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Monday, July 11, 2011
CATUR MAKSWIP 2011 - DBKL RETAINS THEIR CHAMPION STATUS QUO
Yesterday 15 teams from numerous government agencies had taken part in the Catur MAKSWIP 2011 which ended with the defending champion DBKL since 2000, retained their champion status quo. They easily trashed their opponent team KSN 4-0 in the 1st round, winning with a very narrow margin 2.5-1.5 on KASTAM A in the second round. Then they began to show their true colour by trashing BSN A 4-0 in the 3rd round and JPA A 3-1 in the 4th round. In the 5th and final round, they wrapping up their campaign by defeating a new comer FRIM A 3-1.
With this result, they again emerged as the champion for the catur MAKSWIP. DBKL was represented by NM Kamalarifin Wahiduddin, Mohd Zambri Mohd Shariff, Muhd Akmal Sealine, Azman Yahya and Bahtiar Saedon. This means the KASTAM (my Department) players have to wait for another year to try to wrest the champion title from the reigning champion. KASTAM had been the runner up since 2006 consercutively up to this year 2011.
As the event had finished a bit late last night (at about 11.00 pm) I had been not able to key in the games yet. However, I presented here, one of the most bitter fought game of mind against the board one player of FRIM A.
In this position, it was white's turn to make the 34th move:
BLACK : ZAINORASRI YAHYA (FRIM A)
WHITE: RIZAL A. KAMAL (KASTAM A)
After my opponent's last move 33...Qe7, I sensed that the potential discovered attack on black's Queen should gives white the decisive knock out punch. Since white is already 2 pawns up (during the game I only thought white is only a pawn up, I displayed the winning combination which ended up with white winning another pawn and in the process exchanging all the heavy pieces leaving the white knight versus the black Bishop.
34. Rxg6! Rxc5 (black had been relying on this, but this falls short to...) 35.Rxg7+! (35.Qxg7+! is also possible) 35...Qxg7 36.Qxg7 Kxg7 37.Nxc5 and the game played on a couple of moves before until Black lost his Bishop by 2 forks combination.
The 3rd place were wrested by the JPA A who had just got their new star, the ever popular blogger and my friend in chess Hairulov.
And the new comer, AG (Accountant General managed to wrest the 4th placing). All the selected players for MAKSWIP (MAKSAK KL) shall start their training session beginning this Wednesday. The MAKSWIP (MAKSAK KL) is the defending champion of the Catur MAKSAK 2010.
Thursday, July 07, 2011
CATUR MAKSWIP IS ON
Yesterday I attended the meeting of catur makswip which was then decided to be held on this coming Sunday 10th of July 2011. Originally the torunament is supposed to be run on the 9th and 10th of July 2011, however due to the rally planned to be held on this 9th July, all the managers of the Government sectors which involved in this meeting agreed that chess shall be competed in 5 swiss rounds (1 hour time control) in one day (the 5th round to be scheduled at 8.00 pm)
Up to this point, 17 teams had confirmed their participation. Among them are the defending champion DBKL, the long awaited champion in making (had been the running up since 2006 consercutively to 2011) Customs Department, LHDN, MSN, CIDB, BSN (last entry as far as I could remember was 1998!), JPA, Accountant General.
Below are among the interesting games played in the last year's series:
Monday, June 13, 2011
CATUR MAKSWIP 2011
It is confirmed that the actual date for the MAKSWIP Chess Tournamanet shall be on the 9th and 10th of July 2011. Again and again and again, I shall lead the Jabatan Kastam Diraja Malaysia (JKDM) team to give our best shot to wrest the gold medal from the reigning champion since 2000 DBKL. JDKM had been always becoming the runner up (except in 2005- 3rd place lost half point to Kementerian Kerja Raya) since 2003 until last year.
CATUR MAKSAK 2011
This means the most awaited event for the government chess players, shall be about 2 weeks, that is from 22nd to 24th of July in Perak.
