A Look at 2015 Penang Chess Open - Part 1

Five rounds has been played in the 2015 Penang Chess Open. Let's take a look at the Challengers section. There are 189 players taking part (note : based on the pairings in chess-results.com) including GiLoCatur's youngest child, Fahim. 

Round 5 pairings/results

There are nine (9) foreign players in the Top 5 boards in the 5th round as per above. Five (5) are from Indonesia and one each from Singapore, Philippines and Sri Lanka. The only Malaysian player in the list is Mohd Aziz Farhan, Fahim's school mate. Six of the foreign players have no FIDE ratings yet. 

GiLoCatur hopes the Malaysian players can rise to the top and provide tough challenges to foreign players. The Malaysian players especially the young ones should take the opportunity to learn and grab the experience to improve their chess performance.

MALAYSIA BOLEH! 

2015 Penang Chess Open

Hello to all,

It is about three weeks this blog has not been updated eh.

What's up dude? What's going on with the Malaysian chess scene?

There are lots of chess tournaments during the weekends in Malaysia. Penang Chess Open or its official name, the Penang Heritage City International Chess Open, is on-going right now. It is held from 7th until 12th December. There are two categories - the Open section and the Challengers section. 

GiLoCatur's youngest child, Fahim, is taking part in the Challengers section. Right now, the participants are in the sixth round.

Go to http://penangopen2015.blogspot.my/ to get the updates on the tournament and view the live games. Or you may go direct to http://broadcast.kedaicatur.com

To view the pairings and results of the Open section, go to >

http://chess-results.com/tnr198131.aspx?lan=1&art=0&wi=821

To view the pairings and results of the Challengers section, go to >

http://chess-results.com/tnr198132.aspx?lan=1&art=0&wi=821

The Penang Chess Open's facebook is here.

Are You Ready For Penang Chess Open?

GiLoCatur and family had arrived in Penang several hours ago. GiLoCatur believes all the participants for the Penang Chess Open have already arrived too. The venue of the tournament is Tanjung Bungah Beach Hotel (below picture). 

Tanjung Bungah Beach Hotel

Fikri will play in the Open with 73 other chess players. He is seeded 49th with Elo ratings 1690. In the first round tomorrow morning, he is paired with the 12th seed, a player from Philippines who has Elo ratings of 2277. A tough opponent indeed for Fikri.

While Anis will take part in the Challengers category. With Elo ratings of 1588, she is ranked 14th out of total 138 participants.

GiLoCatur hopes both of them will play their best in the tournament.

GiLoCatur will try to update the tournament from time to time via twitter. So, FOLLOW GILOCATUR's TWITTER, ok!