Posted by: Khaled | February 8, 2010

National Open Tournament: Round 3 Pairing

Hello dear friends! Apparently many of you have logged on to the site many times to see if the pairings are up. Sorry for being late. here it is:

  1. Bader Al Hajeri vs. Dennis Poliquit
  2. Waleed Al Awadhi vs. Hami Sameih
  3. Fedinand Bugay vs. Faizur Rahman
  4. Imad Abdulatief vs. Ahmad Al Rab
  5. M. Abdulmohsin vs. Al Sayed Anwar
  6. Hamdi Mahmoud vs. Florentino Silao
  7. Ahmad Hosni vs. Labib Obaid
  8. Mohammed Jabr vs. Hamada Wakiel
  9. Ferdinand Laming vs. Oliver john
  10. Asfand Khan vs. Edgar Benities
  11. Fauiq Kanan vs. Kennith Tasadao
  12. Naser Bahamany vs. Nizar Kanan
  13. Basir Cosain vs. Nanda Kumar
  14. Dr. Ahmad Al Shikanani vs. Khaled Khan
  15. Emmanuel Ygpuara vs. Waheed Hilal
  16. Hashem Hussain vs. Samuel Santos
  17. Abdulrahman Al Ibrahim vs. Eid Mohamed
  18. Ahmad Abdou vs. Hashem Khan
  19. Zaid Ali Marafi vs. Naser Al Maqseed
  20. Sajan Varughese vs. Abdulmohsin Al Meshari
  21. Bader Al Khaldi vs. Imad Ibrahim
  22. Taher Al Khateeb vs. Basim Zaki
  23. Khaled Al Harees vs. Khaled Hashem
  24. Nour Al Dien vs. Abdulwahab Al Atiqi
  25. Greg Blanco vs. Moh’d Mahmoud
  26. Abdulaziz Al Sinafi vs. Omran Al Mossawi

As for reporting. There were a few surprises. Asfand, the young Anand, defeated Omran in a tough game. Omran initially had an advantage against Asfand. But in the middle game, he blundred a rook for a bishop. And very surprising game was played between Taher Al Khateeb and Waheed Hilal. Taher blundred early in the game. But according to past tournaments, Taher tends to rebound afterwards. So Good luck to Omran, Taher and to all those who lost. There are still 7 rounds to go. As for the favorites, which include Bader Al Hajeri, Hani Samieh, and Ferdinand Bugay. There are a few others who have 2.0 out 2 rounds. So its still too early to tell who will win. So Good luck to all. And see you guys tomorrow. CHEERS!

 

Posted by: Khaled | February 5, 2010

National Tournament Round 2 Pairings

Dear Chess fans, I am happy to say that 61 players have registered for this tournament. Which is amazing. There are a handful of new players. I have not really gotten to know them, but hopefully with time, I will. Anyways, no more writing non-sense :) In this post, you will fins a dozen pictures taken from Round 1 of the National Open Chess Tournament. And below that is the Round 2 pairings for Sunday evening, on February the 7th, 2010. Don’t forget, games start exactly at 6:30pm. Round 1 started a half hour late because of the organizing of the pairings and a few other minor details.

  Below is the Round 2 Pairings:

  1. Nizar Kanan – Bader Al Hajeri
  2. Hani Sameih – Fayiq Kanan
  3. Khaled Khan – Ferdie Bugay
  4. Ahmad Al Rab – Basir Cosain
  5. Samuel Santos - M. Abdulmohsin Ali
  6. Florentino Silao – Emmanuel Ygpuara
  7. Eid Eid – Ahmad Hosny
  8. Naser Al Maqseed – Mohamed Jabr
  9. Edgar Benities – Hamdi Faraj
  10. Dennis Poliquit – Ahmad Abdou
  11. Faizur Rahman – Sajan Varughese
  12. Oliver john – Waleed Al Awadhi
  13. Imad Abdullatief – Mohamed Anwar
  14. Imad Fawzi – Al Sayed Anwar
  15. Labib Obeid – Zaid Al Marafi
  16. Faisal Al Hamlan – Hamada Al Wakeil
  17. Ferdie Laming – Hani Sabri
  18. Waheed Hilal – Taher Al Khateeb
  19. Mahmoud Qabazard – Ahmed AlShikhani
  20. Basim Zaki – Bader Al Khaldi
  21. Hashim Khan – Khaled Hashem
  22. Nour Al Dein – Abdol Mohsin Al Meshari
  23. Omran Al Moussawi – Asfand khan
  24. Nasir Bahamany – Ihab Hamza
  25. Khaled Al Harees – Kennith Tasadao
  26. Gregorio Blanco – Ali Hassan
  27. Nanda Kumar – AbdulAziz Al Sinafi
  28. Hashim Hussain – Anoop Pious
  29. Abdulrahman Al Ibrahim – M. Rashid Alam
  30. Ali Al Sakkaf – Abduwahab Al Atiqi
  31. Issam Mohammed 1 - 0 BYE 

