1^st KIMMA OPEN CHESS TOURNAMENT 2017

FOR THE YB Senator Datuk Seri Syed Ibrahim Kader Trophy

Endorsed by Malaysian Chess Fedration (MCF)

A NATIONAL RATED EVENT!! (OPEN TO ALL PLAYERS)

DUE TO SPACE CONSTRAINTS RESTRICTED TO FIRST 300 PLAYERS TO REGISTER

10 x LUCKY DRAW ! / SPECIAL PRIZE FOR YOUNGEST & OLDEST PARTICIPANT !

Date	05 February 2017 (Sunday)
Format & Time Control	7 Round Swiss (Swiss Manager) – 25 Mins to finish
Event Manager:	DAT Chess Centre (DATCC)
Venue	Dewan Serbaguna Pusat Perdagangan PT 80 DBKL, Lorong Bunus 4, Masjid India, 50050 KUALA LUMPUR (Belakang Haniffa Departmental Store) https://g.co/kgs/pqgBSE
Contact Person	Abd Hamid Majid (019 3158098) / Siraj (010 5499916) / Fadli (014 2312370)
Official Website	http://datchesscenter.com / www.kimmachess.blogspot.my
	FIDE chess rules and regulations apply. The Organizers reserve the right to reject entries. The games will be played according to the schedule below.
Certificate of Participation for all players and Certificate of Achievement for Prize Winners.
All Prize Winners will get Medals. Champions in All 3 sections will get the Datuk Seri Syed Ibrahim Kader Trophy
PRIZES
		OPEN	UNDER 18	UNDER 12
Champion		1000	500	300
2nd		750	250	200
3rd		500	100	100
4th – 5th		200	75	50
6th – 7th		100	50	Medals
8th – 10th -		75	Medals	Medals
11th – 15th		Medals	Medals	Medals
STRICTLY NO REGISTRATION BY MOBILE PHONE

05 February 2017 (Sunday)	8:00 – 9:00am	Registration + Players Meeting
	09:15 – 13:15	Round 1 – 4
	13:15 – 14:00	Lunch
	14:00 – 17:00	Rounds 5 – 7

ENTRY FEE
OPEN - RM 25	UNDER-18 - RM 20	UNDER-12 - RM 15
REGISTRATION FOR LATE ENTRIES AFTER CLOSING DATE ON 01 FEBRUARY WILL BE CHARGED DOUBLE

TIME CONTROL	25 MINS TO FINISH
TIE-BREAK	(1) PE (Where applicable) (2) SOLKOFF (3) SB (4) CUMULATIVE
CLOSING DATE	01 FEB 2017 – REGISTRATION AFTER THIS DATE WILL BE CHARGED DOUBLE
BANK ACCOUNT	DAT CHESS CENTRE - MAYBANK CURRENT ACCOUNT: 5145 9822 0396
MODE OF PAYMENT	A COPY OF BANK IN SLIP & ENTRY FORM TO BE SENT TO : aham@pc.jaring.asia, datcc@outlook.com, ahamchess @yahoo.com
An acknowledgement of the received payment will be sent. Kindly remind us if you have not received within 7 days of the notification. If you have any queries, kindly contact our event manager

Download the entry form



Map to the place

I hate to dwell on the negative but since my last post on the possible reasons why 3 states (Kedah, Perlis and Melaka) was absent from the 2016 Malaysia Inter States Chess Championship, had the highest visits for the past few weeks (even higher than my posts during the inter states!).
So I have to revisit this subject again.

Thanks to feedbacks via Facebook, more reasons were stated as reason for absenteeism.
The major one being...
Unpreparedness/readiness
No reason for sending a team if they are unprepared and will be "massacred" by top teams that have titled players like IM, FM and NMs.

I will not argue with the above and any other reasons that we do not know of.

However, the organisers have mentioned that they have offered to consider absorbing the cost of entry fee and stay for states that have difficulty raising funds to cover cost of participating. Which state was offered and whether this offer was actually made,  I cannot verify that but if it is true, then the cost factor would have been removed.

In short, I think communication is an important thing here too. If the states had conveyed their difficulties and reason for not participating early directly to the organisers, things may have turned out different instead of doing all this post mortem (via some obscure blog like this :) )

Who is on top politically? Who is on top based on chess strength? I don't care for that. You know better than that! I am more concerned about website influence and search engine favourites. Looks like Google likes MCF website and ranks it right on top. Second is our own Mr Lim Tse Pin (Rating Officer) blog. He is also MCF Vice President if not mistaken as I cannot confirm now as the previous list of office bearers in MCF website is no longer there (Note to MCF webmater - PLEASE FIX IT :) ) . FIDE site takes 3rd and 4th spot for Malaysian FIDE rating links. CATUR.org chess portal comes in at 5th position.

Usually I would feel competitive and try to knock off MCF website from it's top spot by applying some SEO strategies (which is pretty easy!)  but as I am no longer into chess, I will not consider investing any time into that :)

Still, MCF website only ranks highly because it has the main key words in it's domain name - "Malaysia" and "Chess". Same goes to Lim Tse Pin's blog.  So, I hope both sites will continue to have regular and relevant updates as they now represent "Malaysia Chess" to the eyes of netizens.

What I am sad is the list used to include other top chess blogs like Hairulov, Gilocatur etc but Google has noticed the inactivity and reduced their importance in their search category. Hopefully new sites such as AIChess which has not yet moved into this space, will one day fill up the vacuum and make the content for "Malaysia Chess" more diverse and interesting.

I am also hoping for young blood to take over the chess blogging/Faceboooking scene as the current energy shown by AIChess, ABChess and others looks promising.

My DSLR is still not fixed, so I will have to do with only my iPad and phone for pictures for the coming Penang Open.

As an alternative I will try to post more videos, and explore live video postings such as Facebook Live, Youtube Live and Periscope for this year's Penang Open.

Here is a sample video taken using my Samsung J5 phone during the recent Inter State at Kuantan, Pahang :

That's the reason given by some states as why they did not send a team to the recent Malaysian Inter States Team Chess Championship in Pahang.


Yes. Having not enough funds to come here is a big problem I admit. However calculating ones chances since only 3 team prizes are offered seem to have been  another reason for  not taking part sounds a little strange to me.

However I am glad my state, Perak did send a team even though they knew they would not likely end up in top 5. In fact Perak didn't even finish top 10! So not having a chance to get prize money wasn't a deterrent from them to take part.

Then comes the other reason - NO MONEY. My personal opinion is that this shows the lack of financial planning and development by the state association itself when they fail to find funds to send a team here. So in short, that state has failed when compared to other poorer states who managed to scrounge enough money for travel and living expenses to Pahang. Kudos to Sabah and Sarawak, even though relatively far, made their way here.

Also I don't think it's about winning money to cover expenses. The Inter States is a place where players get to meet players from all over Malaysia. Team managers, state Presidents get to congregate and share ideas. It's not only a competitive event but also a social event.

Hopefully the reason for no funds and not enough prize money will not be used for the next Inter States. It is my personal opinion that these states have missed out. But if the same states still want to stay away from this national event, it is their perogative I guess.

So what do you think? Having not enough funds or the event not having enough prizes is reason enough not to participate?

An interesting game from Round 2 (Johor vs Selangor)