SMASEL - The 1st Leg

Today, there were two chess tourneys in KL. The first one is StoneMaster Amateur Special Edition Limited which was held at the Cochrane's Excellent Sports Center. More than 100 chess players who have national ratings below 1650 including several GiLoCatur's chess buddies like Cikgu Suhairi, Ng6, Syed, Sahir and Zullghafari (just to name a few) were participating. They played 8 rounds of rapid chess games.

Cikgu Suhairi was leading the pack after the sixth round when he had a perfect 6/6 score. Finally, he was the second runner up. Ng6 who played his 17ChessClub gang, Syed, in the final round on the top board was placed fifth while his opponent was the first runner up.

Check out the photos of the top 10 winners at Ng6's blog here.

More photos of the tourney at Gilachess's blog here.

The second one is "Catur Terbuka Hari Wilayah DBKL" which was held at Titiwangsa Stadium. Check out the photos later.

StoneMaster "Amatur" Special Edition Limited (SMASEL)

credit : stonemaster's photo collection

Come tomorrow, SUNDAY 21st March, Pusat Kecemerlangan Sukan Cochrane (as per above picture) will be the battle field among Malaysian amateur chess players (below national ratings of 1650) to determine who is the best. One of the local chess tournaments being waited and anticipated by many chess players. They have practised, they have studied openings, middle game, end game, tactics and strategies and they have sparred.

Unfortunately, GiLoCatur can not participate since have a program to attend. GiLoCatur wants to find out whether has improved or otherwise. GiLoCatur wish Best of Luck to all participants especially chess buddies like Zullghafari, Azam, Max, Syed, Ng6, Fauzi Ahim and Sahir.

To check out the latest update on SMASEL, please go to stonemaster's website here or here.

Bloggers United!

Standing from left : Stonemaster, G!LaChess, and GiLoCatur. Hairulov sitting in front.

It is a unique photo session of few Malaysian bloggers at the National Juniors Chess Championship today. GiLoCatur and G!laChess are basically at the tournament scene most of the time. Today, two other active local chess bloggers i.e. Hairulov and Stonemaster came to the tournament venue. It is quite unfortunate when today Marcus Yeoh, one of the arbiters, is not around due to class comittment. 

For me, it is really an honor to be in a photo with active and dedicated chess bloggers. They are like  my mentors. Furthermore, they are also strong chess players. Their tireless efforts hopefully help promoting and enhancing chess in Malaysia. Keep up your blogs, fellas!