Posted by: Khaled | January 31, 2010

HISTORIC DAY FOR KUWAIT CHESS FANS!!!

I have some amazing news! Today, a news article appeared in the “Al Nahar” newspaper that spoke about the Kuwait Chess Federation.

FINALLY, THE  BOARD HAVE APPROVED THE SPONSORSHIP FOR THE SPORT OF CHESS IN OUR BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY, KUWAIT. THANK YOU!!! Al Hamdullah wa Shuker LelAllah. 

The Kuwait Chess Federation will now be sponsored directly by the Public Authority of Youths and Sports. This means that the club will have enough resources to bring professional trainers, update the facilities, and most importantly, sponosor MORE tournaments!

Here is some background information in case you don’t know about our previous situation. Eight years ago, the government changed the status of Chess in Kuwait when sponsorship rights were handed to the Board of Public Authority for Youths and Sports. After that, the ministry suspended ALL funds for the Kuwait Chess Federation because the sport wasn’t publically acknowledged. Now, after eight whole years of hearing, “we’ll get back to you,” the Board finally approved the sponsorship. 

Below is the article:

Source: Al Nahar Newspaper, January 31, 2010, page 27. 

 

Translation {Summarised and Paraphrased}:

Title: “SPONSORSHIP FOR ((CHESS)) AND ((HOCKEY)) TO THE BOARD OF PUBLIC AUTHORITY”

Author: Hassan Moussa, Translator: Khaled Hashem

Body: “The board of public authority for youths and sports have accepted to sponsor the games of Chess and the winter game, Hockey, into thier list of accepted sports. During the meeting held in during last Wednesday where Managing Director Faisal Al Jassaf as well as a few others, including Sheikh Ahmad Al Nawaf, have accepted these sports.” END!

I AM SO HAPPY! FINALLY KUWAIT HAVE ACCEPTED THIS BEAUTIFUL SPORT!

EnshAllah it will continue to grow in people’s hearts as well.

 

Posted by: Khaled | January 21, 2010

National Day Chess Tournament! Registration Now Open…

Dear chess fans of Kuwait, recently Taher Al Khateeb and Mr Hassan Ramadhan debated whether we should have a tournament situated in the Kuwait chess federation. After a few days of disccusions, it was finally decided that the Kuwait Chess Federation will host a special tournament. Here are the details (which Taher “MJ” Al Khateeb sent to me just this morning.)
  
National Day Open Chess Tournament Feb2010 :
Held in Qadisyia @ KUWAIT CHESS FEDERATION … for the sake of the old days :)
please contact Sami Ayoub 66661949 to Register for the Tournament. 

 

 

The Schedule:

  1. The tournament is 9 rounds.
  2. The tournament lasts 3 weeks (a break after each single round).
  3. Round 1: Feb 4  THU
  4. Round 2: Feb 7 Sun
  5. Round 3: Feb 9 Tue
  6. Round 4: Feb 11 THU 
  7. Round 5: Feb 14 SUN
  8. Round 6: Feb 16 TUE
  9. Round 7: Feb 18 THU
  10. Round 8: Feb 21 SUN
  11. Round 9: Feb 23 TUE (FINAL ROUND)

 

Things you need to know:

  1. Open to everyone and nationally rated.
  2. Must write moves down!
  3. hot drinks served.
  4. board one on display
  5. arbiters committee of 2 respected players + main arbiter for appeals.
  6. No Smoking In playing hall.
 

