Closing of Registration for Malaysian Chess Festival 2014

1st September 2014, Kuala Lumpur – Here is an important announcement from En. Abdul Hamid Majid regarding Malaysian Chess Festival 2014 to be held from 12-22nd September 2014 at CitiTel MidValley, Kuala Lumpur.

CLOSING OF REGISTRATION FOR MALAYSIAN CHESS FESTIVAL 2014

THE ORGANIZERS WILL NOT ACCEPT ANY MORE REGISTRATION FOR THE:

34^th ASTRO MERDEKA RAPID OPEN TEAM CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP (12 & 13^th Sep)

AND 5^th SWENSEN’S OPEN RAPID AGE-GROUP CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP (14^th Sep)

DUE TO SPACE CONSTRAINTS. - WE JUST DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH SPACE!

REGISTRATION FOR THE

11^th IGB DATO’ ARTHUR TAN INTERNATIONAL OPEN CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP

5^th KLK TAN SRI LEE LOY SENG SENIORS CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP

BUKIT KIARA PROPERTIES MALAYSIA CHESS CHALLENGE

WILL ONLY BE ACCEPTED ON PAYMENT OF LATE REGISTRATION FEE!

PAYMENTS MADE ONLINE (FOR ASTRO MERDEKA AND SWENSEN) AFTER 01 SEPT WILL BE REFUNDED !

REGISTRATION DETAILS FOR THE ASTRO MERDEKA AND SWENSEN WILL BE POSTED ONLINE ON TUESDAY 09 SEPT

REGISTRATION DETAILS FOR THE OTHER EVENTS WILL BE POSTED ONLINE ON THURSDAY 11 SEPT

Wong Zi Yue wins Group A, Shreyes Subramaniam wins Group B RSC 2014

17th August 2014, Kuala Lumpur – Latest chess tournament results held at Royal Selangor Club today. In Group A, the chess tournament was won by Wong Zi Yue in Open, Amir Faiz Amirul in Under-10 Group A and Megat Imran Khusairi in Under-8 Group A.

While in Group B Open was won by Shreyes Subramaniam, Under-15 Group B – Eason Cheah, Under-13 Group B – Bryan Yap Chuan Yoong.

 

Final Ranking – Round 7

Congratulations to all winners.

(News courtesy of Jax Tham)

Winners of Pertandingan Catur Terbuka Tebrau, Johor 2014

17th August 2014, Kuala Lumpur – Latest from Johor.

The winners of the Tebrau Chess Open, Johor 2014 held yesterday are as follows:

1. Robert Suelo – 6.0 points – Champion

2. Ramzan – 5.0 points – 2nd;

3. Soh See Wee – 4.5 points – 3rd;

4. Ng Shi Hao – 4.5 points – 4th;

5. Edward Chai – 4.5 points – 5th;

6. Abdullah Che Hassan – 4.0 points – 6th;

 

11. Mohd. Zullghafari Saparmin – 3.5 points

 

32 players participated in this chess tournament.

China, Russia chess teams win Olympiad in Tromso 2014

16th August 2014, Kuala Lumpur – The winning chess teams in Tromso, Norway during the 41st Olympiad: Open – China, Women – Russia

Pix 1. And the winner is … CHINA!!

Pix 2. The winning womens team : RUSSIA!

 

(source: Chess Olympiad 2014)

China (Men), Russia (Women) Win Gold 41st Olympiad Tromso 2014

 

