Historical Melaka International Chess : Round 1 game

Historical Melaka International Chess Championship 2012 : Round 1 game re player. Random game selected from round 1

Tan Li Ting Vs IM Mas



Yeoh Li Tian Vs Sugeng, Mulijanto



Ahmad Fadzil Nayan Vs Fominyh, Alexander




Top seed draw,
 Anasrullah Vs Arun Prasad

Historical Melaka International Chess Championship 2012

Historical Melaka International Chess Championship 2012 is a 9 round FIDE rated event. 36 player battle in 9 round classical game, just 1 mission, to be crown as 1st Melaka historical chess champion.

Historical Melaka Challenger Chess Championship 2012

Historical Melaka Chess :challenger category

Florencio Campomanes Memorial International Rapid Chess Championship 2012 750 Years Melaka International Chess Festival

Pinoy conquered this rapid event. overall 35 title player take part with 14 GM.Result courtesy from chess result.

Gula Perlis Open Chess Challenge 2012

Gula Perlis annual chess event is coming. This year, the tournament upgrade it's level to National rated event.
If u not the top ten contender, still have other supporting prize. I hope this year, I will get the lucky prize and some additional  changes in my national rating.
Pakat-pakat mai main ...Teringat kenangan bermain catur peringkat MSSPs dulu-dulu.

New April 2012 MCF Rating

New rating list already publish.
click here to check your rating.

Killing the Legend: part 1

To become a legend, firstly you must kill the current legend. I will post an article an analysis some of the chess opening that familiar used in our local tournament (northern region).

AGAINST THE ELEPHANT GAMBIT:

The Elephant Gambit, popular on the club level, has recently received a fair amount of theoretical attention. It is often seen in scholastic tournaments, but even advanced amateurs try it from time to time.
 After White captures on d5, Black has explored several plans, but they are easy enough to deal with.
1.e4 e5; 2.Nf3 d5; 3.exd5 ... 

Black has three distinct plans. 3…e4 is the most familiar idea for most players, and we take that as the main line. Black has two very interesting alternatives, which we deal with in the supplement:
3…Qxd5 (A) and the gambit approach 3…Bd6 (B).
4.Qe2 Qe7. The move one would expect to see most often.
4…Be7; 5.Qxe4 Nf6; 6.Bb5+ Bd7; 7.Qe2 Nxd5; 8.Bxd7+ Qxd7;
9.d4 gave White a big edge in Morphy-Paulsen, New York (blindfold) 1857.
4…f5; 5.d3 Nf6; 6.dxe4 fxe4; 7.Nc3 Be7 (7…Bb4; 8.Qb5+ c6;
9.Qxb4 exf3; 10.Bg5 cxd5; 11.O-O-O Nc6; 12.Qa3 Be6 was seen in Tal vs. Lutikov, Tallinn 1964, and Tal pointed out that White could get a clear advantage with 13.gxf3!)
8.Nxe4 O-O; 9.Nxf6+ Bxf6; 10.c3 Re8; 11.Be3 or 10…Qxd5; 11.Qc4 Be6; 12.Qxd5 Bxd5; 13.Be2.
Black has also sacrificed a second pawn by 4…Nf6, and this is probably his most dangerous attempt to seize the initiative. Play continues 5.d3 with four options for Black.

continuee .. elephant gambit

Next part will cover:

• Siccilian Grand Prix/Closed Siccilian
• Dutch Defend -: stone wall , leningrad , anti-dutch , dutch againt the English and Reti
• King Indian
• English symmetrical  
• Queen Gambit -Slav & etc
• etc..

Jakovenko, Dmitry Vs Fressinet, Laurent

Final round,

Chess tie break.

