Monday, April 26, 2010

FIRST SATURDAY CLASSICAL CHESS (MAY) 2010

( EVERY FIRST SATURDAY OF EACH CALENDAR MONTH ONWARD )
VENUE: EXCEL CHESS ACADEMY, 26A. JALAN HUJAN EMAS 4, OUG. JALAN KELANG LAMA .POSKOD 58200 KUALA LUMPUR.
DATES: 15 MAY & 16 MAY (SAT & SUN)
FORMAT : 60 MINUTES PLUS 30 SECOND INCREMENT EACH MOVE


ENTRY FEE : RM 30.00 (DISCOUNT FOR GROUP ENTRY )
ROUND 1 : SATURDAY MAY 15 ( 9.30 am to 12.30 pm )
ROUND 2 : SATURDAY MAY 15 ( 1.00 pm to 4.00 pm )
ROUND 3 : SATURDAY MAY 15 ( 4.30 pm to 7.30 pm )
ROUND 4 : SUNDAY MAY 16 ( 9.30 am to 12.30 pm )
ROUND 5 : SUNDAY MAY 16 ( 1.00 pm to 4.00 pm )
ROUND 6 : SUNDAY MAY 16 ( 4.30 pm to 7.30 pm )

MAIN PRIZES :

1st PRIZE : RM 150 + MYSTERY PRIZE
2nd PRIZE : RM 100 + MYSTERY PRIZE
3rd PRIZE : RM 80 + MYSTERY PRIZE
4th PRIZE : RM 60 + MYSTERY PRIZE
5th PRIZE : RM 40 + MYSTERY PRIZE

SPECIAL PRIZES : ( AT LEAST 3 PLAYERS IN NATIONAL RATING CATEGORY )

NATIONAL RATING BELOW 1600 ( BOY AND GIRL ) : MYSTERY PRIZE
NATIONAL RATING BELOW 1500 ( BOY AND GIRL ) : MYSTERY PRIZE
NATIONAL RATING BELOW 1400 ( BOY AND GIRL ) : MYSTERY PRIZE
NATIONAL RATING BELOW 1300 ( BOY AND GIRL ) : MYSTERY PRIZE
NATIONAL RATING BELOW 1200 ( BOY AND GIRL ) : MYSTERY PRIZE
NATIONAL RATING BELOW 1100 ( BOY AND GIRL ) : MYSTERY PRIZE

REGISTRATION by HP SMS 013-3232280 OR EMAIL jaxtham@hotmail.com

ENTRY FORM :

 NAME: __________________________________
D.O.B./ I.C.NO __________________________
TEL: _________________
SCHOOL : ___________________

CLOSING DATE 14th MAY ( FRIDAY )

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Malaysian Chess Festival 2010

THE MALAYSIAN CHESS FESTIVAL
The annual Malaysian Chess Festival will take place from 28th August 2010 to 08 September 2010 at the CitiTel MidValley Hotel, MidValley MegaMall, Kuala Lumpur. For those below 16 years old, there will be a National Age-Group. There will be several categories from Under-8, Under-10, Under-12, Under-14 to Under-16. We encourage parents to register their children for this high profile chess event and make our very own Malaysian Chess Festival 2010 a success!

This year (2010) the Festival comprises of the following events;
28 - 31 August
30th ASTRO Merdeka Team Chess Championship
ASTRO Merdeka Individual Rapid Chess Championship

01 - 08 September

IGB Malaysia Open Chess Championship
AmBank Chess Challenge
Tan Sri Lee Loy Seng International Seniors Open
The National Age-Group Rapid Chess Championship

A new event, the International seniors open might be interesting to some older new-comers !!!!
For more details, you may visit firey rook's blog

National Rating APRIL 2010


This is the latest national rating for this month :-

 You can download by clicking here

Veselin Topalov WINS Against Viswanathan Anand







[WhiteElo "2805"]

[BlackElo "2787"]
[EventDate "2010.04.24"]
[EventType "match"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[PlyCount "59"]
[EventRounds "12"]


1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.e4 Nxc3 6.bxc3 Bg7 7.Bc4 c5 8.Ne2 Nc6 9.Be3 0-0 10.0-0 Na511.Bd3 b6 12.Qd2 e5 13.Bh6 cxd4 14.Bxg7 Kxg7 15.cxd4 exd4 16.Rac1 Qd6 17.f4 f6 18.f5 Qe5 19.Nf4 g520.Nh5+ Kg8 21.h4 h6 22.hxg5 hxg5 23.Rf3 Kf7 24.Nxf6 Kxf6 25.Rh3 Rg8 26.Rh6+ Kf7 27.Rh7+ Ke8 28.Rcc7Kd8 29.Bb5 Qxe4 30.Rxc8+1-0

Friday, April 23, 2010

Selangor Open will come back

Selangor open will go on tomorow.click here for more info

The First GM offer in nutshell

There are 2 separate offers on the table. Parents and players can choose either one.

