FM Christie Hon vs IM Mashafizul - Training Game !

IM Mashafizul (left) played couple of training games against FM Christie Hon (right) at DATCC today

Thanks to Sirajuddin who send me photo's and one of the chess position arise from the training games between former national player - FM Christie Hon vs. IM Mashafizul . The training games was held today at the Dato' Arthur Tan Chess Centre (DATCC), Kuala Lumpur. IM Mashafizul also told me by phone that he will participate in the Zone 3.3 FIDE World Chess Championships which will be held in Vietnam from 22nd to 30th July 2009. In August, he will continue his journey to Europe to play in Closed GM Tournaments - BDO Chess Tournament in Holland and Banicky Kahanec in Slovakia.

Below is one of the position arise from the games.

FM Cristie Hon vs IM Mashafizul Helmi

Training Games, DATCC,21.7.2007

White to move

White has four obvious continution :-

a) 1. Bd2

b) 1. bxc5

c) 1. Qxh5

d) 1. a3

Feel free to analysed all four continution . I will share my own analysis later.