Below is an intersting game of my own against the representative of once in full blue moon appearance team Sabah (Last appeared at MAKSAK Chess in 1999)
[Event "MAKSAK Kuala Lumpur"]
[Site "Malaysia National University"]
[Date "2010.08.07"]
[Round "8.13"]
[White "Rizal A Kamal KL"]
[Black "Damit Hosman SBH"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B63"]
[PlyCount "135"]
[EventDate "2010.06.16"]
[SourceDate "2010.08.13"]
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. Nc3 Nf6 6. Bg5 e6 7. Qd2 Be7 8.
O-O-O Bd7 9. Ndb5 d5 10. Bxf6 Bxf6 11. exd5 e5?! 12. dxc6! {"At first I thought, Rizal must had known this. But when I looked at his pale pace,
nodding his head in disgust, I was not sure" - Azman Hisham Che Doi} (12. Nd6+ Kf8 13. dxc6 Bg5 (13... Bxc6 14. Kb1!) 14. cxd7 Bxd2+ 15. Rxd2 Qxd7 16. Bc4 f6 (
16... f5) 17. Nf7 Qc7 18. Bb3 Rg8 (18... Re8 19. Nxh8) 19. Rhd1 $1 $18)
12..Bg5 {In reality, oops! I did not see this was coming and thought I was already
busted!}
16. Nxa7 Qg4 17. Bb5 g6 18. Rhe1 {Around this point, the KL's team manager entered the hall and looking at the board curiously,
'where is Rizal's Queen?'. Then he counted and discovered I had a lot of pieces for the Queen amd felt confident that I knew what I was doing}
18..f6 19. Nc8 (19. g3!)
19... Kg7? (19... Rxc8! 20. d8=Q+ Rxd8 21. Rxd8+ Kg7 22. Rxh8 Kxh8 23. g3 was not so clear and white may be in difficulties to try to win)
{'Beautiful game' complimented Adam Arip (SABAH) - Thanks for the compliment. I thought this was a horrible play during the game took place}
Get the full games from this tournament at RM25 while stock last
I shall bring along all the stock clearance chess books (whatever left in my stock) with the flat rate RM50 to these two events
Monday, June 06, 2011
CHESS BOOKS STOCK CLEARANCE I am giving away (may be similar to the concept of exchange sacrifice in chess) a number of my chess books at 3 flat rate prices RM 10, RM50 and RM70 (please do not ask for further discount). These are all my personal collection and reference. The condition of the books are as it is (Some like brand new, some like moderate usage, some used etc)
GROUP 1: RM 70
(market price more than RM 100)
Market price RM 90 and above
Market price RM 89.90 and above
GROUP 2 : RM 50
1. Fire on Board - Alexey Shirov Reserved to Samsudin Mat Isa 2. Beating the Gruenfeld - Anatoly Karpov 3. Chess Kaleidoscope - Karpov and Gik 4. Winning With The Schliemann (Ruy Lopez 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc3 3.Bb5 f5!) 5. The Gruenfeld - Shamkovich 6. Evans Gambit &; Two Kinghts Defence - Tim Harding 7. Kasparov 8. Winning With The Dragon (1st edition) - Chris Ward 9. How To Learn From Your Defeats - Karpov 10. Beating The Sicilian 2 (John Nunn) 11. Sicilian ..e6 and d6 - Kasparov 12. Semi Open Games in Action - Karpov 13. Semi Closed Games in Action - Karpov 14. Open Games in action - Karpov 15. EVERYMANCHESS French classical - Byron Jacobs 16. The Evans Gambit - Tim Harding and Caferty 17. The New King Indian defence - John Nunn Sold to Azizan Aziz 18. King Indian Mar Del Plata (Including a chapter on the Bayonet attack) 19. Ultimate Dragon - Yugoslav attack - Eduard Gufeld 20.Chess Players Battle Manual - Nigel Davies 21. Grandmasters Chess 22. Sicilian Richter Rautzer attack - Peter Wells Sold to Azizan Aziz 23. The Complete Benoni - Lev Psakhis 24. Beating the Flank Openings - Kotronias 25. EVERYMANCHESS Caro Kann - Neil Mc Donald 26. EVERYMANCHESS Grand Prix attack - Plasskett Reserved to Samsudin Mat Isa
27. EVERYMANCHESS English 1..e5 28. The Chess Terrorist Handbook - Shamkovich 29. A view From The Top - (Kasparov-Anand 1995 match) 30. The Sveshnikov Sicilian - Neil Mc Donald 31. The Scandinavian - Plasskett 32. Batsford Chess Openings - Nick de Firmian Reserved to Samsudin Mat Isa
GROUP 3: RM 10
(Only 2 left - the remaining had been bought by my chess frined Azizan Abd Aziz)
1. Grandmaster Chess (old book with historical value)
How Life Imitates Chess (Gary Kasparov)
A truly motivation book for chess players
1st come (1st pay) first serve. Hurry! while stock last.
