5th National Juniors Chess Championship 2012 (5th NJCC 2012)

5th NJCC 2012 Tournament Status HERE(Boys) & HERE(Girls)

UPDATE 9: 25/12/2012 (0105hours$
Blog Reports:- The Chess Connections


DAY 5
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( Look at where The cHEss pIRATE's "hand" is )


Final Round @Round 9
B08: hAnA v. Pavithra Thanabalan (NR 1224, ranked 19th). WON in what was supposed to be a drawn game.

( hAnA playing against Pavithra on the last Day )




B28. Faiz v. Mohd Harith Fahmi (NR 1219, ranked 51st ). lost.

( Faiz playing against the higher-ranked Mohd Harith in the last round of NJCC2012 )


DAY 4
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(Pictures: Courtesy of Najib Wahab's Chess-Malaysia facebook)




Round 8:
B09. hAnA v. Sangethavaty Thanasegaran (NR 1291, ranked 14th)lost.

B28. Faiz v. Aqil (NR 1323, ranked 46th). lost

Round 7:

B07. W. hAnA v. Ho Chen Ee (NR 1451, ranked 12th). lost

B27: W. Faiz v. Chang Wei Jin (Unrated, ranked 55th). Lost

DAY 3
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Day 3, blog reports HERE & HERE2.

Round 6:
B09: W. hAnA v. Noor Zainoor Ikmal Munir (NR 1272, ranked 15th). WON, finally she got her first point(NOT including Bye point obtained in Round 3) against an opponent rated just 8points ahead of her i.e. 1272 against hAnA's 1264. However, she had to make heavy work of it. I believe her 7-year old opponent will be somebody to keep an eye out for in the coming years.

B25: B. Faiz v. Kughan Ravindran (NR 1552, ranked 30th). lost in 45moves in just under 45minutes. Time Remaining, Faiz@1:33 & opponent@1:30.

Round 5:
B08: B. hAnA v. Noor Zainoor Ikmal (FIDE 1639, ranked 6th). Lost in 77moves after choosing to support 2 pawns down the board instead of moving king to support single pawn promotion.

B25: W. Faiz v. Mohd Radzuan (NR 1317, ranked 47th). lost in 33moves. Time Remaining, Faiz@1:33 & Opponent@1:23.

DAY 2
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Day 2, blog reports HERE & HERE2.

Round 4:

( hAna playing against Nur Sabrina )

B07. B. hAnA v. Nur Sabrina Asman (NR 1485, ranked 10th). lost.

B23. B. Faiz v. Low Chee Pang (NR 1424, ranked 39th). lost.

Round 3:
hAnA got a BYE

B28. W. cHEss pIRATE v. Thanabalan Kabilan (NR 1330, ranked 45th). The Pirate WON against a player rated 173 points higher than him despite the initial early loss of QUEEN. As per recent 4th Penang Heritage City International - Challenger Section, he seemed to average per tournament, an upset against a higher rated player.

( The cHEss pIRATE lost his Queen earlier in this game but still managed to upset a player rated 173 points higher than his NR of 1157 ).

DAY 1
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Day 1 Blog Reports, HERE & HERE2

Round 2:
B09: W. hAnA v. Tan Wei Ting(NR 1399, ranked 13th).

( Ha! Ha! The 5year-old cHEss pIRATE is "caught" thinking. Perhaps, he might be saying - "...what a position, I got myself into!?". Picture, courtesy of Chess-Malaysia fb )

B27: B. Faiz v. Low Hong Ben(NR 1390, ranked 41st). lost in 40moves. Time remaining, Faiz@1:27 & Low@1:32.

Round 1:
B07: B. hAnA v. Nur Faqihah Aminuddin(FIDE 1635, ranked 7th). Lost, position deteriorated when she didn't see the king-rook check trap coming in 2moves. Then miscalculated a 2-pawn exchange which resulted in her losing her last remaining good piece I.e. Bishop.

B23: W. Faiz v. Loh Zu Hao(NR 1660, ranked 26th). lost


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The 5th NJCC 2012 Begins today at the DATCC-KL.
After attending the efficiently run FIDE-rated 4th Penang Heritage City International event last week in which the entrance fee for the kids were RM200each(as they were NOT PCA members & also not FIDE-rated, it's back to Malaysian chess reality I.e. Games starting late and another unkept promise of publishing the players' list despite stating it on the form...BTW, the entrance fee for this event is RM100 each due to the kids not being fide-rated.

In a seldom occurring event the girls and boys are playing against each other and not in an open competition as per the norm. hAnA, with a National Rating of 1264 starts the tournament ranked 17th out of 20 participating girls listed. hAnA's brother I.e. the cHEss pIRATE with a NR of 1157 is ranked second last in the field I.e. 55th out of 56 players. I think he would have been ranked last if not for the fact that player no.56 is unrated. Should be good exposure for both of them.

5th NJCC 2012, Forms Submitted & Fees Paid

The 5th National Juniors Chess Championship(5th NJCC 2012) will be held from 18-22 December at DATCC-KL. It is open to only Malaysians, aged 20years and below I.e. Those born in 1992 or, earlier.
Right till early December the dates were not announced yet and considering that it's a "National" event, albeit a junior one I find it rather perplexing that such an event is only fixed at the 11th hour.

Had enrolled the kids to participate in the 5th NJCC 2012 and had submitted the forms and made the payment personally to Najib Wahab(who was on the way to Sg.Petani and was making a pit-stop in Penang) since participants are supposed to submit direct to any one of the named persons stated in the NJCC 2012 form as no registration via telephone or SMS are accepted.

On Page 2 of the NJCC form, it also states that the players list will be out on 16th December. Unfortunately, as at the time of this blogpost I.e. 10.17am on 17 December and after checking the following sites I.e. http://malaysianchessfederation.blogspot.com/ & http://njcc2012.blogspot.com/ , NO such list exists. I suppose I'd referred to the wrong sites. Well......emmmm......

Should be good exposure for hAnA and the cHEss pIRATE. Come 2013, Will be more selective as to which events to enter them in subject to budget considerations.