CHINESE NEW YEAR RAPID 2016

A new chess academy - White Knight Chess Academy will  held a rapid chess tournament as details below:-

Venue : White Knight Chess Academy, T-059 3^rd Floor Mezzanine (above Connect), Mid Valley Mega Mall

Date :  13th February 2016 ( Saturday) 

Time Control : 25 minutes

Entry Fee :  RM 20

Rounds : 5 rounds Swiss

* the tournament is only limited for 32 players in first come first serve basis.

For more information click here 

Contact Info :  IM Jimmy Liew - 019-657 1628
or Mr. K.K Chan - 016-284 3344


source: IM Jimmy Liew

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Round 2 Juniors vs Senior at National Closed 2011: IM Jimmy Liew...The Senior To Beat!

National Closed 2011

In the previous post, i wrote about the juniors losing 0-3  to the senior (IM Mashafizul) at Maverick Rapid . The juniors will have a chance to 'amend' the round 1 result as  IM Jimmy Liew (photo above) has confirmed to play at the coming National Closed. This time, he will be 'The Senior To Beat"!

Malaysian Chess History Update : Simuls in Malaysia

In this cozy Sunday morning, i glanced trough a chess book written by our first IM - Jimmy Liew , title - Chess Malaysia which was first published in 1986. Thanks to the owner of this book - Ilhamuddin who borrowed it to me ...- i hope he won't charge for late return :) . One interesting fact i read is about simultaneous chess display by international players held in Malaysia. excerpts from the books :-

..." The first local simul by a grandmaster was given by World Champion, the late Dr.Max Euwe in the 60's. Then there was a visit by Soviet Champion, the late Alexander Kotov followed by American Champion - John Grefe in 1975. Grandmaster Fridik Olafsson of Iceland and Raymond Keene of England also gave many simuls on their visit here a few years back...."

IM Jimmy Liew , Chess Malaysia 1986

Now this would be an interesting facts for me to update my Malaysian Chess History . However i would appreciate if anybody could feed me with more details about the events. For e.g what the exact years for the Dr.Max Euwe, GM Fridik Olafsson and Raymong Knee simul ?

Details can be submit to me by email hairulov@gmail.com or just leave a comment in this article.

Blast From The Past: NM Kamal Abdullah vs IM Jimmy Liew (1992)

I found one interesting game of two strong local players from my chess friend (Ilhamuddin ) newspapers cutting book. It was a 1992 Merdeka Inter State team tournament game publish in local newspaper about 16 years ago !

At that time, IM Jimmy Liew (left) and NM Kamal Abdullah (right) is the man to beat in local circuit. Nowadays both are still playing especially Kamal Abdullah but the emerging of many young and new players make life "quiet difficult" to both of them. Still Kamal won a few tournaments recently and it shows that he can still "teach" a lesson or two to some young players and... of course...to the "old" players too.

Nowadays with the helps of "friend" like - Mr.Fritz 11, we could look back at past games from the pre-internet age and search for improvement or missed opportunity. In Kamal-Jimmy game below, Fritz found an interesting saving move on move 16 ! Lets have a look.


NM Kamal Abdullah (Johor) - IM Jimmy Liew (KL) [C02]
Merdeka Open 1992

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 c5 4.c3 Nc6 5.Nf3 Qb6 6.Be2 cxd4 7.cxd4 Nh6 8.Bxh6? This can be called a " high level" opening traps because black compensation is not that obvious. 8...Qxb2 9.Bd2 Qxa1 10.Qb3 Nxd4 11.Bb5+ Kd8 12.Nxd4 Qxd4 13.0–0 Qxe5 14.Re1 Qd6 15.Nc3 Be7 ?!
better is 15...Bd7 offering an exchange or white has to slow down his attack by retreating his bishop 16.Na4? According to Fritz, white can save the game with a brilliant combination starting with [16.Nxd5!! A brilliant sacrifice. 16...exd5 (The problem after 16...Qxd5 is white can play a strong but "silent" reply with 17.Rd1!! Qxb3? (Black best reply is 17...b6 18.Bf4 Bb7 19.Rxd5+ Bxd5 Although white still have slight advantage of having an active queen compare to black pair of rook) 18.Ba5# checkmate) 17.Rxe7 Kxe7 (17...Qxe7 18.Qxd5+ Kc7 (18...Bd7 19.Qxb7) 19.Bf4+ Kb6 20.a4 and black king is in trouble ) 18.Bb4 Rd8 ] 16...Bd7 0-1 White resign. Possible continuation is 17.Nc5 Qxc5 18.Bxd7 Qb6 19.Qa4 Qa6 20.Ba5+ b6 21.Qc6 Rb8

GM Nigel Davies Annotated IM Jimmy Liew game in Chesscafe.com!

I noticed in one of GM Nigel Davies (left) , Let's Take A look, Chesscafe archives columns title Don't Blame The Authors , it discuss about habits of many chess player buying chess opening book in the expectation that this is what it takes to help them win games and when it doesn’t happen they start looking round for someone to blame. Rather than admit that they’re not quite as strong as they’d like to be (heaven forbid) or don’t know how to study, so they blame the authors of the book they bought!.

What made the articles interesting is he annotated Malaysian first IM- Jimmy Liew (right) games against Asia first GM Eugene Torre. Below is his introduction comments of the game:-

..."This month’s game features a nice win with the Veresov by someone who didn’t read my book (it hadn’t been published). Jimmy Liew uses a homemade treatment of the opening, going his own way on move five. Later, he shuffles his pieces round to the king side and unleashes a fierce attack"...

What made the articles interesting is he annotated Malaysian first IM- Jimmy Liew (right) games against Asia first GM Eugene Torre. Below is his introduction comments of the game:-

..."This month’s game features a nice win with the Veresov by someone who didn’t read my book (it hadn’t been published). Jimmy Liew uses a homemade treatment of the opening, going his own way on move five. Later, he shuffles his pieces round to the king side and unleashes a fierce attack"...



Read the articles and annotated game here




photo (jimmy liew) from kid4chess.com