The kids took part in the KL Age Group today.
Initially, it was announced that the event will be a FIDE-rated event (Read BlogPOST ). However, it was "scaled down" to a NR event. When queried as to why it was only a NR event as opposed to the earlier announcement, a teacher said that it was mainly due to not many players having A FIDE-rating and/or FIDE ID...emmm...
Anyway, both kids managed a credible showing.......hAnA finished Runners-Up whilst The CP...to quote his own words verbatim got a "Nothing But Useless" bronze (after tie-break with another 6.5pointer) again in the U-12 category this time..the third time in as many competitions starting with the Selangor Juniors U-8 on 30th March and followed by Polgar Juniors U-10 the following week.
However, the main concern is that despite the decent results - I do not think that it was a good last event warm-up for NAG. In the first place the 15minutes time is hardly sufficient...compared to the longer time frame for NAG, many players struggled. Even CP who'll normally have loads of time left lost his 2nd round game due to time drop. Furthermore, had intended for them to practice notating their moves in prep.for NAG 2014 but due to limited time the Notation plans was also scrapped.
Having said that, it was not the organisers' fault but rather a coincidence that this event was to be the final event before NAG 2014 as the initial dates have been postponed by MCF due to Kasparov's visit to Malaysia. All in the organisers did a good job as event (incl.Prize-Giving) was completed before 6pm and players got to spar for 8rounds rather than the normal 6 or 7 rounds. The venue was good and definitely.......much, much better than previous events organised by MSSKL Teachers at The Pusat Kecemerlangan Sukan near Tasik Titiwangsa.
On hindsight should have just registered both of them for the Open category so that they'll get good match practice rather than just decent results.
Having said that,
(TBC).
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