TAN SRI LEE LOY SENG PERAK GRAND PRIX CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP 2010 Chess Makes You Smart !

OPEN		UNDER – 16			UNDER - 12
1	250 + medal + certificate		1	100 + medal + certificate		1	80 + medal + certificate
2	200 + medal + certificate		2	80 + medal + certificate		2	60 + medal + certificate
3	150 + medal + certificate		3	60 + medal + certificate		3	50 + medal + certificate
4	100		4	50		4	40
5	80		5	40		5	20
6	70		Best Girl U-16			Best Girl U-12
7	60		1	40 + medal + certificate		1	40 + medal + certificate
8	50		2	30 + certificate		2	30 + certificate
			3	20 + certificate		3	20 + certificate

THE CHAMPION IN THE OPEN WILL BE GIVEN FREE ENTRY TO THE GRAND FINALS

SCHEDULE		ENTRY FEES		Venue: 1st LEG – KINTA (Ipoh)
Registration	0830	Open	25	Wisma Belia, Kompleks Belia & Sukan Jalan Ghazali Jawi, IPOH, PERAK
Round 1 - 4	O930 - 1330	U-16	15
Break		U-12	10	Time CONTROL : 25 mins TO FINISH TIE-BREAK: SOLKOFF, SB, CUMULATIVE LATE ENTRIES SURCHARGE RM 5, PICA RESERVE THE RIGHT TO ACCEPT OR REJECT ENTRIES
Round 5 - 7	1400 - 1700	Perakians/Pica (Open)	20
Closing / Prize Giving	17 15	Perakians/Pica (U-116)	10
		Perakians/Pica (U-12)	5

PAYMENT (Bank in) : The entry form and a copy of pay-in-slip MUST be faxed to 05-2419289. (Not later than Thursday, 4^th March 2010). Maybank Account : Perak International Chess Association (Account No: 0-08177-318240). Direct submission of entry form with cash payment to Yunus (Tel: 013-3908129 )

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Other Legs: CRC Taiping, 11 Apr / Parit Buntar, 25 Apr / Lumut, 16 May / Parit, 27 Jun / Teluk Intan, 11 Jul / Tapah/Kampar, 01 Aug / Grik, 26 Sep / Kuala Kangsar, 17 Oct / FINALS-Ipoh 19 Dec 2010 (All dates subject to confirmation)

DEADLY WEAPON IN CHESS

The atomic bomb in chess. (The power of Discovered and Double Check)

(picture taken from http://images.google.com.my/imglanding?q=atomic%20bomb%20hiroshima%20and%20nagasaki&imgurl=http://www.millionface.com/l/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/HiroshimaNagasaki/Hiroshima_Nagasaki_in_1945_1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.millionface.com/l/hiroshima-and-nagasaki-then-and-now/&usg=__wux6b9CqjLgbXPCGDs8FHw4Tikk=&h=665&w=489&sz=38&hl=en&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=b7TN0baCmOWNAM:&tbnh=138&tbnw=101&prev=/images%3Fq%3Datomic%2Bbomb%2Bhiroshima%2Band%2Bnagasaki%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Dactive%26sa%3DN%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&safe=active&sa=N&tbs=isch:1&start=6#tbnid=b7TN0baCmOWNAM&start=10 for illustrative purpose only.

During my school age, I was so fascinated by the power of double check shown in the famous Evergreen game:

[Event "Berlin 'Evergreen'"]
[Site "Berlin"]
[Date "1852.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Anderssen, Adolf"]
[Black "Dufresne, Jean"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C52"]
[PlyCount "47"]
[EventDate "1852.??.??"]
[EventType "game"]
[EventCountry "GER"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "1997.08.01"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bxb4 5. c3 Ba5 6. d4 exd4 7. O-O d3 8. Qb3
Qf6 9. e5 Qg6 10. Re1 Nge7 11. Ba3 b5 12. Qxb5 Rb8 13. Qa4 Bb6 14. Nbd2 Bb7 15.
Ne4 Qf5 16. Bxd3 Qh5 17. Nf6+ gxf6 18. exf6 Rg8 19. Rad1 Qxf3 20. Rxe7+ Nxe7
21. Qxd7+ Kxd7

Just look at the diagram above. White had invested a lot of material and his King is on the verge of mating threat (Qxg2mate), his Rook is hanging. But it was white's turn to play and he played:
22. Bf5+! (the discovered and double check) Ke8 23. Bd7+ Kf8 24. Bxe7# 1-0




The most astonishing double check and mate is however from this game between Richard Reti and Tartakower:
1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nf6 5. Qd3 e5 6. dxe5 Qa5+ 7. Bd2 Qxe5 8. O-O-O Nxe4



9. Qd8+ Kxd8 10. Bg5+ Kc7 11. Bd8#

As a matter of fact, the final mating pattern is known as the Reti's mate.

