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Sunday, 24 August 2008

KEJOHANAN CATUR USM MASTER CHESS 2008

BERGAMBAR DENGAN FM ANAS

SEMASA PERTANDINGAN PCMM 2008 KUALA LUMPUR.

Wednesday, 13 August 2008

2008 World Championship Match announced

Viswanathan Anand and Vladimir Kramnik for the title

After the lengthy negotiation, World Chess Championship match between Viswanathan Anand and Vladimir Kramnik has been officially announced. There are no draw odds and tiebreak will be played in case of a tie after 12 regular games. It is also decided that Germany is neutral country. The match will take place on 12-30 October, which is later than FIDE planned, but Anand already had contract for the Grand Slam final tournament in September.

Before Corus 2008 Kramnik and Anand have played over 125 games. The stats very well reflect the similarity of ELO of the two players. Anand has won 19 times, Kramnik has won 15 times, and draw has been agreed in more than 90 games.

Press Release

World Chess Championship to be held in Germany: Viswanathan Anand and Vladimir Kramnik battle for the highest chess title in October 2008

· When: From October 11 - 30, 2008
· Where: Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bonn
· Overall Prize fund: 1,5 Million Euro
· Patron: German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrück
· Main sponsor: Evonik Industries AG

Dortmund. The World Chess Championship will be held from October 11 to 30, 2008 in the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bonn, between Viswanathan Anand (India) and Vladimir Kramnik (Russia).

The match will consist of twelve games, played under classical time controls, in the period from October 11 to October 28, 2008. If there is a tie at the end of these games a tiebreak will be played on October 30, 2008. The prize fund, which will be split equally between the players, is 1,5 million Euro (approximately 2,1 million US Dollars) including taxes and FIDE licensee fees.

Viswanathan Anand (37) and Vladimir Kramnik (32) are the two outstanding personalities in chess today. The world championship match between them is keenly anticipated by chess fans all over the world. It is part of a 120-year tradition of chess history, which includes matches like Capablanca-Alekhine, Fischer-Spassky, Kasparov-Karpov and Kramnik- Topalov.

The reigning and undisputed World Champion Anand won his title in September 2007 at the World Championship tournament in Mexico City. Kramnik, who was undefeated in his three world championship matches, became second in this double round robin event.

The World Chess Championship 2008 takes place under the patronage of the German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrück, who is himself an enthusiastic and ambitious chess player.

The main sponsor of the World Championship is Evonik Industries. This industrial enterprise is located in Essen, Germany. The organizer of the World Championship 2008 is Universal Event Promotion (UEP), which is located in Dortmund (Germany) and has received all rights for the event from FIDE.

The World Chess Championship 2008 in Bonn will be organized with the full cooperation of the World Chess Federation FIDE and it’s President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov. FIDE has its main office in Athens, Greece, and is the head of 161 national chess federations with 40 million active chess players, making it one of the world’s largest sporting organizations.

Evonik Industries

Evonik Industries is the creative industrial group which operates in three highly profitable, promising business areas: Chemicals, Energy and Real Estate. Evonik is a global leader in specialty chemicals, an expert in power generation from hard coal and renewable energies, and one of the largest private residential real estate companies in Germany. The strengths of Evonik are creativity, specialization, continuous self-renewal, and reliability.

Evonik is active in over 100 countries around the world. In fiscal 2006 around 43,000 employees generated sales of €14.8 billion and an operating profit (EBIT) of over €1.2 billion. Evonik plans to enter the capital markets in the first half of 2008.

Monday, 11 August 2008

Mas lost to the top seed

IM Mashafizul (photo right) was soundly beaten by the Serbian - GM Ivan Ivanisevic (photo left) in round 4 of the 2008 Biel Chess Festival. The top seed show no mercy and unleash a powerfull attacking ideas that is very difficult for Mas to defend. Ivanisevic is a superb tactician and always well prepared with an interesting and powerfull opening ideas - read his interview by chessdom.com.

photo from bielchessfestival official site

GM Ivan Ivanisevic (2664) - IM Mashafizul (2386) [E04]
2008 Biel Chess Festival (Round 4), 24.07.2008

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 d5 4.Nf3 dxc4 5.Bg2 Nc6 6.0–0 Rb8 7.Nc3 Bb4 8.a3 Bxc3 9.bxc3 0–0 10.Bg5 h6 Fritz opening book gave 10...b5 11.Bh4 Ivanisevic provoke Mas to weaken his kingside 11...g5 Black is more or less force to play this move because white will sooner or later play e4-e5

12.Nxg5 hxg5 13.Bxg5 Black wins a piece but white have a very strong attack 13...Kg7 16.Qh5 Nxg5 17.fxg5 e5 18.Rf6 Mas has defend well so far and after 18...Ng6 with the idea of 19..Rh8 harrasing white's queen, he could have force white to split the points for example 18...Ng6 19.Qh6+ (19.Rxg6+ fxg6 20.Qh6+ Kg8 21.Qxg6+ Kh6 22.Qxh6+ perpectual) 19...Kg8 20.Rxg6+ fxg6 21.Qxg6+ Kh8 22.Qh6+ perpectual too! )

