Hail the new National Champion

Lim Zhuo Ren is crowned the new National Champion!

Blitz is on and MAS is playing

After the National Closed prize giving ceremonies, there will a blitz tournament. Mas will be taking part too. What are you waiting for? Come down to DATCC for some fun blitz!

Lim Zhuo Ren - Jimmy Liew (live)

Video chat rooms at Ustream

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Round 7 pictures

Men Round 9 (final) pairings

March 20, 2011

Bo.	No.	Name	Pts.	Pts.	Name	No.
1	10	Lim Zhuo Ren	7½	6½	Liew Chee-Meng-Jimmy	1
2	12	Subramaniam Sumant	6½	6	Lee Kim Han Edward	2
3	4	Loo Swee Leong	6	6	Yeap Eng Chiam	5
4	26	Fong Yit Ho	6	6	Yeoh Li Tian	7
5	32	Fong Yit San	5½	5½	Nayan Ahmad Fadzil	19
6	38	Lee Kah Meng Elgin	5½	5	Tan Khai Boon	3
7	8	Wahiduddin Mohd Khair	5	5	Yeoh Phee Leong Marcus	27
8	28	Looi Xin Hao	5	5	Ong Thian Loon	13
9	15	Azman Hisham Mohd Nabil	5	5	Wong Jianwen	29
10	24	Shaik Ali Nor Ilhamuddin	5	5	Yusof Kamaluddin	17
11	33	Azhar Muhammad Syakir Shazmeer	5	5	Erowan Masrin	18
12	20	Tan Ken Wei	5	5	Kamin Al-Kamil	35
13	30	Siew Kit-Tze Mark	5	5	Cheah Cheok Fung	21
14	41	Tan Jun Feng	5	5	Fong Choong Ee	23
15	14	Nik Nik Ahmad Farouqi	4½	5	See Kai Loong	37
16	42	Chin Choong Wee Kenneth	4½	4½	Shafruddin Fariz	9
17	16	Abdul Shukor Abdul Aziz	4½	4½	Ajeet Singh Roshan	44
18	25	Ismail Ahmad	4½	4½	Low Jun Jian	36
19	49	Liew Ken Yew	4½	4½	Kamal Rizal Ahmad	31
20	34	Lim Kian Hwa	4½	4½	Aron Teh Eu Wen	47
21	60	Wong Yinn Long	4½	4	Che Hassan Abdullah	11
22	6	Jamil Mohd Johan	4	4	Iskandar Danial Adam	45
23	57	Dutton Lucas Matthew	4	4	S Balendran	40
24	69	Subramaniam Shreyas	4	4	Azhar Muhd Irfan Haqqim	43
25	61	Teh De Juan	4	4	Ooi Zhi Yang	51
26	71	Tee Han Kang	4	4	Amier Hamzah B  Mohd Zuhri	52
27	54	Hamzah Razali	4	3½	Roslan Mohd Faizal	39
28	50	Sivanesan Subramanian	3½	3½	Mustafa Albakri Suhaimi	62
29	53	Parimanam Paul	3½	3½	Muhalip Sotimin	64
30	55	Kalivanan Suniil	3½	3½	Ding Tze How Dilwen	74
31	68	Tang Wei Kit	3½	3½	Saleh Fikri	56
32	92	Mahmood Mohd Ezmi	3½	3½	Yap Wan Lin	58
33	46	William Lee Kah Howe	3	3½	Aminuddin Muhd Faris	78
34	77	Mohd Hisham Muhd Hafiz	3	3	Low Jun Keat	48
35	63	Tan Kok Liang	3	3	Ng Jen Sheng	75
36	85	Choong Ee Jin Eric	3	3	Zakaria Mohd Fadrus	65
37	66	Yahaya Muhammad Nurislam	3	3	Mohd Hisham Muhd Fareed	76
38	89	Ganesh Kuhan	3	3	Teh Wee Zhun	72
39	90	Ong Wei Bin	3	3	Narayanan Sri Shiva Kumar	73
40	88	Singh Kabir	2½	2½	Yeop Mat Zaki	59
41	67	Yahaya Muhammad Nuriman	2½	2½	Hanif Harleiff	80
42	83	Ng Shi Xuan	2½	2	Kughan Ravindran	82
43	70	Harun Bustaman	2	2	Ng Shi Yang	79
44	91	Sik Kuan Ming Shaun	2	2	Abdul Rashid Hasidin	81
45	84	Sabri Shamsuddin	2	1	Mohd Jamil Afiq	87
46	86	Aminuddin Muhd Faqih	2		bye
47	22	Saifuddin Muhd Izz	0		not paired
48	93	Ong Aik Liang	½		not paired

This year's champ?