Another famous position came to my mind, involving my most admired chess genius, Bobby Fischer from Stockholm interzonal 1962. (Fischer-Julio Bolbochan: for full annotation see game 35 of Fischer's My 60 Memorable Games.

Just look at the diagram. What is more painful having a piece (a knight on f4) being pinned 3 times! Yet Fischer produced an outrageous move
35. Qb3!! setting his own threat

35...Rxf4 Black took the piece

36. Re5+! (This time only a discovered check without double check, but yet it wins)
36...Kf8 37. Rxe8+ 1-0

Black resign as Qe6+ and Qc8 mate.








Personally, I had my own collection of this atomic bomb weapon.

Here is my game against Syazrin Abd Rahman, a rising star in our local scene; taken from the first round of Selangor Open 2007.

(Diagram on the right showing the position after 31.f3 in Syazrin Abd Rahman - Rizal A Kamal)

Materials are still equal, but I had a space advantage. Moving the Queen means the game would be prolonged. Suddenly I saw that, if the white's knight is deviated from e2, I shall have a discovered check opportunity. After carefully calculatiing I played

31...Bxb3+ !!

And the shocked Syazrin answered 32. Nxb3 (Not 32. Ke1 as Rxe3+ 33. Kf1 [33. Kf2 Re2+ 34.Kf1 Qd4 35. Ne4 Qxe4])

32... Rxf3!! The real point.. This sets up the discovered check threat

33. h3
Other variations do not save white
(33. Nd4 Rf1+ 34. Kd2 Rxc1 35. Raxc1 cxd4)
(33. Kd2 Rf2+ 34. Kxd3 Qe4#)
(33. gxf3 Qxg1+ 34. Kd2 Qxe3+ 35. Kd1
Qe1#)

33... Rf1+ (The double check) 0-1

Another game of the same theme against a famous local chess bloger Hairulov in round 4 of Royal Selangor open 2006
(After 32... e5 )

Having enjoying a piece advantage, I thought that I could smash Hairulov easily by keeping on pressing. Therefore, without suspect, I played
33. Rf5?
(33. Qb3 or Qd3 were indicated by my opponent after the game, and he may resigned. However, seeing me had lulled into his trap of discovered attack, this time against me, he played..)

33... Bh4!
What is this! Oh no! I had been tricked!

34. Qxh4 Rxa8 35. Rxe5 d3
(If 35... Qa5 36. b6+ Qxb6 37. Qf4 Kb8 38. Nc5 Rc7 39. Rd5 Ka7 40. Na4)

36. cxd3 Qg1+ 37. Kc2 Ra1
It is time to check the stock. I was winning but now it was very messy. Suddenly I saw a very amazing resource with the culmination of a deadly discovered check.

Therefore I played 38. b6+!! (diagram left ) Qxb6 (The other capture also lost 38... Kxb6 39. Re6+ and now:
i) 39... Ka7
ii) 39... Kc7 40.Qf4+ Kd8 (40... Kc8 41. Re8+ Rd8 42. Be6#) 41. Qb8#)
iii) 39... Ka5 40. Qh5+ g5 41.Re5+ Kb4

(41... Ka4 42. Nc3+ Kb4 43. Rb5#)

(41... Kb6 42. Qxh6+ Ka7 (42... Kc7 43. Rc5+ Kb8 [43... Kd8 44. Qf8#] 44. Qxg5 Qd1+ 45. Kc3 Rc1+ 46. Kb4 Qe1+ 47.Kb5 Ra1 48. Ba2 Qe2 49. Qe5+ Ka7 50. Rc8 Qxd3+ 51. Bc4)) 42. Rb5+ Ka4 43. Nc3#) 40. Qf2+ (40. Nc3) 40... Qxf2+ 41. Nxf2)

Declining the sacrifice also lost
i) 38... Kc6 39. Re6+ Rd6 40. Rxd6#
ii) 38... Kc8 39. Re8+ Rd8 40. Qxd8#
iii) 38... Kb8 39. Re8+ Rd8 40. Qxd8#)

39. Qf4 setting up the threat of discovered check and it is a deadly one.

39...Qg1 40. Re6+ ! Kc8
(40... Kd8 41. Qb8#)

41. Re8+ Rd8 42. Be6# 1-0

Another type of discovery that may be deadly is a discover attack (without check). The game was Aziz Jaafar - Rizal A Kamal, Merdeka 1996. After 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be2 e6 7. Be3 Be7 8. O-O O-O 9. a4 Nc6 10. Kh1 Qc7 11. f4 Re8 12. Bf3 Rb8 13. Nb3 b6 14. f5 Ne5 15. Nd4 Nc4 16. Bc1 e5 17. Nde2 Bb7 18. b3 Na5 19. Bg5 Rbd8 20. Rc1 d5 21. Bxf6 Here I reached a position in the following diagram whereby my opponent had just captured my knight:

