Keluarga Catur Halim Shuhaimi di Kejohanan Catur MSSD Petaling Perdana 2017

Jumaat, 14/4/2017

Penyertaan anak-anak GiLoCatur di Kejohanan Catur MSSD Petaling Perdana telah pun berlalu. Edisi pertama yang GiLoCatur hadiri ialah pada Edisi 2008 di SK Seksyen 9. Buat kali pertama dalam sejarah Dairi Kejohanan Catur MSS (Majlis Sukan Sekolah Sekolah) anak-anak GiLoCatur, Fikri dan Anis Fariha sertai mewakili sekolah mereka, SK Bukit Jelutong. 

Anak sulung GiLoCatur, Fikri, bermain di kejohanan ini untuk empat edisi - 2008, 2009, 2010 dan 2011. Manakala, Anis Fariha, pula bermain di kejohanan ini untuk tiga edisi - 2008, 2009 dan 2010. Adik bongsu mereka, Fahim Al-Faqeh, pula mula sertai Kejohanan Catur MSSD Petaling Perdana bagi Edisi 2010. Seterusnya Fahim mewakili SKBJ di kejohanan ini bagi Edisi 2011, 2012, 2013 dan 2014. 

Kejohanan Catur MSSD Petaling Perdana Edisi 2010 merupakan edisi istimewa kerana ketiga-tiga orang anak GiLoCatur ambil bahagian. 

Manakala Edisi 2017 kejohanan ini sangat bermakna kepada Halim Shuhaimi kerana keempat-empat anaknya sertai. Lebih istimewa lagi, mereka semua adalah sebahagian daripada pemenang. 

Berikut adalah gambar-gambar Halim dan anak-anaknya yang cemerlang di Kejohanan Catur MSSD Petaling Perdana 2017.

Halim Shuhaimi

Nurul Farzana

Farzana telah memenangi Tempat Keempat bagi kategori P12 Individu setelah memperolehi 6.5/8 mata.

Untuk keputusan penuh, sila layari link do bawah:

http://chess-results.com/tnr274837.aspx?lan=1&art=1&wi=821

Nurul Izzah

Anak sulung Halim, Nurul Izzah, telah berjaya menjuarai dan mendapat pingat Emas bagi kategori P18 Individu setelah menang kesemua tujuh pusingan.

Untuk keputusan penuh, sila layari link do bawah:

http://chess-results.com/tnr275108.aspx?lan=1&art=1&rd=7&wi=821

Aiman Haziman

Aiman telah berjaya mendapat pingat Perak bagi kategori L15 Individu setelah mendapat 6.5/7 mata dari enam kemenangan dan satu seri.

Untuk keputusan penuh, sila layari link do bawah:

http://chess-results.com/tnr275111.aspx?lan=1&art=1&rd=7&wi=821 

Nurul Farzana

Dengan 5/6 mata, Farzana telah berjaya menjadi Naib Johan di Kejohanan Catur MSSD Petaling Perdana 2017 bagi kategori P15 Individu.

Untuk keputusan penuh, sila layari link do bawah:

http://chess-results.com/tnr275109.aspx?lan=1&art=1&rd=6&wi=821

Aiman lwn Cheah Kah Hoe

Farhana, Izzah dan Aiman

Syabas & Tahniah kepada Halim Shuhaimi dan keluarga caturnya.

Inilah sebahagian kisah "chess family" di kalangan komuniti catur Malaysia. Ia adalah fenomena biasa di Malaysia di mana satu keluarga sertai dan memenangi kejohanan catur. Selain keluarga Halim dan GiLoCatur, di antara keluarga-keluarga catur lain adalah keluarga Azhar, Azman Hisham, Cikgu Zulkafli, Cikgu Mohd Noor, Zulkippli dan Cikgu Salihin.

Di antara kenangan keluarga GiLoCatur dengan keluarga Halim Shuhaimi dalam kejohanan catur adalah Asean Age Group (AAG) Edisi 2012 di Hue, Vietnam dan Edisi 2014 di Macao.

