Who played who? U18

Brazil here we come !

 

One of the rewards of finiishing in the top 4 qualifiers of the National Age Group is that you get the right to represent the country to play in Brazil for the coming World Youth. Perhaps that is why some of the places are so fiercely contested and parents were willing to travel long distances to UTP to participate.

One minus will be participants still have to fork out the cash to travel and stay there. However if you are fortunate enough to afford the cost, Brazil is a very interesting place to visit.

The two famous tourist attractions in Brazil is the Jesus Christ statue and Iguacu Falls which is so magnificent it is sometimes described as one of the 7 wonders of the world.

 

Li Ting wins

After her adventures with the chess clock, Tan Li Ting wins her last round game on board 1.
She ties with Nur Nabila at 7/8 but since she has beaten Nur Nabila, the tie break will favour her for Personal Encounter (PE).

Playoff

It's 15 minutes time control sudden death.
In case of a draw, the time will be 5 minutes vs 4 minutes (White must win, Black to draw to win).

Probably the only playoff for NAG 2011.

One second!

I have never seen Saitek clock reach one second without the player losing :)


This is clock time for the Under 14 girls section - Board 1.

It's between Li Ting and Fatih. Both players are short on time (1 second vs 6 seconds minutes) with heavy pieces like Queen and Rook still on the board. Imagine the tension of having just one second on the clock!

Haslidah is here

Haslidah Ruslan of Biro Catur Wanita MCF and MCF Vice President  is here just in time for the last round and closing ceremonies.

Ah .. lots of chicken today

There is money in NAG

Usually scholastic events like these only give out trophies and medals.

However for this year's National Age Group at UTP, Tronoh, there is additional prize money in the form of a FIDE scholarship for the winners of each category.

How much? I don't know yet but I assume that it should be 4 figures. Will confirm after the prize giving.

De Zen wins U10G with perfect score

For the Under 10 girls, Teh De Zen emerged outright champion with a perfect score of 8/8.
(The above is her final round game vs Ho Chen Ee.

Wong Jianwen wins 8/8

With a perfect score of 8/8 Wong Jianwen wins outright the U16 Boys NAG championship 2011. Other round 8 games are still on going.

Who won?

Smiling faces and players taking to each other usually means the game is over and they are discussing the game..

Game between Nabil and Evan is over.


A few minutes later board 1 also concludes and focus shifts there.


Of course, deputy arbiter, Marcus Yeoh has to break up the small crowd as other games as stilll going on.

So what was the results ?
(answer after the jump)

Round 7 updates

Under 8 results at this moment..


Some positions

Mark Siew -  Low Jun Jian (U18B - board1)

Chong Shao Hong

vs Sumant Subramaniam  (U18 board 3)



Nabil vs Evan(U18 board 2)

Copying games

To reduce the high cost of NAG, one of the budget cuts was in the carbonised score sheets which I'm told is easily over RM 1,000 for the entire event. So it was decided the "normal" score sheets would be given without the carbonised copy.

This is a common sight. Players copying their score sheets after a game completes. In a way, it is a good thing. It reinforces the concept of good score keeping. Even players at the top boards re-record their scores after the game


Also interesting to note very few players actually bought and use carbon paper to make things easier.

Youngest Participants in NAG

Two of the youngest participants taking part. One is 7 years old and the other is 6 !

Round 7 - U18B

Round 7 - U16G

Round 7 - U14B

Round 7 - U14G

Round 7 - U16B

Beautiful Morning

Picture at the UTP canteen which is beside a small lake.
Last day of the NAG 2011 and 2 more rounds to go. Excitement is not over yet with several age group showing that there is a high chance of playoffs.

Under 18 Boys Round 7

Taken from http://chess-results.com/fed.aspx?lan=1&fed=MAS

Round 7 on 2011/03/14 at 0900-1130

Bo.	No.		Name	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	No.
1	4		Mark Siew Kit-Tze	5		4½		Low Jun Jian	5
2	3		Muhd Nabil Azman Hisham	5		4	NM	Evan Timothy Capel	1
3	11		Chong Shao Hong	3½		4		Sumant Subramaniam	2
4	7		Fong Yit Ho	4		3½		Fong Yit San	6
5	10		Boey Jin Huey	3½		3		Muhd Faris Aminuddin	13
6	8		Patrick Lim Kong Hui	3		3		Muhd Zikri mohd Zaki	12
7	19		Kim Zhao Ting	3		3		Muhd Faiz Zakaria	17
8	18		Lim Zee Han	2½		3		Keok Kai En	9
9	14		Tan Lu Quan	2½		2		Muhd Azmanizam Azmi	16
10	22		Mohd Harris Sazali	1		1		Mohd Syafiq Rosli	21
11	15		Naren Odaiyappan	2	1			bye
12	20		Ahmad Faris Haslin	0	0			not paired

U14 Round 6 Board 1

Nabila seems to be in trouble against connected passed pawns.

