SIMUL vs THE VISUAL IMPAIRED

Last Wednesday, on the 10th of November 2010, I was being honoured to be invited by the MPM (The Paralimpic Council of Malaysia) to represent the 'SIGHTED' in a chess match versus the 'BLIND' or shall we call "VISUAL IMPAIRED'. Most of the visual impaired player were known to me as I had been involving coaching them chess, by invitation (not regularly) from time to time since Manila Para Games 2005. This event is actually held to get the media attention of the sponsorship by JACTIM to the MPM.

I discovered that, Fadli (a.k. SM) and Faisal Zakaria, Asmah Hambadley, Haslindah Ruslan, Latiff sifu and his son Zaimi were already there at the time of my arrival.

I played against 4 players and in round 1 I won 3 (against , Hj Majid and Abd Rahim) and succumbed to Hj Shaharudin Sidek after without thinking snatch his Queen which led to an instant mate. Then we played again for the 2nd round with the colour reverse, except that there was a change on Board 1 when Ramalik played on board 1 with white while the other 3 maintains their status quo as the challengers with colour reverse. The game were stoppped before the ceremony, but as I, Ramalik and Abd Rahim continued, the games favoured me on the 3 boards while the other board against Hj Shaharudin Sidek (again!) remains unclear.

Below are the games :









Using the braile chess sets and playing against 4 visual impaired players with the clock ticking (1 hour time control) is not an easy task, but this is a way to get quick attention in order to promote chess. I wish to play more simuls for chess promotion, from a state to another state if given an opportunity just to promote chess, not only to the school children, but also to the society at large.

Here are the rest of the games in round 2









As for other perspective coverage of this event, please see here

ALHAMDULILLAH

Sifu aka Mr Abd Latif Mohamad is fully recovered and ready to be in action in this coming Saturday and Saturday event, involving the para chess players at Malacca. For details, please refer to his blog here http://sifumycatur.blogspot.com/

All Malaysian chess lovers... please pray that Mr Abd Latiff will recover fast from his mild stroke.

I received a sad news that, Mr Abdul Latiff Mohamed who had recently successully headed our Malaysian OKUs team to wrest 8 gold medals from the recent ASEAN Para games (KL09) is currently under treatment at GHKL ward 21 room 15. To those who wish to visit him, please do so in conjunction with this barakah Syawal month.

Thank you very much

I was quite shock when I opened http://sifumycatur.blogspot.com/ only to discover that one of the most chess attentive who is a visual handicapped player, Fazimi Tajul had passed away. I pray that his soul will rest in peace and he will be blessed in the hereafter.

Well, to all of us, who "still survive", life goes on, and we still need to work hard to enhance our achievement in chess. The next target for the OKU is the coming PARA GAMES 2009 in Kuala Lumpur from the 12th up to 20th of August, just before the commencement of Ramadhan.

I may not be able to present a few games of Fazimi Tajul here, as right now I do not have access to my database. However, I shall update this page by giving up some games and perhaps simple analysis and comments on his games.

My Allah bless us all .. Amin

UPDATE: Below is a game of Allahyarham Fazimi Tajul against one of my UIA students
[Event "Merdeka Open"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "1997.??.??"]
[Round "9.19"]
[White "Aryati Tajuddin UIA POLGARS"]
[Black "Fazimi Tajul SBM"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C11 French Classical"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Nf3? dxe4 5. Ne5 Bd6 6. Bf4 O-O 7. Qe2 Nd5 8.
Qd2 f6 9. Nxd5 exd5 10. a3 fxe5 11. dxe5 Be7 12. g3 c6 13. Be2 Bf5 14. c3 Nd7
15. O-O Qc7 16. e6 Ne5 17. Qe3 Bd6 18. b3 Bxe6 19. Bxe5 Bxe5 20. Rac1 Qf7 21.
f3 Bc7 22. Kg2 exf3+ 23. Rxf3 Qd7 24. Kg1 Bg4 25. Rxf8+ Rxf8 26. Bxg4 Qxg4 27.
Kg2 Bb6

28. Qd3 Rf2+ 29. Kh1 Qh3 0-1