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Seremban Parade Open Excel Chess Chinese New Year Rapid and Tun Syed Zahiruddin team tournament is set to clash..

Seremban Parade has the U12 (RM 60 – 1st prize) and U18 (RM 100 –1st prize) 27th and the Open (RM 200 – 1st prize) on the 28th.

Excel chess is starts a day earlier on 26th and 27th with 10 rounds of rapid (20min+30sec) – RM 180 for first prize.

Tun Syed Zahiruddin team tournament is on the 28th with top 3 cash prizes.

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In last weekend’s First Saturday I wanted badly to play against Shamsuddin Sabri aka Firey Rook because I thought he would be easy to beat. After this game I have to think twice . Behind the nice guy demeanor lies a fierce attacking player!

[Event "First Saturday Classical Chess 2010"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2010.02.07"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Shamsuddin Sabri, Morra Gambit"]
[Black "Low Jun Keat"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B21"]
[Annotator "Sabri,Shamsuddin"]
[PlyCount "35"]

1. e4 c5 2. d4

The start of the Smith Morra gambit.

cxd4 3. c3 dxc3

Black accepts the gambit. Perfectly playable but he must know the correct lines to play against this gambit. If not the consequences will be severe as is apparent in this game.

4. Nxc3 Nc6 5. Nf3 d6 6. Bc4 Bg4 ??

Too hasty. Bg4 just screams for the following tactic.

7. Bxf7+

7. .. Kxf7 8. Ng5+ Ke8

And White regains the piece with interest.

9. Qxg4 Nf6 10. Qe6 Nd4 ?

Perhaps 10. … Qc8 was better.

11. Qf7+ Kd7 12. O-O h6

13. Rd1

White is goes for the attack giving up the attacking Knight for an attacking Rook. No wonder this guy calls himself Firey Rook !!

13. .. hxg5 14. Rxd4  Qb6 15. Be3 Qxb2

16. Rxd6+

and the Rook fearlessly lights itself on fire and kamikazes Black’s last defences.

Kxd6 17. Rd1+ Kc7 18. Qc4+

(Black resigns seeing that Kb8 is hopeless because of bank rank mate)

1-0

With this result, the Firey Rook captures third prize for the First Saturday classical Feb 2010.

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Subramaniam Sivanesan and Nithyalakshmi Sivanesan  finished 1st and 2nd place respectively in the first leg of the KL Grand Prix Under 12 section. Both ended up undefeated in the 6 round tournament. Subramaniam conceded only one draw while his sister Nithyalakshmi drew two games,

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Bd	White	Res	Black	Res
01	ALFRED TING	0	LIM ZHUO REN	1
02	SHAMSUDDIN SABRI	1	LOW JUN KEAT	0
03	JOSHUA FOONG	0	LOW JUN JIAN	1
04	DANIYAR NAZARBAYEV	0	JAX THAM	1
05	HASLINDAH RUSLAN	0	ANDREW OOI	1

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Lim Zhou Ren completely dominated the event with a perfect score of 6/6.

Low Jun Jian – second

Shamsuddin Sabri (FireyRook) – third

Low Jun Keat – fourth

Alfred Ting – fifth

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Round 4

Bd	White	Res	Black	Res
01	LOW JUN JIAN	0	LIM ZHUO REN	1
02	ANDREW OOI	0	LOW JUN KEAT	1
03	ALFRED TING	1	DANIYAR NAZARBAYEV	0
04	JOSHUA FOONG	1	JAX THAM	0
05	HASLINDAH RUSLAN	½	SHAMSUDDIN SABRI	½

Round 5

Bd	White	Res	Black	Res
01	LIM ZHUO REN	1	SHAMSUDDIN SABRI	0
02	LOW JUN KEAT	½	LOW JUN JIAN	½
03	ANDREW OOI	0	ALFRED TING	1
04	DANIYAR NAZARBAYEV	0	JOSHUA FOONG	1
05	JAX THAM	1	HASLINDAH RUSLAN	0

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Round 1

Bd	White	Res	Black	Res
01	LIM ZHUO REN	1	JOSHUA FOONG	0
02	ANDREW OOI	½	JAX THAM	½
03	LOW JUN JIAN	1	HASLINDAH RUSLAN	0
04	SHAMSUDDIN SABRI	1	ALFRED TING	0
05	LOW JUN KEAT	1	DANIYAR NAZARBAYEV	0

Round 2

Bd	White	Res	Black	Res
01	LOW JUN KEAT	0	LIM ZHUO REN	1
02	SHAMSUDDIN SABRI	0	LOW JUN JIAN	1
03	JAX THAM	½	ALFRED TING	½
04	JOSHUA FOONG	0	ANDREW OOI	1
05	HASLINDAH RUSLAN	0	DANIYAR NAZARBAYEV	1

Round 3

Bd	White	Res	Black	Res
01	LIM ZHUO REN	1	ANDREW OOI	0
02	JAX THAM	0	LOW JUN KEAT	1
03	DANIYAR NAZARBAYEV	0	SHAMSUDDIN SABRI	1
04	ALFRED TING	½	JOSHUA FOONG	½
05	LOW JUN JIAN	½	HASLINDAH RUSLAN	½

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Lim Zhuo Ren is leading the tournament at 3/3. 3 more rounds to go today.Check for the updates at Excel Chess blog.