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
BEATING THE SICILIAN
I had participated in the recent Ampang Open Chess Tournament. I brought along my eldest son, Akmal to participate in this event. Despite scoring only2 points out of 7 rounds, I think it is a good start for him.
My own achievement is quite modest, 5.5 out of 7. I lost to one of my bete noire, Kamaluddin Yusof when he surprised me with his new defence, the French Mac Cutcheon when I had no special preparation agains it. I think I need to revise this specific variation as I have a bad record against this line, only 1 victory (against NWM Nurul Huda) and 3 losses (against Faizul Zakaria along long time ago, Ian Udani and this one Kamaluddin)
One of my victories against Muhammad Syazwan reminds me a disastrous defeat which I had suffered 6 years ago in the hand of Jax Tam Thick Hong.
This is the move recommended by GM John Nunn in his famous books BEATING THE SICILIAN 2 and 3. In fact the latest recipe devised by another GM Jesus de la Villa Garcia in his DISMANTLING THE SICILIAN
After this historical defeat, I also discovered another viable alternative as in the game {Mikenas-Dreiburg, Kemeri 1939 1-0} beginning with 6. Ndb5!
6... Ne4!?
The most intriguing and challenging reply. If 6... Nd5 simply 7. Bd2
7.Qg4 Nxc3
and now in the game against Jax Tham, I blundered horribly with 8. bxc3??8... Bxc3+ 9. Kd1 Bxd4! 10. Qxg7 (10. Qxd4 Nc6 11. Qe4 ) 10... Rf8 11. Ba3 d6!!and suddenly I realised that 12.Bxd6 is unplayable because 12...Qxd6! wins The game continued in futile (for me) when I resigned after executing my 28th move.
The correct continuation is actually....
8. Qxg7 Rf8 9. a3!
This is the most important nuance in this specific line which I completely forgotten when facing Jax Tham.
Only after 5 years, I manage to correct my previous error.
9...Nb5+
This is what had been played by Muhammad Syazwan and in fact highlighted by GM John Nunn as the best line. Frankly speaking, over the board, I could not remember the recommended continuation. Fortunately I was capable of analysing it on my own and I played exactly according to the theory
This is the exactly where John Nunn's analysis in his BTS3 (page 196) ended and he concluded: "but White's dark-square pressure gives him a very favourable ending" . This game confirms his conclusion.
16...Nc6
Probably 16... Rg4 at once gives black the better chances. (I am not sure)
17. b5 Nb4 18. O-O-O Nd5 19. Bh4
I wanted to keep this important Bishop.
19...Rg4 20. g3 Rb4
The Rook managed to come to the Queenside after all
21. f4 Ne3
This wins a Bishop, but
22. Rd6
I manage to create an important bind on Black's King.
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CATUR MAKSAK IS ON 1-3 JULY 2011
I discovered that, Catur MAKSAK shall be competed on the 1st auntil 3rd of July 2011. The event would be hosted by MAKSAK Perak. Further details shall be revealed very soon.
I had received an email pertaining to the above tournament. Hmmmh... may be I can play in this event.
Click on the images
Monday, April 18, 2011
Sunday, April 17, 2011
TOURNAMENTS AROUND THE CORNER
I am fully aware that there are a number of tournaments around the corner, which I may not able to get myself involve. However, this does not mean that I had absolutely quit from chess. In fact on this coming 19-21 April, I shall accompany my son for his debut in the MSSD Chess Petaling Jaya. Well, frankly speaking, I did not had much time to train him. If he score a point, than that shall be very good enough.
