2012 4th Penang Heritage City International ENDS today!

The 4th Penang Heritage City International Chess Competition ends today.
hAnA got the Bronze medal for finishing 3rd in the Girls U-10 category.
All results HERE

OFFICIAL Results:-
OPEN Category
CHALLENGER Section

Being the first International FIDE-rated event I'd attended and the kids participated in I find that the event was efficiently run despite hesitating to participate initially due to the high costs and highest ever entrance fees that needs to be forked out. Read HERE.

From the onset, the organiser was quick to respond to email queries...normally within 24hours (unlike the organiser of the recent RSC Juniors who have yet to reply to my 2 email queries after weeks). Games ran on time (unlike most Rapid events be it NR event or unrated events). Apart from the top board playing their game on stage and the game being webcasted live, another interesting observation is the availability of players' signages with their name, country flag and current FIDE rating. Kudos to the organisers especially Mr.Tan.


It was a learning experience for both hAnA and the cHEss pIRATE participating in their first ever FIDE-rated Classical tournament with an international field. hAnA played against 3 Singaporeans and 1 Indonesian boy registered for the U-8 category whilst the cHEss pIRATE dueled with 3 Singaporeans. hAnA played true to ratings I.e. Winning against lower rated players and losing to higher rated ones. Similarly,the cHEss pIRATE won against a lower rated player and lost to higher rated ones albeit one when he caused an upset in Round 6 against a player rated more than 150points ahead of him.

A positive development I'd observed is that hAnA is starting not only to analyse her own game and re-writing her moves on another record sheet but is also writing comments
as to what she'd learnt from each game. As for the cHEss pIRATE...well I don't know what he's thinking or learned from 4th Penang Heritage City event, hope he'd picked up some pointers.