Name                                                                       Score   Progr.            Place.

 1-2        Ahmmed Emad                                                            6          26.5   

             Bader Al Hajeri                                                       6           24.5   

3-5        Ahmed Hosni                                                          5.5          22.5   

             Ferdinand Laming                                                     5.5          22.0   

             Edgar Benitez                                                         5.5          21.5   

 6-9        Ferdinand Bugay                                                      5            24.0   

             Ringo Teves                                                              5            21.5   

             Sheekh Fyaz                                                             5            21.5   

             Ahmed Abdou                                                            5            20.0   

10-12    Adel Al Amairi                                                         4.5          21.0   

             Basim Hussain Zaki                                                    4.5          19.0   

             Nasser Maqseed                                                        4.5          15.0   

13-23    Fayiq Nizar Kanan                                                     4            18.0   

             Murad Bin Ali                                                            4            18.0   

             Balarama Krushna                                                       4            17.0   

             Mohammed Adel                                                        4            17.0   

             Emanuel Ygpuara                                                      4            17.0   

             Hamdy Faraj                                                              4            16.0   

             Mohammed Qabazard                                                 4            15.0   

             Khalid Khan Anwar                                                       4            13.5   

             Nooraldeen Mohammed                                             4            13.0   

             Eid Mohammed Eid                                                         4            12.0   

             Bomer Bocobo                                                            4            11.0   

24-27    Vincent Saulda                                                          3.5          18.5   

             Basir Cosian                                                             3.5          17.5   

             Manuel Cornelio                                                       3.5          13.5   

             Khalid Ibrahim                                                          3.5          11.5   

28-34    Nizar Fayiq Kanan                                                     3            16.5   

             Taher Al Khateeb                                                      3            14.0   

             Waleed Al Awadi                                                       3            14.0   

             Zeyad Al Abdaly                                                        3            14.0   

             Khalid Hashim                                                          3            13.0   

             Ghassan Merji                                                          3            10.0   

             Raeed Al Ahmadya                                                   3             8.0    

35-36    Omran Al Mosaw                                                     2.5           9.5    

             Ali Al Mosawi                                                           2.5           7.5    

37-42    Hashim Ali Hussain                                                      2            13.0   

             Abdulmohsin Al Mishary                                         2            10.0   

             Abdulla Al Mutiri                                                     2             9.0    

             Abdulsalam Al Dekheel                                            2             8.0    

             Abdulrahman Fathi                                                   2             6.5    

             Abdulla Maqseed                                                       2             4.0    

 43         Bader Al Khaldi                                                       1.5           3.5    

44-47    Waheed Helal                                                             1             7.0    

             Hussain Shalabi                                                      1             3.0      

             Ali Hasan Alaudeen                                                   1             2.0    

             Labib Obaid                                                               1             2.0    

 48         Roberto Carandang                                                   0.5           2.5    

CONGRATULATIONS TO AHMED EMAD! He is leading the tournament. If he wins or draws today, he will win the 1st place prize. Yesterday the Fide Master ended up drawing against Kuwait’s champ, Bader Hajeri. In other news, it was surprising to see that there was 6 draws among the 23 games yesterday! Never happened before. And most people with the white pieces won thier games. Only 6 games were won with the black pieces. Anyways, here is the latest leader standings:

• 5.5 POINTS = AHMED EMAD (if wins or draws round 7, he wins the tournament)
• 5.0 POINTS = Bader Hajeri / Ferdinand Bugay / Edgar Benitez
• 4.5 POINTS = Adel Amiri / Ahmad Hosni / Ferdinand Laming
• 4.0 POINTS = Ahmed Abdou / Sheekh Fyaz / Emanuel Ygpuara / Murad Bin Ali / Ringo Teves / Balarama Krushna / Fayiq Kanan / Hamdy Faraj
• 3.5 POINTS = Basim Zaki / Basir Cosain / Vincent Saulda / Naser Maqsed
• 3.0 POINTS = Mohamed Qabazard / Mohamed Adel / Waled Awadi / Nizar Kanin / Eid Mohamed / Nooraldeen Mohamed / Taher Khateeb / Zayad Abdly / Bomer Bocobo / Khaled Hashem
• 2.5 POINTS = Khaled Ibrahim / Manuel Cornelio
• 2.0 POINTS = Omran Mosawi / Ghassan Merji / Raed Ahmadiya / Abdulrahman Fathi / Hashem Ali / Ali Mosawi / Abdulsalam Dakheel / Abdullah Mutairi / Abdulmohsin Mishary
• 1.5 POINTS = Bader Khaldi
• 1.0 POINTS = Abdullah Maqsed / Ali Hasan / Waheed Hilal

Today is the last day for the tournament. So good luck to all.

