The results of Insofar Invitational Tourney - 1st Round

Below are the results of the first round Insofar Invitational Tournament held in PKNS, Shah Alam.

INSOFAR INVITATIONAL TOURNAMENT 2010
Result-ROUND 1 Friday 15th Jan.2010

Table 1-KAMALUDDIN YUSOF(ELO 2166) - ZAFRAN NOR HASHIM 1 - 0

Table 2-MOHAMED ISMAIL - NIK AHMAD FARAOQI(ELO 2092) 0.5 - 0.5

Table 3-RAZALI HAMZAH(1675) - AFIQ MOHD JAMIL 1 - 0

Table 4-ARIF MOHD JAMIL - MAT ZAKI YEOP(ELO 1655) 0 - 1

Table 5-SYAZRIN ABD RAHMAN(ELO 1528) - MOHD FIRDAUS AHMAD JOHARI 0 - 1

Table 6- M.IHSAN SYAHIRAN NAJIB - YUNUS AB RASIB 0.5 - 0.5

Table 7-IZZANUDDIN IRMAN - M.IRFAN RENDRAWAN NAJIB 0.5 - 0.5

Table 8-SAHIR SARIFDIN - NUR FAQIHAH AMINUDDIN 1 - 0

JAYATI BLITZ Mini Tournament - 8 Jan 2010

On Friday night of 8 January 2010, GiLoCatur and Fikri, the eldest son, for the first time joined the 17ChessClub gang on a Friday Night Blitz mini tournament. Besides having a practice session, a Blitz mini-tournament of five rounds had been held. The playing venue is Jayati Restaurant located in Section 17 of Shah Alam.

And for the first time, GiLoCatur had officiated a chess tournament. Basically, not being an arbiter yet but a pairing manager. What a wonderful experience for GiLoCatur to learn how to do chess pairings.

Eight players were playing including GiLoCatur. The format was a 5-minute blitz. Below is the final results.

Ranking and cross table after Round 5.

The Rating Results Table

Sahir, the first seed with 1649 MCF-rating, won four games and drew one to be the champion. He drew with Syed in the fourth round. Zahorin or simply known as Yen Fischer, who is ranked fifth with 1551 MCF rating, was second place after scoring 3.5/5 points. GiLoCatur, being the lowest-rated player, had lost all the five games and placed last. LOL!

Bro Mudin had a game with Haq.

Syed (left) and Zali aka Ng6 (right) watched by Akmal (in the middle)

Max (left) versus Yen Fischer (right)

Fikri (left) versus Sahir (right)

Maybe next time other players can join the tournament. Hopefully, such activity can encourage and motivate others to have similar chess session and play at other places.

We have many chess fanatics or GiLoCaturs in this country for sure.

The First DATCC Individual (Fide-Rated) - Day 2 Update

Now Round 4 for the 1st DATCC Individual is ongoing. Round 4 began at 3.30pm. During the round break, there was a chess lecture on Sicilian topic by IM-elect Lim Yee Weng. Round 3 started at 9.30am this morning.

As per above Round 4 pairings, only both players on the top board left with the perfect 3 point scores. In the previous 3rd round, Abdullah Che Hassan defeated Muhd Syazwan, an IPT student from Terengganu. While Edward Lee won againts Alfred Ting (GiLoCatur hopes the name is correct) . Since Kamaluddin Yusof aka Bro Mudin drew with Nor Ilhamuddin on the top board in Round 3, they were trailing halfpoint. The other player with 2.5 points is 2009 MSS Selangor U15 Individual champion, Low Jun Jian who won againts MSS Perak state player.

Sahir Sarifdin of 17ChessClub who beat Mohd Zullghafari, come all the way from Muar, plays againts Mohd Ali Chor. As for GiLoCatur's children, Fikri is playing againts Haslindah Ruslan while Anis played white againts Mohd Fadhrullah. She finished her game already with a defeat. In previous round, Fikri lose to Ong Thian Loon while Anis drew with Haslindah.

U Wanna Know A Secret?

Do you wanna know the secret how Kamaluddin Yusof becomes one of Malaysian chess strong players? Based on the latest FIDE rating (July), he ranks number 13 in the country with 2173 rating. The above photo is the answer he he he ... Just kidding la ..

By the way, he is really one of the Malaysian strong chess players. He is very dedicated and passionate in chess. GiLoCatur notices Kamaluddin will play in almost every local chess tournaments no matter how far the venue is especially rapid tournaments during the weekends. Young Malaysian chess players should follow his footsteps to become a strong chess player.

Keep it up Muddin!