Dare To Blitzing On This Friday At DATCC?

CALLING TO ALL MALAYSIAN BLITZ MASTERS!

DARE TO SHOW OFF YOUR BLITZ SKILLS?

LET'S FIND OUT WHO IS THE REAL MALAYSIAN BLITZ KING.

WHEN? WHERE? HOW MANY ROUNDS? HOW MUCH THE FEES? WHAT ARE THE PRIZES?

CHECK IT OUT!!! 

Details on NJCC Blitz Master

SEA Games - The Blitz Champions

Arrived home from work, immediately GiLoCatur went online to chess-results.com website. GiLoCatur would like to know the results of the Chess blitz event held today. 

In this event, Malaysia is represented by IM Mas Hafizulhelmi and Sumant Subramaniam in the Men category and Azman Hisham sisters - WCM Nur Nabila and WFM Nur Najiha, in the Women category.

Philippines and Vietnam each won Gold medal in this event.

The only Gold medal in chess won by Philippines is contributed by its top chess player, GM Wesley So (below picture). He came back strong from his disappointment for not winning gold in the Men Standard event. Impressively, he won all his nine games including against the top seed, GM Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son of Vietnam. Truong Son got Silver while So's countryman, GM Mark Paragua, gave Bronze medal to Philippines.

Wesley So - Gold medallist in Men Blitz
(from SusanPolgar blog)

Men Blitz
source : chess-results.com

IM Mas was placed fourth with four wins, four losses and one draw. He had 4.5/9 points. Meanwhile, Sumant who is last in the starting list based on Elo ratings managed to win two games. The two opponents he defeated are grandmasters - Mark Paragua of Philippines and Cerdas Barus of Indonesia. GiLoCatur hopes such wins will boost Sumant's confidence that he can beat masters.

WIM Hoang, Thi Nhu Y
source : fide.com

Men Blitz
source : chess-results.com

In the Women Blitz event, a Vietnamese Women International Master (WIM) Hoang Thi Nhu Y emerged the gold medallist. She won five games and drew the other four to record 7/9 points. It is the sixth gold medal in chess for Vietnam. Both Silver and Bronze medals went to the host country, Indonesia. Its chess princesses - WFM Warda Aulia Medina and WIM Chelsie Monica Sihite contributed the medals. Both of them had same 6.5/9 points. But Warda had better tie break than Chelsie.

The Malaysian players are placed fifth and eighth. Nabila had 5.5/9 points while her younger sister scored 3/9 points. GiLoCatur believes the two young players are at par with other players even though they have the lowest Elo ratings. In next SEA Games, GiLoCatur strongly believe that both of them will provide medals to Malaysia.

In summary, the medal tally for Chess Blitz event

VIE - 1G, 1S

PHI - 1G, 1B

INA - 1S, 1B

Celebrating New Year's Eve by Playing Blitz

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

What chess ardents will do to celeberate a new year? They play chess blitz. 15 chess lovers were participating in a chess blitz (5 minute time control) tournament held at Jax Tham's chess center in OUG during 2009 new year's eve. GiLoCatur was there to see the blitz tournament which was played in round robin format. The 15 participants were Shamsudin Sabri, Faizal Andin, Kamaluddin Yusof, Nik Ahmad Farouqi, Tan Ken Wei, Lim Zhou Ren, Syazrin Abdul Rahman, Mohamed aka Max, Abdullah Che Hassan, Abd Shukor, Gregory Lau, FM Mok Tze-Meng, Ian Udani, Fikri Saleh (GiLoCatur's son) and Jax Tham himself.

The tournament started at around 9.15 pm and finished at around 12.15 am. Only Top 5 would receive the prizes. The winners were : 1st - Ian Udani, 2nd - Kamaluddin Yusof, 3rd - Mok Tze-Meng, 4th - Lim Zhou Ren, 5th - Abdullah Che Hassan. The players were having fun themselves by having jokes and laughters.

Jax Tham has promised that lots of chess tournaments will be held at his center in the future especially during the public holidays. It is a very good news for chess lovers to have a place where they can meet and play chess. There are lots of chess materials especially books in the center.