In conjunction with Kuching Festival, Persatuan Catur Sarawak and Majlis Bandaraya Kuching Selatan will be holding the 2007 Pesta Kuching Chess Allegro on 5 th August 2007, Sunday at MBKS ground floor, Jalan Padungan during day time and Dewan Masyarakat, Jalan Padungan during night time.

The event will be a 9-round Swiss starting at 10:00 am and ending at 9:30am.

The time control is 30 minute per player.

The prize structure is as follows:
Open: RM200, RM150, RM100, RM50x3, RM20x4 (Hampers for top 3)
18 & Under: RM100, RM70, RM50, RM20x3, RM10x4 (Hampers for top 3)
Best Ladies: RM30, RM20, RM10.
Entrance fee: RM5/= (Ladies and 18U RM2/=)

Interested players may enrol with any of the followings before 3 August.
Morsin Ahmad 0128949415, Abg.Mohd.Reduan 0188180876, Hj.Mohd.Nasir 0198860323, Lim Kian Hwa 0168603180

Source: Lim Kian Hwa @ Chess-Malaysia Group

Penang Closed Chess Tournament 2007, Second half

Improve your Chess with IM Gary Lane (18th August 2007)

The Chess Club of Sekolah Tengku Ampuan Rahimah, Klang will be hosting a chess workshop by Australian Chess Player of the Year 2004, International Master (IM) Gary Lane.

The chess workshop, entitled "Improve your chess with IM Gary Lane 2007", will be held on the 18th of August 2007 (Saturday), from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the school library.

The chess workshop is made up of both theory and practice sessions. There will be about 2.5 hours of coaching by IM Gary. This will be followed by a simultaneous chess display by IM Gary against all 20 participants.

For more information about the chess workshop, please contact P. Pandiyan (012 315 7130).

Source: Posted by Edwin Lam @ Chess-Malaysia Group

Open Section
1. FM Julio Sandorra 7pts Rtg2421
2. Soh Zee Wee 6pts Rtg2025
3. Abdullah Che Hassan 6pts Rtg2111
4. Ahmad Rubel 5.5pts
5. Akmal Bin Salleh 5.5pts
6. Ong Chuan Hock 5.5pts
7. Jimmy Ng 5pts Rtg2111
8. Kamaluddin Yusof 5pts Rtg2176
9. Norazman 5pts
10.Morsin Ahmad 5pts

Best Veteran
Lim Kian Hwa 4.5pts Rtg2066

Best Ladies
Nurul Antiqah 4pts
Kwan Tszee Yeung 4pts

Under-16
1. Chai Juan Zhe 6.5pts
2. Chong Yong Kai 6pts
3. Ahmad Azfar 6pts
4. Chai Chang Wei 5.5pts
5. Chong Yong Bing 5.5pts
6. Afdal Wiranata 5.5pts
7. Tham Gen He 5.5pts
8. Raqif Azfar 5 pts
9. Wong yong Teck 5 pts
10.Nor Izzuddin 5 pts

Best Girl
Yee Min zhi
Wong Jia Li
Pang Zhi Wei

Under-12
1.Muhd Irfan Haqqim 7pts
2.Muhammad Hakimi 6pts
3.Puteri Rifqah fahada 6pts
4.Ng Xue Yi 5pts
5.Ling Zhang Yang 5pts
6.Elvis Teo 5pts
7.Nicholas Fernandez 5pts
8.Chua Stephan 5pts
9.Tan Ti Ley 5pts
10.Ong wei Du 5pts

Best girl
Seri Aisyah 5pts
Puteri Munajjah 4.5pts
Joan Teo Wei Ling 4pts

Source: Posted by Leong Mun Wan @ Chess-Malaysia Group

Kejohanan Catur Terbuka Disted-Stamford Kolej 2007

Tournament:
Kejohanan Catur Terbuka Disted-Stamford Kolej 2007
System:
7 Round Swiss System.
Date:
29 Jul 07 (Sunday)
Time:
8.30am - 6.15pm
Venue:
Dewan Kolej Disted-Stamford, Macalister Road, Penang.
http://www.stamford.edu.my/AboutUs/locations.htm

Contact:
Joshua Lim 016-4748854,
Gerald Goh 012-4100998 This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Please visit Penang Chess Association Website for more information.

