4th Penang Heritage City International Chess Open-Challenger - Under Consideration!

UPDATE 1@31/10:
Received 4 email replies from the Organiser(Mr.Tan) & Venue Hotel.

Till this point Mr.Tan is very efficient and responds quickly to my email queries UNLIKE some other organisers who'll list their email address in the blog(s) and/or application form(s) but NEVER replies to email queries.

The Venue hotel & Mr.Tan had also responded to my rates query I.e RM145nett per night c/w a Big Bed & 2 Breakfast.


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Louisa from PCA-SH suggested that I send the 2 kids to participate in the above-mentioned event. hAnA needs to "graduate" to the classical game rather than just playing rapids whilst it'll be "good exposure" for the cHEss pIRATE.

Upon checking the Event's website, HERE I realised that the fees alone per person is RM200(being a non-PCA player)...more than whatever fees that I'd paid before. If I recall correctly, the highest fees I'd ever paid for a chess event is RM40 or, RM50 for the National Age Group (NAG 2012) organised by the MCF in March 2012 near the Olympic Hotel, KL. At an average entrance fees of RM25 per chess event/competition, RM200 is enough for 8 competitions.

Estimated Expenses for Event:-
(1) RM 400 Entrance Fees @RM200 x 2pax I.e. AF2 & AF3
(2) RM 1,320 Accommodation @RM220 x 6Days (Tune Hotel)
(3) RM 140 Toll @70 x 2Ways (KL - Butterworth - Penang Bridge - KL)
(4) RM 250 Petrol @ 125Per Full Tank x 2 Fillings
(5) RM 500 Food & Incidentals
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RM 2,610 WOW.....
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Let me first check with the organisers as to wether participants for the Challenger event will be FIDE-rated or, not. Otherwise, they'll be no point entering I suppose!?

a ROUND with UNCLE JOHN.

Friday UPDATE: After being treated for dinner by Pak Long Akbar at Zorro Cafe, nearby the ZON at Stulang...the cHEss pIRATE was feeling cocky and asked Pak Long to drop by at AmanSari for a game. If not for the traffic crawl at Jln.Wong Ah Fook, the game would probably have taken place. Alas,...it was not to be, YET!

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hAnA and the cHEss pIRATE are in JB for the raya holidays to visit their uncles and relatives.

After telling them of the game I saw Uncle John aka Faizal playing against one of his opponent during A-level days in the dormitory of 51C-DU where the opponent disrupted the game by "felling the chess pieces" both of them wanted a "piece of Uncle John".

cHEss pIRATe played 1 game at Menara Landmarks and another game at Amansari whilst hAnA played 1 game against Uncle John at Amansari.

Cheers Mate.

PS: Used to play long distance against Uncle John....perhaps need to recommence the Game.

18th KEPONG Juniors & 1st SUMMIT Open, Registered & Paid

1st SUMMIT OPEN: 02/11/2012@ Organiser's Update, Read HERE

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After 2 NO-SHOWS and a POSTPONED event in Shah Alam which was supposed to be held on 3/11,I decided to register hAnA and the cHEss pIRATE for 2 events to be held over consecutive weeks.

FIRST Time I'd paid(RM50 + RM24) for 2 events together as one of the the Organiser for both events are the same person I.e. Lim Tse Pin. He'd also sent a SMS for the event on 28/10(CAS 4th Quarter Allegro) which I'd declined due to the Raya holidays.

...SCHOOL HOLIDAYS is about to Start!!!

INSOFAR Scholarship, OCT. - Another NO Show!

Having had to skip the UPSI Open in mid-October due to the examinations season, hAnA and the cHEss pIRATE had wanted to take part in the October's edition of Insofar Scholarship tournament...and I'd even registered them by sending a SMS to Raja Aiza(012-3415030) on 15/10

However,due to late Partcipation Notice(s) given (at the 11th Hour, so to speak)by learning institution for an event which require their participation the kids would have to give the event a miss. The duo had really wanted to use the RM50 vouchers won in the Insofar Shah Alam Age Group in July ( Read, HERE )...seems like we have to save the voucher for at least another month then.

Blogmaster wishes the Insofar organisers a successful tournament.

cHEss pIRATE is a SPENT Force!!!

After a hiatus of a couple of months, the cHEss pIRATE restarted theory classes at PCA-Sri Hartamas,KL.

When he came back after back-to-back classes, he was "dead to the world" till around 5pm. Must have did some "heavy thinking" in class.

6th UPSI Open 2012 - Have to Give It a Miss

As far back as August, the family had planned to participate in the 6th UPSI Chess Open 2012...In line with the "getting a few things done" whilst traveling to places which we would normally have no reason to go to. Tanjung Malim-Perak D.R. is one such destination.

However, the exam season put paid to those traveling intentions especially since hAnA have to "REDEEM Herself" after her "disastrous" mid-year performance this year where she'd placed in a never heard before position of 6th, mainly due to her frequent class-skipping. There were just too many days(my Guestimate is about 3weeks in total or more) spent away from school due to chess competitions(Bangsar Zone & KL Finals) and training sessions(MSSM KT preparations) as well as choral speaking appearances in TV3, NTV7 & RTM plus exhibitions.

All the best to the organisers. Hope you all take into account of the academic examinations timetable when planning for next year's event.

The LATEST Ratings Are Out: October - December 2012

The October-December 2012 Malaysian National Chess ratings aka NR were just released.
Details, can be observed HERE.

Both hAnA and the cHEss pIRATE had improved I.e. by 22 & 42 to 1264 & 1158 respectively. Would be great to see the spreadsheet as to where exactly their points were collected from.

COMMENTS:

(To Be Continued, when more details are available)

The AMfa FAmily's latest NR are as follows:-

(1) cHEss pIRATE = 1157 (+45)
Gathered from 2 competitions:-

A. CAS 23rd Selangor Juniors Open ( + 8 )
B. 3rd Swensen Open ( + 36.8 )
NETT = 44.8 + 1112 (Previous Ratings)

Note:
Participated in 3 Unrated Event; Insofar Shah Alam(July), Malaysia Day Chess Challenge(Sept) & 2nd SK Seri Hartamas Age Group(Sept.)


(2) hAnA = 1264 (+22)
Accumulated from ONLY 1 tournament:-

A. CAS 23rd Selangor Juniors Open ( + 22 )
NETT = 22 + 1242

For both AMira FAthina (1077) & AHM (1383), there were NO CHANGEs. Both, did not take part in any competition.

Note: It is such a pity that 2 competitions (I.e. Malaysia Day Chess Challenge organised by PCA & 2nd SK Seri Hartamas Age Group) both held in September which they both participated and did rather well were not rated. Otherwise, both would have improved even further.