Map to Kuala Langat open

For the player who take part in Kuala Langat Open, you can use this map as guideline to the Tesco Banting.

How achieve a FIDE rating

To achieve a FIDE rating, you need to play in an official FIDE rated event, and play at least 9 games with opponents with an official FIDE rating. The performance in these games, must be at least 1600 since that’s what the lowest possible FIDE rating is. If you play in a 9 rounds tournament and all your opponents have an official FIDE rating, and if you at the same time score a performance of above 1600, one “FIDE norm” is enough to receive a rating at the next list. If not 9 rated opponents,you need two norms, and at least 3 games with FIDE rated opponents, and a performance above 1600. Still you will have to play a total of 9 games to get the official FIDE rating.

UPSI Open 2008

UPSI akan menganjurkan Kejohanan Catur Terbuka UPSI ke-2 pada 25 & 26 oktober 2008. Ini merupakan "National Rated Tournament".

TARIKH : 25-26 OKTOBER 2008.
HARI : SABTU & AHAD
MASA : 08.00 pg – 6.00 ptg
TEMPAT : DEWAN SITC, UPSI.
YURAN : TERBUKA (RM25) , SEKOLAH (RM15), UPSI ( RM10 ). FORMAT : RAPID – SISTEM SWISS 7 PUSINGAN.
TIME CONTROL: 45 MINIT.
TIE-BREAK: SOLKOFF , SB , PS

Klik pada gambar untuk melihat hadiah-hadiah dan tantatif program:

1. SEMUA PESERTA AKAN DIBERI SIJIL PENYERTAAN
2. 10 CABUTAN BERTUAH UNTUK DIMENANGI!!
3. PENYERTAAN TERHAD KEPADA 200 PESERTA SAHAJA. PENYERTAAN SELEPAS TARIKH TUTUP AKAN DIKENAKAN DENDA RM 5
4. SILA BAWA SLIP BAYARAN SEMASA HARI PENDAFTARAN SEBAGAI BUKTI PEMBAYARAN
TARIKH TUTUP : 23 OKTOBER 2008. HADIAH WANG TUNAI KESELURUHAN RM5600.00!!
Bank Account: ZARUL SHAFIQ BIN ZULLKAFLI, - Maybank, Current Account No: 1580 8822 6680
Tournament entry fees must be paid before the closing date. For further details call: ZARUL 017-6018919 email shafiq_chessboy87@hotmail.com MAZLINDA 019-4773403 Fax 054585137 up ZARUL SHAFIQ BIN ZULLKAFLI

UPSI map (copy from Marcus Yeoh Blog)..click for bigger map.

China vs Russia match

China leads Russia 26-24 after round 5:

Round 1

Wang Hao - Jakovenko, Dmitry 1-0
Tomashevsky, Evgeny - Ni Hua ½-½
Li Chao - Alekseev, Evgeny 1-0
Wang Yue - Inarkiev, Ernesto ½-½
Svidler, Peter - Bu Xiangzhi ½-½

Zhao Xue - Kosintseva, Tatiana ½-½
Pogonina, Natalija - Ruan Lufei 1-0
Korbut, Ekaterina - Shen Yang 0-1
Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina - Xu Yuhua ½-½
Huang Qian - Kosintseva, Nadezhda ½-½

Round 2

Shen Yang - Pogonina, Natalija 1-0
Kosintseva, Nadezhda - Zhao Xue 1-0
Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina - Huang Qian 1-0
Ruan Lufei - Kosintseva, Tatiana ½-½
Xu Yuhua - Korbut, Ekaterina 0-1

Ni Hua - Svidler, Peter 1-0
Jakovenko, Dmitry - Bu Xiangzhi 1-0
Li Chao - Tomashevsky, Evgeny 0-1
Alekseev, Evgeny - Wang Yue ½-½
Inarkiev, Ernesto - Wang Hao 0-1

Round 3
Men
Bu Xiangzhi vs EvgenyAlekseev 1/2 - 1/2
Evgeny Tomashevsky vs Wang Hao 1/2 - 1/2
Ni Hua vs Dmitry Jakovenko 1/2 - 1/2
Enersto Inarkiev vs Li Chao 1/2 - 1/2
Peter Svidler vs Wang Yue 1/2 - 1/2

Women
Huang Qian vs Natalia Pogonina 0-1
Shen Yang vs Ekatarina Kovaleskaya 1/2 -1/2
Kosintseva Nadezda vs Ruan Lufei 1/2 - 1/2
Kosintseva Tatiana vs Xu Yuhua 0-1
Zhao Xue vs Ekatarina Korbut 1/2 - 1/2




Round 4 (September 21, 2008)

Wang Hao - Svidler, Peter ½-½
Wang Yue - Tomashevsky, Evgeny 1-0
Alekseev, Evgeny - Ni Hua 1-0
Bu Xiangzhi - Inarkiev, Ernesto 1-0
Jakovenko, Dmitry - Li Chao 0-1

