Malaysian Chess Federation (MCF) will organised the 2nd National Junior Chess Championship from 16th-20th December 2009 in Kuala Lumpur. For further details, click here.
Last year National Juniors Master winners
Justin Ong (left) battle against Muhd Tariq (right) in round 8
Table 1 (Girls) , Round 8 saw a " peace battle " (draw 1/2-1/2) between two sisters - Nur Najiha Azman Hisham (left) vs Azman Hisham (right)
Below are my favourites scene from the event. It's a round 8 game between youngster - Yeoh Li Tian against his round 8 opponent. Li Tian Won.
Photo 1: Yeoh Li Tian(above) in his usual pose.
Photo 2 : Yeoh Li Tian in his "unusual" pose
Photo 3 :.... minutes later... now he's wearing spectacles !
Another interesting moment is when 4 chess bloggers meet and posing for a photo session !? However it's pity that another bloggers - Marcus Yeoh where not there during the photo session because he is attending a class. If he was there, it will be 5 chess bloggers at the same time!
Standing from left : Gilachess, Stonemaster, Gilocatur and sitting in front is yours truly- Hairulovp/s: I will post annotated game of Kaushal Khandahar vs Justion Ong (round 7 shortly) . Stay Tune !
Thanks to Marcus Yeoh and Andrew Ooi who is doing a great coverage of the ongoing Pearl Point National Junior Chess Championship held from 10th December - 14th December 2008 at The Pearl Point Shopping Mall , Kuala Lumpur.
10...exd5 11.Bxf6 gxf6 12.exd5 So far so theory . However with his next move, Edward choose a novelty 12...Bg7 Fritz gave three alternative 12...Qc5; 12...Ra7; and 12...Bb7. The idea behind all that move is to move the king to the queen side starting with..Kd8 .Black's king should find a better shelter there compare to his king side. So Edward 12...Bg7 with the idea of later ...Kf8 probably is not a good choice. 13.Bd3 f5 14.Rhe1+ Kf8 15.Ne6+ ?!? a nice bluff however as i mentioned before Sumant should be credit for playing bravely, more in the spirit of the former World Champion - Mikhail Tal (photo right) . I remember one of his interesting quote regarding his own play- "There are two kinds of sacrifices: sound ones, and mine."
15...fxe6 16.dxe6 Bb7 17.Qh5 Qe7 18.Bc4 Be4 According to Fritz, Black still have significant advantage but 18...Bf6 adding more control over the important blockading square on e7 is probably better 19.Rxd6 another sacrifice! Mikhail Tal grave must be shaken !
19...Ra7 20.Red1 Qf6?? A desicive blunder. Edward probably cracked under pressure. It's difficult to defend patiently especially when your opponent has sacrifiece three times and still alive ! Black have defend almost perfectly but as what chess teachers always said- "The players who lost a game is the player who make the last mistake " 
21.e7+ 1–0 White will have to many material advantage after 21...Qxe7 (21...Kxe7 22.Rxf6) 22.Rd8+ Qxd8 23.Rxd8+ Ke7 24.Rxh8 Bxh8 25.Qxh7+ 1–0
