RSC 3rd Leg: after round 2

The 3rd leg of the KL Grand Prix is currently lead by favourite Ian Udani who is currently 2/2 having despatched of WCM Nur Nabila and Ahmad Rosli.

The other players who also are at 2/2 are Ahmad Fadzil Nayan, Azman Hisham, Paulo Bersamina and Low Jun Jian.

Current standings:-

Rk.		Name	Rtg	FED	1.Rd	2.Rd	3.Rd	Pts.	TB1
1		Udani Ian	2286	PHI	13s1	9w1	5s	2,0	3,0
2		Nayan Ahmad Fadzil	1995	MAS	14w1	10s1	3w	2,0	3,0
3		Azman Hisham Muhd Nabil	1981	MAS	15s1	11w1	2s	2,0	3,0
4		Bersamina Paolo	1927	PHI	21s1	7w1	6s	2,0	3,0
5		Low Jun Jian	1907	MAS	16w1	8s1	1w	2,0	3,0
6		Yat Guo Jie	1879	MAS	12s½	18w1	4w	1,5	2,0
7		Tham Tick Hong Jax	2076	MAS	17w1	4s0	14w	1,0	2,0
8		Retallick Steven	2067	AUS	19s1	5w0	15s	1,0	2,0
9		Rosli Ahmad Afiq Afyfy	1938	MAS	20w1	1s0	16w	1,0	2,0
10		Ajeet Singh Roshan	1871	MAS	22w1	2w0	12s	1,0	2,0
11		Ting Shih Chieh Alfred	0	MAS	18w1	3s0	13s	1,0	2,0
12		Norazman Nor Izzudin Afandi	0	MAS	6w½	17s½	10w	1,0	1,5
13	WCM	Azman Hisham Nur Nabila	1829	MAS	1w0	20s1	11w	1,0	1,0
14		Bersamina Norlito	0	PHI	2s0	21w1	7s	1,0	1,0
15		Che Doi Azman Hisham	0	MAS	3w0	22s1	8w	1,0	1,0
16		Norazman Nor Amirruddin Hafiz	0	MAS	5s0	19w1	9s	1,0	1,0
17		Ismail Norazman	1816	MAS	7s0	12w½	19s	0,5	0,5
18		Low Jun Keat	1841	MAS	11s0	6s0	22w	0,0	0,0
19		Arul Sothy Abishek	0	MAS	8w0	16s0	17w	0,0	0,0
20		Dutton Lucas Matthew	0	MAS	9s0	13w0	21s	0,0	0,0
21		Johari Nikk	0	MAS	4w0	14s0	20w	0,0	0,0
22		Rashid Iskandar	0	MAS	10s0	15w0	18s	0,0	0,0

Round 3 pairings

Bo.	No.		Name	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	No.
1	8		Low Jun Jian	2		2		Udani Ian	1
2	4		Nayan Ahmad Fadzil	2		2		Azman Hisham Muhd Nabil	5
3	9		Yat Guo Jie	1½		2		Bersamina Paolo	7
4	2		Tham Tick Hong Jax	1		1		Bersamina Norlito	15
5	16		Che Doi Azman Hisham	1		1		Retallick Steven	3
6	6		Rosli Ahmad Afiq Afyfy	1		1		Norazman Nor Amirruddin Hafiz	19
7	20		Norazman Nor Izzudin Afandi	1		1		Ajeet Singh Roshan	10
8	12	WCM	Azman Hisham Nur Nabila	1		1		Ting Shih Chieh Alfred	22
9	14		Arul Sothy Abishek	0		½		Ismail Norazman	13
10	11		Low Jun Keat	0		0		Rashid Iskandar	21
11	18		Johari Nikk	0		0		Dutton Lucas Matthew	17

Insofar Rapid Team

(Limited to 6 Teams only)

Play & Win Monthly Chess Scholarship!

Venue: HBM Professional Training Centre,

03-36 Third Floor,

PKNS Complex,

Shah Alam.

Date: Start- Sunday 11 April 2010

Finish- Thursday 20 April 2010

( Rd. 2 to Rd. 5 on Thursday Nights)

Rounds : 5 Round (Round Robin)

      5 Weeks

Team : a) 4 players per team (no reserve)

  b) Board-no need to follow

             rating but must decide initially

  c) Team can be mixture of adults & kids

PRIZE (Only 6 teams)

Champion RM 600

Runner Up RM 400

Third  RM 280

If less than 6 team

5 Teams RM 400 RM 320 RM 280

4 Teams RM 400 RM 280 RM 240

3 Teams RM 400 RM 240       -

2 Teams RM 400      -        -

# Later Tournament

If 11 Team RM 600 RM 400 RM 280 RM 240

If 16 Team RM 1,000 RM 400 RM 280 RM 240

# Maximum 16 team per tournament

  Not Fide/ National Rated

Fees

Entrance Fees – RM 200 per team

Deposit -     RM 200 (returnable)

# Deposit – RM 10 will be deducted for 1 player per round of absence.

                         The balance will be returned at Last Round.