Rainy Taiping Tournament

The 3rd CRC Taiping chess tournament completed successfully on 15th July with players from all over Malaysia taking part.

The day started with heavy rain in the morning while they (PS Lim, Anthony, Khai Boon and Kian Meng) pick me up at AutoCity, Penang. We then had to travel slowly due to the heavy rain and reached CRC Taiping after an hour of drive...

Chess Training: the Circles - Part 2

Previous post: Part 1 

After years of chess training with the circles, players had come to some conclusion. These conclusions will help us to answer the question from Part 1 - Can the circle be the solution for mere amateur to burn those chess positions into their subconscious mind in order to play like a master in a short period of training hour?

Let’s see some example of planning, execution and result.

Penang Closed Chess Tournament 2007, First Half

Who is the Penang Chess Champion? This question is frequently asked by chess players in Penang especially the young ones. They, most probably, are looking for a local chess idol to learn or modeling from. This question is left unanswered for few years and fortunately, the wait is going to be over soon.

Penang Closed Chess Tournament 2007 has begun today(8 July 2007) with several purposes : 1. as a selection to represent Penang in Merdeka Chess Tournament, Kuala Lumpur
2. to “officially” recognize a Penang Chess Champion and
3. to answer the kids!

Upset of the day! Tan Khai Boon - Kee Zijia, 0-1, Round 1

See also Eu Hong annotate his lost against Evan at Blog.EuHong.NET.

Improvement in terms of chess had been the dream of all tournament players, while some hired coach, some worked on their own; some go through both ways and etc. For me, I got the same old dream as everyone else. One day while surfing through the web, I came across something interesting and decided to write something about it.

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There are some corrections done to the July rating list. Following is the latest top 20 in the world. Check for your rating at FIDE.com

Rnk  Name                        Title Cty Rating Games B-Year
 1  Anand, Viswanathan          g  IND  2792  4  1969
 2  Topalov, Veselin               g  BUL  2769  10  1975
 3  Kramnik, Vladimir             g  RUS  2769  1  1975
 4  Ivanchuk, Vassily              g  UKR  2762  22  1969
 5  Morozevich, Alexander       g  RUS  2758  18  1977
 6  Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar    g  AZE  2757  14  1985
 7  Leko, Peter                      g  HUN  2751  9  1979
 8  Aronian, Levon                 g  ARM  2750  15  1982
 9  Radjabov, Teimour           g  AZE  2746  7  1987
 10  Jakovenko, Dmitry          g  RUS  2735  29  1983
 11  Shirov, Alexei                 g  ESP  2735  28  1972
 12  Svidler, Peter                 g  RUS  2735  6  1976
 13  Gelfand, Boris                g  ISR  2733  21  1968
 14  Grischuk, Alexander        g  RUS  2726  18  1983
 15  Adams, Michael              g  ENG  2724  18  1971
 16  Kamsky, Gata                g  USA  2718  28  1974
 17  Carlsen, Magnus            g  NOR  2710  19  1990
 18  Akopian, Vladimir           g  ARM  2708  5  1971
 19  Polgar, Judit                  g  HUN  2707  10  1976
 20  Ponomariov, Ruslan       g  UKR  2706  16  1983

Up next: Kejohanan Catur Terbuka Lahad Datu

Date: 21-22 July

First Prize: RM1000 + Trophy

7 rounds swiss with 1 hour each.

The results of 2007 Sarawak M.O. Selection Chess Championship is as follow:

Champion: Abang Mohd.Reduan 8 points
Runner Up: Mohd. Mekartti 6 points
1st Runner Up: Morsin Ahmad 5.5 points
4th: Lim Kian Hwa 5.5 points
5th: Japeri Reduan 5.5 points
6th: Abang Azman Draup 5 points
7th: Indera Shahrin 4.5 points
8th: Hj.Mohd.Nasir 4.5 points
9th: George Ha 4 points
10th: Kueh Yan Chew 4 points