8th AM Bank Chess Challenge 2013, (FIDE-rated)

Event INFO

Blog Reports: HERE, HERE2, HERE3

Round 3; HERE
Round 2;
Round 1; RESULTS

Pairings, By Rounds:-

Round 9:

Round 8:
Note: Pairing released very late!
hAnA: v. Barve Atharva Abhijit ( 84th Seed). UnRated
Bd. . draw.

CP: v.


Round 7:
hAnA: v. Ravindran K'thik Ramanan (USA, 97th Seed).
Bd.49 - W. WON

CP: v. Yusoff Rayan Aidan. (MAS, 103rd Seed). UnRated.
Bd.44 - W. lost after being offered a draw initially.

Round 6 (Wednesday, 14/8 - 3PM):
hAnA: v. Mahmood Shah Meer Iskandar Shah (MAS, 82nd Seed). NR:1109
Bd.45 - B. lost in 30moves in around 45mins.

Note: CP met hAnA's opponent in an earlier round.

CP: v. Ganesh Hana (IND, 88th Seed). UnRated
Bd.46 - B. WON, c'mate in 49moves with 2nd Queen. 1:30 time remaining.

Round 5 (Monday, 11/8 - 3PM):
hAnA: v. Yeow Hui Shi Elizabeth Maria (SIN, 100th Seed). UnRated
Bd. . Lost, checkmate after xx moves.

Note 1: hAnA played against Elizabeth during the 2012 4th Penang Heritage City event.

Note 2: Elizabeth should have been rated. In last year's 4th PHCICC, she was rated as per Singapore's NR of 1371. (Read HERE).

CP: v. Jarell Cheong. (MAS, 77th Seed). NR:1209
Bd.50 - W. WON, Checkmate in xx moves after around 45mins. Finally, after 2 losses against lower-rated players...a long overdue win even though against a lower rated player. More importantly and hopefully, it'll be a good morale booster for tomorrow's 4th Swensen's Age Group U-8 where he's seeded 4th and carrying a 14-games winning streak in Rapid competitions. ( Read HERE & HERE2 )


Round 4 (Monday, 11/8 - 9AM):
hAnA: v. Hanif Mollah. (BAN, 9th Seed). FIDE:1902
Bd.30 - W. lost after 61 moves after around 90minutes.

Note 1: After this game, hAnA's FIDE average should rise to AT LEAST 997 from 982 i.e. 1902 + 1832 + 20,029 / 14pax +(-700).
Note 2: 3rd Non-Malaysian player hAnA is playing after a Bangladeshi and an American in the 1st & 2nd round respectively.


CP: v. Brian Ooi Ming Fen. (MAS,79th Seed). NR:1162
Bd.48 - B. lost

AFTER 3 ROUNDS>>> hAnA: L, D, D @ 1/3pts. CP: L, L, L @0/3pts.

Round 3:
hAnA: v. Yusoff Rayan Aidan. (MAS, 103rd Seed). UnRated.
Bd.40 - W. Draw, initial draw offer by hAnA refused. A few moves later, opponent offered the draw. 2 pawns up but unable to link the separated pawns due to black rook's intervention.

CP: v. Mahmood Shah Meer Iskandar Shah (MAS, 82nd Seed). NR:1109
Bd.45 - W. Lost in 12 moves after playing less than 30minutes. Failed to see the bishop supporting the Queen.

Round 2:
hAnA: v. Raghupatruni (USA, 95th Seed). UnRated
Bd.46 - B. Draw, claimed by hAnA under 3x repetitive move after 71moves in around 1 hour 45mins.
hAnA could have won this game if she'd given it more thought.


CP: v. Yeow Hui Shi Elizabeth Maria (SIN, 100th Seed). UnRated
Bd.50 - B. Lost, checkmate after 31moves in just under 1 hour

Note 1: hAnA played against Elizabeth during the 2012 4th Penang Heritage City event.

Note 2: Elizabeth should have been rated. In last year's 4th PHCICC, she was rated as per Singapore's NR of 1371. (Read HERE)


Round 1
hAnA: v. Mohammad Hasan (BAN, 12th Seed). FIDE Rating:1832.
Bd.15: White. Lost in 68moves. Early pawn sacrifice to exchange Queen resulted in initial positional and tactical advantage and caused opponent to spend time thinking/analysing. Played more than 2hours.

(In this game hAnA got her opponent from Bangladesh to use his time. Less than 15minutes left.
 Picture: Courtesy of Chess Malaysia fb )

(  Who would have thought things got very much complicated after this!?
Picture: Courtesy of Chess Malaysia fb )

( Picture: Courtesy of Chess Malaysia fb )

Note: After this game, hAnA's FIDE average have risen to 982 from 969 i.e. 1832 + 20,029 / 13pax +(-700).

CP: v. Darrel Yap Egin(MAS, 16th Seed). FIDE Rating:1768.
Bd.19: White. Lost in 30moves despite initially being a rook and a pawn up(based on CP analysis). Played for more than 1 hour.

( CP...always looking elsewhere but not on his board.
Picture: Courtesy of Chess Malaysia fb )

Note 1: After this game, CP needs to play against 2 more FIDE-rated players whilst maintaining his average above 1000.
Note 2: Present average is 1083 I.e. 1768 + 12,492 / 8pax +(- 700).


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The starting list and pairings for Round 1 have been released. hAnA and the cHEss pIRATE are seeded 67th and 71st respectively from 106 players.
A WIN or Draw in the first round, will be a good result.


For the record this will be hAnA's and the cHEss pIRATE's 5th and 4th FIDE-rated Classical Games' event respectively after 2012 Nf6 Challenger(hAnA Only), 4th Penang Heritage City-Challenger, 5th National Juniors and the 2013 DCC Golden Special. Hopefully, both will get their FIDE-rating after the completion of the event. hAnA' needs to play against higher FIDE-rated players (1700 and above) and/or secure a result(Win or Draw) against other FIDE-rated players as she's met the minimum requirements of playing against a minimum of 10 FIDE-rated players. Her present average after playing against 12 FIDE-rated players over 4 tournaments is 969 I.e. 20,029 / 12pax.

On the other hand, The cHEss pIRATE needs to play against at least 3 more FIDE-rated players to fulfill one of 2 criterias to get a FIDE-rating. After the first round encounter against 1700 FIDE-rated Darrel, hopefully he'll get the opportunity to play against 2 other rated players. The other criteria is that his average rating should be 1000 or more. His present average after playing against 7 FIDE-rated players in classical games over 3 tournaments is,1084 I.e. 12,492 / 7pax.