2014 MSSS Chess Championship - Team Event Summary

From previous three entries, it is obvious that MSSD Petaling Perdana (PP) has won the most Gold medals in the team events. It had won three. It dominates the Under 12 categories. Meanwhile its twin, MSSD Petaling Utama (PU) dominates both Boys secondary school categories. Hence, the district won two Gold medals.  

The last Gold in the team events went to MSSD Klang. So, in summary:

Petaling Perdana - 3

Petaling Utama - 2

Klang -1

MSSD Petaling Perdana (PP) chess contingent

2014 MSSS Chess Championship - Under 18 Team Event Champions

The champion for Under 18 team event are MSSD Petaling Utama (PU) for the Boys section and MSSD Klang for the Girls section.

Boys (L18) Category

Roshan Singh helps his MSSD PU L18 team to win the Under 18 Boys category. His other team mates are Shivendran Gandhi, Ethan Wong Hsien Aun and Teh Zee Hoe. Like MSSD PP L12 team, the MSSD PU L18 team had a solid performance. They won 17/20 games and all their five rounds.

MSSD PU L18 team
(from left) Roshan, Ethan, Shivendran & Zee Hoe

Girlss (P18) Category

The fight is tough in the Under 18 Girls team event. MSSD Klang P18 team which comprises of Gan Xiang Hua, Sherene Kaur Seranna, Hong Hui Wen and Teo Sze Woon managed to edge MSSD PP P18 team even though having the same game (13) and match points (7).

MSSD Klang P18 team

Congratulation to both champion teams.

2014 MSSS Chess Championship - Under 15 Team Event Champions

MSSD Petaling Utama (PU) and MSSD Petaling Perdana (PP) won the Under 15 team event for Boys and Girls category respectively.

Boys (L15) Category

Comprising of Yee Jian Yang, Emir Rusyaidi, Kabir Singh and Bryan Yap, the MSSD PU L15 team emerged on top after winning three and drew two games. The team accumulated 14/20 game points. It is enough to put MSSD PP team in second place which was trailing by half point.

MSSD PU L15 team
(from left) Jian Yang, Emir, Kabir & Bryan

Girls (P15) Category

MSSD PP P15 team
(from left) Nurul Hana, Christine, Nurul Izzah & Sabrina

The MSSD PP P15 team managed to edge the defending champion in this category in last edition, MSSD Kuala Selangor (KS). The team which comprises of Nurul Hana Syuhada, Lee MeiYen, Nurul Izzah and Sabrina Sofea won four games and drew one. With 13.5/20 points and having more one point than their closest rival, the team were smiling and happy to be on the podium as the Gold medal winner.

GiLoCatur would like to congratulate both MSSD PU L15 and MSSD PP P15 teams for their respective achievements.

2014 MSSS Chess Championship - Tentative Schedule

Wednesday, 12th Feb 2014

The MSS Selangor chess championship for 2014 edition is entering its final day tomorrow. The championship started on Monday, 10th February. The championship is participated by 10 MSS districts and has six categories - Under 12, Under 15 and under 18 for each Boys and Girls sections. For each category there are four players for each districts. Mathematically, there are forty (40) participants for each category. Thus, since there are six categories, the total number of chess players compete in the championship is two hundreds forty (240). Each player will compete in two events - Individual and Team.

credit : Cikgu Ghalib

Today, the Individual event completed. The participants play seven (7) rounds of one-hour-per player game in the Individual event. The first two rounds of total five rounds of the Team event had been played today. Three more rounds will be held tomorrow, the final day. For this event, the game format is 30-minute-per-player. 

Below is the tentative schedule of the 2014 MSS Selangor chess championship being held at UKM Bangi.

The championship schedule