Tuesday, January 12, 2010

A Fide-Rated Chess Tournament in Shah Alam

Kompleks PKNS Shah Alam


What?
A FIDE-rated chess tournament

The Organizer?
Insofar Chess Academy (since 1996)

Format?
7 rounds, time-control of 90 min + 30 seconds increment

The Arbiter?
Abdul Hamid Majid

When?
Every alternate Friday nights starting on 15 January 2010. All the games will start at 7.30pm.

Round 1 : 15/01/2010
Round 2 : 29/01/2010
Round 3 : 12/02/2010
Round 4 : 26/02/2010
Round 5 : 12/03/2010
Round 6 : 26/03/2010
Round 7 : 9/04/2010

Where?
HBM Professional Training Center, #03-36, Third Floor, Kompleks PKNS, SHAH ALAM

The fees?
Deposit (RM 80) - returnable and need to be paid earlier, Fee (RM 90) - can be paid before Round 1 starts

Number of players (participants)?
Limited to 16 players only (both rated & unrated). Most rated players are below 2000 Elo ratings.

What are the prizes?
The total money prize is RM 1,400
Champion - RM300
2nd - RM 200
3rd - RM 150
4th - RM 130
5th - RM 120
6th to 10th - RM 100

Note :
All winners and participants get certificate.
The organizer can make changes (except the prizes) if necessary.


  1. Interested to participate? SMS your Full Name to 017-203 2051 for an application.
  2. Once your application to participate is approved, bank in the deposit of RM 80, MUST BE WITHIN 24 HOURS AFTER THE APPROVAL, to MBB account - 158172-805863 (Mat Zaki)
  3. SMS to inform date and time of bank in and bring the slip or receipt of payment during the tournament day.
  4. Pay the entrance fee of RM 90 before Round 1 start.
  5. If absent on any of the rounds, RM 20 per round will be deducted out of the deposit. The full deposit or its balance if there is absence will be returned on Round 7.
  6. Chess clocks and sets are provided.


3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Just curious if the Malaysia's list of players is already on the FIDE again and updated? Otherwise there is little use of having an FIDE rated tournament.

GiLoCatur said...

The list is still empty as of now. I think that is another matter for the authorized party to take care.

As for the player, if you want to be active in international or fide-rated tournaments, you need it! That's my opinion.

But your concern got some point too!

Anonymous said...

Malaysian players rating not appearing on the FIDE website is just a temporary glitch for whatever reason that might be. If you care to probe around the FIDE website, rating changes for Malaysian players for Mar09 rating list is already out ie. from DATC 2nd League, National Juniors and Sibu Inter-State.