Archive for May 1st, 2008

Happy Birthday Siti!!


35th Selangor Open 2008 Player’s List

35th Selangor International Open

Royal Selangor International Open Chess Tournament 2008

Starting rank list

SNo.

Name
NRtg
IRtg
FED

1
FM
Chan Nicholas
0
2380
MAS

2
FM
Lim Yee-Weng
0
2349
MAS

3

Lim Chuin Hoong Ronnie
0
2276
MAS

4
FM
Tedy Sukirman
0
2254
INA

5

Leong Mun Wan
0
2232
MAS

6
WIM
Tamin Upi Darmayana
0
2211
INA

7

Abdullah Mohd Kamal
0
2205
MAS

8

Sabri Mohd Saprin
0
2201
MAS

9

Yeoh Chin Seng
0
2195
MAS

10

Jamais Hendry
0
2185
INA

11

Yusof Kamaluddin
0
2172
MAS

12
WIM
Lumongdong Lisa Karlina
0
2147
INA

13

Ahmad Ismail
0
2133
MAS

14

Che Hassan Abdullah
0
2133
MAS

15

Lindiawati Evi
0
2125
INA

16

Tham Tick Hong Jax
0
2113
MAS

17

Wahiduddin Kamalarifin
0
2090
MAS

18

Erowan Masrin
0
2038
MAS

19
WCM
Zullkafli Nur Shazwani
0
2034
MAS

20

Lim Kian Hwa
0
1992
MAS

21

Marmono Roslina
0
1981
MAS

22

Wahiduddin Khairunnisa
0
1967
MAS

23

Khandhar Kaushal
0
1966
MAS

24

Yeoh Phee […]

Selangor Open 2nd day - Random Pictures

CAS AGM 2008
 
 
Pictures from Round 2 and 3
 

 
 

I won my second game

Played in the last table - no 31. My opponent is also a new chess blogger. I beat him but not without difficulty.
A shout out for his chess websites:
http://skbjchessclub.googlepages.com
http://sabdlati.googlepages.com

Annual AGM Now

CAS is having their annual AGM now. It’s 2pm. I assume we will be starting round 3 in an hours time.
Currently sitting in the meeting and it seems there is WiFi in this room. Cool!! So I’m actually blogging this live.
Lim Tse Pin is reiterating that CAS is the most successful junior programs in the […]

Selangor Open Update

So far players with 2 points is:

Nicholas Chan
Ronnie Lim 
Jax Tham
Ian Udani
Nur Shazwani
Kamal Abdullah
Alia Bakri <— sorry left it out just now

 

Pizza hut

 after ..  Bd6 (Kaushal playing Black offers Saprin a draw which is accepted)
 
Kaushal explaining his enterprising pawn sacrifice that resulted in a draw vs Saprin. Kaushal is 1.5 points out of 2.0.

My Round 1 game

I took white against Jax Tham and he played the Caro Kann, the very opening I was planing to play as Black. Still, his version was pretty passive and he practically forced me to play easy but naturally strong moves. In the middle game I had a slight advantage but didn’t know what to do. […]

Selangor Open 2008 Round 1 - Picture report

Arrived late at the tournament hall but in time to pay Tse Pin the entrance fees.
RM 90 plus CAS membership. I can’t remember if I paid already because I vaguely remember paying once.. but was it this year or last year? Damn.. my memory is getting shot! Anyway, let me document it here on this […]