First GM's offer includes training and we believe at a lower overall price. But this can depend on the numbers who are going. Puan Adzlin is continuing to talk to Air Asia and trying to come up with an even better offer. All will be revealed on the 1st of May.

Why has First GM chosen to make the offer for Asean?

1. Because Air Asia is supporting the training for Asean.

2. We believe that the training will increase our chances of bringing back a medal.

3. We are laying down the foundation of working with MCF as a step to helping establish training as a norm for International Tournaments and will do all we can in that direction.

4. We would like to see our local trainers benefit from GM Giaur Rahman's knowledge.

The details will be given to the participants on the 1st May. See you there.

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Kejohanan Catur MSSS 2010 di juarai oleh PPD

SYABAS dan TAHNIAH kerana setiap pemain MSSD Petaling Perdana kerana tidak pulang dengan tangan kosong. Ini kerana kontijen MSSD Petaling Perdana merupakan pemenang bagi setiap kategori.




Pasukan P12 telah diwakili oleh Anis Fariha Saleh, Aina Farzana Che Mohd Azemin, Intan Nor Syahida Hashim dan Nurulhana Syuhada Sulkifli. Pasukan ini telah mendapat tempat kelima acara berpasukan. Sementara Nurulhana telah berjaya mendapat tempat kelima acara individu.
 


P15 telah diwakili oleh Jane Wee Li Yen, Nur Fairuz Shamsul Kamal, Nurul Adlina Mohd Sulkifly dan Vickie Hong Wee Ki. Pasukan P15 telah mendapat tempat ketiga acara berpasukan. Amat sayang sekali pemain-pemain Pasukan P15 gagal memenangi acara individu untuk keputusan yang lebih cemerlang.
 


Pasukan P18 Petaling Perdana diwakili oleh Nur Syafiqah Othman, Winnie Hong Wee Ni, Chong Sy Ying dan Nur Fariha Mohd Jamri. Pasukan ini telah berjaya menjadi Naib Juara acara berpasukan. Winnie meneruskan kecemerlangan dengan menjadi Johan acara individu.
 

Pasukan L12 telah diwakili oleh Muhd Ihsan Syahiran Mohd Najib, Tin Jun Hao, Muhd Azfar Zariq Abu Bakar dan Daryl Wong Cheng Lim. Tin Jun Hao yang berjaya menjadi Naib Johan acara individu telah berjaya mengetuai pasukannya untuk mendapat tempat keempat acara berpasukan.
 

Sebagai juara MSSD PP, Low Jun Keat telah mengetuai Pasukan L15 yang juga disertai oleh Fikri Saleh, Sunil Kalivanan, dan Muhd Khidhir Muhd Zamani. Pasukan L15 sungguh cemerlang kerana berjaya mengesahkan diri sebagai Juara acara berpasukan sebelum pusingan terakhir. Mereka berjaya memungut mata yang tinggi (18/20). Fikri dan Sunil berjaya meneruskan kecemerlangan dalam acara individu setelah masing-masing berjaya mendapat tempat Pertama dan Kelima.
 

Pasukan L18 yang diwakili oleh Low Jun Jian, Tiam Wen Yong, Ashman Raziuddin Aliff dan Hazwan Lee Haris Lee juga cemerlang di kejohanan ini setelah berjaya mendapat tempat keempat acara berpasukan. Dua orang dari mereka iaitu Jun Jian dan Ashman masing-masing telah berjaya mendapat tempat ketiga dan kelima dalam acara individu.
 
Dengan berbekalkan 108 mata, Daerah Petaling Perdana telah dinobatkan sebagai JUARA Kejohanan Catur MSSS edisi 2010. Kejayaan sebagai juara ini agak terencat sedikit kerana trofi pusingan tidak disampaikan sewaktu Majlis Penutup dan Penyampaian Hadiah.


CONGRATULATION TO ALL WINNERS.

Keputusan MSSS 2010 di Sabak Bernam ( Acara Berkumpulan )


Jadual di atas adalah ringkasan pemenang-pemenang bagi acara berpasukan bagi Kejohanan Catur MSS peringkat Negeri Selangor yang baru sahaja tamat semalam di Sungai Besar.


