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Not to mislead anyone about the Yagi antenna I talked about, I have to post this correction.



I thought this antenna was good but luckily found out that it really is NOT from Amazon reviews and eBay buyers feedback. That is not to say Yagi antennas are all crap but the cheap China made ones are really poor quality. It will improve your WiFi receiving signals but not as much as the "real" Yagi antennas are famous for. That is why I was misled by happy Lelong customers who got the antenna. They didn't know that the "real" Yagis have much better performance. They connect it to their normal WiFi and noticed better reception and most of the time this garners a positive response.


YouTube tests shows it is only marginally better than the TP-link 11Dbi antenna(above) I already have. I will use this in Penang Open instead of wasting my money on a Lelong or eBay Yagi.

This parabolic WiFi antenna is in consideration for 2016 tournaments :)

For more info visit http://syazrin.com.

p/s: It's not mentioned above but according to Syazrin the first prize is RM 500.

Corrections: I added the 5th event which is the opening of the new DATCC which also has a small blitz tournament included.

Local chess players are spoilt for tournament choices this weekend as we are looking at 4 5 tournaments coming up!

Good or bad that they clash? I don't know. What do you think?


Anyway the four five tournaments are:-

• Kejohanan Catur Masjid Ku (28 Nov)
• Klang Valley Masters (28 & 29 Nov)
• IIUM Invitational Chess Tournament 2015 (28 Nov)
• UTAR SUNGAI LONG RAPID CHESS OPEN 2015 (29th Nov)
• The all new DATCC(29th Nov) 

Whichever tourney you choose, they are probably good warm up for the upcoming Penang and Johor Open next month. :)

Me, I am preparing too by taking a good rest before the hectic Penang Open starts.

p/s: the only "tournament" I may go to is the DATCC event as I am curious to see the new DATCC. Penang Open next of course but Johor Open is still uncertain.

So what are your preparations for the coming  Penang / Johor Open?

It's just around the corner! Penang Open and Johor Open!!

So what are your targets? Winning top 10 prize? Increase rating? Better than last year's results?

Here's mine:

Schedule Day 1 (Saturday, 28 November 2015) 0900 Players' Briefing 0915 – 1045 Round 1 1100 – 1230 Round 2     Lunch 1330 – 1500 Round 3 1530 – 1700 Round 4 Day 2 (Sunday, 29 November 2015) 0900 – 1030 Round 5 1100 – 1230 Round 6     Lunch 1330 – 1500 Round 7 1530 – 1615 Closing/Prize-giving Ceremony Entry Fee (RM) FIDE Rated RM60 Unrated RM100 Closing Date: 21 Nov 2015 (Saturday) Contact Person: Cikgu Rezal 0133641001 Cikgu Shamsuddin 0165554956 You can email your registration form to     suhairihussin@yahoo.com Payment: Maybank 164098473823 Mohd Rezal Che Man Website: www.kids4chess.com Blog:       gilocatur.blogspot

Prizes plus medals Under-18 Open 1st  500 2nd 350 3rd  250 4th  200 5th  150 6th  100 7th  80 8th  Hamper 9th  Hamper 10th Hamper Girls Under-12 1st  200 2nd 160 3rd  120 4th  80 5th  60 6th  Hamper 7th  Hamper 8th  Hamper 9th  Hamper 10th Hamper Certificate of Participation for ALL. Certificate of excellence for winners

 

Entry Form

 

Klang Valley Masters 2015

Another tournament with big attractive prize monies. RM 1000 for open, RM 250 Under-17 and RM 250 Under-12 as first prize.

Facebook page: https://m.facebook.com/7thIIUMCHESS/

Time (hours)	Agenda		Achievement	Prize
0900 – 1020	Registration		Open – Champion	RM300
1020 – 1030	Speech from VIP		Open – 1st Runner-up	RM200
1030 – 1120	Round 1		Open – 2nd Runner-up	RM100
1140 – 1230	Round 2		Open – 4th place	RM80
1240 – 1330	Round 3		Open – 5th place	RM60
1330 – 1430	Lunch		Open – 6th place	RM50
1430 – 1520	Round 4		Open – 7th and 8th place	RM40
1530 – 1620	Round 5		Best University Player	Medal + Certificate
1630 – 1720	Round 6		Best Lady	Medal + Certificate
1730 – 1820	Round 7		U18B – 5 Prizes	Medal + Certificate
1840 – 1920	Closing Ceremony		U18G – 3 Prizes
Fees: Non-Students: RM25 Students: RM15			U15B – 5 Prizes
			U15B – 5 Prizes
			U15G – 3 Prizes
			U12B – 5 Prizes
			U12G – 3 Prizes

I know this is quite vain - looking at my website traffic stats, but I just can't help it :)

Last weekend's event was of course the National Rapid and Blitz 2015 held at Tronoh Perak. I didn't go for the simple reason  no one asked me to. I just find it interesting that it got  traffic of 300+ for just a cut and paste results from chess-results.com and a recycled old picture of Nelson I took from the Pekan tourney ?I can only imagine what the traffic would be if I was there :)

There! Sorry. I just needed my minute of vanity.

Anyway with more eyeballs on this blog I guess there's some responsibility in providing more interesting chess news - something that will not be short of seeing that the Penang Open and Johor Open is coming soon. I am confirmed to be at Penang but still unsure about Johor.

Correction about my previous post about the Ole Ole tournament offering RM 200 for first prize for both open and junior category. My mistake, it's RM300.

Nevertheless, one veteran chess player commented that during the BPM allegro over two decades ago the first prize money was RM 300. Back then that was a lot of money so many top players travel from state to state to try to win as much as they could.

Now, we still see tournaments with RM 300 for first prize !!

I think that just shows the state of chess in Malaysia. Sure, the frequency of small weekend tournaments is healthy but it hasn't progress much since the days of the BPM allegros. Of course, by evolution, we will have the odd but special tournaments where players are lucky to see prizes like RM 2000 and RM 1000 like the recent Pekan and Tronoh rapid event.

Still, those are far and in between.

Just one of the random game taken from KedaiCatur.com between NM Jonathan Chuah and FM Lim Zhuo Ren.

Pinoy Nelson Villaneuva took home the grand prize of RM 1000 from the 2015 National Rapid Chess Championship held in Tronoh Perak today. As can be seen from the table below he was undefeated with draws against Emir and Masrin.

Finishing 2nd place is Masrin Erowan and taking 3rd place is NM Jonathan Chuah.

Please visit kedaicatur.com for the live games.

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The Ole Ole tourney is one of the smallest tournament I've attended. Small in terms of prize money scale. Not to belittle the organisers or anything but RM 200  300 for first prize is rather on the thin average side. :)


To their credit, they did give out some voucher goodies to every participant. I got 20% discount for some burger/fries stall order.

Also despite the prize money, it did attract relatively strong players like national player Lim Zhuo Ren to take part.

But what I like about the tourney is the traffic achieved as it is another record for this blog personally at 500+ for a single day tournament. All that without any live DGT board broadcast or live blogging. Also since I was playing, there wasn't may post from me.

One reason may be that many other blogs are inactive and this blog and catur.org now holds a monopoly on anything chess related online.

One major chess website that has gone offline recently is stonemaster.info. It is unfortunate but understandable with the rise of the USD currency it has made  paid webhosted sites a little more expensive too.