This year's champ? a photo by nc2011webmaster on Flickr.

Finished early

Finished early a photo by nc2011webmaster on Flickr.

Yeap Eng Cheam is now in front of my computer looking at chess-results.com because his game against Nor ilhamuddin has ended. Yeap won and is now 6/8

Top board positions

Zhuo Ren maintains perfect score

Zhuo Ren maintains perfect score a photo by nc2011webmaster on Flickr.

With a win over NM Edward Lee, it looks like Lim Zhou Ren is cruising to his first National Master title. His closest rival is Loo Swee Leong, one point behind him.

Round 7 begins

Round 7 begins a photo by nc2011webmaster on Flickr.

No no don't take my picture

No no don't take my picture a photo by nc2011webmaster on Flickr.

Round 5 : NM Edward Lee - IM Jimmy Liew : 1-0

NM Edward Lee beat top seed - IM Jimmy Liew in round 5, National  Closed (yesterday). This is Jimmy  first lost against the juniors in this tournament. Although by age, Edward is still a junior, he can actually be considered as a senior because of his National Master title. He has also played with Jimmy  at  the 2008 Dresden, Olympiad.

One of my friend told that Jimmy is showing a good example by particapting in this tournament. He is willing to risk his rating -2302 . Second seed - NM Edward Lee is 128 points less then him!

NM Edward Lee - IM Jimmy Liew

National Closed 2011, Round 5, 17.3.2011

Analysed by centaur (Hairulov+Fritz)

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 cxd4 6. bxc3 Is the main line but Jimmy must have preapred this sideline.

6. axb4 dxc3 7. bxc3 My friend Rizal Ahmad Kamal said he prefer the more aggresive 7. Qg4

7... Qc7 8. Nf3 Ne7  9. Qd4 Theory recomend 9. Bd3 giving the c3 pawn for development. 9... Qxc3+ 10. Bd2 Qc7

9... Nbc6 10. Qc5 b6 11. Qd6

 

Picture Gallery 3, Nat. Closed 2011

Picture Gallery 3, Nat. Closed 2011

19 March, 2011, Kuala Lumpur - here are another set of pictures of the National Closed 2011.

Lim Zhou Ren’s Two Games, NC 2011

20 March 2011, Kuala Lumpur - Here are two games played by our new Malaysia National Master Lim Zhou Ren during the recently concluded National Closed 2011.

During the closing ceremony, it was announced that the top eight winners in this year’s National Closed 2011 plus Malaysia’s top two players, IM Mas Hafizulhelmi and IM Mok Tze Meng has been chosen to undergo selection trials to select the final six players to the SEA Games in Indonesia. The final eight winners are shown below:-

Top 8 Winners Of National Closed 2011.

One is the round one game against another upcoming chess player, Fikri Saleh. The other is against NM Edward Lee, a past winner of the National Closed.

[Event "National Closed Chess Championship 2011 "]
[Site "DATCC, 4th Floor, Wilayah Comp"]
[Date "2011.03.16"]
[Round "1.10"]
[White "Lim, Zhuo Ren"]
[Black "Saleh, Fikri"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A00"]
[WhiteElo "2080"]
[BlackElo "1696"]
[PlyCount "87"]
[EventDate "2011.03.16"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d5 3. c4 c6 4. g3 Bf5 5. Nc3 e6 6. Bg2 Bd6 7. O-O O-O 8. Qb3
Qb6 9. c5 Qxb3 10. axb3 Bc7 11. b4 Ne4 12. Nh4 Nxc3 13. bxc3 Bg6 14. Nxg6 hxg6
15. e4 dxe4 16. Bxe4 Nd7 17. b5 Nf6 18. Bf3 Nd5 19. c4 Nb4 20. Ra4 a5 21. b6
Bd8 22. Bb2 Bf6 23. Be4 Rfd8 24. Rd1 Be7 25. Raa1 f5 26. Bf3 Bf6 27. Rab1 g5
28. h3 Kf7 29. Kf1 Rd7 30. Ke2 Rad8 31. Ra1 Bxd4 32. Bxd4 Rxd4 33. Rxd4 Rxd4
34. Rxa5 Na6 35. Bxc6 Rxc4 36. Bxb7 Nxc5 37. Bc6 Rc2+ 38. Kd1 Rd2+ 39. Kxd2
Nb3+ 40. Kc2 Nxa5 41. Bg2 Kf6 42. Kc3 g4 43. hxg4 fxg4 44. Kb4 1-0

The second game is between Edward Lee and Lim Zhuo Ren during the seventh round of the National Closed 2011. The Sicilian Moscow Variation transpired during the game.