Ranking after round 3 of FSCC2
NoPNo. Name              Score WP    SB     PS    rat.  TPR  W-We
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1.  1 LIM ZHUO REN       3.0   4.0   4.00   6.0  1885 2225 +0.36
2.  3 LOW JUN JIAN       2.5   5.0   3.75   5.5  1711 2066 +0.26
3.  5 LOW JUN KEAT       2.0   5.0   2.00   4.0  1590 1835 +0.60
    9 SHAMSUDDIN SABRI   2.0   4.5   2.00   4.0  1352 1673 +0.74
5.  7 ANDREW OOI         1.5   4.5   1.00   3.5  1507 1739 +0.87
6.  2 JAX THAM           1.0   4.5   1.25   2.5  1785 1452 -1.31
   10 DANIYAR NAZARBAYEV 1.0   4.5   0.50   2.0  0000 1331 0
    4 ALFRED TING        1.0   3.5   0.75   1.5  1635 1436 -0.80
9.  6 JOSHUA FOONG       0.5   5.5   0.50   0.5  1547 1403 -0.49
    8 HASLINDAH RUSLAN   0.5   4.0   0.25   0.5  1425 1034 -0.16 



Pairing of round 4 of FSCC2
Table White               - Black
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  1   LOW JUN JIAN  ( 2½) - LIM ZHUO REN       ( 3 )3-  1
  2   ANDREW OOI    ( 1½) - LOW JUN KEAT       ( 2 )7-  5
  3   ALFRED TING   ( 1 ) - DANIYAR NAZARBAYEV ( 1 )4- 10
  4   JOSHUA FOONG  ( 0½) - JAX THAM           ( 1 )6-  2
  5
Draw by default: 8 HASLINDAH RUSLAN          , 9 SHAMSUDDIN SABRI

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I’ve lost to Jax Tham countless times so getting a winning a position against him in the Excel Chess First Saturday in the first round got me all excited. My first win against Jax?

Jax got into a losing position fast after making some dubious pawn sacrifices to complicate things in the opening. To my credit, I handled the opening calmly even though my King was exposed and gradually realised my advantage in the middle game. However I felt like a patzer because later, I missed a mate in four, and then couldn’t win the favourable middlegame with good material advantage. What a waste! It’s times like these I feel like quitting chess altogether

I’m White. Black just played 22. .. Nf6??

White can mate in 4.

Can you see the mate which I couldn’t ?

Here’s the complete game(try not to laugh):

[Event "Excel First Saturday (Feb2010)"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2010.02.07"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Andrew Ooi"]
[Black "Jax Tham"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A34"]
[WhiteElo "2074"]
[BlackElo "1834"]
[PlyCount "101"]
[EventDate "2010.02.07"]
[SourceDate "2010.02.07"]

1. e4 e6 2. c4 c5 3. Nc3 Nc6 4. f4 e5 5. fxe5 d6 6. exd6 Bxd6 7. Nf3 Bg4 8. Be2 Bxf3 9. Bxf3 Qh4+ 10. g3 Bxg3+ 11. hxg3 Qxg3+ 12. Kf1 Nd4 13. Bg2 Qd3+ 14. Kg1 O-O-O 15. Qf1 Qg3 16. d3 Nf6 17. Qf4 Qxd3 18. Bh3+ Ne6 19. Nd5 Qxh3 20. Rxh3 Nxf4 21. Bxf4 Nxe4 22. Re1 Nf6 23. Bg5 Rde8 24. Ne7+ Kd7 25. Rd3+ Kc7 26. Bxf6 gxf6 27. Kf2 h5 28. Nd5+ Kc6 29. Rxe8 Rxe8 30. Nxf6 Re5 31. Rd5 Re6 32. Nxh5 b5 33. b3 $2 bxc4 34. bxc4 Re4 35. Rd2 Rxc4 36. Ke3 Kb5 37. Nf4 a5 38. Nd5 Rh4 39. Nc3+ Kc4 40. Ne4 Kb4 41. Rc2 c4 42. Nd6 Rh3+ 43. Kf4 c3 44. Ne4 Rd3 45. Nf2 Rd2 46. Rxd2 cxd2 47. Ke3 Ka3 48. Kxd2 Kxa2 49. Kc2 a4 50. Nd3 f5 51. Nf4 1/2-1/2

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As much as I would have liked to go to the RSC to see the KL Grand Prix first leg, I just couldn’t. Luckily, Yatzchess has the latest report on the first leg of the KL Grand Prix. It’s time like these I’m happy to see the new chess bloggers are so hard working to update us on chess news.

See his blog for a picture report of the event.

He even included each round pairings and results.

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As usual I didn’t plan to play in this tournament. I was just going to drop by to take a few pictures and then go off to KL Grand Prix to hae a look. However, since there were few players taking part, I joined in.

Players taking part are:

Lim Zhou Ren is now leading with 3/3 after beating me in round 3. As of this writing, Firey Rook Shamsuddin Sabri is 2/3 after beating Kazhaks Daniyar Nazarbayev. Low Jun Jian is clear second at 2.5/3.

Results later on excelchess.blogspot.com

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