Blogger Yat stayed back in KL instead of going to NAG in Penang. He took part in a simul against CM Collin Madhavan and got some consolation for missing NAG.

It’s good to see more chess simuls are they are good marketing tools to make chess more interesting to the public.

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CHESS ASSOCIATION OF SELANGOR CHESS CALENDAR 2010

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Full calendar

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Results here.

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My first round opponent was Jax Tham who abandoned his First Saturday tournament due to poor turnout to join the KL GP 2nd leg. Lucky me

I took White against Jax and the game was a Pirc.

[Event "KL Grand Prix second Leg"]
[Site "RSC, KL"]
[Date "2010.03.06"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Ooi"]
[Black "Jax Tham"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B08"]
[PlyCount "90"]
[EventDate "2010.03.06"]
[SourceDate "2010.03.06"]

1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 g6 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. Be3 O-O 6. Qd2 Re8 7. Bc4 c6 8. Bh6
b5 9. Bxg7 Kxg7 10. Bb3 b4 11. Ne2 Nxe4 12. Qxb4 Qb6 13. Qc4 d5 14. Qd3 a5 15.
a4 Ba6 16. Qe3 Qb4+ 17. Nd2 Nxd2 18. Qxd2 Nd7 19. O-O-O Qxd2+ 20. Rxd2 e5 21.
dxe5 Bxe2 22. Rxe2 Rxe5 23. Rxe5 Nxe5 24. h3 Re8 25. Re1 g5 26. Kd2 f5 27. Kc3
Kf6

The game reached the following position.

White had just played 28. Kd4  which turn out to be a mistake.

28. …Nf3+ 29. gxf3 Rxe1 30. Kc5 Rh1 31. Kxc6 Rxh3 32. Bxd5 Ke5 33. c4
Rh6+ 34. Kb5 Rd6 35. Bb7 Rd2 36. b3 Rd3 37. b4 axb4 38. Kxb4 Kd6 39. a5 Kc7 40.
a6 Rd2 41. Bd5 Kb6 42. Be6 Rb2+ 43. Kc3 Rxf2 44. Bd5 Kxa6 45. Kd4 g4 0-1

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played under the staircase while waiting for the prize giving ceremony at the UM Team 2010.

Even though only 3 main cash prizes were up for grabs 43 teams took part in this event clearly showing the money is not the main concern

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UM Team Composition with results

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Round 2 is still on but some players have already completed and qualified for tomorrow’s round.

They are:

• Nurul Huda Wahiduddin
• Khairunissa Wahiduddin
• Nur Nabila Azman Hisham

Li Ting and Fairuz are fighting it out in the Rapid (25 min) playoffs after they drew both their games. The first rapid game was won by Li Ting. the second is still on going.

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Round 1 (more on tournament blog)

Bd	White	Res	Black	Res
01	Mohd Latib, Latifah Syamimi	0	Wahiduddin, Nurul Huda	1
02	Hong, Wee Ni Winnie	0	Fong, Mi Yen	1
03	Latifah, Kaiyisah Bt. Mohd Latif	0	Wahiduddin, Khairunnisa	1
04	Narayanan, Renitha	½	Bakri, Alia Anin Azwa	½
05	Ahmad Fuad Fairuz Hamizah	½	Tan, Li Ting	½
06	Nur, Najiha Hisham	0	Nur, Nabila Azman Hisham	1
07	Wahiddudin, Fadzilah	0	Haslindah, Ruslan	1
08	Hoh, Tjin Li	1	Zullkafli, Amira Syahmina	0

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The chess calendar is so packed that chess organisers like CAS find it hard to find an empty slot to have their regular events. The proposed April date for their tournaments clashed with SM Amatur so it was changed to 20th June. Read the rest of this entry →

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Full results here.

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Here is the detail results of the Malaysia-Singapore Challenge 2010 (courtesy of En Najib Wahab) :-

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Malaysian 6 point lead gained on the first day playing classical was quicky erased on the second day when Singapore trounced Malaysia in 2 rounds of rapid as can be seen from the table above. The overall result enabled Singapore to take back the Dato’ Tan Kim Yeow Trophy – winning by a narrow one point.

Pictures and coverage on Hairulov, FireyRook and Ng6 blog.

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