AAG 2012, Hue Vietnam

Nurul Farzana

Fahim Al-Faqeh

Aiman Haziman

AAG 2014, Macao

Fahim dan Aiman di Macao

Fahim dan Aiman dengan sebahagian pemain Malaysia di AAG 2014

Have You Surfed "Catur Indonesia" Blog?

While surfing the internet especially looking for chess-related news and info, GiLoCatur incidently went to an Indonesian chess blog. Among the recent blog entries are about the success of the Indonesian chess team in the recently concluded 27th SEA Games held in Myanmar. The Indonesian chess team managed to win 5 Gold, 4 Silver and 7 Bronze medals, totaling to 16 medals. With these number of medals won, lots of updates and photos can be found in the blog. GiLoCatur is very jealous the same scenario is not happening to the Malaysian chess community. GiLoCatur wonders when Malaysia is going to enjoy this kind of moment in chess.

The statement from the head of PERCASI really impresses GiLoCatur. He said that the best performance should be achieved based on will, survival (fighting) and passion for chess and Red-White, referring to the Indonesian flag.

“Kami tidak akan mengiming-imingi atlet catur junior berprestasi dengan bonus materi atau uang, tetapi akan memperhatikan kelanjutan prestasi mereka dengan membiayainya ke turnamen-turnamen catur Internasional yang levelnya lebih tinggi! Prestasi terbaik harus dicapai berdasarkan kemauan, perjuangan, dan kecintaan terhadap olahraga Catur dan Merah-Putih, bukan karena “disogok” bonus uang atau diiming-imingi hadiah!"

Another interesting update in the Indonesian chess blog is about their young chess players who take part in the World Youth Chess Championship or its acronym WYCC held in UAE. Indonesia is sending ten junior chess players - five boys and five girls to the chess tournament. Only one of them is self-sponsored where the rest is either sponsored by PERCASI, Indonesian chess association, or RIAU chess association.

GiLoCatur is quite familiar with two of the Indonesian chess junior players. Both are WFM Aay Aisyah Anisa and CM Azarya Jodi Setyaki. When GiLoCatur started to know these two Indonesian chess players? The answer is AAG 2012. For those who do not know what AAG stands for, it means Asean Age Group chess tournament. All the three GiLoCatur's children took part in the AAG 2012 which was held in Hue City, Vietnam. Both Aisyah and Azarya played in the U14 category, their respective girls and boys section. 

As GiLoCatur remembers, it is in this chess tournament that both of them got their respective title. Unrated, Aisyah was ranked 10th in the standard event. After two straight wins in the first two rounds, she was in the top board in the third round. She stayed on the top board until the final round. She won six consecutive rounds. After the final round, Aisyah emerged as the champion scoring impressive 8/9 points. 

Aisyah (left) with red shirt

Aisyah smiling when photo being taken by GiLoCatur

She could not continue her superb performance in next both rapid and blitz events. Our WFM Nur Najiha was the obstacle where Aisyah lost in both events in the second round. (Note: In the standard event, Najiha played in the G20 (Girls Under 20) event.) GiLoCatur managed to have a short chit chat with Aisyah before one of the rounds start.

While Azarya got GiLoCatur's attention when he was among the top boards in the Boys U14 event beside FM Paulo Bersamina of Philipines, Tran Minh Thang of Vietnam and Rohan Ahuja of India. After the final round, Azarya scored 6.5/9 points and was third in the final ranking. He had the same score with an unrated Vietnamese player and thus was the silver medal winners and both were awarded the CM title. In the rapid event, Azarya came strong and emerged top. He tied with 6/7 points with Paulo Bersamina. He was fifth place in the nine-round blitz event.

Azarya (right) played against his Filipino opponent, Paulo Bersamina (left) in AAG2012

How is the performance of the Indonesia junior chess players in the WYCC? Click here to find out. And here to know the results of the Malaysian junior chess players.