No doubt, white was expecting the automatic recapture 21..Bxf6. However. he forgot that, my Rook was peeping at his Queen. Therefore

21..dxe4!
(the discovered attack on the Queen and amusingly, this pawn shall keep on capturing along the a8-h1 diagonal!)
22. Bxe7
(White sacced his Queen, but it is insufficient)
22...Rxd1 23. Rfxd1 exf3 24. Bd6 Qc6 0-1

Also see my previous article UIA OPEN 2009 REVISITED under the labels Labels: double check, IIUM, Keres attack, Scheveningen, UIAM

(C) Copyright to Rizal Ahmad Kamal, 2010

MAKSAK 2010 IN KL?


It's been a long break since my last write on this blog. Not that I did not want to write, but I simply have nothing special to write. The abundance of local chess blogers had made sufficient coverage for the consumption of chess enthusiasts (including me). There is not much point to write things that had been well covered by others.

I am actually completing my current project keying in the previous Catur MAKSAK which was held at Kota Bharu on the 17 & 18 July 2009. The buletin shall be available in the market very soon and I expect the cost would be around RM15-20 (still cannot determine the exact price).


In this limited scope, I cannot stop myself from publishing a very short game of mine against a player from Johore. I had met him 2 times previously. The first meeting, I had the advantage, but failed to notch the winning point and ended with a draw. The 2nd meeting was worse, when, I, despite having to sacrifice some materials, gained a very strong attack but yet, in time trouble, failed to notice my opponent's Rook was en prise and lost the exciting game. This time, I won very quickly, not because I set the trap, but because my opponent played into it.

[Event "Catur MAKSAK, Kota Bharu"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2009.07.17"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Rizal A Kamal KL"]
[Black "Nasrul Humaimi JOHOR"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B34"]
[PlyCount "27"]
[EventDate "2010.01.13"]
[SourceDate "2010.01.09"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6?!
I actually had witnessed Nasrul played in this move order a few years back in MAKSAK Kuching 2003 even though at that time I still did not produce the complete buletin for MAKSAK chess games. However, later in our encounter, Nasrul surprisingly (for me) played 1...e5! and the Ruy Lopez Zaitsev was discussed.

6. Nxc6!
Otherwise, Nasrul would trick me into playing the accelerated dragon without giving me the chance to use Dr John Nunn's prescription, the Marockzy bind formation

6...bxc6 7. e5 Nd5?
(After the game I showed to him 7... Ng8. After 8. Bc4 Qa5?! (8...Bg7 was correct) 9. O-O Qxe5? 10. Re1! white has the strong innitiative for the sacrificed pawn, for example: 10...Qc5 [10... Qg7 11. Ne4! d5 12. Bxd5cxd5 13. Qxd5 Rb8 14. Nd6+ Kd8 15. Nxf7+] 11. Ne4!)

8. Nxd5 cxd5 9. Qxd5 Rb8 10. e6

And now, Nasrul played the unexpected
10...fxe6??
(10... f6 was correct) (Also bad is 10... Bg7 11. exf7+ Kf8 12. Bh6! Bxh6 13. Qe5 The fork again!
Bg7 14. Qxb8 Qa5+ 15. c3 Bxc3+ 16. bxc3 Qxc3+ 17. Ke2 Kxf7 (17... Qxa1 18.
Qxc8+ Kg7 (18... Kxf7 19. Qc4+ e6 20. Kf3 white is winning) 19. Qxh8+ Kxh8 20. f8=Q# mate!)
18. Qf4+ Kg7 19. Rc1 Ba6+ 20. Kd1 )

11. Qe5 the winning fork

11...Bb7 12. Qxh8 Qa5+ 13. c3 Qf5 14. Qd4
Not wishing to prolong the agony, Nasrul Humaimi resigned. 1-0

"Rizal, Nasrul didn't even really 'sit down yet'"- Johor's manager.
Nasrul: "Please do not include this in next year's buletin".

This year, I am looking forward to play in the coming Catur MAKSAK 2010 which, according to some reliable sources would be held in KL. It is the 3rd time KL hosted this during my involvement in catur MAKSAK (1st in 2000 and 2nd in 2006). I hope my colleagues will be sufficiently prepare to wrest the title of champion as we (KL) won it for the last time in 2006 after having won it 2 in a row (2003 and 2005 - no Catur MAKSAK being organised in 2004)