Tournament Timings and Details:

  1. The Entrance Fee = 5kd
  2.  The time control is 60 minutes + 30 seconds time increase per move.
  3. The games start at 6:30PM.
  4.  Top 5 players get prizes:
  5. 1st place = 300$
  6. 2nd place = 150$
  7. 3rd place = 75$
  8. 4th place = 50$
  9. 5th place = 50$
Posted by: Khaled | January 18, 2010

Report: Blitz Tournament 16/1/2010

This past Friday, a group of Kuwaiti chess fans sponsored a one day blitz tournament. An Amazing 28 players joined the event. And a handful of others  joined the fun by kibitzing the games.

A total of 6 rounds were played in about 2 and a half hours. Games started at 6:00 PM and the final game was concluded at 8:40PM. The ending was exciting because we had two players with a 5 point score. Roberto Carandang Played Against Ferdinand Laming in the tie breaks. Caradang played with the white pieces and Ferdie had the black. Since it was the tie-break, the time controls were slightly different. White had six minutes to win and black had 4 minutes to win or draw to secure his victory.

After a tactical middle game, Ferdie succembed to Carandang’s tactical finess and lost on time. Congratulations To ROBERTO CARANDANG for winning the first Blitz tournament of 2010! Below you will see the results and the players who participated accompanied with pictures. Enjoy :)

   

  1. Roberto Carandang (Tie-Break Winner) 5.0 PTS
  2. Ferdinand Laming
  3. Dennis Poliquit 4.5 PTS
  4. Mohamed Abdulmohsen
  5. Oliver Revidad
  6. Faizur Rahman 4.0 PTS
  7. Ferdinand Bugay
  8. Vincent Zaulda
  9. Khaled Hashem 3.5 PTS
  10. Hector Baraganza
  11. Philip Caysido
  12. Faisal Al Hamlan 3.0 PTS
  13. Bader Al Khaldi
  14. Obein Clet
  15. Taher Al Khateeb
  16. Raed Al Ahmadia
  17. Talal Al Shitan
  18. Hamada AbdulMaqsod
  19. Samuel Santos 2.5 PTS
  20. Waleed Al Awadhi
  21. Omran Al Moussawi
  22. Mynard Garcia 2.0 PTS
  23. Asfand Khan
  24. Basir Cosain 1.5 PTS
  25. Anoop Pious 1.0 PTS
  26. Mydeen Abo Baker
  27. Abdulrahman Al Ibrahim
  28. Ali Alaadin

Below you will find a video from the final tie-break game between the only two players to secure 5.0 points after the six rounds. Carandang is playing with the whit pieces and laming with the black.

 

If you have any pictures or video taken from the tournament, please send them to kuwaitchess@gmail.com so I can also include them in the website. Thanks and Best Regards.

Posted by: Khaled | January 11, 2010

Kuwait Chess News Articles!

sorry about the double posting of the pictures.

  

Dear Chess Fans of Kuwait,  
It has been a while since we last posted anything with great importance to the site. But I am happy to inform you of a few new developments.  

In this post, you will see two newspaper articles that were printed a couple of weeks ago. One talks about the Sharg Tournament Celebrations, which has our own Nadia Al Qabban accepting a prize from Shiekha Naema Al Sabah. Congratulations to the Strongest Kuwaiti Female Chess Player. We are all proud of you!  

The other article talks about the new “Chess Acadamy For Youth” that a group of us (will remain anonymouse for now) have created to educate the youngsters about this lovly sport. Our goal is to bring the people of kuwait some understanding of this deep mind sport. The original scans are provided. And their translations are underneath them. Hope you enjoy.  

P.S. Please look the the newewst post to see details for the upcoming 1-day Blitz Tournament.   

 

Picture #1: In the picture we see the secretary of the Kuwait Chess Federation, Mr Sami Ayoub, and it discusses the ChessAcadamy. Here is the translation: 

Title: The Kuwait Chess Federation and the “Engineers” Collaborate on the ”Engineers Acadamy.” 

