Tuesday, June 14, 2011

INSOFAR Chess Weekend Event

INSOFAR Chess Weekend Event

DATCC hosted three Insofar Chess Academy events over the weekend and it was a good turnout for the Elite Open Semifinal events with 19 players taking part including IM Jimmy Liew, NM Kamalariffin Wahiduddin and Sumant Subramaniam, who just concluded his ASIAN Junior outing in Sri Lanka the week before.

In the morning session, the Rapid U-10 had 7 participants who amongst others included well known chess offspring - Mohd Saprin's 2 boys and Mohd Fairin's 2 daughters. The U-10 event was won by Haziq Aiman Nizam who scored 3 points out of 3 games to edge Kong Dak Nam with 2 points on second spot and Johnathan Ananda Leong at third with the same 2 points but a lower tie break
No
Name
NRtg
Pts
Position
1
Haziq Aiman Nizam
1298
3
Champion
2
Kong Dak Nam
1438
2
Second
3
Jonathan Ananda Leong
1121
2
Third
4
Amir Ghaazi Mohd Saprin
0
2
Best Boy Year 4
5
Amir Muqqri Mohd Saprin
0
1
Best Boy Year 2

Nadiah Mohd Fairin
0
1
Best Girl Year 2
7
Liyana Mohd Fairin
0
1
Best Girl Year 3

In the afternoon session, another Junior event was held starting at 2:30pm. The 5th Insofar Junior Scholarship event had 9 participants - 8 of which came from 3 families. Saprin's 3 boys - Qayyim, Ghaazi and Muqqri, Avadiar of Seremban 3 daughters - Pavethra, Davithra and Sasithra, and Vinton and Ethan Wong. The 9th player was Kong Dak Nam who had stayed on from the morning event. Ethan Wong came up on top edging brother Vinton on tie break. Pavethra came third followed by Amir Ghaazi Saprin at 4th place who also bagged the best unrated player for the event.
No
Name
NRtg
Pts
Position
1
Ethan Wong Hsien Aun
1557
Champion
2
Vinton Wong Hsien Loong
1568
Second
3
Apavethra Avadiar
1143
3
Third
4
Amir Ghaazi Mohd Saprin
0
2
Best Unrated
5
Sasithra Avadiar
1181
2
Best U-1600
6
Amir Qayyim Mohd Saprin
0
2
Best Under 15
7
Kong Dak Nam
1438
2
Best U-1500
8
Davithra Avadiar
1157
1
Best Girl
9
Amir Muqqri Mohd Saprin
0
1
Best U-12

The main event for the day was the Insofar Elite Open Semifinal leg which was played over 5 rounds with a time control of 25 minutes. Hot favorite Jimmy Liew was cruising comfortably with 3 points when he hit a brickwall in the form of Kamaluddin Yusoff who snatched a win against him in the 4th round. In his last round, a quick draw with Taulani Tukiran sealed the deal for Kamaluddin to snatch the top spot with Jimmy Liew a close second.

It was a good showing for Shreyes who sealed the 3rd spot with 4 points - his only lost to IM Jimmy in the 3rd round. Shreyes had a good start when he beat elder brother Sumant in the first round and his good run continued in the second round when he managed to outlast Ahmad Fadzil Nayan. After his lost to IM Jimmy in the 3rd round, Shreyes secured another win against Stonemaster Mohd Fadli and in the last round, triumphed over Jax Tham to seal his 3rd placing.

Taulani Tukiran of Johor Bahru secured the 4th placing followed by Ahmad Fadzil Nayan at 5th and NM Kamalariffin Wahiduddin round up the 6th spot.
No
Name
NRtg
Pts
BH.
1
Kamaluddin Yusof
1932
15
2
Jimmy Liew Chee-Meng
2079
4
17½
3
Shreyes Subramaniam
1685
4
14
4
Taulani Tukiran
1768
13½
5
Ahmad Fadzil Nayan
1941
12
6
Kamalarifin Wahiduddin
1929
3
15½
7
Sahir Sarifdin
1595
3
10½
8
Jax Tham Tick Hong
1749
17
9
Sarika Subramaniam-G
1599
13½
10
Muhd Syazwan Zulkifli
1817
11½
11
Subramaniam Demudu
1590
10½
12
Sumant Subramaniam
1957
2
15
13
Mohd Fadli Zakaria
1822
2
13½
14
Mohd Fairin Zakaria
1788
2
13
15
Razali Hamzah
1633
2
12½
16
Mohd Ezmi Mahmood
1585
2
12
17
Subramanian Sivanesan
1603
2
10½
18
Nithyalakshmi Sivanesan-G
1644
12
19
Harun Bustaman
1250
1
13½


Thank you and Warm Regards
Najib Abdul Wahab
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Program Manager/Coordinator

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