The Official Winners for Telok Gong Pro Am Chess Tournament

If you want to know the official winners list for the recently concluded Telok Gong Pro Am chess tournament, go to this link.

GiLoCatur's Performance In the Telok Gong Open

This weekend, Insya Allah, GiLoCatur will play in the Ole Ole Chess Open held in Section 18, Shah Alam. If last weekend, GiLoCatur just brought Fahim to the Telok Gong Open, this weekend Fikri will join since he will come back home from his hostel.

This morning GiLoCatur is not a very good mood because Germany had been eliminated in the ongoing World Cup. GiLoCatur would prefer for the final to be between the Netherlands and Germany. GiLoCatur's most favourite teams had been eliminated earlier. Do you want to know what teams are that? For the 2010 World Cup edition, GiLoCatur is supporting Ivory Coast or Cote d'Ivoire which is captained by Didier Drogba (GiLoCatur's most favourite player at the moment) and Kolo Toure and England, for having four Chelsea players. Then the other favourite team is the "Oranje" boys - the Netherlands or GiLoCatur prefers to call Holland better.

GiLoCatur dreams the Holland vs Germany final after watching the exciting Germany games especially when they thrashed England and Argentina. Let's forget about the World Cup for a while. The squid or sotong prediction is correct so far huh!

Let's talk about the performance of both Fahim and GiLoCatur in the recent Telok Gong Pro Am Chess tournament.

Fahim is seeded 26th among the total of 78 players in the Under 12 category. In the first round, he played white against unrated Miza Mohd Yunos. He won. Then, in the second round, he faced the first board of the MSS Selangor U12 team player, Puteri Munajjah. He could not match her yet and had his first defeat. GiLoCatur is not sure who was his opponent for the third round because missed to capture the third round pairing. But Fahim won his third round game. In the fourth round, he challenged his U12 MSS Selangor player chess friend named Ethan Wong. He even befriended his younger sister Valerie during the MSSM Chess Championship a month ago in Perlis. He conceded his only other defeat.

Fahim won all the following consecutive games. His opponents were Farid (5th round) with black, Zainoor Ikmal Munirah (6th round) with black and Najwan Azman Hisham, one of Fahim's close chess friends, in the final round with white.

It was a good tournament for Fahim after scoring 5/7 points. Normally, with that point one would be on the podium. But he wasn't in this tournament because many strong players were participating and many had the same 5/7 points as he was with higher tie breaks. Anyway, Fahim was very happy because he achieved the 5/7 score as he envisioned and promised. Even he had a sweet victory against much experienced Najwan AH. GiLoCatur hopes such result and score will motivate him to work harder and learn more.

The fifth round, Fahim (black pieces) versus Farid (white pieces)

sitting next to him was Nur Islamurni from Kedah

The sweet victory for Fahim in the final round against his chess buddy, Najwan

So, how GiLoCatur fared in the tournament?

GiLoCatur lost the first three consecutive rounds. LOL! In the first round, GiLoCatur made a bad move towards the endgame playing white against an Indonesian Ahmad Rubel Abbas (seeded 22nd, ratings 1771). Rubel finally was one of the winners in the tournament. In the second round, GiLoCatur played white again against Mohd Hussein Jamil, the 23rd seed with 1699 ratings. In earlier round, Hussein was upset (based on ratings) by a U15 MSS Selangor player, Suniil Kalaivanan, Fikri's team mate. GiLoCatur was quite happy because not being whacked and thrashed by him. The important thing is that GiLoCatur did not make silly blunder and fought hard. he he he But it is the sign that GiLoCatur still has long way to go to join the 1700-ratings club. (:

In the third round, GiLoCatur played black against a local player, Mohd Nor Idris. GiLoCatur could not manage to win against the unrated player. Perhaps GiLoCatur had put all energy to fight the earlier two 1700-ratings opponents ... he he he a good excuse uh!

