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13 June 2011, Kuala Lumpur – This is a repeat announce ment of the 1st SMK Hill Crest Chess Cham pi onship 2011 to be held on the 10th July 2011. IM Mok Tze Meng is one of the organ is ers of this chess event. There will be five cat e gories. The organ is ers are tar get ing 500 play ers to par tic i pate in this event.
Reg is tra tion form:
For more details, pls con tact :
Ms Wong Yen Lee – 017 3577788;
Mr Mani van nan – 018 375 7339;
Ms Farah Alwani – 013 333 6849.
Here are the registration forms in picture formats for the Malaysia Chess Festival 2011 from 17 - 28 August 2011 to be held at Cititel Mid- Valley Hotel, Kuala Lumpur.
(source Abdul Hamid Majid)
Here are the current results of the Excel FIDE-Rated tournament for the month of May-June 2011.
Jax Tham is leading with 8 points from 10 games and Bernard Ng with 6.5 points from 8 games. The Cross-Table of results is shown below.
Some random pictures of the Excel FIDE-Rated May-June 2011.
Pix 1. (Left to right) Bernard Ng, Kung Soon Heng, Khairul Mastuki.
Pix 2. Alfred Ting
Pix 3. CJ Yao
Pix 4. Najib Wahab
Pix 5. Some of the games played in the morning.
Pix 6. Jax Tham
(results courtesy of Jax Tham, ECA)
The Kuala Lumpur Open due in September 2011 has revised downwards its entry fees and at the same time renames Kuala Lumpur Open as Raja Nazrin Shah Masters and International Open Chess Championship 2011.
The prizes and entry fees were readjusted downwards as follows:
Prizes
Open
1. RM 5,000, 2. RM 3,000, 3. RM 2,000, 4. RM 1,000, 5-10. RM 500
Special Prizes
Women & U-16 (Each): 1. RM 1,000, 2. RM 500
Entry Fees
2400> Free, 2300> RM 100, 2200> RM 200, 2100> RM 300, 2000> RM 400, 1800> RM 500, Others> RM 600.
To reconfirm, please visit the official website or call the tournament director, Peter Long, Organising Secretary & Tournament Director
H/p: +60133920920, Email: peterlong@aol.asia
The chessdom website ran an article about the upcoming Kuala Lumpur Open in September 2011 of this year. To read more of this article, you may click here.
The Selangor Chess Team won the Best Overall State Team chess with 120+ points in MSSM 2011 held in Penang. However, Wilayah Persekutuan team won the most gold medals with four, all of them in the team event. Meanwhile Selangor performed well in the individual events which gave them the three gold medals.
To read more, please visit Gilocatur’s blog with his analysis of the event or click here. Or if you prefer statistical analysis, you might want to visit the Malaysian Chess blogger’s website or click here.
(table of results are courtesy of Gilocatur’s blog and Malaysian Chess’s blog)
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