Hello dear chess fans!
Welcome back. This is the final report for the March Open Chess Tournament of 2010. We would like to thank all the players who played and participated in this lovely event. I would also like to Congratulate the winner, Mr. BADER AL HAJERI for winning the tournament.
He won in the last round quite easily as it seemed. Mr. Afifi sacrificed a whole piece in the opening and did not seem to have any real compensation. The game did not last too long.
The game that was most surprising was Nasser Al Maqseed versus Florentino Silao on board 2. Florentino tried to push really hard against Maqseed. But Maqseed defended quite solidly and managed to force a DRAW! Every one who was watching the game was stunned. Even Naser himself said the other day, “I’m going to lose against him.” Surprisingly, he played like a master and defended like one as well. This Left Florentino Silao with only 5.5 points. Whilst Bader won his loast round leaving him with a total of 6 points. Bare in mind that Bader only lost to Waleed Al Awadhi on round 2.
As for the top players, I would like to first congratulate Bader Al Hajeri for winning the tournament with a score of 6.0 / 7. Florentino Silao came in second place with a score of 5.5/7. Ibrahim Shehab, Faizur Rahman, and Zakariya Afifi came after them with each scoring 5.0 points out of 7.
The cash prizes are as follows: 1st – $200, 2nd – $150, 3rd – $100, 4th – $50, 5th – $5o.
Pictures will be made available when I receive them. Ahmad Hosni has taken a few pictures and will send them to me as soon as he can. I will post them on this article when they arrive.
Here is the FINAL STANDINGS:
- BADER AL HAJERI 6.0 PTS **CONGRATULATIONS!!!**
- FLORENTINO SILAO 5.5 PTS
- IBRAHIM SHEHAB 5.0 PTS
- FAIZUR RAHMAN
- ZAKARIYA AFIFI
- Nasser Al Maqseed
- Ahmed Hosni
- Ala’a Abdul Latif
- Waleed Al Awadhi 4.5 PTS
- Basir Cosain
- Fayiq Kanan 4.0 PTS
- Khaled Al Hashem
- Eid Mohamed
- Dr. Al Shikh
- Abdulwahab Al Atiqi
- Sajan Vargughese
- Taher Al Khateeb 3.0 PTS
- Nizar Kanan
- Reda Ahmad
- Mohamed Qabazard
- Nour Al Dien
- Yousif Yousif 2.5 PTS
- Magdi Tawfiq 2.0 PTS
- Amer Al Amer
- Mohamed Abdul Mohsin
- Omran Al Moussawi
- Ashraf Dawoud 1 PTS
- Raed Ahmadiya
- Khalid Al Jiwasri
- Abdullah Salah
- Dr. Asim
- Khaled Al Harees — PTS
- Ali Al Sakkaf
- Ali AL Aldin
- Nasir Bahamany
Congratulations to Kuwait Chess Champion mr.Bader AL Hajeri.
Bravo All chess players who participated and good achievement for Kuwait to have 4 Kuwaiti players on the top ten. : )
I want to correct and let everyone know what happenned in my game against Mr. Florantino Silao. (he needed a win to become a champion)He started with 1.D4 and I plyied the Nf6 King’s Indian ,. but he blundered in the oppening and was un able to castle which gave a big advantage in the oppening for me and a chance to attack him while he was deffending,. at the end game too I had some positional advantage while he was defending the weak pawns, but a repitition happened with a forced draw, which it gave Bader the first place. Good luck for all next time. : )
nice play naser…..anyway you are a good positional player…and im happy for you man….goodluck….if there is a player who deserves to be called the most improved player,thats you man…you deserves it….
Well done chess player..!! and Congratulation to the Champion! well unexpected happening here.. Silao he’s miss his opportunity to be a champion..! he lose by unrated opponent.. ithink silao can’t sleep after his game..badluck form silao.. better luck nxt time florentino..after 5 straight win!!! now provide the trophy for the champion!!!! hve a nice day!!!
Congratulation Bader, you prove it again!
Hi Khaled, I sent you 64 photos to:kuwaitchess@yahoo.com-[3 rar. files].
Nasser.. You played very good vs. Silao .. keep it up!
Reminder, pls. send your games to my
e-mail: ahhosny@yahoo.com
to enlarge the Kuwaiti chess database.
Anyone will send 7 games [at least] will receive the DB and all the photos!
Bader, Nasser, Ibrahim Shehab, Taher, Khaled, Faizur Rahman … your games are so valuable for me.
Send it PLEASE.
See you in the next Tournament..
I’ll never give up 🙂
Ahmed Hosny
Congragulations Bader,yet again you have proved yourself invincible and i also like to congragulate Silao for coming second and congrats to Nasser Maqeed for showing his improved intellect in this open.Keep it up Man!I have seen your games and it has discipline in it.
Anyway I wanted to ask all you chessfans.How is this local tournament different from a FIDE tournament?What are the benefits of playing a FIDE rated tournament?Or how does one become FIDE rated?
Playing in FIDE tournaments means that the average rating of the players tends to be higher. And also could mean that prizes are a bit higher as well. Thus quality of play is also higher.
To be FIDE rated, you need to play in a FIDE tournament and defeat or draw against 5 FIDE rated opponents.
for example:
Round 1: Draw against 1600
Round 2: Draw “” 1700
Round 3: “” “” 1800
Round 4: Loss against Unrated player
Round 5: win against unrated player
Round 6: Draw against 1700
Round 7: Draw against 1600
So the win and loss dont count to anything to your rating. But the average of your drawn opponents is 1680. So you would be 1680 rated.
Hi Khaled
Regarding the FIDE rated tournament, is it possible to have a FIDE rate by playing through the net ? or it should be OTB [over the chessboard-face to face playing?].
Please Khled uploade with the photos that I sent you.
Can you send any of your games to update the Kuwaiti chessbase?
same request goes to Bader, Ibrahim Shehab, Nasser, Ahmed G.Al-RAb, Taher, Waleed Al Awadhi, Ala’a Abdul Latif …
Thank you
Hi Ahmed
I have 5 games from this tournament.
Khaled vs Qabazard
Bader vs Khaled
Bader vs Afifi
Sikao vs Bader
Bader vs Cosain
Regards
Amer
Hi Amer
Can you send it to my e-mail: ahhosny@yahoo.com
It’s better to be saved through fritz.
or at least with good hand writing 🙂
I’ll send you the whole DB file, after update.
Thank You!
Ahmed Hosny
Hi Ahmed
Check your email, I sent them to you as PGN files.
I am waiting for the whole file.
Thanks
Amer
Hi Amer
Check your email, I sent you the file [108 games].
Thanks
Dear Chess lovers,there is a world championship held in sofia Bulgaria,the match between topalov and Anand.Round 1 Topalov won..it was King’s Indian Defence opening.The PGN file is a free to view in the website
Actually, it wasn’t the King’s Indian Defence,
Anand played the Grunfeld Defence.
Almost the same but with black moving the d-pawn 2 spaces early on the opening.
Dear Ahmed
I did not recive the file.
Could you please resend it again.
Thanks
Amer
Hi Amer
I sent it again today.
Do you have another games?
If yes .. send it please.
So far it’s 108 games.
I hope to reach 200 games before the coming tour.in Ramadan.
Ahmed Hosny