List of all prizes in 41st Olympiad Tromso 2014 (official)
Categoryegoriy prizes		Rank	Federation	Matchpoints	Sonneborn Berger	Points
Category E	open	1	Pakistan	11	173	19
Category E	women	1	Thailand	10	151.5	23
Categoryegoriy prizes		Rank	Federation	Matchpoints	Sonneborn Berger	Points
Category D	open	1	Sri Lanka	12	205	22.5
Category D	women	1	Tajikistan	12	226	24
Categoryegoriy prizes		Rank	Federation	Matchpoints	Sonneborn Berger	Points
Category C	open	1	Kyrgyzstan	14	247.5	29
Category C	women	1	Egypt	13	258.5	26
Categoryegoriy prizes		Rank	Federation	Matchpoints	Sonneborn Berger	Points
Category B	open	1	Egypt	15	284	28
Category B	women	1	Mongolia	15	307	29
Categoryegoriy prizes		Rank	Federation	Matchpoints	Sonneborn Berger	Points
Category A	open	1	Russia	17	352	28.5
Category A	women	1	Georgia	17	390	32
Board prizes		Rank	Name	Federation	TPR
Board 5 open	open	3	GM Nepomniachtchi, Ian	Russia	2650
		2	GM Moiseenko, Alexander	Ukraine	2714
		1	GM Shankland, Samuel L	United States of America	2831
Board 5 Women	women	3	WIM Dauletova, Gulmira	Kazakhstan	2486
		2	WGM Guo, Qi	China	2520
		1	WGM Padmini, Rout	India	2584
Board prizes		Rank	Name	Federation	TPR
Board 4 Open	open	3	GM Ni, Hua	China	2723
		2	GM Ortiz Suarez, Isan Reynaldo	Cuba	2766
		1	GM Sedlak, Nikola	Serbia	2773
Board 4 Women	women	3	IM Bulmaga, Irina	Romania	2433
		2	WGM Bartel, Marta	Poland	2439
		1	GM Zhukova, Natalia	Ukraine	2512
Board prizes		Rank	Name	Federation	TPR
Board 3 Open	open	3	GM Eljanov, Pavel	Ukraine	2745
		2	GM Sasikiran, Krishnan	India	2753
		1	GM Yu, Yangyi	China	2912
Board 3 Women	women	3	WFM Frisk, Ellinor	Sweden	2432
		2	IM Matnadze, Ana	Spain	2445
		1	GM Kosteniuk, Alexandra	Russia	2639
Board prizes		Rank	Name	Federation	TPR
Board 2 Open	open	3	GM Ding, Liren	China	2831
		2	GM Balogh, Csaba	Hungary	2839
		1	GM Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son	Vietnam	2843
Board 2 Women	women	3	WGM Ju, Wenjun	China	2564
		2	GM Khotenashvili, Bela	Georgia	2589
		1	GM Gunina, Valentina	Russia	2651
Board prizes		Rank	Name	Federation	TPR
Board 1 Open	open	3	GM Giri, Anish	Netherland	2836
		2	GM Adams, Michael	England	2839
		1	GM Topalov, Veselin	Bulgaria	2872
Board 1 Women	women	3	GM Cramling, Pia	Sweden	2659
		2	GM Hou, Yifan	China	2671
		1	GM Dzagnidze, Nana	Georgia	2719
				Matchpoints	Matchpoints	MP
			Team	Men	Women	Sum
Gaprindashvilcup			China	19	18	37
Team-Women		Rank	Team	Matchpoints
Rank 3		3	Ukraine	18
Rank 2		2	China	18
Rank 1 (Vera Menchik cup)		1	Russia	20
Team open		Rank	Team	Matchpoints
Rank 3		3	India	17
Rank 2		2	Hungary	17
Rank 1 (Hamilton Russell cup)		1	China	19

China won the team open event with 19 Matchpoints while the Russian Women won the gold with 20 Matchpoints.

Malaysia ended in 72nd position with 12 points in the Open event and in 54th position with 12 points in the women event.

Both Malaysian chess teams played some sterling ties with the Men holding the mighty 51st ranked Swiss to a 2-2 draw while the women winning against the Bosnian women team, 41st ranked team. 

 

Links: http://chess-results.com/tnr140380.aspx?lan=1&art=0&rd=11&flag=30&wi=821 or, women - http://chess-results.com/tnr140381.aspx?lan=1&art=0&flag=30&wi=821