                                     Kontijen Pasukan Catur Daerah Petaling Perdana (PP) 2010

Friday, April 16, 2010

Yeoh Li Tian could be our ''CARLSEN''

I am really inspired by this young and talented kid and I could not resist to write about him. Someone had a match against him in AMBank Challenge 2007 (which of course he lost). Yeoh Li Tian's performance in the last KL Open was impressive. Only 2 losses from 9 rounds and RP of 2314 was something very worth to be proud of.





Many blogs has touted him as our best hope for First Grandmaster and I couldn't agree more. He's young and extremely talented. with proper guidance he shall be our own GM Magnus Carlsen..:) Li Tian's Performance in KL Open 2010 - HERE

First GM offer to train Asean Player?

First GM is working together with MCF and Najib Wahab of CS Solutions to offer training to all the players going to Asean. First GM is also working hard to also bring value to the parents and officials. See Below.


This announcement is slightly premature but we felt that we needed to get the word out there to those that are considering going for Asean as the dateline ends on April 30th.



This Is How It Works.
 
What we have so far.

We have an undertaking by Tony Fernandes of Air Asia to assist by providing the air tickets.

We have the undertaking of MCF and Najib Wahab to assist and facilitate the undertaking of this training.

The mechanics is as follows.

Air Asia is to sponsor the training via First GM in lieu of air tickets. Although we have yet to finalise the details this is what we hope to achieve.

Let me use the example of double sharing in terms of cost. Under the original offer, players are to pay RM4615 and accompanying paerents RM4040. The budget for Air fare is RM1500.
First GM will attempt to get the free tickets (in lieu of training) for not only the players but for parents and accompanying coaches and officials.

This way the costs for players remain at RM4615 but with training by GM Giaur Rahman.

We hope to reduce the cost to parents as well as any savings offered by Air Asia in terms of air ticket will be deducted directly. If free then cost to parents will be now be reduced to RM2540 for example.

There is more. In line with our corporate Philosophy and Vision of getting the First GM with integrity and transparency, we have offered to open our books for inspection by MCF. First GM will make a profit from the venture by making a reasonable 30% from its efforts.

We have estimated that this program can run on a shoe string if there are 10 players. Monies collected in lieu of Air Tickets from a larger number of players will be used in the following manner.


1. We would like to send at least a Coach to accompany our players at Subic Bay.

2. We want to have an expanded training program.

This is the wish list program we want to offer.


Firday 28th May.

Morning session. Train the trainer. Here GM Giaur Rahman will train our local trainers on how to help our players develop their opening repertoire. ie the road map. Following that he will oversee, guide and supervise the trainers over the remaining sessions.

Afternoon. Players training.


Sat. 29th May


Training of players.


Sunday 30th May


Training and close of camp.


Currently these are the trainers under consideration for development under the First GM train the trainer course.


Head Trainer

GM Giaur Rahman


Trainees.

IM Lim Yee Weng

Loo Swee Leong (Head Coach, Penang)
Uztaz Rahman (chief trainer, First GM)

Greg Lau

Jax Tham.


Other trainers can be considered on application.

It is our hope that GM Giaur Rahman can assist Malaysians in the longer term by transferring his knowledge to our local trainers in line with our goals. It is also First GM's hope to bring value to Malaysain chess by providing solutions to our National dream of the First GM from Malaysia irregardless of which Academy that GM comes from. We intend to work in joint collaboration with any entity in the sprit of healthy competition and shared values.

COCHRANE CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPS 2010

ORGANISED BY KL. CHESS

DATE : 1 MEI 2010 (Saturday)

VENUE : PUSAT KECEMERLANGAN SUKAN COCHRANE, KL.

FORMAT : 6 rounds SWISS  2 Age Group Categories of Boys & Girls

TIME CONTROL: 30 minutes each player


For more infomation, click here

Thursday, April 15, 2010

April Rapid Chess

Venue    : Excel Chess Academy, 26A. Jalan Hujan Emas 4, OUG. Jalan Kelang Lama, Poskod 58200 KL.
Date        : 24 - 25 April (Sat - Sun)
Rounds   :10 Rounds
Format    : 20 minutes increasement 30 seconds per move
Entry Fee : RM 30.00 ( Discount given for more than one player. )


Round 1 : SATURDAY APRIL 24 ( 9.30 am to 11.00 am )

Round 2 : SATURDAY APRIL 24 ( 11.15am to 12.45 pm )

Round 3 : SATURDAY APRIL 24 ( 1.30 pm to 3.00 pm )

