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I have not followed the chess scene lately so you must forgive me for only posting about this now especially since the tournaments are happening as soon as tomorrow!

I think it's a pity as these 3 tourneys are relatively big as far as 1-2 days rapid tournaments go in terms of prize money(RM 2500-3500 for first prize). Personally I wished they did not clash and I believe chess players would love to have the opportunity to participate in all three separately.

For some reason only known to the organisers, they didn't change their dates and sadly, these event will clash. Some may argue that there is so many tournaments and/or these tourneys are separated geographically enough (Langkawi - Pahang - Seremban)  that it doesn't matter.

Anyway, here are the details I can cut and paste from the big 3.

Don't forget to look out for this in the cinemas..






Related link:

http://gilachess.blogspot.my/2016/09/queen-of-katwe.html

Lately I have been seeing some interest on Facebook focused on online  FIDE titles offered on Arena Chess playing site.

The attraction of course is that it is recognized by FIDE itself and you can use the title as prefix to your name like the traditional FIDE titles. For example if you meet the criteria of earning an online rating of 2000 and consistently keep playing 50 games at the level you will achieve the title of Arena Grandmaster or AGM. For example, one strong local player AGM Nik Ahmad Farouqi has obtained an Arena title last year which is just about right seeing his online rating and OTB rating is 2000+.




It also addresses the problem that FIDE rating is not accurate if compared to say Malaysian National Rating simply because the local rating can dig into more number of local games played as well as getting the latest game results. However if online games are taken into account this may well overcome the problem of low number of games to rate.

All this come at a price of course.

It's over. Will be packing and heading back home today. GM Dhopade ended up being the 2016 Malaysian Open Champion with a final round draw against IM Le Tuan Minh. Dhopade lead most of the tournament and the final round was thankfully not a quick 7 move draw unlike one of the games in the Open. Board one played till they had only Kings left!

It's over but my work is not done. One and a half round of Malaysian Open scoresheet to transcribe to PGN. In this age of electronic PGN game replays, I was hoping no one would be interested in buying the hardcopy printed bulletin so I could take my time finishing it. Unfortunately, there are already a number of people ordering it so I will have to complete it in a day or two.

Also pending is the picture report on the Astro team, DATCC age group tourneys. That will be posted later today when I get home :)

Overall, it's been a very good chess festival with over 1600 people being part of it! The organisation was stellar as usual. The only complaint I got was of course the tight placing of the boards because of the bigger number of players catered for this year. There was even a special disabled section which is unique and never before seen in Malaysian tourneys. It was definitely an experience.


My regrets include not having posted more on the events and getting better pictures. My DSLR camera was broke and wasn't repaired in time. Fortunately the event had an excellent cameraman in Mr Khong Wai Cheong whose photo will be used in a 2 part Chessbase article later on the festival.

After all this, this blog will probably go into deep hibernation until next year again. Will probably not be going for the Penang, Johor Open or any other tourneys unless specifically invited/sponsored to by the organisers.

It's over. Will be packing and heading back home today. GM Dhopade ended up being the 2016 Malaysian Open Champion with a final round draw against IM Le Tuan Minh. Dhopade lead most of the tournament and the final round was thankfully not a quick 7 move draw unlike one of the games in the Open. Board one played till they had only Kings left!

It's over but my work is not done. One and a half round of Malaysian Open scoresheet to transcribe to PGN. In this age of electronic PGN game replays, I was hoping no one would be interested in buying the hardcopy printed bulletin so I could take my time finishing it. Unfortunately, there are already a number of people ordering it so I will have to complete it in a day or two.

Also pending is the picture report on the Astro team, DATCC age group tourneys. That will be posted later today when I get home :)

Overall, it's been a good chess festival with over 1600 people being part of it! The organisation was stellar as usual. The only complaint I got was of course the tight placing of the boards because of the bigger number of players catered for this year. There was even a special disabled section which is unique and never before seen in Malaysian tourneys. It was definitely an experience.



After all this, this blog will probably go into deep hibernation until next year again. Will probably not be going for the Penang, Johor Open or any other tourneys unless specifically invited/sponsored to by the organisers.

Open (Board 1)

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Challenger (Board 1)

IM Lim Yee Weng and FM Lim Zhuo Ren are currently the best Malaysians in the Dato Arthur Tan Malaysian Open so far. Each has 4 points and sitting at 15 and 19 place respectively.

Open Board 1

GACC helper watching over the sight disabled and paraplegics section in case there is any aid needed. Example a guide to go to the bathroom for a blind participant.





That's Mr Khong Wai Cheong whose excellent pictures I've  used in the GilaChess Facebook group and Chessbase articles.

The man in action...

Challengers Board 1



WHITE won
1-0

Challengers Board 1



You can move forward and backward using your cursor keys.

Challengers Board 1

Challengers Board 1

Although it looks like there are no norms achieved by our Malaysian Team, we do get yet another new WFM. Nur Nabila qualifies and should get her WFM title automatically from the Baku Olympiad.


