I hope we, chessplayers in Johor Bahru, could enjoy more tournaments in this short periods. Some of us got financial problems and very tight timetable. So many tournaments in side the JohorBahru held by Mr Narayanan, Mr Leong MunWan or Datuk Bandar. Hope other parties will take part in enhance development of chess games in our region .
Monday, January 12, 2009
2009 Start up with Frank Goon Cup
See the result above. I'd shared 3 points sith several top players. After train with Fritz 11 for one and half months i'd beat 2 rated players (Muhammad Ilyas bin mohd Ramdzan and Ahmad Arif bin Abdul Rahim) and lost to three big name (Osric Mooi, Michael Siong and NM Kamal Ariffin) with a victory against anonymous player Mr Yow Keen Mann. As the result i put myself at number 23. Not bad huh. But still can't raise any present.
Fuyyooh!!!!!
Saturday, January 10, I rushed to Johor Bahru town by my lovely Wira Aeroback just to attend the Frank Goon Cup held in the 35th floor at the City Square. Luckily I arrived 10 minutes early.
Unluckily my first game was against one of the big name from Singapore. Guess who? Osric Mooi Kok Onn (big guy in the image below). FIDE rated (2044). Oh shit man. Since I stop playing d4 for White my 2nd move decision take a few minutes when he reply 2....e5. I'm not familiar with Ruy Lopez line, nor the Scotch, Italian or Pianoss game. What's wrong if I used my repertoire King's Gambit Accepted or King's Gambit Decline?? My answer is not with this guy.
Then my game went like this 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.c3??? passive, loss tempo, Yes I did a Test. Let's White play defensive. 3...Nf6 Is it a Petrov defense??? I'm not sure.
4.Qc2 d5 5.exd5 Qxd5 6.d3 Bf5 7.Nh4 Bd7 8.Be3 Be7 9.Nd2 Ng4 10.Nhf3 Nxe3 11.fxe3 12.e4 Qf7
13.0-0-0 Qxa2 (poisoned pawn???)
14.Qb3 Qxb3 (Osric said I should play Nb3... Thanks bro) 15.Nxb3 0-0 16.h4 h6 17.Be2 a5 18.Kc2 a4 19. Nbd1 a3 (God, I'm going to die!!!) 20.b3 b5 21.d4 fxe4 22.Nxe4 Bf5 23.Bd3 exd4 24.Rhe1 dxc3 25.Bxb4 Nb4+
26.Kxc3 Bxe4 27.Rxe4 Bd6 28.Bc4+ Kh8 29.Rxd6 Na2+ 30.Kc2 cxd6 31.Re3 d5! (minority attack, I called it)32.Bd3 Nb4+ 33.Kb2 a2+ 34.Ka1 Rfc8 35.Bb1 Rc1 36.Kb2 a1=Q+## (0-1)
By this game, one of my chess colleague; Mr.Herman recommended me to study Ruy Lopez lines to replace my King's gambit old games against the 1..... e5 player for open games. Good Luck!
My 2nd game went easy. But, my heartbeat run fast when I see Mr Yow Keen Mann playing tricky opening. My chess gurus always told me not to underestimate your opponent. Yes I did.
Playing Black against the White playing 1.a3 is not what I want. Since he didn't want show his color whether e4 or d4 player I'd chose to reply with 1.... Nf6, Indian system. The game went as below:-
1.a3 Nf6 2.c4 d4 (transpose to English? Sokolsky the Orang utans? let's see) 3.cxd4 Nxd4 4.Nc3 e6 5.e3 Be7 6.Nf3 0-0 7.Be2 c6 8.0-0 Qc7 9.d4 Nd7 10.e4 Nf4 11.Bxf4 Qxf4 12.Qc1!!
