Farouqi’s Game, Kelantan Close 2011

9 February 2011, Kuala Lumpur – Nik Ahmad Farouqi, the new Kelantan Close 2011 Champion was kind enough to submit a copy of one of his games played during the said tournament in Kuala Krai, Kelantan played on 4-5 February 2011.

He has submitted most of his games to the organisers but kept one copy of his earlier rounds of the tournament. Here is the round 2 game he had with Wan Mohd Amirul, the Sicilian Taimanov transpired during the game, shown below:-

[Event "KC2011"]
[Site "chessinmalaysia.blogspot.com"]
[Date "2011.02.04"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Wan Mohd Amirul"]
[Black "Nik Ahmad Farouqi"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B48"]
[PlyCount "70"]
[EventDate "2011.02.05"]
[SourceDate "2011.02.07"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. Nc3 Qc7 6. Be3 a6 7. Qd2 Bb4 8. a3
Be7 9. f3 Nf6 10. O-O-O b5 11. Bf4 e5 12. Nxc6 dxc6 13. Be3 a5 14. Nb1 Be6 15.
Bd3 O-O 16. h4 Rfd8 17. Qf2 Rab8 18. g4 c5 19. h5 b4 20. a4 c4 21. Be2 Qc6 22.
g5 Ne8 23. g6 Qxa4 24. h6 fxg6 25. hxg7 h5 26. Rdg1 c3 27. b3 Qa1 28. Bd3 Qb2+
29. Kd1 Rxd3+ 30. cxd3 c2+ 31. Ke2 cxb1=Q+ 32. Bd2 Qxd3+ 33. Kxd3 Rd8+ 34. Ke2 Rxd2+ 35. Ke3 Bc5# 0-1

Congratulations to the new KC2011 champion!

Nik Ahmad Farouqi Is Kelantan Closed Champion

7 February 2011, Kuala Lumpur – At the Kelantan Closed Chess Championship 2011, Nik Ahmad Farouqi (pix left) prevailed and was declared the new Kelantan Closed Chess Champion 2011. Nik scored 6.5 points after 7 rounds played over two days at the school hall of Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan (SMK) Pahi, Kuala Krai, Kelantan.

 

In second place is Syed Azizi Abdul Rahman (pix below)who also scored 6.5 points. Based on Naserov’s blog, there was a playoff which Nik Ahmad Farouqi duly won 2-0 against Syed Azizi fair and square.

 

In third place is Mohd Amin Mohd Noor with 6.0 points and fourth, Baharuddin Hamzah, while in fifth position, Wan Mohamad Amirul Wan Mohamad Y, both scored 6.0 point and separated by tie-break points.

 

 

To read more, please visit Naserov’s blog or click here.

Or visit chess-results.com for more detail results or click here.

Amin, Nik A Farouqi, Syed Azizi Leads In Kelantan Closed

5 February 2011, Kuala Lumpur – At the Kelantan Closed Chess Tournament, three players are leading after the 5th round. All three players, Mohd Amin, Nik Ahmad Farouqi (pix left) and Syed Azizi Abdul Rahman have scored 5 full points from five rounds. Syed Azizi is the defending Kelantan Closed champion while Nik Ahmad Farouqi is the top seed with a 1914 rating.

From Naserov’s blog, I gather it is now at the playoffs to decide the winner between Nik Ahmad Farouqi and Syed Azizi Abdul Rahman, the defending champion.

 

Results of Round 5 shown below:-

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Kelantan Chess Close 2011

17 January 2011, Kuala Lumpur – The Kelantan State Chess Association is organising an all-Kelantanese Chess Closed 2011 to be held 4-5 February 2011. If you qualify to enter, then read on!

To read the original post at Naserov, pls click here.