Some random pictures

Round 6 update: Mark Siew joins Nabil

Now there are 2 joint leaders for the Under 18 boys as Mark Siew of Perak defeated Boey Jin Hooi of Penang.

Both Nabil and Mark have 5 points each out of 6 rounds.

Round 6 update

Wong Jianwen maintains a perfect score of 6/6 with a fast win over Suniil Kalivanan for the boys under 16 section.

Nabil draws vs Low Jun Jian. (Under 18 boys)




This makes Nabil the leader for now at 5/6. However the other games are not finished and there are a few players who can come level with Nabil.

Featured game: Elgin Lee vs Wong Jianwen

Played at round 4 on board 1 (Under 16 Boys section):-

Round 6: Some pictures from the top boards

One chicken wing left

Yesterday the arbiter missed his lunch.
At least today he get to eat lunch but only one curry chicken wing left.

Wong Jianwen maintains perfect score

Round5

Wong Jianwen wins vs Elgin Lee to maintain a perfect score of 5 points.

Under 14 rankings after Round 4

	Under 14 Boys				Under 14 Girls
Rk.	Name	Pts.		Rk.	Name	Pts.
1	Subramanian Sivanesan	3.5		1	Nur Nabila Azman Hisham-G	4
2	Aron Teh Eu Wen	3.5		2	Camilia Johari-G	4
3	William Lee Kah Howe	3.5		3	Wendy Tan Li Ting-G	3
4	Tan Wei Hao	3.5		4	Chuah Yi Ning	3
5	Shreyes Subramaniam	3.5		5	Natasha Kavina Sundra Rajoo-G	3
6	Ethan Wong Hsien Aun	3.5		6	Hoh Tjin Hui-G	2
7	Muhd Irfan Haqqim Azhar	3		7	Fong Mi Lyn-G	2
8	Muhd Nuriman Yahaya	3		8	Fatih Nor Sahariah Abd Jalil	2
9	Muhd Irfan Rendrawan Muhd	3		9	Wong Zi Qi-G	2
10	Lim Winsen	3		10	Fatin Nadhirah Zainal Abidin-G	2
11	Roshan Ajeet Singh	3		11	Ainur Nadirah Zulkifli-G	2
12	Teoh Ern Tek	3		12	Atikah Samihah Hj. Muhammad	2
13	Jason Teh Chee Ying	3		13	Nurril Syifanatul Afifie Jamal	2
14	Mohamad Wafi Meor Isa	3		14	Shangeetha Sukumaran-G	2
15	Ang Zhen Yuan	3		15	Nik Nur Najmina Azrihan	1
16	Loke Teik Leng	2.5		16	Nurul Izah Hadi	1
17	Muhamad Izani Mohd Tarizi	2.5		17	Nik  Nur Najihah Nik Mohd Azrihan	1
18	Low Hong Ben	2.5		18	Puah Ee Liz-G	1
19	Tan Ri Hong	2.5		19	Nur Suzuani Atikah Zulkaple	1
20	Mohd Hafiz Mohd Noor	2.5		20	Zureen Qisty Maisarah	0
21	Muhamad Taufiq Aminududdin	2		21	Nur Nazira Sulaiman	0
22	Dilwen Ding Tze How	2		22	Sharifah Afina Syed Wahid	0
23	Ivan Lim Wei Jiet	2
24	Ooi Yen Hoe	2
25	Muhammad  Izwan Hashrah Mat Rahim	2
26	Muhd Nadzri Abu Bakar Martin	2
27	Shankara Sukumaran	2
28	Harleiff Haniff	2
29	Alexander Lee Hao Ming	2
30	Viknesh Viajantheran	2
31	Anban Thirumamani	2
32	Teo Chong Guan	2
33	Dominic Lee Kuang Wei	2
34	Benjamin Koo Wei Jie	2
35	Derek Poon Guo Liong	1.5
36	Kughan Ravindran	1.5
37	Mohamad Hilmey Rosli	1.5
38	Shyaman Ramachandran	1.5
39	Chee Kitt Win	1.5
40	Jonathan  Yeoh Chin Seng	1.5
41	Muhd Firdaus Afiq Asman	1.5
42	Chee Yik Han	1.5
43	Cheong Jie Yao	1.5
44	Mohamad Firdaus Mahmud	1
45	A Rahman Anwar	1
46	Mohd Syafik Ikhwan Kamaruzzaman	1
47	Shahirul Azrin Mohd Jazry	1
48	Arif Mohd Jamil	1
49	Muhammad Afif Aris	1
50	Lim  Ju Yao	1
51	Yogavelan Balamurli	1
52	Ismat Wafri Haziq Syamsul Kamal	1
53	Karthik Valliappan Jaya	0.5
54	Calvin Lee Zhemin	0.5
55	Muhammad  Helmi Zainal Alam	0
56	Ahmad  Zuhair Khusairi	0
57	Ahmad  Fahmi Haslin	0
58	Mohd  Amir Irfan Zamzuri	0

