3rd SUKIPT 2016 - Male Section After Round 7

Wednesday, 3/2/2015

SUKIPT 2016 Chess Round 7 has just completed. Below are the results for Top 15 Boards for the Male category. Interesting results? Sure.

On Third Board, 31st seeded Tze Hong of UPM managed to win against his higher seeded opponent, Abdul Rahman of UiTM. Tze Hong only defeat is to Nabil, the top seed, in Round 2. He won all his last three rounds against higher seeded opponents. He is ranked second after Round 7. 

On Fourth Board, Preshant of UMP managed to draw with the third seed, Jun Feng of UKM. Jun Feng is very familiar to GiLoCatur. Firstly, he is the elder brother of WFM Li Ting. He was a member of MSSMKL contingent where he was a team mate of Fikri in MSSM L18 Team event in 2012 and 2013. In fact, their other team mate is also taking part in this SUKIPT. He is Ken Yew  of HELP playing on 8th Board.  

Several players are familiar to GiLoCatur from MSSM. Both Nabil of UiTM and Jun Jian of SUNWAY were members of MSSS chess contingent. Their final MSSM championship was in 2011 held in Penang.

Besides Jun Feng and Ken Yew, other MSSMKL players are Muhd Izz and Wei Hao. The former is the most senior of all while the latter is the most junior. In Round 7, both of them won their respective games.  

R7 Male Section Top 15 Boards Results
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After Round 7, Nabil is leading the pack with 6.5/7 points. Trailing half point is Tze Hong. There are six players with 5.5/7 points. 

Top 20 Ranking after Round 7
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Can Nabil continue his fine performance and win the championship? Let's wait and see after two more rounds.

University Malaya Swept All Chess Gold Medals in SUKIPT

UM (Universiti Malaya) showed its dominance in Chess discipline in SUKIPT. It won all the four Gold medals offered in the sports event organized by the Ministry of Education (MOE).

UM chess team - credit to SUKIPT web

Muhd Syazwan Zulkifli and Alia Anin Azwa Bakri, a Woman Fide Master, won their respective Individual event. Syazwan won the Gold medal in the Men Individual event after 7 wins and 4 draws with better tie break than the first Runner Up, Ahmad Fadzil Nayan of IIUM. Both scored the same 9/11 points. Therefore, Fadzil won the Silver medal. While Muhd Nabil Azman Hisham from Kolej Multimedia Kuala Lumpur won the Bronze medal after scoring 8.5/11 points.

While Alia emerged champion from eight (8) wins and three (3) draws in the Women Individual event. With 8.5/11 points she won the Gold medal. Ong Choon Yong and Ruby Kwan Tszee Yeung of USM (Universiti Sains Malaysia) and UPSI (Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris) are the Silver and Bronze medalist respectively.

Both Syazwan and Alia led their respective UM chess teams to win Gold medal in the Team event. Along with Lim Kim Siong, Lum Zhun Hoong and Wee Zhao Liang, the UM chess team accumulated 29 points to be on top leaving Sunway University at the second spot (Silver medal). The latter just trailing by 1/2 point only. In the third spot is UTP (Universiti Teknologi Petronas).

Meanwhile, Alia and her other team mates - Amira Syahmina Zulkafli, Ng Yun Hui and Leong Pui Yee, won the Gold medal in the women Team event after accumulating 29 points. They edged UPM (Universiti Putra Malaysia) and USM for Silver and Bronze medals respectively.

GiLoCatur would like to say "Congratulation" to all the winners especially to the champions.

2014 SUKIPT Chess

All over Malaysia, MSS chess tournaments have been and will be held. In Selangor, the MSS district tournaments had ended. The Selangor MSSD chess contingents are ready for the MSS Selangor state level tournament to start next Monday at UKM Bangi. MSS Johor will hold its MSS chess championship during the final week of this month. In Kedah, from facebook update the MSS district chess tournaments are on going. 

Sukan IPT (4th - 16th Feb 2014)

SUKIPT chess championship is also being held this week. SUKIPT is the sports competition for all Malaysian higher education institutions both public and private. The sports event is being held in Shah Alam. Chess is one of the 24 sports in the event. In a couple of minutes, the second final round will start. It is getting critical and crucial especially to all aspirant players who would like to represent Malaysia in this year Universiade.

Women Section

In the women section, there are 52 participants. The top seed is WFM Alia Anin Azwa Bakri from University Malaya (UM). She currently leads the pack by one point. Below is the Top 10 Ranking list after Round 9. 

for full list, click here

Men Section

In the men section, there are 80 participants vying for the champion. The top seed is AM Ahmad Fadzil Nayan from International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). Getting to Round 10, he is currently 3rd place in the Top 10 Ranking list after Round 9. 

for full list, click here

The top two boards for each section is being shown live over the internet. Go to http://broadcast.kedaicatur.com/ to watch the games.

GOOD LUCK to all the players!