Malay Open 2008 (9-10th Feb 2008)

Malay Open which ended on sunday 10th Feb 2008, was won by Abdullah Che Hassan, for full report visit Whitenaval's site at http://whitenaval.googlepages.com/chess

To see the pic go to http://nwmchess.fotopages.com/?entry=1456578&back=http://nwmchess.fotopages.com/?page=0

(all the pictures are updated)

Searching For Pahang's OKU Chess Players!

For those with physical dissablities or visual impaired, kindly contact me. Pahang is looking for OKU chess players to compete in the coming Paralimpiad in KL this May 2008! Since our victory in chess in the last Para Games at Korat, we are looking forward to search more chess talents to be in the Malaysian Team for the coming Para Games in Laos 2009, Para Asia in Guangzhao in 2010 or maybe in this coming Paralympic 2008 at Beijing!

Come and join the team now! Coaching in Kuantan will be conducted by the trained individuals and there will be coaching conducted in Rompin for those who cannot make it to Kuantan. For those who wants to help the team, kindly give me a call too.

Where Art Thou?

Hello!
I am feeling much better today, thank you. I know that this blog hasn't been updated. My apologies to the fans. For those asking... well here is the stories..

I was sick on monday right after the PCMM Open!.. And I have been sick for more than one week! The last time that I was really sick was when I was a teenager (and that was years ago!). I lost my appetite to eat, and that was the bad news ever! Because I love food and I like to eat and taste so many things.... Thinking about food made me starving already. I thought I was never going to get any better... and I started to feel depressed thinking that I can never play chess again... This was because, I can't think straight.. It took me hours just to do a simple accounting adjustment. I was truly depressed and upset.

Alhamdullillah... I feel better last thursday... and today I feel great! It is sunday.. and finally I get to be me and be lazy on my rest sunday! (heheheh)..

My apologies again to the fans... Now I can write again! Stick around for the latest info in chess!

PCMM Open 2008

Satu kejohanan catur terbuka Melayu Malaysia akan di adakan di Kompleks Wilayah, Kuala Lumpur pada 9 dan 10 hb Februari 2008. Pada hari sabtu itu juga akan di adakan mesyuarat tahunan Persatuan Catur Melayu Malaysia, bagi memilih AJK baru persatuan.

Juara Kejohanan akan membawa pulang hadiah wang tunai RM 500.00!! Hadiah-hadiah lain juga akan disediakan.

Yuran sebanyak RM 25 (RM15 + 10 yuran tahunan) untuk menyertai kejohanan. Untuk pendaftaran ahli baru, bayaran tambahan sebanyak RM13 akan dikenakan. Anda adalah di galakkan untuk menjadi ahli PCMM!! Demi kemajuan bersama!

Pendaftaran boleh dibuat kepada Pn Haslindah - 019-2069605, atau kepada Cik Khairunnisa - 019-9699879

Untuk maklumat lanjut layari
http://whitenaval.googlepages.com/chess

Untuk makluman pendaftaran hendak melalui nama di atas sahaja, dan BAYARAN boleh di lakukan PADA HARI PERTANDINGAN.

2008 Chess Calendar

There are lots of up and coming tournaments in Malaysia. Besides the weekend tourneys held by various chess associations, take note of the important event like National Closed 2008, Merdeka Open, Malaysian Open.....

Check it out
http://tcn.sourceforge.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=142

ASEAN Para Games at Korat

The gate that welcomes all the contingent, on the right, the players are entering the hall


Asmah on the left with Philippine coach GM Rogelio Antonio, pic on the right is Cikgu Sudin

My report in this blog will only focus on the ladies team, to view the overall result you can log on to stonemaster.biz.

As part of WSFFM member, I would like to say kudos to the Team Ladies Coach, Pn Asmah Ahmad Hambadley, for her effort in ensuring the team is well taken care off.

Congratulations and celebration to the Team!! For the performance, and how they are able to carry the dreams that was placed on their shoulder at the start of the training till today.

