KASUGI 1st day report

The Kasugi Chess Team event has started today at Cititel Express. Many top Malaysian chess player were here, including FM Nicholas Chan, IM Mok Tze Meng, FM Ronnie Lim and IM Jimmy Liew! Besides that, Kasugi has also attracted strong foreign players from Philippines, Indonesia and Brunei, such as IM Nolte Rolando, Ian Udani, IM Bancod Ronald, FM Yee Soon Wei (BRU) and FM Pitra Andika (INA). The time control is 45 minutes to the end of the game. 4 IM, 4 FM and 1 CM in all were present in this event.

 It was a tragic morning for me as my team 1st board could not arrived. I would not be blogging about this event if not for a last minute replacement in our team. In fact, there was also a team which only have 3 players after one of their member could not play. 

                           
                                           Playing Hall

Playing Hall

Outside the Playing hall was also crowded with people

Here are some pics during the event..

Mastermind team against Penang A, score ( 1-3)

3rd board player gone missing

The angles from KL with 1 win after 4 rounds

Zhuo ren: So Kaushal, which will be your 1st move? a3 or h3?

Top Sarawak Players

 Yeap Eng Chiam showing Najib How It Should Be Done!

The Penangites analysing as Loo Swee Leong look on to the camera :)

AhliFikri team takes on Friends for Chess Freedom

Blogger Gilocatur was also busy blogging about this event.

SPAWN Armageddon nearly withdrew from the event due to shortage of player. 

Rank after round 4

Apocalypse-Manila Chess team from Philippines takes a slight lead ahead of top Malaysian Team, Tesla Chess. Both teams will be facing each other in the next round. ChessisChess captain by IM Jimmy Liew comes in 3rd place so far. 

As for my team, we are currently rank 36 with only 7.5 points. Still, the result was better than expected ;) 

More updates and tons of pictures coming up tomorrow.