Insofar Combined Tournament is one of the chess tournaments held last weekend. GiLoCatur and the kids did not take part in this tournament. Below is the winners of the tournament sent by Najib Wahab who was the arbiter.

Insofar winners

The Champion - Zaidan

Dr Zaidan (the above picture) emerged as the champion after collecting 6.5/7 points. Congratulation to all the winners.

Insofar Combined Chess Tournament (March)

Yesterday, GiLoCatur took part in the Insofar Combined chess tournament the month of March edition. GiLoCatur and the kids did not participate in both the January and February edition. The March edition had attracted more participants than its previous two editions. 134 players took part in the 7-round 25-minute-per player chess tournament compared to 120.

GiLoCatur does not have the official results yet. GiLoCatur and family left early missing the closing and prize giving ceremony. Who emerged champion in this month edition? The previous edition champions - Sumant (January) and AM Fadzil Nayan (February) also took part yesterday. Click here for Insofar January edition  results and here for Insofar February edition results.

Based on below Round 7 pairings, can you guess who is the champion and other Top 10 winners?

Round 7 pairings 1/2

Round 7 pairings 2/2

GiLoCatur believes you will be a bit surprise with the final results. The unofficial Top 4 winners are .... deng .. deng ... deng ...

Champion - Yeoh Li Tian

1st Runner up - Yusop Sahibul

2nd Runner up - Muhd Alfirdaus Md Nazir

3rd Runner up - Muhd Syazwan Zulkifli

Both Li Tian and Syazwan are among the top 10 seed. The former is first with national rating 2084 while the latter is seventh with national rating of 1895. How about Yusop and Alfirdaus? Yusop who is GiLoCatur's first round opponent is unrated and is seeded 140th. While Alfirdaus, an IPT student GiLoCatur believes, is the 57th seed with national rating of 1460.

Surely, the most appropriate and minimum number of rounds for the total of 134 number of participants is eight (8). But the first round started about 15 minutes to 11 o'clock. Fortunately, with the efficiency and quickness of Najib Wahab as the pairing manager the tournament could be completed by six thirty (6.30pm).  Importantly, the time control was not reduced. It was 25-minute-per-player for all the seven rounds.

Bravo and kudos to Mr Zaki Yeop of Insofar, Najib Wahab and all including both the players and their parents who made the event memorable. Below are several pictures of the tournament for all to see. 

First Round - Table 5 to Table 8

IM Giam also taking part

Zambri Shariff & Bob Yap were also playing

Mustafa Said who decades ago wrote "PETAK 64" also playing

Mr Subramaniam Demudu also took part along with his three children

AM Fadzil Nayan took a glance at the top board in the first round

CM versus AM

Ilham of 2010chessodyssey blog also took part

Date To Remember - 25th March 2012

It is already past the mid of March 2012. Twelve more days to go before the month of March in the year of 2012 leave us. The first school midterm break is just over. So is NAG 2012.  

Next Sunday will be 25th March. It is an important date for GiLoCatur's family especially to Fahim. It will be his 10th birthday. Most probably, Fahim will celebrate his 10th birthday by playing in the Insofar March Combined Tournament. Hopefully, his elder brother and sister can participate too. In fact, GiLoCatur is planning to partiicpate too. It is a nationally-rated event. 

welcomes you on 25th March 2012

So, as a reminder to all the Malaysian chess community, below are the summarized info of the tournament. 

Tournament : Insofar March Combined Tournament

Date : 25th March 2012

Day : Sunday

Venue : DATCC, Wilayah Kompleks KL

Time : 9.00 am - 6.00 pm

Fees : RM 20 (Rapid Open only), RM 50 (both Rapid Open & Scholarship)

Format : 7 SWISS round of 25 minute per player

Prizes : Many and a lot

How to register : SMS full name and other relevant info to 017-2032051

DARE TO PLAY?

Click here to view the photo gallery of the previous Insofar Combined chess tournament recorded Ng6.

AM Ahmad Fadzil Nayan Strikes Again

Asian Master (AM) Fadzil Nayan (below picture) won another rapid chess tournament this year. He beat more than one hundred chess players in the Insofar combined rapid chess tournament held yesterday at DATCC. Two weeks ago he became the champion in a rapid chess tourney in Kuala Kangsar.

AM Fadzil Nayan

AM Fadzil scored 6.5/7 points from six wins and a draw. Syabas and tahniah to him!

click here for the full results

Did you notice the name at the tenth rank in the above Top 20 Final Ranking? On Saturday, he became the first runner up in the 12th Seremban Parade U18 age group.