Here are the results of Women's Visually Impaired
Results by Round
Round 1, Mon 21 Jan 2008
1 4 MUKRI Moira MAS 0-1 1 CHAN Mai lan MAS

2 2 MOHAMED halil Nur feiqha MAS 1-0 5 NI ketut Mursi INA

3 6 NGUYEN Hong chau VIE 1-0 3 MOHAMED yusoff Norain fatihManAS

4 7 TRIEU Thuy VIE 1-0 Bye

Round 2, Mon 21 Jan 2008
5 1 CHAN Mai lan MAS 0-1 6 NGUYEN Hong chau VIE

6 7 TRIEU Thuy VIE 0-1 2 MOHAMED halil Nur feiqha MAS

7 3 MOHAMED yusoff Norain MAS 0-1 4 MUKRI Moira MAS

8 5 NI ketut Mursi INA 1-0 Bye

Round 3, Tue 22 Jan 2008
9 2 MOHAMED halil Nur feiqha MAS 1-0 6 NGUYEN Hong chau VIE

10 5 NI ketut Mursi INA 1-0 1 CHAN Mai lan MAS

11 4 MUKRI Moira MAS 0-1 7 TRIEU Thuy VIE

12 3 MOHAMED yusoff Norain MAS 1-0 Bye

Round 4, Wed 23 Jan 2008
13 1 CHAN Mai lan MAS 0-1 2 MOHAMED halil Nur feiqha MAS

14 6 NGUYEN Hong chau VIE 0-1 5 NI ketut Mursi INA

15 7 TRIEU Thuy VIE 1-0 3 MOHAMED yusoff Norain MAS

16 4 MUKRI Moira MAS 1-0 Bye

Ranking by Round
Round 4

1 MAS MOHAMED halil Nur feiqha 4
2 INA NI ketut Mursi 3
3 VIE TRIEU Thuy 3
4 MAS CHAN Mai lan 2
5 VIE NGUYEN Hong chau 2
6 MAS MUKRI Moira 2
7 MAS MOHAMED yusoff Norain 1

Fieqah is leading the Women VI event, tomorrow is the last round of the event, lets cross our fingers. The good news will after all belongs to us! Fieqah will only need to drew in her last round to ensure gold to be ours. But... according to the team, they are confident that the gold is ours to keep!!! Congrats again...

Coach Asmah said "Terima kasih atas sokongan semua pihak sama ada secara langsung mahupun tidak langsung. Emas untuk ladies, adalah untuk the next generation chess team. Terima kasih untuk semua support yg ada. Especially to Rizal Ahmad Kamal, En. Latiff, Shamsudin Mat Isa, Hashim Jusoh, Duratul Ain, Wsffm (Haslindah and the friendly match team) and not least to Khairunnisa' W"

http://www.2007paragames.com/info/

http://mindacatur.blogspot.com/

Misteri Man Speaks Again..

To find out, what, check out
http://setiachessmisteriman.blogspot.com/

What Misteri Man Have to Say...

As mention before I will publish analysis by Mr Misteri Man. He is a former chess fan that has been in the chess scene since the 70s. He is no longer active as a player, but still keep in touch with chess. He is hoping for Mas to deliver the GM title, so, this is what he could do to help him in his game...

Check out http://setiachessmisteriman.blogspot.com/

IM Mas Hafizul's Last Game at Tarakan 2008

Yeah, Mas lost again... but he sure fought hard there.. To help him with his game, I am going to ask a special friend of mine with the analysis of his game.. I will introduce his name as the "Misteri Man". The analysis will be published soon!!

To view Mas's last game http://setiachessprojectgmmas.blogspot.com/2008/01/im-mas-hafizuls-last-game-at-tarakan.html

ASEAN Para Games at Korat Thailand

Malaysian Chess Team will be taking part in the ASEAN para Games which will start tomorrow on 20/1/2008! Best of Luck for the Team! MALAYSIA BOLEH!!

To know more visit : http://mindacatur.blogspot.com/2008/01/4th-asean-para-games.html

IM Mas drew with Gm Wesley So in round 10

Check out his game at
http://setiachessprojectgmmas.blogspot.com/

The Chess Legend Bobby Fisher Dies

The chess legend, the essentric Robert James Fisher or better known as Bobby Fisher dies at the age of 64 in Iceland. (He was granted Icelandic citizenship in 2005 as a way to avoid being deported to the US. The reclusive player - who had renounced his US citizenship - had lived undetected in Japan for a number of years before moving to Iceland.)

His was reported ill for quite sometimes until later on thursday he pass away. His cause of death was, a suspected kidney failure.

The US-born player, who became famous for beating Cold War Soviet rival Boris Spassky in 1972. Then in 1975 he refused to play with Anatoly Karpov for the world title, which resulted the world champion title goes to Karpov. The eccentric US genius then simply disappeared, declining all lucrative sponsorship deals. But he surfaced later on to play in a re-match with Boris Spassky in 1992 in Yugoslavia in defiance of international sanctions. Then, he vanished again, and was heard living a number of years in Japan. Until a couple of years back he was reported to be in detention in Japan, and going to be extradite to US. (It was in Japan he was reported to fall in love with Japanese player... Miyoko Watai, she was once play against Nurul Huda W in the Zonal event in Genting)

To me though how many comments that he made, or what kind of life he has gone thru, let us all remember him as the man who won the world champ in the year where most of us will think it is impossible to break the ice of Russia. The match has made chess well known world wide, and automaticaly change the perspective of what the people think about chess! (now let us think about that..)

