Chess Awards for Malaysians Newly Crowned NWM, WCM, WFM

Pic left : Camilia Johari - for her performances in ASEAN age group at Hue Vietnam this year! Job Well Done!
Pic right : Tan Li Ting - for winning the national closed, and becoming the youngest NWM title holder, broke Siti Zulaika 10 years old record!

Pic left : Nur Najiha - Gold Medallist in Hue Vietnam, she is the sole and most active WFM. And the third in Malaysia to gain the title. Congrats!
Pic right : her sister, Nur Nabila - gained WCM Title. The second WCM title holder in Malaysia.

1st DATCC Chess League - The Winners

The Best Board Prize Winners, awarded during the Malaysian Chess Festival Closing Ceremony :

Pic left : Nik Ahmad Farouqi - Goldis BHD
Pic right : Abdullah Che Hassan - Goldis Bhd


Pic left : IM Jimmy Liew - Goldis Bhd
Pic right : FM Mok Tze Meng - SMS Gold

Pic left : FM Ooi Chern Ee - SMS Gold

The winners of 1st DATCC Chess League, pic left from the Closing at Cititel Midvalley, Pic right from DATCC at Kompleks Wilayah.

Pic left : Mohd Irman Ibrahim taking the prizes on behalf of 786 Chess Club.
Pic right : Mohd Fairin the team captain of 786 Chess Club taking the pizes from former FIDE Presiden - Florencio Campomanes
The team comprises of Fairin, Saprin, Kamaludin, Kamal Arifin, Mohd Khair, and Irman

Pic left : 2nd place winner : Goldis Bhd
Pic right : Taking the prize - captain Nik Ahmad Farouqi.
The team comprises of - Mas, Nik, Abdullah, Jimmy, Lim YW, Gerald Soh, Faizal Andin, Abd Haq

Pic left : The winner - SMS Gold
Pic right : FM Ooi taking the prizes.
The team comprises of - Ooi, Mok, Ismail, Nicholas, Lim ZR, Soon WC, Greg, Khor SH

Pic at DATCC on the final of the league (19/8/09)

Pic left : Dato' Tan, FIDE Former Presiden - Campomanes, and Arbiter - Hamid Majid
Pic right : Ilham from Nusa Mahkota vs Andrew from DATCC. Andrew won the game, surprisingly he is using the Mokdern theory that Mok made popular.

Pic left : MBBSKL vs Tan and Tan. Seen in the pic playing black is Lim Chong, he was the former chess columnist in the Malay Mail Newspaper back in the 90s.
Pic right : MBBSKL vs Tan and Tan. Seen in the pic is IM Giam and next to him is Bernard Ng

Pic left : PCWM vs SMS Gold. Seen in the pic is NWM Tan Li Ting vs Ooi Chern Ee (PCWM team comprises of me, Haslindah, Roslina and Camilia). Next to Ooi is Mok waiting to play against me.. I missed the chance to draw the game.. :-(
Pic right : Spawn vs PWC. Seen in the pic is Jax Tham vs Cheah Cheuk Fung

Pic left : 786 chess club - Nazri, Kamal, Khair and Irman
Pic right : vs Goldis Bhd - with Jimmy on first board.

Merdeka Team Rapid 2009 - Malaysian Best

Pic left : Best U-12 Team - Selangor Generasi 10 with 17.5 points. The players are, Nur Nabila, Nur Najiha, Rifqah Fahada, Ee Sun Xin, and Putri Munajjah
Pic right : Best U-16 team - The Four Seasons with 19.5 points, The players are, Wong Hao, Elgin Lee, Nicholas Chong, P'ng Ren Chi

Pic left : Best School Team - Chung Ling A with 18.5 points. The players are, Gavin Fong, Lim Wei Kang, Goh Shih Hui, Goh Yi Zhang, Chong Shao Hong.
Pic right : Best Ladies - Indonesian Dream Girls with 21 points. The players are, Anastasia Citra, Monica Sihite, Warda Alia and Virda Rizka

Pic left : Best IPT Team : UM 1 with 19 points. The players are, Kenneth Chong, Syazwan Zulkifli, Muhd Azlan Shah, Ahmad Firdaus.
Pic right : Best State Team : Johor with 21.5 points. The players are, Abdullah Che Hassan, Aaron Chua, Leong Mun Wan, Lee Wen Xi

Pic left : 3rd place Best Malaysian Team : UTM Alpha with 21.5 points. The players are, Chan Tze Wei, Leong Ann Hong, Zulfadhli Zaini, Sian Jun Ren
Pic right : 2nd Best Malysian Team : Rosharch with 21.5 points. The players are, Cheah Cheok Fung, Loo Pak Kwan, Ooi Li Tao, Ong Thian Loon.

The Best Malaysian Team : SMS Gold MO with 22 points. The players are, FM Mok Tze Meng, FM Ooi Chern Ee, Lim Zhuo Ren, Soon Wai Cheong, Ismail Ahmad.

Merdeka Team Rapid 2009 - Open Winners

Here are the top ten winners!

Pic left : (sorry a bit darker) - Tenth place : Malfori Phillipines with 22 points. The players are - IM Oliver Dimakiling, IM Ronald Dableo, Leonardo Carlos, Daniel Causo and Silva Winston.
Pic right : 9th place : Calamba City B with 22 points. The players are, Rustum Tolentino, Rhobel Legaspi, Ric Portugalera and Ernesto Ramos.