Body: <START>The Kuwait Chess Federation, with the collaboration of the Kuwait Society of Engineers is sponsoring the ”Chess Acadamy” to educate and teach the young from all ages the game of chess to encourge them to participate in the national tournaments. Eventually, the young will particpate and represent the country of Kuwait in Middle Eastern Chess Tournaments and also Asian Chess Tournaments. The secretary of the Kuwait Chess Federation states that there will be two lessons a week situated in the Society of Engineers as there will be trainers. <END>  

 

Picture #2: We see our very own Female Kuwaiti Champion, Ms. Nadia Al Qabban Accepting an award from Shiekha Naema Al Sabah. Nadia came out 1st among the females in the past Sharg Tournament that was held from November 12-21st of 2009. 

 

Picture #3: This news article appeared in Al Qabbas newspaper a few weeks ago. And one of the articles is about nadia herself. 

Title: The Awards Ceremony of the Shoug Sharg Sports Festivle and Honoring the Participants. 

Summary (Too long to translate): The tournament was sponsored by Shiekh Talal Al Fahad Al Sabah and the ceremony was conducted in the Movenpck Hotel in the Shuwaikh Free Zone. In attendanc were, Sheikh Khaled Al Fahad, Sheikha Naema Al Jaber Al Ahmad Al Sabah of whom is the president of the Female Basketball association. Also in attendance were Ismail Al Banay, the general manager of Wataniya Realestate, and Dina Al Maerifi, the manager of Shoug Sharg. 

And the special article for Nadia Summary: Nadia Al Qabban won 1st place among the females for the Sharg Chess Tournament. She has participated for three years in this annual event and has received the honor of champion after difficulty from her 9 rounds of playing.Nadia also stated that she loved chess since she was 10 years old and has even participated in chess tournaments outside Kuwait. She also states that the problems revovling aroung the Kuwait Chess Federation is the lack of sponsorship from the Hay’a Al Shabab Wa Al Reyadha (The Youth and Sports Association). Nadia also states that she teaches children and hopes to prepare them for the future ofthe game. 

Posted by: Taher Al-Khateeb | December 30, 2009

روائع بنت لارسن … !

من اروع لاعبي القرن على الصعيد العلمي اللاعب الدنماركي جوردن بنت لارسن … وهو احد مطوري تفريعات الدراغون بالدفاع الصقلي الى جانب الروسي (توكماكوف) … ولبنت لارسن رصيد ثري بالبطولات و اللعبات التي دخلت التاريخ اذ يعتبر افضل لاعب في تاريخ شمال اوربا ولم يحقق نتائجه اي لاعب سوى (مانغوس كارلسن) الذي يبدو في الطريق لتحقيق نتائج افضل ! علما بأن اللاعب الحالم (بنت لارسن) استطاع هزيمة 7 من ابطال العالم و هم فيشر . بوتفينيك  . تال . سميسلوف . بتروسيان . سباسكي وكاربوف ..اذ تغلب عليهم في جولات نارية.  !

للارسن  العديد من الأفتتاحيات المسماه باسمه كتفريعات رئيسية  اشهرها افتتاح (بيدق 3 حصان الوزير) بالأبيض الشهير بلارسن اوبننغ والذي لعبه ضد افضل اللاعبين بالعالم…

كما اشتهر لارسن بتفريع جريء بالكاروكان يسمى تفريع (لارسن- برونشتاين) سبق لي تجربته ضد اللاعب بدر الهاجري في اكثر من مناسبه وهو كالتالي -

(1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nf6 5.Nxf6+ gxf6)

اقل ما يمكن قوله عن لارسن انه فنان ذو خيال جامح وتنويع واسع في الأفتتاحيات وهو لا يؤمن بأن تفريع ما سيء لمجرد انه غير ملعوب … لذلك ادخل العديد من الافتتاحيات النادرة في دائرة لعب المحترفين واثر في تطور تاريخ الشطرنج بشكل لافت .

في عام 2010 يكمل بنت لارسن عامه الخامس و السبعين و انشالله يظل يتحفنا بفنياته الراقيه .

وبهذه انتهاء العام 2009 اهديكم زملائي  موقفا طريفا فيه (لارسن) الأبيض واللاعب الكبير – بوزيدار (الذي لم يأخذ نصيبه من الشهره) بالاسود

الأبيض يلعب و يفوز

Larsen vs Bozidar Djurasevic, Zagreb, 1955
White to play and win !

chess diagram source : http://wtharvey.com
Posted by: Taher Al-Khateeb | December 27, 2009

من قصيدة الشطرنج…

من قصيدة الشطرنج للشاعر خلف المشعان

اهداء لمحبي الشعر الشعبي الشطرنجي !