My department will be the next host of Sukan Kementerian Kewangan which shall feature chess as one of its event . As a matter of fact, Royal Malaysian Customs (RMC) of WPKL shall organise two closed events involving chess, i.e. Catur Antara Bahagian Kastam WPKL on this coming 21 May and Pesta Sukan Kastam which features chess (And I was told that Negeri Sembilan will be the host)
If everything goes well, I shall bring 2 teams of players from the RMC to join the labour day chess tournament in this coming 24th of April.
Ampang Chessmaster 2011
“A NATIONAL RATED EVENT”
The Ampang Jaya Chess Club together with the YB Ampang MP Office will be organizing a one day rapid National Rated event - AMPANG CHESSMASTER 2011 for the YB Ampang MP Trophy on Sunday, 15th May 2011.
Event will be played over 7 round Swiss with a time control of 25 minutes per player per game played to the finish. Entry fees is RM25 for adults and RM10 for students.
A total prize fund of RM2,190 has been aside for the winners with the champion to earn RM500. There are plenty of consolation prizes for various categories including prizes for secondary and primary students, local Ampang Jaya resident, veteran, ladies, IPT student and many more. This event has been registered for National rating hence, players will have a chance to earn valuable rating points to improve their standing/ranking within the Malaysian Chess community
The venue for the event is at the Medan Selera Ampang Waterfront, Jalan Bukit Belachan, Ampang. Registration opens at 9:00am with the Round 1 scheduled at 10:00am.
For more information, please contact Abdul Hakim Nordin at (019)3925828. Early registration or payment can be made via Najib Wahab at (016)3382542 or email: najib.wahab@chess-malaysia.com”
Ku kan terus mencinta sedetik lebih selepas selamanya
Di kala penuh ketakutan dengan badai kehidupan
Ku bersyukur adanya kamu
Biarlah kehilangan semua yang dimiliki di dunia
Asal masih adanya kamu
THE MEMORIES REMAINS i can see the sadness in your eyes
and every teardrop that you cry
i hope you know it's hard to let you go
the time is here
i have to say goodbye
i lit my light (correction: I laid my life i’ve seen the light) i've seen the light
i hope you know it's hard to let you go
i swear to be the shadow by your side
to be the shining star alight (to light) the darkness of your night
i will survive
in the end as i cross the line of life and dead
i find my way back in your heart again
and i promise i will stay for ever and a day
the memories remain
Monday, March 07, 2011
Reply To Muhammad Arshad's Comment
Muhammad Arshad:
Kita memang pernah main, tapi di UM tu seingat saya, saya menang dengan Nor Azmi.
[Event "UM Team Open"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "1993.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Rizal A Kamal"]
[Black "Nor Azmi Mohd Nor"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C64"]
[PlyCount "83"]
[EventDate "1993.??.??"]
Last time I wrote about some games under the titled "Reminiscent". Today, I shall display a few games of me against some of the local bloggers whom I used to have encounter across the board.
Some of the active chess bloggers I had met over the board are:
1. IM Jimmy Liew (2 times) - Won 1 (a lucky win) and Lost 1
2. Hairulov (Hairul Hamid)- I had played many times but only 2 were official games; so, I won 1 game and Drew 1 game
3. The tricky Chess Oddyssey (Nor Illhamudin Sh Ali) I met 3 times Drew our very first meeting (Inter matrics 91) Lost at Royal Selangor (I think 93 or 94) and I won at NC2001
4. Against Bad Bishop (Norazlin Juarih) I won 2 out of two
5. Against Naserov, we drew in our 1st encounter at MAKSAK Negeri Sembilan 2002, but I lost to him in MAKSAK Kuching 2003. Only in 2009 I managed to defeat him (only 14 moves were played) t and 2011 was again a victory for me
6. Against Samsol Bahrin, bad record one defeat at Seremban Parade (I think 2007) and a draw in one of Selangor's open
7. Against Andrew - as far as I remeber not yet any encounter.
8. Against My Chess Life's author, Azizul of course I had met him hundreds or so time, but the official were the 1st at IIUM closed 1996 I lost, IIUM closed1997 mamnged to get a revenge. In one small tournament under the Dataran I won. and the most recent in IIUM 2007 (if not mistaken) a fierce and hair raising encounter had took place between us. In one of allegro, we had been paired but my friend here let me had the point as he had to return to his hometown as he received the news that his uncle passed away.
