A perfect 6 out of 6 !! Suhairi Hussein is leading the Stonemaster Amateur at the moment.
Should have known from his fierce demeanor before the tournament started was a sign 
Two more rounds to go. Can Suhairi continue his perfect form?
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Relief. With another loss my chances for prizes is virtually nil. Now I can play for fun.
Have not seen who is the leader is but Sahir Sarifdin has 4/5. Yat 3/5.
A total of 108 players are taking part in this tournament.
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Arrived just before 9am to find Encik Suhairi in a fierce mood in a warm up game.
The playing hall at Pusat Kesukanan Cochrane, Cheras.
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Chess clocks, pieces, chess bags and other chess equipment being sold here too.
Arbiter busy re-checking and confirming the large number of players.
Old and young are playing. Age is no barrier.
Free water (with ice) to keep participan’t’s rehydrated and cool. A good idea.
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After my disappointing loss in first round I really regret wasting my time playing in this tournament. Although there is only 22 players in the Open section, more than half the field is stronger than me and I would be lucky to finish with a 50% score.
My second round opponent opened with 1. g4 – the Grob!!
I hate to face such crazy and unorthodox openings so I tried to steer the game out of my opponent’s book by avoiding non-committal centre moves like d5 or e5. I played 1.. g6 instead and was happy to see my opponent start to think after the third move. The win wasn’t quick and took 40+ moves and almost my full 45 minutes on my clock to checkmate my opponent.
Needless to say it’s tiring and I am sorry to sound like a broken record, but I have to say I still regret playing in this tournament 
Hmmm.. perhaps I can learn something from all the games I’ve played. But then who am I kidding. This is just a rapid tourney and there’s no carbon copy to keep as we have to submit our original scoresheets. And I have a bad memory.)
Strong players in discussion. Sahir Sarifudin (left)and Nik Ahmad Farouqi (right) while Abdul Haq (middle) looks on.
Good idea to use of the projector to show the pairings but perhaps bigger text would make it easier to read from far
(Hint: on the Mozilla browser press ‘Ctrl’ and ‘+’ keys for bigger text)
Encik Azhar seems to be squinting his eyes to see the names.
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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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I’m at the KL Grand Prix right now because I heard that the playing field was weak and only 22 players was taking part in the Open section. So I went thinking that a top 10 position would be realistic.
As usual that logic is flawed as last minute entries changed the field to a very strong one.
As I look around I see strong players like Kaushal Khandar, Abdul Haq, Roslina Marmono, Low Jun Keat, Low Jun Jian, Nabila, Nabi, Nur Najiha, Roshan, Jax Tham, Sahir Sarifdin, and Mark Siew.
There are at least 3 bloggers in the room including me. The other two are Yat Guo Jie and Shamsuddin Sabri (Firey Rook)
The first leg of this Grand Prix was won by Yeoh Li Tian with a perfect 6/6. Li Tian is not playing in this leg.
For the Under 12 section the siblings that took the first and second position the previous legs, Subramaniam and Nithyalakshmi.
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We meet team 4th Stepin round 5.
I started my game with good fortunes after winning a pawn. However I could take advantage of the material plus. Played aimlessly and ran short of time. With only 3 minutes vs my opponents 7 minutes I started playing fast. This is where playing bullet online really helped. My opponent’s time equalled mine 2:50 each and I proceeded to win material and the game. My opponent obviously wasn’t a blitz or bullet player (lucky me!).
However my other team mates all lost. Yat’s perfect 100% score was spoilt in this round.
Next round back to the hot room
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This was Bloggers United in Round 3.
This is us in Round 3.
In the hot room:
I’m already sweating as soon as I sit down.
My final position as White. I didn’t see the back rank mate.
Our team still won 4-0 because one move before the checkmate, Black had already ran out of time
This means we will go back to the comfortable air con room next round.
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Bloggers United lost this round 3-1. Only Yat managed to score a point while the rest all lost. Yat maintains his 100% score.
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Bloggers United lost this round 3-1. Only Yat managed to score a point while the rest all lost. Yat maintains his 100% score.
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Bloggers United lost this round 3-1. Only Yat managed to score a point while the rest all lost. Yat maintains his 100% score.
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Bloggers United met the UPM team. FireyRook and me lost but luckily Yat and Alfred won to tie the match so at least we were still unbeaten.
Sitting across us is last year’s defending champion. Team Roscharh. There are two rooms, the top 11 boards play in the cooler air con room. The lower boards play in the second room which also has air cons but is hotter. Our draw costed us to be demoted to the ‘hot room.
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Didn’t see the results of the other teams so I’ll just report on my team, Bloggers United.
We met team with a scary name of Silent Killers. Luckily they were weak on board 1 and 3 which we quickly won as White. We lost board 2 against their strongest player who happened to be a female and Firey Rook drew an inferior position which was a good thing. So we won 2½ –1½. The team event is decided on Match Points and total points is used for tie break. A good first round results.
The Blogers United team composition : Yat Guo Jie, Alfred Ting, Andrew Ooi and Shamsuddin Sabri. We ‘lost’ a blogger, Marcus Yeoh, because he had some last minute thing but were lucky to find Alfred Ting on such short notice.
The event is quite strong with players like IM Mas, IM Mok, Ian Udani, Lim Zhuo Ren, Yeoh Li Tian and many other strong names I can’t recall at the moment.
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This year’s team even has a record 43 teams taking part and from the faces I’ve seen, it’s going to be a very strong event.
UM Organisers
Hamid with Tournament Director Tasha
IM Mok Tze Meng is seen here with Tun Sri Lanang
Nabil, Lim Zhuo Ren, Yeoh Li Tian
Najib Wahab roll call to find out if the teams registered are present.
Most memorable team names:
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That’s what I heard. Will confirm this when I get there afterward.
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