More news on him http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4392

IM Mas's Game Round 9 at Tarakan 2008

picture taken from indochess.com

Mas lost again, and this time to the energetic IM Tirto (who claimed that he is going to do a hatric by beating all his 3 remaining opponent). All of us were hoping for at least a draw from this game, but fate decide it otherwise for IM Mas Hafizul....

Check out his game at http://setiachessprojectgmmas.blogspot.com/

To All Ladies In The East Coast!!!

To all ladies in Pahang, Terengganu and Kelantan. There will be a course for arbitering on Saturday 22nd March 2008, and in the next day there will be a chess tournament (23/3/2008), jointly organise by WSFFM and MCF. Those interested can give me your name for pre-registration purposes.

Full details will be announced soon!

IM Mas Hafizul's Game at Tarakan 2008

IM Mas lost to GM Susanto in the 8th round of ASEAN Masters Circuit.. He still has the chance in his 3 remaining rounds to bounce back!

To view his games http://setiachessprojectgmmas.blogspot.com/

IM Mas won against Legendary Torre!!

Yes! I guess that is what all fans been shouting.. IM Mas won against the first Asian GM, the legendary Torre. Check out his game:

IM Mas at Tarakan 2008

I noticed that more and more chess fans out there are actually supporting for IM Mas in his plight for GM title! This is good news!

If you want to view his games you can also go to:

or http://hairulovchessmaniacs.blogspot.com/

or http://whitenaval.googlepages.com/chess

or http://masforgm.blogspot.com/

and don't forget to leave your message to IM Mas at http://whitenaval.googlepages.com/boardmessageforimmas

Go Go Mas!!

Below is his game in Round 6, though he didn't manage to survive this game, but there are still other rounds for him to bounce back. Cross our fingers for his games next against GM Torre, GM So, and GM Susanto...

IM Mas Hafizul's Games at Tarakan 2008

http://setiachessprojectgmmas.blogspot.com/

Project GM IM Mas Hafizul - Result Tarakan 2008

IM Mas Hafizul is currently competing at the 1st ASEAN Masters Chess Circuit 2008 in GM "A" Tournament. After 4 rounds he is now at no. 4 standings with 2 points from all games that he played ended in a draw!

In round 1 - FM Purnama Tirta Chandra (2383) vs IM Mas Hafizul (2382) - 0.5-0.5
In round 2 - IM Nadera Barlo (2417) vs IM Mas Hafizul (2382) - 0.5 - 0.5
In round 3 - IM Mas Hafizul (2382) vs IM Nathanael (2375) - 0.5 - 0.5
In round 4 - IM Nouri Hamed (2404) vs IM Mas Hafizul (2382) - 0.5 - 0.5

Below are his next pairings :

Round 5 (12/01/2008)
IM Mas Hafizul (2382) vs FM Cecep Kosasih (2408)

Round 6 (14/01/2008)
GM Zhang Zhong (2617) vs IM Mas Hafizul (2382)

Round 7 (15/01/2008)
IM Mas Hafizul (2382) vs GM Eugenio Torre (2519)

Round 8 (16/01/2008)
GM Susanto Megaranto (2563) vs IM Mas Hafizul (2382)

Round 9 (17/01/2008)
IM Mas Hafizul (2382) vs IM Tirto (2413)

Round 10 (18/01/2008)
GM Wesley So (2526) vs IM Mas Hafizul (2382)

Round 11 (19/01/2008)
IM Mas Hafizul (2382) vs IM Nasib Ginting (2393)

Lets just hope Mas Hafizul can do a lot better in his next games..!!
Don't forget to jot down few words at whitenaval message board, to give moral support to IM Mas Hafizul!
http://whitenaval.googlepages.com/boardmessageforimmas

Job Vacancy URGENT!

A construction company in Jalan Klang Lama is in need of Admin Staff. There are 2 vacancy offered with an attractive remuneration packages.

Application accepted from all applicants from all backgrounds (either SPM, Diploma or Degree holder).

SPM holder with an experience in Plan reading will be an added advantage.
Diploma or degree holder of Architecture, QS or Civil Engineering will also be an added advantage.

Interested applicants (male or female) with interest in CHESS together with the qualification above will be highly considered.

Forward your resume to haslindahr@yahoo.com soonest possible.