هو يصير ان كل منهو قال راي يقول خير
……………. أو يصير ان كل مهدي يكون مهدي منتظر

هو يصير الفيل يلعب باتجاهات الوزير
……………… أو يصير الشاه يمشي خطوتين ابلا خطـر

علموني كيف ياكل قلعتي جندي خفير
………………. ولعبة الشطرنج تقهر .. من لعبها يابشـر

علموني قبل ماصل لآخر الشطر الأخير
……………… ضاميٍ .. والراي منكم .. ياهل الحكمه مطـر

علموني عن خطايه لجل اعاود واستخير
………………. واشرحولي كيف مخطي لجل أدنق واعتذر

Posted by: Khaled | December 26, 2009

Arab Chess Tournament WITHOUT Kuwait???

أين مشاركات الكويت بالبطولات العربية؟؟؟؟ اذا العراق والسودان يشاركون

بطولة العرب الفردية للشطرنج للرجال والسيدات – تونس من 20 الى 30 ديسمبر 2009

 

انطلقت مساء يوم الاثنين الموافق 21 ديسمبر 2009 منافسات بطولةالعرب الفردية للرجال والسيدات التي تنظمها الجامعة التونسية للشطرنج تحت اشراف الاتحاد العربي للشطرنج خلال الفترة من 20 الى 30 ديسمبر 2009 بمشاركة نخبة من لاعبي ولاعبات العرب من 15 دولة عربية هي مصر والمغرب والجزائر والسودان وليبيا والامارات وسورياوالأردن والعراق وقطر والبحرين واليمن وفلسطين ولبنان بالإضافة إلى تونس الدولة المنظمة.

واكتمل وفود الدول العربية المشاركة في البطولة بعد أن وصل اللاعب السوداني فجأةً بعد انتهاء الجولة الاولى وتم ادخاله في تزويج الجولة الثانية بموافقة الوفود المشاركة.
هذا وقد عقد الاجتماع الفني للبطولة في الساعة الحادية عشر من صباح نفس اليوم وحضره خالد النعمي رئيس اللجنة الفنية في الاتحاد العربي للشطرنج والبطولة ورئيس الحكام الليبي محمد قمبيج ورؤساء الوفود المشاركة حيث تم إجراء القرعةوإعلان التعليمات الفنية وأنظمة كسر التعادل لبطولات الشطرنج(العادي والسريع والخاطف) للرجال والسيدات.

وتقام البطولتان بنظام السويسري من 9 جولات. وبمعدل زمن التفكير 90 دقيقة لكل اللاعبين واللاعبات مع اضافة 30 ثانية منذ بدء النقلة الاولى.

هذا ويشارك في بطولة العرب للرجال نخبة من اللاعبين والاساتذة الكبار، حيث يشارك من الامارات حامل لقب البطولة الاماراتي سالم عبدالرحمن والقطريان محمد المضيحكي ومحمد ناصر والمصري الاستاذ الدولي الكبير عصام الجندي. بالاضافة الى الاساتذة الدوليين سامي خضر من الأردن والسوري عماد حقي والعراقي أحمد عزيز واللبناني فادي عيد والجزائري محمد حدوش، كما يشارك كل من استاذ الاتحاد الدولي جاسم عبدالرحمن من الامارات والمغربي مخلص عدناني والتونسي كمال نجيلي والبحريني ماهر عيًاد واليمني حاتم الحضراني بالاضافة الى اللاعبين الدوليين عاصم علي من السودان ومصعب كاتور من ليبيا والفلسطيني تمارا عطا الله والتونسيان زبير عمدوني وعادل كامل.

Thanks to Nasser AlMaqseed for providing us with this article.

Posted by: Taher Al-Khateeb | December 20, 2009

‘Urgell chess men’ and The Emir of Kuwait !

Did you know that  the The deceased Emir of Kuwait, Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah May God’s mercy be upon him… Had a deep interest for Historical chess sets !?!? and many of those oldest chess sets in the world are still in Kuwait !

Be my guest and read this surprising lovely essay :

 http://www.goddesschess.com/chessays/calvopieces.html

now where can we start searching for those !?

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