9. Pengurusan Ar Rahman - Syazrin Abd Rahman, I won both our games in Royal Selangor 2005 and 2007.
10. Against Ng6 I had never officially met him accross the board
11. Against Firey Rook, I had met him in an encounter which ended in my favour.
12. Against Catur Setia Kuantan, I defeated her in our single encounter, so far.
Some of the games had actually been posted in this blog, therefore I shall try to refrain myself from repeating the games I had published.
Here is my game against my old friend and foe during our IIUM (UIA) age.... a long-long time ago,
[Event "Grand IIUM closed"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "1997.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Rizal A Kamal"]
[Black "Mohd Azizul Mat Daud"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C18"]
[PlyCount "45"]
[EventDate "1997.??.??"]
In the above game, there are 2 parts that can be related to the topic sentence of 'reminiscent';-
the first is reminiscent of "Slaying The Dragon" technique particularly recently in my game against Abdullah Che Hassan. The second part is related to the theme "pawn is a pawn is a pawn..." or in MAKSWIP team camp known as "pawn Rizal".
Next is my lucky win against our legendary IM, Jimmy Liew. He has pressured me and obtained a winning endgame when suddenly he let his Rook to be in en prise position,
[Event "Merdeka Standard"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2007.??.??"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Rizal A Kamal"]
[Black "IM Jimmy Liew"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C18"]
[PlyCount "83"]
The chess competitions will be conducted in two categories.
1- Open Category
2- Youth Category (Born on 1 January 1991 or later)
CHESS COMPETITION RULES
1-FIDE and IBCA rules will apply.
·Pursuant to FIDE Chess Rules 6.6.a, the delay time is 30 (Thirty) minutes.
·Pursuant to FIDE Chess Rules 9.1.a (in draw by agreement) the number of moves is 15.
2-The Swiss matching system will be applied.
3-The number of rounds: 7
4-The time allowed for thinking is 90 minutes with an addition of 30 seconds per move.
5-Competitors will compete individually but athletes from the same country will not bematched with each other.
6-At the end of the competition there will be both individual and team ranking.
7-The points of the best two athletes will be accumulated to determine country rankings.
8-Countries can enter two or more athletes to the competitions. There is no restriction as to the maximum number of athletes to be entered.
9- If there is no sufficient number of young competitors (at least 25), young competitors will compete in general category too. However, they will be ranked seperately.
10-In both categories women and men athletes will compete together however they will be ranked seperately.
11-Competitors are required to bring along their chess sets and chess clock with themselves.
TIE BREAK
·In order to decide the rank of athletes, Buchholz – 1 and 2 (from bottom), Sonneborn-Berger and the number of wins are taken into consideration respectively.
·If two countries have the same points in team rankings, the country whose athlete has a higher rank will be given the lead.
APPEAL
Appels will be reviewed by the Appeals-Committee to be set up in accordance with FIDE rules. Appeals will be made in writing to the Head-referee within 15 minutes at latest after the the round of the competition subject to the appeal.
RANKS AND AWARDS
General Category: The best three ranks (men & women) are awarded with medals and cups. (A total of 6 cups and 6 medals)
Youth Category: The best three ranks (men & women) are awarded with medals and cups. (A total of 6 cups and 6 medals)
Incentive Awards:(Athletes in this group will be awarded with medals)
Under 1600 ELO the Best Performance Award (for men)
Under 1600 ELO the Best Performance Award (for women)
The Best Performance Award for Non ELO-point holders (for men)
The Best Performance Award for Non ELO-point holders (for women)
The Best Performance Award for the male athlete under 16 years of age.
The Best Performance Award for the female athlete under 16 years of age.
The Best Performance Award for the male athlete under 14 years of age.
The Best Performance Award for the female athlete under 14 years of age.
The Youngest Male-Athlete Award
The Youngest Female-Athlete Award
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