The other player who got a title is FM Sumant.

Challengers Board 1

Open Board 1




Challengers Board 1





Sorry some technical problems as the rest of the games were not recorded by the DGT board.

Open Board 1 : draw

Challenger Board 2 : draw

This is definitely the best results ever for the history of the Malaysian Women's team.

They beat Peru 3.5-0.5 in the penultimate round of the Baku Olympiad.

Here's a screenshot of Jimmy Liew's FB post last night:

Small error in the PGN header. Koneru is Black (not white)

Please don't just cut and paste to blog.

Case in point. One new and very raw chess blog enthusiastically posted the recent Malaysian Chess Festival Blitz #1 tournament result as being won by FM Mehar of India. In fact FM Mehar only got shared 7-8th place. This is the result of the blogger not taking the effort in communicating with anybody in the tournament. If he or she had, it would be clear that the blitz was not only 7 rounds as shown in chess-results.

There was a knockout tournament after that. The 7 rounds was used to get the best 8 players who later went on to play in an exciting armageddon knock out.

So taking final standings of the 7 rounds from chess results as the FINAL result  is totally wrong!

Of course I will not link to the erroneous blog(s) because that will only add to the confusion . The blitz is a minor event so the wrong reporting is not so serious but PLEASE, PLEASE DON'T JUST CUT AND PASTE.

If you are too lazy to come to the tournament hall at least communicate with the organisers to find out further details.

Full blitz results including interactive cross table can be found at gilachess.net

Watching the Malaysian Olympaid team live for Round 9 using big screen. It's a LED projector to be exact that I got, intending to use it for the Blitz event. However it was not bright enough. Still it's way to watch live chess in the hotel room compared to using the 20" TV or my notebook screen


It's like watching football on those outdoor mamak stalls using projector on big screen during world cup fever minus the crowd :)

(to navigate, press a1 - rewind all moves, d1 - back one move, e1 - forward one move)

After 7 rounds PAMA Chess club is in the lead out of a total of 96 teams taking part.

9. PAMA Chess Club (RtgAvg:2213 / TB1: 11 / TB2: 140,5)
Bo.		Name	Rtg	RtgI	RtgN	FED	Pts.	Rp
1	GM	Fominyh, Alexander	2435	2435	2347	RUS	4.5	2415
2	IM	Nolte, Rolando	2427	2427	2312	PHI	3.5	2240
3	IM	Fang, Yuxiang (NR2279)	2202	2202	0	CHN	5	2747
4	FM	Dilwen Ding Tze How	1788	1788	1742	MAS	3.5	2071
4		Fong Yit Ho	2023	2023	1877	MAS	2.5	1769

Team pairings
Round 4 on 2016/09/10
No.	SNo	Team	Pts.	MP	Res.	:	Res.	MP	Pts.	Team	SNo
1	1	Chess Castle	10½	6	½	:	3½	6	10	PAMA Chess Club	9
2	8	Tagaytay City Philippines	10½	6	½	:	3½	6	10½	KLChessKids	2
3	10	The Empty Revolution	10	6	2	:	2	6	10	Jakarta - B	4
4	11	Calamba City Philippines	11	6	1½	:	2½	6	11½	GARUDA	5
5	13	De Market A	9½	6	0	:	4	6	11	PeBT - DEFM Selangor [M]	7
6	3	Marfori Philippines	9	5	4	:	0	5	9	DATCC 1	12
7	22	Kinabalu A [M/S]	9	5	0	:	4	4	7½	DU 31	14
8	15	Jakarta - A	8	4	4	:	0	4	7½	Pelajar SMP Indonesia [U16]	31
9	33	Satu Malaysia [M]	8½	4	0	:	4	4	8	Jakarta - C	16
10	17	CES	7	4	3½	:	½	4	8½	Penang CLOBA A [M/S]	35
11	18	MARAN Senior	6	4	3	:	1	4	7½	ASTRO Ladies [M/L]	37
12	34	Anything	7	4	0	:	4	4	8½	IntChess Asia	19
13	20	King KAPCAI [M]	8½	4	½	:	3½	4	8½	Penang Overwalk [M/S]	41
14	36	Engko Memang Terrel [M]	8	4	½	:	3½	4	9½	Penang State Team [M/S]	21
15	38	Kinabalu B [M/S]	8½	4	2	:	2	4	7½	Selangor B [M/S]	23
16	24	Chess 64 [S]	6½	4	2	:	2	4	8	Cili Padi [M]	43
17	44	Seroja	8	4	1	:	3	4	7½	DATCC 2	26
18	27	Jakarta - D Putri [L]	8	4	4	:	0	4	7	The Old Frees Association [M/S]	45
19	46	MAKSWIP [M/S/Govt]	9	4	0	:	4	4	7	Klang BKT [M/S]	28
20	48	Selangor A [M/S/U16]	7½	4	1	:	3	4	6	KL State Team  [M/S]	30