Pic left : 8th place : Calamba City with 22 points. The players are, IM Richard Bitoon, Emmanuel Senador, Rodolfo Panopio, Roel Abelgas, Ireneo Gonzales
Pic right : 7th place : IRI-MAS with 22.5 points. The players are, GM Ehsan, WGM Atousa, WIM Ghaderpour, Cheah Eugene and Andrew (why are you not in the pic Andrew?)

Pic left : 6th place : Team Astro with 23.5 points. The players are GM Marat, GM Saidali, Abdul Haq and Jax Tham.
Pic right : 5th place : Jakarta Chess Club with 23.5 points. The players are, IM Dede, Masruri Rahman, FM Sharif, Aris Tiles (btw, he is 11 years old)

Pic left : 4th place : Tagatay City with 24 points. The players are GM Rogelio Antonio, GM Darwin Laylo, Samson Lim, Wilfredo Abalos
pic right : 3rd place : SMS Gold KLMN with 24 points (this is the best Malaysians result so far in the history of Merdeka Team Rapid event). The players are, FM Lim Yee Weng, NM Marcus Chan, FM Nicholas, and Khor Shihong

Pic left : 2nd place : Bhayangkara Police with the Batik Uniform, they are with 27.5 points. The players are, GM Susanto Megaranto, Sutarji, IM Irwanto Sadikin, Farid Firmansyah, and Eco Pujianto.
Pic right : The CHAMPION! INA RTCC with undisputed 28.5 points! . The manager lifting the Challenge Trophy - FM Sebastian with the players, IM Tirto, FM Awam Wahono, Sofyan Jafar, Hasian Panggabian.

The closing was attended by MCF Presiden - Tan Sri Ramli Ngah Talib, Dato' Tan Chin Nam, and Mr Sirajuddin (who is the person sponsoring SMS teams)

Merdeka Team Rapid 2009 - The Final Rounds

Pic left : on the right is UM team
Pic right : Kids For Chess Independence vs Dynamic Team

Pic left : on the right is team Nusa Mahkota with first board - Aziz Shukor
Pic right : I am hardly able to identify who's who in this pic

Pic left : on the right is Royal Selangor Club veterans - led by IM Giam Choo Kwee
Pic right : The Four Seasons with Wong Hao on first board vs Selangor Generasi 9 with Yeoh Li Tian on the first board.

Pic left : Sarawak Team on the left led by Lim Kian Hwa
Pic Right : Selangor Generasi 1o with Nur nabila on the first board vs Team Rosharch with Cheah Cheuk Fung on the first board, at Table 11

Pic left : Klang Valley Kiwis
Pic right : Indonesian Dream Girls vs Perak Juniors (they beat these Perak kids with 3.5 - 0.5 score)

Pic left : UTM Alpha team led by Chan Tze Wei,
Pic right : and they play against our team, Astro. In the final rounds Astro and Indonesian Girls were tie with 17.5 points, we were aiming to win the best ladies team prize. But unfornately, Indonesian won 3.5 against perak, and we were trashed 4-0 by UTM.. sad.. really sad..

Pic left : ChessIsChess Team, led by IM Jimmy Liew. In his team, there is FM Eric Cheah, who has been long missing from chess scene. The last time I saw him was when we were team mates in Olimpiad 1990 at Novi Sad, Yugoslavia.
Pic right : on the right is IM Richard Bitoon from PHI team of Calamba City

Pic left : MISC Bhd led by Fairin Zakaria vs Calamba City B led by Rustum Tolentino
Pic right : Selangor led by Ian Udani on first board vs Malfori Phillippines led by IM Oliver Dimakiling. Why is he looking the other way, it is because, when the pic is taken, there was a song sang by all the players to those celeb their bday on our Independence day today, that is, Nurihsan Yahya and IM Tirto.

Pic left : MISC Bhd - Fairin, Ilham, Irman and Husein Jamil
Pic right : Caviaga Lubricants - on the last round, GM Gerhard already left Malaysia, and the top board spot was filled by 17 year old, Pak Yevgeniy from Kazakhstan.

Pic left : Selangor - Ian Udani, NM Zarul Shazwan, Kamaludin, NWM Nurshazwani
Pic right : Friends of Jenjosh led by NM Ng Ee Vern, Alvin Ong, John Wong, and Tan Poh Heng

Pic left : and the friends were paired against SMS Gold - KLMN led by FM Lim Yee Weng, NM Marcus Chan, FM Nicholas Chan, and Khor Shihong
Pic right : Yes, this is pic of the upsets! (click link hairulov for the hands of Gods story), SMS Gold MO led by soon to be IM Mok Tze Meng, Ooi Chern Ee, Lim Zhuo Ren, Soon Wai Cheong. Mok defeat the earlier Blitz for fun Champ GM Rogelio Antonio from the team - Tagatay City. However, the defeat of Antonio does not affect the total team score, as they won 2.5-1.5, with GM Laylo on the second board won against FM Ooi.

Pic left : On the first table - IRI-MAS team, led by GM Ehsan Ghaem Maghami, WGM Atousa Pourkashiyan, WIM Ghaderpour, and Cheah Eugene
Pic right : Hands up, guys! this is the police! - meet team Bhayangkara Police from Indonesia. Smiling while the pic was taken is their first board - GM Susanto Megaranto.

Pic left : Astro Team - GM Marat, GM Saidali, Abd Haq, and Jax Tham
Pic right : and they play against Jakarta Chess Club led by IM Dede Lieu

Pic left : on the right are the Johorians, led by Abdullah Che Hassan.
Pic right : INA-RTCC led by IM Tirto (happy bday!), FM Awam Wahono, Jafar Sofyan and Hasan Panggabian.