1st Competition after 2 Months Lay-Off: 3rd MBPJ Open & 2nd THE SUMMIT JUNIORS Open, Registered!

2nd THE SUMMIT JUNIORS Open: 1st Update
U-12(hAnA) Participants' Name LIST @50pax
U-7 (the cHEss pIRATE) Participants' Name LIST @28pax


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It has been around 2 months since hAnA and the cHEss pIRATE participated in ANY chess competition.
Today, I'd made a payment of RM30 for both of them to participate in the 2nd The Summit Juniors Open next Sunday I.e. 30th June. I'd also registered via SMS for the cHEss pIRATE to take part in the 3rd MBPJ Open. They had both taken part in the same 2 competitions last year. (22/6: Correction - Faiz took part in both competitions whilst hAnA only participated in the MBPJ Open as she was playing in the FIDE-rated Nf6 Challenger at TTDI 2nd MBPJ 2012 Results & 1st The Summit 2012 Results. hAnA's Nf6 Challenger )

WHY the long lay-off from competitive chess? 2 main reasons,the kids were concentrating on their respective examinations I.e. Primary, KAFA & OUM and Umrah preparations including the actual Umrah where we'd an awesome 12days in the holy land.

To RECALL - for hAnA, her last event was the UM Open aka Piala Tun Syed Zahiruddin on Saturday, April 20th ( GE13 Nomination Day ) where she finished 2nd ( HERE ).
The 2nd Smart Kids Chess competition held at Duta Vista-KL on Labour Day 1st May where the cHEss pIRATE finished 4th was the last competitive event for the Him ( HERE ).

In entering them for the competitions next weekend, I did not pressure them into entering any competition but had only informed them of the various competitions being advertised on the net. Last week both of them asked - " Ayah, when are we going to enter the next event? Dah lama tak masuk! " To which I replied - " it's up to you all when you want to participate. There's no compulsion for you all to take part!"

After a 2-month layoff I.e. 70days@hAnA & 60days@The cHEss pIRATE respectively, am just hoping that they'll do alright...WE SHALL SEE in a week's time, I suppose!!!



Note:
Since coming back, there were 3 Report Card collection for hAnA & 1 for the CP.

After the "disaster" (by hAnA standards) of not being in the Top 3 in her Aliran previously, she seemed to be making a comeback by placing 2nd when I collected her Report Card today. She'd also performed extremely well for her OUM Certificate in Financial Literacy (...which caused her to miss the 40th Selangor Open. HERE & HERE2 )and it was also announced during her CFL graduation ceremony that of all papers she had scored 100% for the most difficult paper I.e. Paper 3. Having said that she needs to start focussing for her UPKK and as such attend Saturday KAFA classes on a more regular basis.



The cHEss pIRATE on the other hand had only his KAFA exams to sit for and did well save for Feqah where he got a B(79). I was rather annoyed when I found out that he'd actually finished Muqadam and could have finished reciting at least the first Juzuk(Juz 1) by now but took things easy as he wanted to wait for his other friends who are in Iqra4-6 to finish so that he can recite Al-Baqarah together with them. After hearing the comments from KAFA's Principal i.e. Ustazah Azizah and having seen him read the Quran (w/o being asked to do so) at Hudaibiah mosque, Masjidil Haram & Nabawi Mosque...at times reciting just a few verses before returning and taking another Quran to read - I told Ustazah Azizah that the next target for Faiz is for him to khatam Quran when he's 7yrs stating; IF Imam Syafie can memorise the Quran when he's 7yrs old, Faiz should at least try to khatam by that age! She agreed and I decided to send the CP for additional recitation classes at KAFA on Saturday morning on top of Ustaz Zakaria coming over twice weekly on Tuesdays & Saturdays to teach them recitation.