In 1998, i have the opportunity to played against one of my friend NM Kamal Ariffin (left) . Actually at that time i have taken about a year off from chess to concentrate on my studies in university. It also because i played badly at the National Closed 1997 that i felt like retiring from chess! But at the 1998 Sabaruddin Chik Tournament (team event) - actually i forgot the correct name of the tournament but it was organized by International Islamic University of Malaysia (IIUM) at the Wetworld Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, i just came to meet some old chess friend. During the registration, a few of my friends planned to form an ad hock team just to compete for fun. I dully accepted their ideas and play in board 1! In the 1st round, i met no less then former National Champion - NM Kamal Ariffin Wahiddudin. Just imagine haven't played and studied chess for about a year and the first serious tournaments you start is meeting the national champion! But as i said before, we just play for fun and didn't set a specific target. Just played it like my true style-move first think later!Hairulov - NM Kamal Arffin
Kuala Lumpur
1.e4 d5 2.e5 
Start laughing everybody! no special venom on this move accept that i want to avoid any theoretical variation against National champion-especially when you haven't played for a year! 2...c5 3.f4 Nc6 4.Nf3 Bg4 According to Fritz, its opening books end here-whatsoever! 5.Be2 e6 6.0–0 g6 7.d3 h5 8.c3 Nh6 9.Na3 a6 10.Nc2
Start laughing everybody! no special venom on this move accept that i want to avoid any theoretical variation against National champion-especially when you haven't played for a year! 2...c5 3.f4 Nc6 4.Nf3 Bg4 According to Fritz, its opening books end here-whatsoever! 5.Be2 e6 6.0–0 g6 7.d3 h5 8.c3 Nh6 9.Na3 a6 10.Nc2
Anything special with this weird set-up? Yes in fact. Actually i copied this idea from Ahmad Maliki
I don't know why Kamal played this move because the h4 pawns seems hopeless. According to Mr. Fritz 20...hxg4 21.Qxg4 Qc7± would allow Black to play on but i planned to play 22.Bh4 Ne7 23.Bf6 exchanging black important defender-the dark square bishop! 21.Qh3+- g5 22.Nxg5 Bxe5? 22...Nxe5 is lesser evil 23.Bxh4 f6+- 23.Qxh4 Bg7 23...f6!? defending the 7th rank i think is much better 24.Qh7+ Kf8 25.h4 25.Bh4!? might be the shorter path according to Fritz and who want to question a 2700+ rated monster ? 25...dxc3 26.bxc3 Rd6+- (26...f6? 27.f5! exf5 (27...fxg5? 28.fxe6+) 28.Rde1) 27.f5! 25...dxc3?! According to Fritz, this move doesn't do very much to defend the position. The monster recommend 25...Qf6+- 26.bxc3 Bxc3 27.Bg3 Damn Fritz show an easy win with 27.Rc1 ! 27...Bg7 (27...Bd4? 28.Bxd4 and mate on h8 is inevitable!; 27...Ke8 28.Rxc3+-) 28.Bxc5 27...Bd4+ 28.Kh2 Staying in the light square is much safer 28.Kg2!? Ke8 29.f5 e5+- 28...Qf6 29.f5! Here come the attack! 29...Ne5? more safer is 29...e5+- 30.Ne6+ Ke7 31.Nxd8 Rxd8 But still white has the upper hand. 30.Nxe6+!
In the post morterm, Kamal teammate Mohd Saprin Sabri said this move is quite risky and create unnecessary risk. He suggest 30.Kh3 and retain my huge advantage and the initiative . He might be right but at that time we were in time scramble and i just want to create confusion to Kamal and actually- to me too :) 30...fxe6 30...Ke7 doesn't improve anything 31.g5 Qh8 32.Qxh8 Rxh8 33.Nxd4 Ng4+ 34.Kh3+- 31.fxe6 Nxg4+ 32.Kh3 Black resign a few move later. 1-0 Possible continuation is 32...Nf2+ 33.Bxf2 Qxe6+ [33...Bxf2 34.e7+ Qxe7 35.Qh8+ Kf7 36.Rxf2+] 34.Kh2 Be5+ 35.Bg3+ Ke8 36.Rde1 Rd5 37.Bxe5 Rxe5 38.Qh8+ Kd7 39.Qxe5 To be fair to Kamal, i played him three times in serious tournaments. This is the only game that i won. The other two he beat me badly. And as usual, it's hard to look back on your lost game so i just didn't keep the game record to show to all of you :)
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