Clock & Sets :-

• Bring own 2 clocks & 2 sets
• Can rent from INSOFAR with 3 days notice.

Sets – RM 5 per day/ night

Clocks – RM 10 per day/ night

SCHOLARSHIP

All players have chance to get chess scholarship.

Bronze Players – Have played in Insofar Rapid Team Tournament before.

Silver Players      - Bronze Players who have suceed in forming new team

  (need only formed once)

Scholarship given :–

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                               Maximum RM 300 per month

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# Silver Players is expected to get maximum scholarship (RM 700 per month)probably after 6 months of playing.

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REGISTRATION

1. Since this tournement limits to 6 TEAMS ONLY, registration is base on first come first serve.
2. Please sms name of:-

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1. Once approved, bank in RM 400

1. RM 200 for entrance fees
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SCHEDULE

Round 1 – Sunday 11 April     5.30 pm -6.20 pm

Round 2- Thursday 22 April   9.00 pm -9.50 pm

Round 3- Thursday 6 May      9.00 pm -9.50 pm

Round 4- Thursday 13 May    9.00 pm -9.50 pm

Round 5- Thursday 20 May    9.00 pm -9.50 pm

# No game on 29 April 2010 because of Selangor Open

Next Tournament (June)

Sunday 13/6/2010

10 am – 6 pm(break 1pm -2 pm)

At Dewan Masjid At Taqwa,

     Masjid Subang Permai.

# Team Tournament for New Teams & Silver and/ or Gold Players Team

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Bill Gates for FIDE president post

BILL GATES

Just a few weeks ago we learnt that former world chess champion Anatoly Karpov is set to challenge Kirsan Illyumzhinov for the presidency of FIDE.

Today, news of a remarkable third candidate has rocked the chess world - none other than the founder of Microsoft himself, Bill Gates (pictured)!

Bill Gates has long been known to have a keen interest in chess, although his early efforts at the game were soon eclipsed by his rather more successful efforts at founding a global computer business.

In his own words, "When I was young, I wanted to be the world's best chess player, and of course, I didn't succeed. I wanted to be the world's best Go player too. I wanted to keep IBM in a happy partnership with Microsoft, and that didn't work out either. There are people I wanted to hire whom I couldn't, so I've had plenty of disappointments." - from "Bill Gates Speaks".

Now retired, Gates devotes much of his time to charitable works through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The foundation's activities are driven by the interests and passions of the Gates' family, and it was from this source that the idea for standing for FIDE president arose.

There is no official word yet on what policies we might expect to see from president Bill Gates, but sources close to the great man suggest that if he succeeds (the election is during the Olympiad in September), the world championship would become a televised yearly tournament called the "Microsoft Chess Titans Challenge" with internet qualification events and guaranteed sponsorship worth millions of dollars.

Anatoly Karpov and Kirsan Illyumzhinov were unavailable for comment...

APRIL FOOLS!

Lucky Escape

Ernesto Ramos (????) - Yat Guo Jie (1879)
3rd DATCC League


White played 42. h4?? Qe3+/Qd3+ draw(...Qe5+ +- lost for black)

DATCC League: Round 2 results

 

No	Team name	Results	Team name
1	Team AU	3  -   1	UKM
2	Kam Mah	2   - 2	Pricewaterhouse
3	Ad Hoc	2   - 2	CS Ladies
4	Gung Ho	3½ - ½	Tan & Tan
5	17 Chess Club	3½ - ½	DATCC
6	Black Pearl	½ - 3½	1st Saturday
7	Sea Horse	1½ - 2½	Nusa Mahkota
8	Excel	1½ - 2½	Think Big