After the lunch of a free nasi ayam, GiLoCatur was fully recharged. Unbelievably, GiLoCatur went all the way to score four consecutive wins. The first victim was Yusri Md Yusof. GiLoCatur played black. We were playing on the bottom tables. Then in the next round, GiLoCatur played Queen Gambit against a teenager named Lim Kah Lung. He is a 1500+ ratings player. Not a bad result for 1233-rating player, right?

GiLoCatur vs Nazatul Zarina

( photo taken form stonemaster.info )

In the sixth round, GiLoCatur's opponent was a lady player by the name of Nazatul Zarina M Nasri (the above picture). She is a no nonsense chess player. Perhaps she had not played in chess tournaments so often. She has a national ratings of 1400+. Perhaps she respected too much of GiLoCatur that finally she could not manage to win the game. Anyway, GiLoCatur hopes Nazatul will keep playing and participating in chess tournaments. We don't have many lady players in Malaysia.

GiLoCatur vs Azam ( 1-0 )

Then, in the final round came the familiar opponent to GiLoCatur. He is Khairul Azam Mastuki, one of the McD or Burger King sparring partners. Based on the ratings and performance, GiLoCatur has the disadvantage. GiLoCatur was so determined to win the game for a revenge. GiLoCatur had lost to him a couple of times in previous chess tourneys. GiLoCatur fought very hard and finally won the game. Fauzi Ahim, one of our chess buddies, insisted to take our picture for a record purposes for our rivalry. It is very unfortunate that GiLoCatur did not meet Fauzi in the tournament to revenge GiLoCatur's earlier defeat to him in the UiTM Open three months ago. (Click here to read about it). Hopefully, we will meet in the Ole Ole Open this weekend. Fauzi Ahim, you better watch out! Be prepared!

That's all folks! Hope you enjoy reading the above report. Especially to the participants, Go to http://malaysianchesspairings.blogspot.com/ to see and view your pairings and performance of the Telok Gong Open.

Photo Journalism - Telok Gong Open (Part 2)

Below are pictures of the local chess players (the lucky ones ... he he he) who had the opportunity to challenge GM Ziaur Rahman, the DATCC resident grandmaster, in the Telok Gong Pro Am Chess tournament that just concluded yesterday. The GM was the eventual champion for the PRO Open category.

... Abdul Rahim Rais - Round 1 ...

... Irfan Haqqim Azhar MS - Round 2 ..

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... Yeoh Li Tian (our future GM hope) - Round 3 ...

... Abdul Haq Mohamed - Round 4 ...

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... Ahmad Fadzil Nayan - Round 5 ...

... Former World Police champion, Ismail Ahmad - Round 6 ...

GiLoCatur hopes that all of them will learn further and work harder to keep improving for the benefits of the Malaysian chess community and sport.

Photo Journalism - Telok Gong Open (Part 1)

Below are some pictures taken by GiLoCatur during the Telok Gong Pro Am Chess Tournament held yesterday. Accompanying only by GiLoCatur's youngest child, Fahim, we arrived at Telok Gong at around 9.00am.

Ustaz Zamri Sajari (left wearing Oranje-colored shirt) who is one of the hard working organizing committee members was focussing his game.

Battle of the Bloggers - Syedchess (left) versus Gilachess ... [GiLoCatur's Nokia 2630 photo collection]

while another fellow blogger, Yatzchess, was looking

... at least five bloggers were participating ...

... Syedchess came all the way from Kedah on Saturday by bus just to participate in the tournament. Hope the determination and spirit will last long and being followed by the Malaysian junior chess players ...

GiLoCatur were not so lucky for not being paired against the above two long-time rival opponents - Cikgu Zull (left - also a blogger) and Fauzi Ahim

... Two SYEDs - Syed Iskandar & Syed Abdul Rahman, were smiling before one of the rounds ...

... GiLoCatur heard that there would be a special chess club just for all the SYEDs in Malaysia LOL. Hope Syedchess will make it happen ...