(hey! wacca gonna do dude!! fritz always shouted me HMMMM He thinking for the first time, Yes I'm thinking this time)
Come on, 12..... Qxc1 only stimulate the Rook to conquer the c-line. Then, 12.......g5 (again, I play risky move) 13.Qxf4 gxf4 14.Ne5 f6 15.Nxd7 Bxd7 16.Bf3 Kh8 17.Rab1 Rg8 18.g3 e5 19.d5 Bc5 20.dxc6 Bxc6 21.b4 Bb3 22.b5 Be8 23.Nd5 (I hate the Knight) Bd4 24.Nxf6 (i love to feed him with pawn blood) Rg6 25.Nxe8 Rxe8 26.a4 fxg3 27.hxg3 Rxg3+ 28. Kh1 ..... ... ..... (0-1)
Third round after lunch I met Michael Siong for the third times in my life. As I expected He use The Modern Defense against my 1.e4 game. But this time he was not transpose the game to Accelerated Dragon like he did to me before. Fritz teach me a lot how to play the correct openings and how to control the middle. But my weakness still at the end game. yeah,,, i need to do a lot of homework for this.
1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nc3 d6 4.Be3 Nd7 5.Bc4 e5 6.Nge2 Ngf6 7.f3 0-0 8.Qd2 exd4 9.Nxd4 Nc5
10.0-0-0 Be6 11.Nxe6 Nxe6 12.Bh6 a6 13.h4 b5 14.Bxe6 fxe6 15.Ne2 Qe7 16.Nd4 Qf7 17.Kb1
c5 18.Bxg6 Kxg6 19.Ne2 d5 20.exd5 exd5 21.g4 d4 22.h5 gxh5 23.gxh5 Kh8 24.Nf4 Ne4!
(phsyco freak!!!!) 25.Ng6+ Qxg6 26.hxg6 Nxd2+ 27.Rxd2 Rxf3 28.Rxh7+ Kg8 29.b3 Re8
30.Rdh2 Re6 31.g7 Rg3....... (shit! this guy know I can't beat for the ending, he left his chair lol)
(0-1) honored lost.
My fourth game against Mohd Ilyas bin Mohd Ramdzan (1366) was quite unique to me. He played 1.e4, i played 1....c5, but his style of attacking my defence was really passionate me. This was first time my Dragon variant of Sicilian being attacked with Double Knight tango. huh. It exhausted me. Ilyas lost was due to his miscalculation but I respect his art of attack. Beside too much time spent for the rapid game I'd notice that my rival quite nervous to perform the tactical line and too much careful sometimes become careless. Good job bro. Lucky you're not able to smell my blunder step. Nah, I show u a part of our game..
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 g6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Bg7 6.Qd1 d6 7.Bc4 Nc6 8.0-0 0-0 (Lucky he was not using the Yugoslav Attack) 9.Qe1 Bg4 10.Nd2 Ne5 11.Nd5 Rc8 12.Bb3 h6 13.Nf4 g4
14.f3 Bh5 15.Nh3 Ng6 16.Nc4? Nh8 17.Ne3 Qb3 18.Kh1 Bg6 19.Ng4 Qc7 20.Bxg5 Nxg4 21.fxg4 hxg5 22.Nxg5 Bxb7 23.Bxa1 Rxf7 24.Rxf7 Bxf7 25.Nxf7
Fighting the NM KamalAriffin bin Wahiddudin (2147) on the board was uneasy for the unrated player like me. The only satisfaction I had is show-off my strength until the middle. Huh. his time is running out. o.33 mins while my time still 15minutes left. The Scandinavian game going wrong at the middle.My last round was against a young rated player,Ahmad Arif bin Abd Rahim (1264). Oh God, He used my attacking style to break the Dragon variant of Sicilian. But what went wrong to him at the end game? A blunder move he made when I played the counter-attack. To him i express my respect. Malaysian need a lot of young player like him.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Sadorra Win Frank Goon Cup 2009
IM Julio Catalino Sadorra (right) won the 2009 Frank Goon Cup, Johor held at the City Square , Johor Baru yesterday. According to Kamaludin Yusof, second place goes to FM Mok Tze Meng, followed by Leong Mun Wan and 4th and 5th place goes to Michael Palma and Ian Udani respectively.The top 5 prizes for the open 7 rounds swiss system category are RM1,000, RM600 ,RM400, RM 300 and RM 200.