Pogonina, Natalija - Zhao Xue ½-½
Ruan Lufei - Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina 1-0
Korbut, Ekaterina - Huang Qian ½-½
Xu Yuhua - Kosintseva, Nadezhda ½-½
Kosintseva, Tatiana - Shen Yang 0-1

Round 5 (September 22, 2008)

Shen Yang - Kosintseva, Nadezhda ½-½
Xu Yuhua - Pogonina, Natalija ½-½
Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina - Zhao Xue ½-½
Huang Qian - Kosintseva, Tatiana 0-1
Korbut, Ekaterina - Ruan Lufei 1-0

Wang Yue - Jakovenko, Dmitry ½-½
Li Chao - Svidler, Peter ½-½
Tomashevsky, Evgeny - Bu Xiangzhi ½-½
Alekseev, Evgeny - Wang Hao ½-½
Inarkiev, Ernesto - Ni Hua ½-½

USCF Top 10 ranking

according to Susanpolgar blog, the latest ranking of USCF player:

US Top 10 Men(USCF) - October 2008

1 Kamsky, Gata (12528459) NY USA 2785
2 Onischuk, Alexander (12625186) VA USA 2734
3 Nakamura, Hikaru (12641216) NY USA 2732
4 Seirawan, Yasser (10509459) WA USA 2685
5 Shulman, Yury (12741541) IL USA 2671
6 Christiansen, Larry M (10460921) MA USA 2670
7 Kaidanov, Gregory (12543746) KY USA 2664
8 Shabalov, Alexander (12544264) PA USA 2661
9 Akobian, Varuzhan (12740522) CA USA 2656
10 Becerra, Julio (12778049) FL USA 2645

Top 10 Women

1 Zatonskih, Anna (12873912) NY USA 2498
2 Krush, Irina (12543137) NY USA 2493
3 Goletiani, Rusudan (12807449) NY USA 2384
4 Rohonyan, Katerine (12973020) WA USA 2335
5 Abrahamyan, Tatev (12851435) CA USA 2328
6 Tuvshintugs, Batchimeg (12925481) CA USA 2312
7 Melekhina, Alisa (12726115) PA USA 2310
8 Shahade, Jennifer (20058274) PA USA 2301
9 Battsetseg, Tsagaan (12719650) MD USA 2256
10 Zenyuk, Iryna (12846035) NY USA 2249

Chess Traps in Youtube

this video made by jrobichess:

Chess Traps : King's Gambit Declined Trap


Chess Traps : Sicilian Magnus Smith Trap

Chess Traps: Queen's Gambit Declined Elephant Trap

A video from jrobichess, good for learning traps.

Malaysia: October Chess calendar

After a long break , Malaysia chess is back on track. The tournament is set week by week.
All the tounament in the weekend, saturday and sunday.Starting with 12th October (Kuala Langat Open), 18th October (UNIKL MSI Open, Kulim) ,19th October (Pearl Point Open), 25th and 26th (UPSI open & maybe Perlis Open) and end with 31th october with Sarawak open. Update later.

Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings

If u playing chess for a long time, u should know ECO or Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings. I only know it yesterday. Hehehehe. Thanks Aamaludin for helping me. So what is ECO?. From wikipedia i found that:

ECO is a classification system for the opening moves in a game of chess. It is presented as a five volume book collection (now also a computer database) describing chess openings. The moves were taken from hundreds of thousands of games between masters, from published analysis in the Chess Informant since 1966, and then compiled by notable chess players. Both the ECO and the Chess Informant are published by the Serbian company Šahovski informator. These openings are typically provided in an ECO table that concisely presents the best opening lines.
Instead of the traditional names for the openings, ECO has developed a unique coding system that has also been adopted by other chess publications. There are five main categories, "A" to "E", each of which is divided into one hundred sub-categories. -wikipedia


Volume A: English, Benoni, Dutch, Réti, Benko Gambit, Old Indian, Bird, etc
Volume B: Sicilian, Caro-Kann, Pirc, Alekhine, Scandinavian, etc
Volume C: Ruy Lopez, French, Petroff, King's Gambit, Philidor, Italian (Giuoco Piano and Two Knights Defense), Scotch Game, etc
Volume D: Queen's Gambit (Slav, Accepted, Orthodox, Tarrasch, Tartakower, etc), Grünfeld Defense, Queens Pawn, etc
Volume E: Nimzo-Indian, Queen's Indian, King's Indian, Catalan, Bogo-Indian, etc

See list of chess openings for full details.

First edition
The first edition was published in the following years:
volume A: 1979
volume B: 1975
volume C: 1974
volume D: 1976
volume E: 1978

Second edition
The second edition was published in the following years:
volume A:
volume B: 1984
volume C:
volume D:
volume E:

Eco opening database; E00-E99

The Catalan Opening (E00-09)
The Queen's Indian Defense (E12-19)
The Nimzo-Indian Defense (E20-59)
The King's Indian Defense (E60-99)

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