... Battle of the MSS U12 players. Sirajuddin (left) of MSS Kedah battled to the time pressure against Leong Zhi Chen of MSS Selangor ... [GiLoCatur's Nokia 2630 photo collection]

An Email Message From Azhar MS For The Telok Gong Tournament

3rd July is nearing the two hours mark. Twenty two hours then, 4th of July will show up. As someone who had studied in the United States, the date will mean something. It is the independence day for USA. While in the country in the early 90's for about two and half years, GiLoCatur managed to celebrate the big day twice.

But come this year's 4th of July, Insya Allah, GiLoCatur will be in Telok Gong playing in a chess tournament. GiLoCatur will accompany Fahim in that tournament. Fikri is not coming home from his hostel this weekend. Anis will stop participating in chess tournaments for a while due to her UPSR exam. Hopefully, the tournament will attract a record number of participants.

Below is an email message from Mr Azhar MS (the above picture).

Dear all,

Here are some updates for the tounament scheduled on Sunday, July 4th.

1. R1 Pairing just can be out on the tourney day due to unavoided technical problem.
2. Game will starts at 9.00am
3. All players are advised to take any precaution needs in order to ensure their journey will be running smooth.

Simple direction how to get there.

For NKVE / PLUS users, find way to Klang > Pelabuhan Barat > Telok Gong ( Turn right after passes Jusco Bukit Tinggi ), and follow below guideance.

For Kesas Highway users.

1. Go straight towards Pulau Indah / Pelabuhan Barat until you find 'Telok Gong' signboards ( about 3 to 5 signboards )
2. Follow instruction ( arrow shows to turn left at the juncion ). From here, just go straight, it takes 4km to reach Dewan Hamid Tuah ( on the left ).
3. You also can ask local folks where the location about ( be careful; a lots of foreigners there; they just only smiles if they do not understand, hehehe )
4. No details can be found through the google map.
5. Do call & keep my number for assistance. Azhar 012 - 679 6193, Zamri 016 - 277 5005

SEE Y'ALL AT TELOK GONG, FOLKS!

!!! ARE YOU READY TO RUMBLE IN TELOK GONG ON 4th JULY? !!!

4th July is around the corner.

It is less than 2 weeks from today.

Have you booked the date for Telok Gong Pro Am Chess Tournament?

Are you, the Malaysian chess enthusiasts and players, ready to rumble in Telok Gong?

Check here to refresh the info on the tournament.

4th of July - Telok Gong Pro Am Tournament

4 July 2010

For most Malaysians the above date does not mean anything. But for most Malaysians who had been staying or studying in the states i.e. USA, it would mean something. It would be a holiday and also it means fireworks. 4th July is the independence day for Uncle SAM i.e. USA, like 31st August to Malaysia. For this year's 4th July, it will fall on Sunday.

There would be a chess tournament on that day. Where the tourney will be held? It will be organized by the Telok Gong Resident Association. Where Telok Gong is located? How to get there? Check out here.

Below are some basic info about the tourney.

Venue - Kg Hamid Tuah Hall, Telok Gong, Port Klang

Format of Play - 7 / 8 rounds, Rapid 20 to 30 minutes time control

Four categories - Open (Pro and Amateur), Local & Under 12

The fee - RM 30 (Open PRO), RM 25 (Open Amateur), RM 20 (Local & Under 12)

The Prizes - The champions for each category will receive RM 500 (Open PRO), RM 300 (Open AM & Local) and RM 200 (Under 12). Check the detail prizes at the tourney document. In fact, the total prizes is worth more than RM 5,500. The tournament shall have 53 winners.

Will have Special Lucky Draws where chess clock is one of the prizes. Breakfast and lunch are provided FOC (Free of Charge)

Got any question regarding the tournament? Just contact - (a) ZAMRI BIN SAJARI 016.277.5005 (b) AZHAR MOHD SAID 012.679.6193

Payment can be made to :

CIMB bank account No: 1260-0008189-52-7 made payable to ZAMRI BIN SAJARI

Closing date : 26 June 2010

Download the details of the tournament from here.

SO, TO ALL CHESS PLAYERS LET'S GO TO TELOK GONG TO PLAY IN THE TELOK GONG PRO AM CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP! "ADA BERANI?"