Detail results:-

Results for Round 2 - All boards/All Teams

2.1	1	KAM MAH		2 - 2	6	Pricewaterhouse Cooper
1	FM	Chan Nicholas	2398	1 : 0		Loo Pak Kwan	1986
2	IM	Liew Chee-Meng-Jimmy	2315	- : +		Han Kun Lin Zach	2034
3		Che Hassan Abdullah	2101	½ : ½		Cheah Cheok Fung	1988
4		Leong Mun Wan	2182	½ : ½		Chew Yaw Chong	1986
2.2	5	Excel Chess Team		1½ - 2½	2	Think Big
1		Lim Zhuo Ren	2055	0 : 1	GM	Rahman Ziaur	2558
2		Khandhar Kaushal	1990	0 : 1		Yeoh Li Tian	1971
3		Tan Ken Wei	1957	1 : 0		Kanagenthiran Premnath	1563
4		Amru Muhd Tariq	2015	½ : ½		Yeoh Chin-Seng	2177
2.3	3	Team AU		3 - 1	12	Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
1		Udani Ian	2286	0 : 1		Mohamed Abdul Haq	2057
2		Yeap Eng Chiam	2109	1 : 0		Teo Giap Siong	1535
3		Ismail Ahmad	2033	1 : 0		Lee Boon Ann	0
4		Tham Tick Hong Jax	2076	1 : 0		Abdul Halim Umair	1482
2.4	8	Sea Horse		1½ - 2½	4	Nusa Mahkota Chess Club
1		Ibrahim Mohd Irman	2155	0 : 1		Wahiduddin Kamalarifin	2122
2		Fadzin Ahmad Farhan	1580	+ : -		Kamal Rizal Ahmad	2000
3		Zaini Mohd Razief Hakiem	1552	½ : ½		Abdul Shukor Abdul Aziz	2050
4		Vinayagam Vinoshen	0	0 : 1		Hamzah Razali	1669
2.5	7	17 Chess Club		3½ - ½	13	DATCC Chess Team
1		Shaik Ali Nor Ilhamuddin	2040	1 : 0		Abdul Wahab Najib	1669
2		Nayan Ahmad Fadzil	1995	1 : 0		Sabri Shamsuddin	1320
3		Sarifdin Sahir	1965	1 : 0		Che Doi Azman Hisham	1654
4		Ahmad Johari Mohd Firdaus	1512	½ : ½		Thien Varian	1537
2.6	9	Gung Ho		3½ - ½	16	Tan & Tan Chess Team
1		Ting Shih Chieh Alfred	1635	½ : ½		Chan Kwai Keong	1744
2		Adrian Choo Cheng Yong	1542	1 : 0		R Subramaniam	1583
3		Mohd Ibrahim Mohd Fayadh	1445	1 : 0		Tan Mei Sian	0
4		Rosli Ahmad Afiq Afyfy	1938	1 : 0		Dato Tan Chin Nam	1387
2.7	15	Black Pearl		½ - 3½	10	First Saturday Chess Team
1		Kamarudin Nor Khairy	1701	0 : 1		Wong Jianwen	1913
2		Maarof Aid Farhan	1531	0 : 1		Ajeet Singh Roshan	1870
3		Ramos Ernesto	1502	½ : ½		Yat Guo Jie	1878
4		Stephen Sylvester	0	0 : 1		Tan Wei Hao	1821
2.8	14	Ad-Hoc		2 - 2	11	CS Solutions Ladies Team
1		Yeap Joo Hock	1484	1 : 0		Nur Nabila Azman Hisham	1829
2		Tengku M Fauzi Tengku A Hamid	0	0 : 1	WFM	Nur Najiha Hisham	1612
3		Sikivou Taione	1792	1 : 0		Camilia Bt. Johari	1690
4		Parimanan Paul	1523	0 : 1		Marmono Roslina	1945

DATCC League Round 2 Picture report

Results 2nd round 3rd DATCC league
2 - 2
Ad Hoc - CS ladies
*Yeap Joo Hock surprisingly defeated Nur Nabila


1.5 - 2.5
Excel Team - Think Big
*GM Ziaur Rahman won his game against Lim Zhuo Ren. The game ended quite fast.


2 - 2
Price Water house - Kam Mah
*1st seeded team was held to a draw against Price Water house. Good job.

0.5 - 3.5
Black Pearl - First Saturday
*Wong Jian Wen, Roshan, Tan Wei Hao won their respective game. While i swindled out from a losing position. Background of my opponent, Ernesto Ramos is still unclear.

0.5-3.5
DATCC - 17 Chess Club
*DATCC got half a point.

3 - 1
Team AU - UKM
*Though battled between Ian Udani and Abdul Haq. Abdul Haq won his game! Congratulation.

1.5 - 2.5
Sea Horse - Nusa Mahkota
*DATCC Weekender champion Abdul Aziz Shukor was held to a draw. Quite a good results for Sea Horse.