Chess Friendly Between Putrajaya and Visiting Indonesian Club

Friday, 22/7/2016

Last night a chess friendly match between Putrajaya chess team and a visiting Indonesian chess team was held at Presint 8 Putrajaya Food Court. Each team consists of five players. The format of play is Blitz 3 minutes + 2 seconds. Each player played against all the opponents five team members with both pieces - white and black. 

The chess friendly between Putrajaya team & visiting Indonesian team poster
credit to ABChess

The Visiting Indonesian Team

FM Hamdani Rudin
(Fide 2255)

FM Prayitno Sugeng (Fide 2329)

NM Iqra Moesa Putra (Fide 2130)

WIM Chelsie Monica Ignesias Sihite (Fide 2192)

Yuliana Sentosa (Fide 1788)

The Putrjaya Team 

Dr Zaidan Zulkipli (Fide 2136)

NM Mohd Kamal Abdullah (Fide 2100)

Khairul Hafiz

Masrin Erowan (Fide 2003)

Noor Hafiz

How about the results of the games? Having two FMs and one WIM, surely the visiting Indonesian team has the upper edge compared to the Putrajaya team. Put aside the results, the important matter is having the chess friendly games between a Malaysian and an Indonesian teams which will enhance the friendship among the chess payers of both countries. GiLoCatur hopes more chess friendly like this can be organized. We welcome any foreign chess teams who want to have chess friendlies with us.  

Putrajaya chess team (standing), Indonesian chess team (sitting)

GiLoCatur would like to thank you and congratulate AB Chess for hosting the event in very short notice. Please check out and view the video here that AB Chess had recorded of the event.

Special thanks to both Saprin and Masrin for their big help and assistance in making the event successful. JZKK.

GiLoCatur also would like to say TERIMA KASIH BANYAK2 to the Pak Hamdani Rudin and his chess team. 

Note : all photos credit to AB Chess

Is Malaysia Ready For 26th SEA Games Chess?

Indonesia will be hosting the 26th SEA Games in November 2011. Palembang which is located in South Sumatera has been chosen as the main venue for the games participated by eleven South East Asian countries including Malaysia.

GiLoCatur is very happy that CHESS will be one of the 44 sports disciplines included. In its 25th edition two years ago in Laos, chess was not included. Eight gold medals are at stake for chess in the 26th SEA Games. Where the venue for chess is going to be? It will be at the Jayakarta Daira Palembang Hotel (below picture).

Indonesia has started its selection process for the chess team. Currently, 71 Indonesian chess players are competing in the Seleknas Catur SEA Games to be included in the team to represent the country in the chess event during the SEA Games in November. Six players among the men and women each will be joining GM Susanto and WGM Irene for the Indonesian chess team. Read here and here if you want to know further details of the selection tournament and criteria. Maybe we can learn something from them.

If you want to know who will be selected, go to chess-results.com here and here.

How about the chess team for Malaysia? How is the preparation? When and how is the selection? What is the medal target? If Indonesia which has grandmasters and made early preparation just target TWO gold medals, what is the realistic target for Malaysia then? Just silver or bronze medals?

[GiLoCatur: Thanx to Syazrin for highlighting the Indonesian Seleksi Nasional Catur SEA Games 2011 in his blog.]

For further reading:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Southeast_Asian_Games

http://seagames26th.blogspot.com/