18...Ng8?? 19.Raf1! white is winning 19...Qe7 20.Qh4 20.dxe5! with the idea of the rook lift R1f4 -Rh4 win instantly 20...Qd8± 21.Qh5 Qe7 22.dxe5 Be6 23.g6 Nh6 23...Qc5+ a fruitless try to alter the course of the game 24.Kh1 Nh6 25.gxf7 Qe3 26.Rg6+ Kh7 27.Rf4 Qc1+ 28.Bf1! 24.gxf7 Rh8 24...Qc5+ is no salvation 25.Kh1 Qe3 26.Rg6+ Kh7 27.Rf4 Qc1+ 28.Bf1 25.f8Q+! Mate attack. . . . 25... Rhxf8 26.Qxh6+ Kg8 27.Rg6+ Qg7 28.Rxg7# 1–0

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Mini Training Tournament For MERDEKA 2008

The Players

Mohd Saprin Sabri organise a 4 player double round robin closed tournament in UNITEN Bangi Food Court , today. The tournament is part of their preparation for the upcoming 2008 MERDEKA team tournament. The players playing is NM Kamal Abdullah, Mohd Fairin Zakaria, Zambri Shariff and Mohd Saprin Sabri himself. The game starts at 9.30 am and end about 2pm. The time control is 10 minutes with 10 second increment.

Mohd Saprin Sabri (right) the organiser own two computer shop at Bandar Baru Bangi. My friend Aziz Shukor tell me that he has registered to play in the upcoming DATMO.

Back to the mini tournament, the final results is Mohd Fairin Zakaria emerged as the Champion with 4.5 points followed by the dark house - Zambri Syariff ( 3 points)- 2nd, Mohd Saprin Sabri ( 2.5 points) - 3rd and NM Kamal Abdullah (2 points) - 4th. The price for the champion is Kaspersky Anti Virus 2009 and for 2nd prise won a SAMSUNG Thermos. Prices were sponsored by the organiser- Mohd Saprin Sabri.

Below are excellent annotated games by Zambri Syarif who create an upset by beating the eventual winner Fairin Zakaria.

Mohd Zambri Mohd Shariff - Fairin Zakaria [B22]
Mini Training Tournament for MERDEKA 2008, 10.08.2008

analysis by Mohd Zambri

1.e4 c5 2.c3

( Hairulov : The Sicilian Alapin or ayah pin as Zambri like to called it ! ) 2...d5 3.exd5 Qxd5 4.d4 Nf6 5.Nf3 Bg4 6.Nbd2 cxd4 7.Bc4 Qd8?

[7...Qd7 8.Qb3 e6 9.Ne5 White has a slight plus due to development and bishop pair] 8.Qb3 Attacking both f7 and b7 [8.Ne5!? this move is suggested by Fairin during the analysis 8...Be6 force since the Queen is taboo 9.Bxe6 fxe6 10.Qa4+ Nbd7 11.cxd4 Nd5 12.Ndf3 N5b6 13.Qb5 a6 14.Qb3 with a clear positional plus, but indeed this is just a matter of taste and style.] 8...e6 [8...Bh5? 9.Ne5 e6 10.Qxb7 Nbd7 11.Nc6 Qc8 12.Ba6!] 9.Qxb7 Nbd7 10.Nxd4 Rc8 In a difficult position, he tried to complicate matters 11.Qxa7 I saw a pawn, why not? I took it [11.h3 Bh5 12.0–0 Bc5 13.Bxe6!! (suggested by Rybka)] 11...Bc5 12.Qa4 Qb6 Here, I give him the pawn I took coz I got to find a way to exchange Queen 13.0–0 Bxd4 14.cxd4 Qxd4 15.Bb5 Qd5 16.Bxd7+ Qxd7 17.Qxd7+ Exactly as what I have calculated when I played 13.0–0 17...Nxd7 18.b4 Rc2 19.a4 Ne5 20.b5 Nd3 21.Ne4 Be2 22.Be3 Bxf1 23.Kxf1

23...Ra2?? Actually he resigned here, the move executed was just a joke[23...f5 Amazingly when analyzed with Rybka, black still have counter play though it still favours white 24.Ng5 Ke7 25.Nf3 f4 26.Bd4 Rd8 27.Ra3 Rc1+ 28.Ke2 Nb2 29.a5 Rc2+ 30.Ke1 g5 31.Rc3 Rxc3 32.Bxc3 g4] 1–0

Zambri joked to me after the tournament end that if this tournament is FIDE rated, he will gained many rating points from the other players! :)

Below are some of the photo taken by me. I drop by for about 5 minutes to take photo's and a have a little chat with the players.

The Champion - Mohd Fairin Zakaria

The Dark Horse and runner up - Mohd Zambri Syariff in deep thought!

NM Kamal Abdullah in 4th place - if you watch carefull there's banana in his left hand and yes...the players are allowed to eat,drink, smoke and use the mobile phone !?

No Malaysian Women Team in 2008 Dresden Olympiad ?

I just read from setiachess that Malaysian Chess Federation ( MCF ) will not send our women team to the 2008 Dresden Chess Olympiad . The desicion made because two of our strong players - WIM Siti Zulaikha (FIDE 2218) and WCM NurShazwani (FIDE 2016) will not participate because they will have major academic examination during the date of the olympiad.

I personally feel that if finacial is not the problems, MCF should sent the others available players such as NWM Nurulhuda, Khairunissa Wahiddudin, Nabila, Alia Anin Azwa Bakri, Wong Siew Ting or others to gain valuable playing experience in Olympiad. Probably they can use similiar strategy used by the Australian olympiad chess team to raise fund and support their team financely .