian Chess especially among the Juniors below aged 12. It took 6 years of education (2004 - 2009) for the chess community to realize the importance of chess ratings for self-development purpose. Things began to change for the better in 2010 where more tournaments were submitted for national ratings. At first I was happy with the change but it didn't last too long. In 2011, little did I realize this 'baby' that I started from scratch in 2002 (Yup... 2 years before it was adopted by MCF and renamed to MCF Chess Ratings) had turned into a little monster that haunted me 4 times in a year.

 

It's time for me to pass this baton to people who are much younger (preferably aged between 20 to 35) who can stay up until 3am and sleep for 3hrs before starting a new day. Please send an email to tsepin@gmail.com if you are interested in this job using the manual system.

It's sad that I didn't receive any application who is willing to continue with my work since I posted on it 3 months ago. However, I did receive 2 inquiries (in this quarter) on whether can this rating tabulation process be automated. I sincerely thank both of them. One of them is willing to test out with some "problematic tun files" by developing a "system" with the objective to automate the following process

(1) players' name synchronization between tournament file and rating database, (2) ratings check on each player in each tournament file.

 

I believe (3) can't be automated. Item (4) to (9) can be automated (real programming work is needed) if there is willing party to build the system for MCF at a small fee or for FREE as a goodwill to Malaysian Chess. Anyway, Item (1) and (2) must be solved, else Garbage In, Garbage Out i.e. "One-tonne" of problems will be created after every quarter release.   

 

 

Click here to download the complete list of MCF Chess Rating List (JAN 2016).

Click here to download the MCF Chess Rating List of 16,364 Malaysian Male Players that represents an additional 865 players (+5.6%) if compared with 3 months ago.

Click here to download the MCF Chess Rating List of 5,942 Malaysian Female Players. An additional of 383 players (+6.9%) if compared with 3 months ago. 

 

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

MCF Chess Rating: January 2016 [Pre-release]

 

This is the pre-release document containing a copy of the rating changes for 3,218 unique players in Q4 2015 can be downloaded from here.

While, a copy of the Top 20 Most Improved chess players in Q4 2015 can be downloaded from here too.

The events that were included in the Jan 2015 release are listed as follows:-

1.      Lai Meng Juniors Open, KL 2015       

2.      Kepong Juniors Open, KL 2015          

3.      Cheras Rating (FIDE), KL 2015            

4.      Cheras Challenger (FIDE), KL 2015    

5.      Shah Alam Rapid Cat A (FIDE), SELANGOR 2015          

6.      Shah Alam Rapid Cat B (FIDE), SELANGOR 2015          

7.      Shah Alam Rapid Cat C (FIDE), SELANGOR 2015          

8.      Cheras Juniors Open, KL 2015            

9.      Klang Val. Masters Rapid (FIDE), KL 2015       

10.   UM IPT Open (FIDE), KL 2015             

11.   NRBCC Rapid Open (FIDE), PERAK 2015         

12.   NRBCC Rapid AG, PERAK 2015           

13.   Tamu Gadang Rapid Open (FIDE), SABAH 2015            

14.   Pekan Rapid Open (FIDE), PAHANG 2015       

15.   Pekan Rapid Open AG, PAHANG 2015             

16.   IIUM Open, SELANGOR 2015             

17.   PMSICO Rapid Open (FIDE), PAHANG 2015    

18.   PMSICO Rapid Open AG, PAHANG 2015         

19.   Hospital Sg. Siput Open, PERAK 2015              

20.   Kuen Cheng Juniors Open, KL 2015   

21.   UPSI Open, PERAK 2015       

22.   Johor Open (FIDE) 2015       

23.   Johor Challengers (FIDE) 2015           

24.   Penang Open (FIDE) 2015    

25.   Penang Challengers (FIDE) 2015        

26.   Kota Marudu Open, SABAH 2015      

27.   Sarawak Open 2015              

28.   UUM Open , PERLIS 2015

29.   UTP Chess Festival Open, PERAK 2015            

30.   UTP Team Open, PERAK 2015            

31.   Johor Rapid Open 2015        

32.   Johor Rapid Challenge 2015

33.   Penang Chess League 2015 

34.   UniKL MSI Open, KEDAH 2015           

35.   KUSESS Team Open, SELANGOR 2015            

36.   KUSESS Individual Open, SELANGOR 2015     

37.   Perlis Open Series 5 2015

38.  Menara Alor Setar Open, KEDAH 2015