There's quite a number of strong players competing in this tourney. Among the big name is Kamaluddin Yusof , Fariz Sharifudin , NM Kamal Ariffin, Faizal Andin, NM Kamal Abdullah, Osric Mooi Soh Wee Zee and Mohd Khair Wahiddudin.
Thursday, January 8, 2009
ivanchuk feat Leko. Yes!!!!!
Ivanchuk defeats Leko in Mukachevo
07.01.2009 – For a second time in a year and a half Ukraine's top GM Vassily Ivanchuk has defeated Hungary's top GM Peter Leko in the south western Ukrainian town of Mukachevo. Their six-game match ended in a 3.5:2.5 win for Ivanchuk, with five draws and a single victory in round five. It was, however, deserved, as GM Mikhail Golubev tells us in his big illustrated report.
Ivanchuk defeats Leko in Mukachevo
A report by GM Mikhail Golubev
The second rapid chess match between Vassily Ivanchuk and Peter Leko was held in Mukachevo, Mukachevo is a small town located in the western Ukraine, from 3 – 5 January 2009. Both matches were organised by Josef Resch of Universal Event Promotion. The first one took place in Mukachevo in 2007 and was won by the Ukrainian in the blitz tiebreak.
Mukachevo is the second largest city in Zakarpattia Oblast or Transcarpathia, a very special province of Ukraine. Zakarpattia is the only Ukrainian administrative division which borders on four countries: Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania! Arguably, Mukachevo nowadays is about as important economically as the administrative capital of Zakarpattia, Uzhhorod – though Uzhhorod has a bit more than 100,000 inhabitants and Mukachevo has a bit less than 100,000.The history of Mukachevo, which belonged to many different countries throughout its history, is so complex that it is easier not to enter this topic here. Ukrainian is the main language (though it is a bit different to the Ukrainian spoken in Lviv, where Ivanchuk lives, or in Kiev). Most of people can speak or understand Russian, and among the significant minorities are Hungarians, Germans, and Slovaks. And in Zakarpattia there are known controversies around the ethnic group of Rusyns, which is sometimes recognized as a distinct nationality. I was not able to find any Rusyn newspaper in Mukachevo, though I was once told that such newspaper exists.
The Match
Strangely enough, it quite easy to describe a course of events in the 2009 math. Ivanchuk was obviously more motivated and better prepared. Vassily, as he confessed, even did some preparations around the New Year celebrations. While Peter, whose Elista event ended later than Ivanchuk’s Nanjing, mainly tried to relax before the Mukachevo meeting. This strategy did not work well for the Hungarian. Ivanchuk had certain winning chances in four games out of six. He achieved a victory in the game five, though it would have been much more logical if Ivanchuk would have won the game four instead.
Leko,P (2751) - Ivanchuk,V (2779) [B90]
Rapid Rematch Mukachevo UKR (4), 04.01.2009
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 e5 7.Nb3 Be6 8.f3 h5 9.Qd2 Nbd7 10.Nd5 Bxd5 11.exd5 g6 12.0-0-0 Nb6 13.Qa5 Bh6 14.Bxh6 Rxh6 15.h4 Kf8 16.g3 Kg7 17.Kb1 Rh8 18.c4 Re8 19.Be2 Rc8 20.Rc1 e4 21.f4 e3 22.Rhg1 Ne4 23.Ka1 Nd7 24.Qxd8 Rcxd8 25.Na5 Ndc5 26.Rc2 Rc8 27.b3 Rc7 28.Kb2 Rec8 29.Rcc1 Nd7 30.Bd3 Nf2 31.Be2 Nf6 32.Rge1 N6e4 33.Rg1 f5 34.Rc2 Kf6 35.Rcc1 Re7 36.Rc2 Rcc7 37.a3 Re8
38.Rg2 Nh1! Leko has lost a track in the middlegame and now overlooked this move, which lead to the loss of a pawn. 39.Bf3 Nhxg3 40.Rg1 Nd2 41.Rxg3 Nxf3 42.Re2 Nxh4 43.b4 Re4 44.c5 dxc5 45.d6 Rd7 46.bxc5 Rxf4 47.Rgxe3 Re4 48.Rxe4 fxe4 49.Rxe4 Nf5 50.Rb4 Nxd6 51.cxd6 Rxd6 52.Nxb7 Rd5 53.Kc3 Rb5 54.Kd3 Rxb4 55.axb4 h4 56.Ke3 h3 57.Kf2 Ke5 58.Nc5 Kd4 59.Nxa6 Kc4 60.Kg3 Kb5 61.Nc7+ Kxb4 62.Kxh3 ½-½.