[Event "National Closed Chess Championship 2011"]
[Site "DATCC, 4th Floor, Wilayah Com"]
[Date "2011.03.19"]
[Round "7.1"]
[White "Lee, Kim Han Edward"]
[Black "Lim, Zhuo Ren"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B52"]
[WhiteElo "2174"]
[BlackElo "2080"]
[PlyCount "83"]
[EventDate "2011.03.16"]
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Bb5+ Bd7 4. Bxd7+ Qxd7 5. c4 Nf6 6. Nc3 g6 7. d4 cxd4 8.
Nxd4 Bg7 9. f3 Nc6 10. Be3 O-O 11. O-O Rac8 12. b3 Rfd8 13. Rf2 a6 14. a4 e6
15. Rd2 d5 16. Rc1 Qe7 17. Nxc6 bxc6 18. Bb6 Bh6 19. Bxd8 Rxd8 20. Rcc2 Bxd2
21. Rxd2 Rb8 22. Rd3 Qc5+ 23. Kh1 dxc4 24. bxc4 Qxc4 25. h3 h5 26. Rd8+ Rxd8
27. Qxd8+ Kg7 28. e5 Nd5 29. Nxd5 Qxd5 30. Qf6+ Kg8 31. Kh2 Qd4 32. f4 c5 33.
Kg3 c4 34. Kh4 Qd7 35. f5 exf5 36. Qxa6 c3 37. Qc4 Qe7+ 38. Kg3 Qxe5+ 39. Kf2
f4 40. Kf1 g5 41. Qd3 Qc5 42. g4 0-1

(Games courtesy of Najib Wahab, arbiter and DATCC management)
Links:
a. chess-results.com
b. NC-2011
c. fireyrook
d. chess-in-malaysia

NC Women rankings after round 6

 

Rk.	Name	Rtg	FED	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	Nur Najiha Hisham	1819	MAS	5.5	23	20	19
2	Nur Nabila Azman Hisham	1886	MAS	5	24	19	19
3	Tan Li Ting	1827	MAS	4.5	22	16	16
4	Azhar Puteri Rifqah Fahada	1822	MAS	4	24	13.5	16
5	Fong Mi Yen	1890	MAS	4	23	13.8	15
6	Camilia Bt  Johari	1721	MAS	4	20	10.5	16
7	Tang Kar Khei	1553	MAS	4	19	10.8	15
8	Zullkafli Amira Syahmina	1725	MAS	4	18	10.5	14
9	Sarika Subramaniam	1584	MAS	4	18	9.75	14
10	Saleh Anis Fariha	1391	MAS	3.5	20	9.75	13
11	Hong Wee Ki Vickie	1481	MAS	3.5	20	10.5	13
12	Madhavan Olivia	1806	MAS	3.5	18	7.25	14
13	Teh De Zen	1376	MAS	3	22	8.5	12
14	Nithyalakshmi Sivanesan	1686	MAS	3	21	8.75	12
15	Azhar Puteri Munajjah Az-Zahra	1732	MAS	3	20	9.75	12
16	Aminuddin Nur Farihah	1460	MAS	3	20	7.25	9
17	Jayamurthey Pavitranayagi	1676	MAS	3	19	7	11
18	Haslindah Ruslan	1666	MAS	3	18	5.5	12
19	Hong Wee Ni Winnie	1531	MAS	3	17	7.75	8.5
20	Latifah Kaiyisah Bt  Mohd Lati	1621	MAS	3	17	6.75	10
21	Aminuddin Nur Faqihah	1295	MAS	3	16	7	9.5
22	Mohd Latib Latifah Syamimi	1435	MAS	2.5	17	6	8
23	Charles Veronica Shalini	1289	MAS	2.5	16	4.25	7.5
24	Ganesan Khirranya	1191	MAS	2.5	14	4.25	6.5
25	Mohd Niza Nor Atiqah	0	MAS	2	20	5.5	10
26	Mohd Saufi Najihah	1286	MAS	2	17	3.5	7
27	Tan Wei Ting	1233	MAS	2	14	2	7
28	Chua Jia-Tien	1120	MAS	2	14	2	5
29	Nazri Siti Nadia Qarmila	1236	MAS	2	13	2	4
30	Mohd Hisham Nadia Syafiqah	1058	MAS	1	16	3	2
31	Mohd Hisham Nur Sabrina	1068	MAS	1	15	3	1
32	Ahmad Darji Putri Nurfariza	1357	MAS	1	12	3	6
33	Wong Siew Ting	1348	MAS	0	3.5	0	0