Full National Rating October 2010

9 October 2010, Kuala Lumpur – The full National Rating of Malaysian chess players (including foreign players who have played in Malaysia) for the month of October 2010 has been released by Mr. Lim Tse Pin, Malaysia’s Rating Officer.

Please visit these links to see the full list :

• Malaysia’s National Rating October 2010;
• Top 100 Juniors in Malaysia;
• Rating Changes July-September 2010.

For those who wish to see who are our top 100 juniors in Malaysia, please click here.

Please take note that 6 duplicate names have been removed and have their respective ratings adjusted accordingly that had appeared in the Rating Changes for the period July to Sept 2010 List that was uploaded earlier on fireyrook, chess-in-malaysia  and at Lim Tse Pin’s blog (malaysianchess.blogspot.com). A new copy of this list can be downloaded from here.

A friendly reminder from Mr.Lim Tse Pin to chess players and tournament directors:

For events (Oct to Dec 2010) that you would like to submit for rating purposes, please use the naming convention in the list. Also, please use MCF rating for any foreign players (who possess MCF rating) who play in our locally rated tournament. This is for rating calculation purposes and better seeding accuracy.  This is a norm practice in any country who has their own rating system.

So continue to have fun playing chess! See you at your local chess tournaments!

October National Ratings 2010

4 October 2010, Kuala Lumpur – The October National Ratings is out! Malaysia’s Rating Officer, Mr. Lim Tse Pin has released the new list of top 20 most improved chess players for the October 2010 National Ratings.

Mr. Nikk Johari Low is the most improved player with 311 rating points and has improved from 1229 to 1540. Included in this top 20 includes  Vinton Wong, Puteri Munajjah Az-Zahraa bt Azhar (pix below) and Iskandar Danial Adam (last July’s most improved player) and Ethan Wong.

Pix 1. Puteri Munajjah Az-Zahraa bt. Azhar.

Pix 2. Ethan Wong concentrating on his play.

Ethan Wong (pix above) is a regular player at the Excel Chess Academy and at DATCC. He has improved from 1377 to 1525 rating points. Well done to all top 20 most improved players. A list of the top 20 is shown below.

To read the full details of the top 20 players, please click here.

And to read the rating changes for active Malaysian chess players, please click here.

Latest National Rating April 2010

Lim Tze Pin, the national ratings officer for Malaysia, has just released the new ratings for 900 chess players.

To see whether you are in the 900 Malaysian chess players affected by the change in their ratings, please visit gilachess’s blog or click here or if you had participated in the recent Stonemaster Amateur Special Edition – 1st Leg 2010 recently, you may wish to visit stonemaster’s blog to see the latest rating after the event or click here.

Some further notes from Mr. Lim Tze Pin for tournament organizers (refer to gilachess's blog):

"In the excel file, the following names have been merged into 1 name:
Evan Loo, Muhd Nabil AH, Puteri Munajjah Az-Zahraa Azhar, Shahanas Kamal, Nur Najiha AH

The error was due to difference convention names used by various organisers. I’ve been experiencing a tough time getting those names (from 1100+ single entries into 900+ unique entries). So, the 5 names mentioned above missed my manual scaning.

To all organisers, please use back the names in the database and not include IM, FM, WIM, WFM, NM etc. Their titles should not go into the name column. Also, those chinese with Christian names please put in before the lastname. For indian player, please use their name followed by Father’s name just like malay player (as per national rating database)".

Let's hope our tournament organisers will take note regarding the format of names for players so that our National Rating Officer will have an easier time calculating our chess ratings. Let's cooperate with MCF and make ratings calculation easier to manage.