Ivanchuk,V (2779) - Leko,P (2751) [A32]
Rapid Rematch Mukachevo UKR (5), 05.01.2009
1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 e6 5.g3 Bb4+ 6.Bd2 Bc5 7.Nb3 Be7 8.Bg2 Nc6 9.Nc3 0-0 10.Rc1 b6 11.Nd5 exd5 12.cxd5 Bb7 13.dxc6 dxc6 14.0-0 Qc8 15.Nd4 c5 16.Bxb7 Qxb7 17.Nf5 Rfe8 18.Bc3 Qe4 19.Qc2 Qe6 20.b3 Bf8 21.Bxf6 Qxf6 22.Ne3 Rad8 23.Rfd1 Qe6 24.Qc4 Qe5 25.Qa6 Qb8 26.Nd5 h5 27.e3 Rd6 28.Nc3 Red8 29.Rxd6 Rxd6 30.h4 g6 31.Ne4 Rd8 32.a4 Qa8 33.Qc4 Bg7 34.b4 cxb4 35.Qxb4 Qd5 36.Qe7 Qd7 37.Rc7 Qxe7 38.Rxe7 a5 39.Kg2 Rd1 40.Re8+ Bf8 41.Rb8 Ra1 42.Rxb6 Rxa4 43.Nf6+ Kg7 44.Ra6 Ra1 45.Ne8+ Kg8 46.Ra7 a4 47.Nf6+ Kg7 48.Ne4 Kg8
Ivanchuk, rather amazingly managed to win this position – almost no one, including Leko, expected such an outcome. 49.Ng5 f6 50.Ne6 Bh6 51.Nd4 Bf8 52.Ne2 Bh6 53.Nc3 a3 54.Nd5 Bg7 55.Nf4 Bf8 56.Nxg6 Bc5 57.Ra8+ Kf7 58.Nf4 Rb1 59.Kf3 Rb3 60.Ra5 Bb6 61.Ra6 Bc5 62.Nd5 f5 63.Ra5 Bd6 64.Nf4 Rb2 65.Rxf5+ Ke8 66.Rxh5 Kd7 67.Ra5 Kc6 68.Ne2 Kb6 69.Ra4 Bb4 70.h5 Kb5 71.Ra8 a2 72.h6 Rxe2 73.Kxe2 Ba5 74.Rb8+ Bb6 75.h7 a1Q 76.h8Q Qa2+ 77.Kf1 1-0. Undoubtedly, Leko tried his best in Mukachevo, but Ivanchuk was overall a bit stronger this time and won the contest deservedly.
Final standing
| Name | Rating | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | Total |
| Vassily Ivanchuk | 2779 | 1/2 | 1/2 | 1/2 | 1/2 | 1 | 1/2 | 3.5 |
| Peter Leko | 2751 | 1/2 | 1/2 | 1/2 | 1/2 | 0 | 1/2 | 2.5 |
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Frank Goon Cup
Date :10 Jan 2009
Venue:35th Floor,City Square Johor Bahru.
Categories:
- Open
- Under 16
- Under 12
Organiser: Johor chess Association
Closing date: 9.1.2009
Registration : Leong Mun Wan 0167419960 /Zakaria 0137735315
or email JohorChess@gmail.com
Friday, January 2, 2009
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