CIU - UM-IPT 2015 FIDE-rated Chess Tournament

2015 KARISMA Chess Championship had just ended today. The champions and the winners had been crowned. GiLoCatur will update later about this.

GiLoCatur would like to share a chess tournament organized by a University and KPM for the students of Malaysian Institute of Higher Learning (IHL) which include both private and public universities, community colleges, polytechnics and other colleges.

The tournament is by invitation and will be held from 13th to 15th November 2015. Before writing further, GiLoCatur would like to seek a thousands of apologies from Dr Ng Siew Cheok of Universiti Malaya for forgetting to publish early about this tournament. 

Dr Siew Cheok had emailed GiLoCatur the details and entry form of the tournament 13 days ago. GiLoCatur praises and salutes this effort by UM Sports Center for organizing the tournament to provide a FIDE-rated standard time control tournament for chess players from local Institution of Higher Learning. 

Below are the details of the tournament:

Introduction & Eligibility

Eligibility continues

Date, Venue, Format, Time Control & Fees

The schedule from 13th to 15th Nov 2015

Info on Tie-Break

The Prizes

ENQUIRIES AND CONTACT:

For further enquiries, please send an email to Dr. Ng Siew Cheok (siewcng@um.edu.my) or contact Mrs. Nurfadhilah at 03-79676980 (diylladania@um.edu.my).

    
     IMPORTANT DATES:

     26/10/2015 (before)  - Entry Form Submission
   
     29/10/2015  - Invitation

      3/11/2015 (before)  - Accept Invitation

      6/11/2015  - Invitation to KIV List

     13 to 15/11/2015  - Tournament days


Legend : CIU = Chess In University

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.

"SYABAS" SUNIIL!!!

Syabas and well done to Suniil who beat a Sri Lankan FM who is rated nearly 400 points higher than him in Round 2 of the GACC currently being held in University Malaya. Can Suniil continue his winning streak against 2027-rated Singaporean opponent in the third round this morning? Let's wait and see. Check out here to find out Suniil's performance in the GACC.

Some info about Suniil. He was schooling at SMK Subang Utama which is in MSSD Petaling Perdana. In 2011, Suniil was a team member of the Selangor L15 (Under 15 Boys) in the MSSM chess championship in Penang along with Fikri Saleh, Irfan Hakim Mohd Azhar, and Low Jun Keat. Suniil and his team won the Silver medal. 

MSS Selangor L15 team (MSSM 2011 @Penang) - Suniil, most right

The Final Results - UM's TSZ Team Event

Today 44 teams had participated in the Tan Sri Zahiruddin (TSZ) of University Malaya (UM) chess tournament. Below are the results as per emailed by Najib Wahab. The tournament is a bit unique because not many team chess tournaments organized in Malaysia. The format is rapid six Swiss rounds.

GiLoCatur's children did not participate in the event. Anis had a school program during the weekend. Fikri will have an exam next week and had last minute "balik wajib". They both participated in this event in 2008 which was held in March along with two other their SKBJ (Sekolah Kebangsaan Bukit Jelutong) chess friends, Nur Faqihah and Aminur Nirza. Their team was known as "SKBJ Marvellous Knights" and was among 21 teams participated. GiLoCatur wrote about this in the old version of SKBJ Chess Club blog at googlepages as per here.

The final ranking list.

The top three winners with team composition results

Do you notice who had the perfect 6 points score in the above picture? Two players actually - Justin Ong of Nameless on board 2 and IM Mas Hafizulhelmi of Seahorse on board 1. In fact, there is another player who had the perfect 6 wins. He is Faiezul Zainal of N9 Warriors who played on board 2. His team was fourth placed.

The cross table.

Andrew Ooi of Gilachess and Shamsuddin Sabri of fireyrook were also participated in the event. With two other blogger friends, they teamead as "Bloggers United" and was 17th placed with 13.5 points and 7 match points.