Now day, can considered all chess tournament are using the Swiss Pairing System.
Swiss Pairing System is designed to maximize the fair treatment of the players. This means that players having the same score should have met as equal opposition as possible during a tournament. If the Sonnenborn-Berger and/or Buchholz and/or Median, of all players in the same score-group, is nearly equal, the goal is reached. As a Swiss System is a more or less statistical system, this goal can only be reached approximately.
The approach is the attempt to equalize the strengh of the opponents of all players in a given score group. Therefore the pairing of each round will tend to pair players who have high Sonnenborn-Berger (or Buchholz or Median) with players having low Sonnenborn Berger (or Bucchholz or Median) in the same score-group.
The ratings of the players should be taken into consideration only when the Sonnenborn-Berger (or Buchholz or Median) is equal (e.g. in the first two rounds); otherwise, only current data of the tournament itself should be the basis for measuring the "strength" of the players and making the pairings thereafter -Fide handbook.

Basic pairings principles:

• Two players who have played each other shall not be paired again. 

• Before making the pairings in each round, players in every SG (including "floaters" from another SG) shall be arranged in the order of their (1) Sonneborn-Berger (SB); (2) Buchholz; (3) Median (4) rating. The player with the highest SB shall be No. 1 in the SG. Players with the same SB shall be arranged in the order of their Buchholz and so on.

• For accelerating pairing, in the first two rounds, an ‘imaginary’ point shall be added to the score of each of the players in the top half of the initial list of participants (arranged in the order of their R). This imaginary point shall then be deducted before making the pairings of the third round.

Berger or Sonneborn-Berger
This is calculated by adding scores of the opponets who were beaten by a given player and half the scores of the opponents who she drew with. This has been adopted from round-robin tournaments and is usually used as a secondary method.


Buchholz (FIDE) or Solkoff 
This is the sum of opponents' scores. The idea is that the same score is more valuable if achieved against players with better performances in a given tournament. Looks like an ideal tie-breaking method and has been used since the Swiss system was invented. However it has some weaknesses which are addressed by other methods (see Median-Buchholz, Progress, Berger).

Median-Buchholz (FIDE) or Median
Same as above but discarding the highest and the lowest opposition's scores.
Its idea is to eliminate distortions in Buchholz values caused by taking into account games against run-away winners and bottom placed players.

example:
Suppose a player participated in a Swiss tournament and he scored as shown in the table below.

Example: Player #57 faced the players mentioned in the first line. In the second line the score of #57 against these opponents is listed, and in the third line you find the total scores of his opponents.
The Buchholz score of player #57 is the sum of the scores: 3½ + 4½ + 2 + 5 + 4 + 6 + 5½ = 36.
The Median Buchholz is the Buchholz score reduced by the highest and the lowest score of the opponents.
 In Table 1 we would have to reduce the scores of #8 (2 points) and #28 (6 points).
The Median Buchholz is in this case: 3½ + 4½ + 5 + 4 + 5½ = 22½.

The following is very important and also a little bit complicated:

Progress (FIDE) or Cumulative 
Calculated by adding points from a progress table eg if your scores were: Win, Loss, Win, Draw then your progressive scores are 1, 1, 2, 2.5 and your Progress tie-break value is 6.5
This is an attempt to put a higher value on scores which were achieved by scoring better in the initial rounds than by finishing from behind. It is common knowledge that the latter is usually much easier to achieve.
The problem is that the order of the Progress tie-breaks is known before the last round (last round scores will change the actual value but not the order within a point group). This may encourage some undesirable tournament "tactics" in the last round.

Kulim chess community game review

Date: 30 March 2012
Venue: Kedai Kak Wan , Lunas, Kedah.
Time: 9.00 P.M - 2.00 A.M

Only 4 player turn up this night, Alias, Azudin , Azwan and Syukor. We are preparing for our next tournament, USM Engineering Open and other tournament after this. Target to improve our game and try to finish top 10 during any tournament. For a long term planning, we are targeting to get top 5 in any tournament especially in Kedah. For next gathering , will be discussing about our opponent opening and weakness. Targeting analysis on a few Kedah top player games.

Below are some game review and discusion.

Benko Gambit: A58




Ruy Lopez: Berlin Wall C65