Round 4 : SATURDAY APRIL 24 ( 3.15 pm to 4.45 pm )

Round 5 : SATURDAY APRIL 24 ( 5.00 pm to 6.30 pm )

Round 6 : SUNDAY APRIL 25 ( 9.30 am to 11.00 am )

Round 7 : SUNDAY APRIL 25 ( 11.15am to 12.45 pm )

Round 8 : SUNDAY APRIL 25 ( 1.30 pm to 3.00 pm )

Round 9 : SUNDAY APRIL 25 ( 3.15 pm to 4.45 pm )

Round 10: SUNDAY APRIL 25 ( 5.00 pm to 6.30 pm )


Main Prizes :

1st PRIZE : RM 150.00 + MYSTERY PRIZE

2nd PRIZE : RM 120.00 + MYSTERY PRIZE

3rd PRIZE : RM 80.00 + MYSTERY PRIZE

4th PRIZE : RM 60.00 + MYSTERY PRIZE

5th PRIZE : RM 40.00 + MYSTERY PRIZE


Special Prizes : ( Minimum 3 players in national rating group.)

Best National Rating Under- 1600 ( Boy and Girl ) MYSTERY PRIZE

Best National Rating Under- 1500 ( Boy and Girl ) MYSTERY PRIZE

Best National Rating Under- 1400 ( Boy and Girl ) MYSTERY PRIZE

Best National Rating Under- 1300 ( Boy and Girl ) MYSTERY PRIZE

Best National Rating Under- 1200 ( Boy and Girl ) MYSTERY PRIZE

Best National Rating Under-1100 ( Boy and Girl ) MYSTERY PRIZE


CLOSING DATE: 23 APRIL 2010 (FRIDAY)


ENTRY FORM :

NAME: __________________________________

TEL: _________________

D.O.B./ I.C.NO __________________________

SCHOOL : ____________________________

EMAIL ADDRESS : _______________________________________

You can call/email Jax Tham to register  *013-323 2280 / jaxtham@hotmail.com

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

UITM OPEN result

MSSS Selangor 2010 ( U18 L )

Day 1

Starting ranking   - click here

Round 1             - click here

Round 2             - click here

Round 3             - click here

Round 4             - click here

MSSS Selangor 2010 ( U15 P )

Day 1

Starting ranking   - click here

Round 1             - click here

Round 2             - click here

Round 3             - click here

Round 4             - click here

MSSS Selangor 2010 ( U15 L )

Day 1

Starting ranking   - click here

Round 1             - click here

Round 2             - click here

Round 3             - click here

Round 4             - click here

MSSS Selangor ( U12 P )

Day 1

Starting ranking   - click here

Round 1             - click here

Round 2             - click here

Round 3             - click here

Round 4             - click here

MSSS Selangor 2010 ( U12 L )

Day 1

Starting ranking   - click here

Round 1             - click here

Round 2             - click here

Round 3             - click here

Round 4             - click here

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

pairing under 18 P ( round 7 )

tekan sini

pairing under 18 L ( round 8 )

tekan sini

pairing under 15 P ( round 8 )

tekan sini

pairing under 15 L ( round 8 )

tekan sini

keesokan hari

aku medapat 2 kemenagan, 1 seri dan 1 kekalahan



1.(0) Chang Ching Yet - M.Amir Ridhwan (1) aku menang free sbb dia dtg lambat

2.(1/2) Rafiqfirdaus Eiman - M.Amir Ridhwan (1/2) aku sendiri yang buat stalemate sbb x prasan

3.(1) M.Amir Rdhwan - Afiq Adli (0) die offer draw setiap kali die move tapi aku x lyn,sbb aku tau aku mng

4.(0)M.Amir Ridhwan - M.Khidir (1) aku move cepat2 sbb dh nk klh, aku x prasan aku bleh buat stalemate


itulah die kenangan manis dan pahit...

first day

aku mendapat 3 kemenangan dan 1 kekalahan

1. (0) Megat Syafiq Megat Amran - M.Amir Ridhwan (1)

2. (1) M.Amir Ridhwan - Samuel Lim Qi En (0)

3. (0) M.Farhan Jusoh - M.Amir Ridhwan (1)

4. (0) M.Amir Ridhwan - Iskandar Danial (1)

Dalam hidup, terkadang kita lebih banyak mendapatkan

Apa yang tidak kita

inginkan

Dan ketika kita mendapatkan apa yang kita inginkan,

Akhirnya kita tahu bahawa yang kita inginkan

Terkadang tidak dapat membuat

Hidup kita menjadi lebih bahagia.

Let's Play Against Shredder