Under 16 rank after 4 rounds

	Boys U16 rank				Girls U16 rank
Rk.	Name	Pts.		Rk.	Name	Pts.
1	Wong Jianwen	4		1	Sarika Subramaniam-G	3.5
2	Elgin Lee Kah Meng	3.5		2	Amira Syahmina Zullkafli-G	3.5
3	David Yee Siew Kit	3.5		3	S. Shankari Sukumaran	3
4	Suniil Kalivanan	3.5		4	Hoh Tjin Li-G	3
5	Yeap Eng Chiam	3		5	Pavitranayagi Jayamurthey-G	3
6	Jeff Tan Jun Feng	3		6	Goh Xin Yen-G	2.5
7	Gabriel Soong Mun Hey	3		7	Vickie Hong Wee Ki-G	2.5
8	Jeffrey Tan Soon Keat	3		8	Nurul  Izati Meor Isa	2.5
9	Low Jun Keat	3		9	Nur Farihah Aminuddin-G	2.5
10	Lim Chuin Khai	3		10	Lim Yu Chia	2
11	P'ng Ren Chi	3		11	Nur Asyikin Abu Bakar Martin	2
12	Muhd Nurislam Yahaya	3		12	Fatin Nabilah Zainal Abidin	2
13	Ooi Boon Hao	2.5		13	Yee Mei Yi	2
14	Jonathan Augustine @ Francis	2.5		14	Fong Yi Chen-G	2
15	Cheah Wen Chong	2.5		15	Tang Kar Khei-G	1.5
16	Muhd Nur Syafiq Yahya	2.5		16	Lim Yu Ning	1.5
17	Hew Zhen Jing	2.5		17	Khalisah Syazwani Kamarazaman	1
18	Moey Ching Chuen	2.5		18	Siti  Nadiah Zakaria	1
19	Nicholas Chong Ing Hooi	2.5		19	Nurul Aina Zulkifli	1
20	Jonathan Ho Wei En	2		20	Nur Fatihah Rosman	1
21	Dinesh Siddharthan Manohar	2		21	Ainur Najihah Zulkifli	0
22	Yoon Wei Ho	2
23	Wan Ahmad Al Muhaimin Wan Ahmad	2
24	Shawn Edgar Miranda	2
25	Tharoun Sharma Ravindran	2
26	Yew Jin	2
27	Jaggehn Sivabalan	2
28	Ezaq Dzafrieudin Mohd Zaki	2
29	Ahmad  Faiz Ahmad	2
30	Mohamad Zakwan Billah Kamarul Zaman	2
31	Mohd Muhaimin Mohd Tarizi	2
32	Vinton Wong Hsien Loong	1.5
33	Foong Yeong Jui	1.5
34	Fauzan Mohd Sofi	1.5
35	Hud Ayasir Mohd Zakhi	1.5
36	Muhamad  Syahmi Nabil Sariffuddin	1.5
37	Muhammad  Zakuan Razali	1
38	Raja Bazli Bot Raja Badli	1
39	Erisman Zakaria	1
40	Mohd Sazwan Zamri	1
41	Luqman Afiqah Afandey	1
42	Mohd Afiq Aliyuddin Ibrahim	1
43	Muhamad  Syahirullah Abdul Aziz	1
44	Muhd Anwar Syaamil Mohd Kamal	0.5
45	Abdul Razif Abd Halim	0
46	Jensen Phua Yen Song	0
47	Amirul Azhar Ahmad Nor Azri	0
48	Daniel Iskandar Arif Na	0
49	Ahmad  Firdaus Haslin	0

U18 Boys rank after 4 rounds

Rk.	Name	Pts.
1	Muhd Nabil Azman Hisham	3.5
2	Mark Siew Kit-Tze	3
3	Sumant Subramaniam	3
4	Patrick Lim Kong Hui	3
5	Keok Kai En	3
6	Muhd Zikri mohd Zaki	3
7	Low Jun Jian	3
8	Boey Jin Huey	2.5
9	Evan Timothy Capel	2
10	Fong Yit Ho	2
11	Fong Yit San	2
12	Chong Shao Hong	2
13	Naren Odaiyappan	2
14	Muhd Faris Aminuddin	2
15	Kim Zhao Ting	2
16	Muhd Faiz Zakaria	2
17	Tan Lu Quan	1
18	Mohd  Syafiq Rosli	1
19	Mohd Harris Sazali	1
20	Lim Zee Han	1
21	Muhd Azmanizam Azmi	0
22	Ahmad  Faris Haslin	0

Chess-results.com links

Under 18 Boys	Under 18 Girls
Under 16 Boys	Under 16 Girls
Under 14 Boys	Under 14 Girls
Under 12 Boys	Under 12 Girls
Under 10 Boys	Under 10 Girls
Under 8 Boys	Under 8 Girls

Round 4 updates: De Zen beats Puteri Munajjah

Round 4 updates: Jianwen beats Eng Cheam

Top seed Yeap Eng Cheam is beaten by Wong Jianwen in round 4 of the Under 16 boys section.