My Sincere Regards

Just Two more Rounds to go! Many players lost hope in this tournament. While others still want to get as many points as possible. Today there were many people absent. Luckily for the people there, they got the point for free. Anyways here is the latest Leaders Board:

• 5.0 POINTS = Ahmed Emad
• 4.5 POINTS = Bader Hajeri
• 4.0 POINTS = Ferdinand Bugay / Ahmad Abdou /  Edgar Benitez / Murad Ali / Ferdinand Laming / Adel Amiri
• 3.5 POINTS = Ringo Teves / Vincent Saulda / Ahmad Hosni
• 3.0 POINTS = Fayiq Kanan / Balarama Krushna / Naser Maqsed / Waleed Awadhi / Khaled Alhashem / Basim Zaki / Mohamed Adel / Emanuel Ygpuara / Mohamed Qabazard / Hamdy Faraj
• 2.5 POINTS = Khaled Anwar / Basir Cosian / Nizar Kanan / Manuel Cornelio
• 2.0 POINTS = Abdullah Mutairi / Nooraldeen Mohamed / Abdulmohsin Mishary / Taher Khateeb / Eid Mohamed / Hashem Ali / Zayad Abdly / Abdulsalam Dakheel / Ali Moussawi / Bomer Bocobo / Waheed Hilal
• 1.5 POINTS = Abdulrahman Fathi / Khaled Ibrahim / Omran Moussawi
• 1.0 POINTS = Ghassan Merji / Labib Obaid / Raed Ahmadya / Ali Alaudeen / Abdullah Maqsed /
• 0.5 POINTS = Bader Khaldi / Roberto Carandang (BOTH PLAYERS DISQUALIFIED FOR ABSENCE)

TOMORROW FOR ROUND 6, AT TABLE 1, the biggest game of the tournament will be held.

Ahmad Emad, the Fide Master will go head-to-head against Kuwait’s top player, Bader Hajeri. All Eyes will be on these two players. If Emad wins tomorrow, than he will win the tournament with ease. If Bader Hajeri wins tomorrow, than Bader will win the rest with ease. There will be much stress on these two players as they prepare their games for tomorrow. You must keep your eyes on this game.

Here’s a few more pictures from this round. (picture 1) As you can see, Mohamed Qabazard has a banana ready for a quick boost in thinking 🙂 Very smart. Everyone should have a banana ready whenever you get ready for a game. Today Mohamed won with not much hard work. Great Job.

I wish all best Wishes. Good Luck tomorrow!

My Regards

Hello Everyone! Here are the latest results from the Ramadan Tournament 2008.  After four Rounds, the scores for the participants are as follows:

• 4.0 POINTS = Ahmmed Emad / Ferdinand Bugay (these 2 people never lost or drew a single game)
• 3.5 POINTS = Bader Hajeri / Ringo Teves (these 2 people never lost but only drew 1 game)
• 3.0 POINTS = Ahmed Hosni / Sheekh Fuaz / Basir Cosain / Mohamed Adel / Basim Zaki / Emanuel Ygpuara / Edgar Benitez / Fayiq Kanan / Ferdinand Laming / Ahamd Abdou / Murad Ali
• 2.5 POINTS = Vincent Saulda / Nizar Kanan / Adel Amiri
• 2.0 POINTS = Zayad Abdaly / Taher Khateb / Manuel Cornelio / Hamdy Faraj / Khaled Anwer / Eid Mohamed / Mohamed Qabazard / Balarama Krushna / Hashim Ali / Waleed Awadi / Abdullah Mutairi / Naser Maqsed / Nooraldeen Mohamed / Khaled alHashem
• 1.5 POINTS = Omran Moussawi
• 1.0 POINTs = Khaled Ibrahim / Abdulsalam Dakheel / Bomer Bocobo / Waheed Hilal / Ali Moussawi / Labib Obiad / Abdulmohsin Mishary / Ghassan Merij / Abdulrahman Fathi
• 0.5 POINTS = Bader alKhaldi / Roberto Carandang
• 0.0 POINTS = Abdullah Maqsed / Ali Aludeen

There are still 3 rounds left in this tournament. The top four players are all close to each other. It still is anybodys game. Ahmmed Emad, the only player in the tournament to have a title (Fide Master), is leading the tournament with 4 points total. He is tied with Ferdinand Bugay. Tomorrow night we will see who will take the lead as Emad plays against Bugay!

Bader Hajeri, Kuwait’s top player, is only a 0.5 points behind the leaders. I am cheering for Bader becuase I want him to win 🙂 (sorry everyone else)

Anyways, do not forget that there is a game tomorrow at 9 PM. So everybody come prepared. I wish you all the very best. Here are a few pictures to keep you updated. Enjoy.

((( ~~~ If your interested, here’s a game of mine from Round 4. I am playing the Black Pieces. Waheed Hilal has the White Pieces. ~~~ )))

Waheed Hilal Vs. Khaled AlHashem

Round = 4, Table = 20 , Date = Sept 11, 2008

1. e4 e5
2. Nf3 Nc6
3. c3!? d5 (c3!? is a weak move usually played in blitz games.)
4. Bb5 dxe4
5. Nxe5 Qg5!
6. Nxc6? Qxb5 (Bxc6+ bxc6 Nxc6 is better for white. The black King is stuck in an open board.)
7. Nd5 Qd3! (Qd3 stops all development for white. White can’t castle!)
8. Ne2? Bd6 (Too Many Knight Moves!)
9. Ng3? Nf6 (White Moves his knight 6 times in the opening!)
10. Qe2 0-0
11. b3 Re8
12. Na3 Bg4
13. Qe3 Nd5
14. Qg5 h5! (if Nxh5, than Qe2#)
15. h3? Bf4!! – / + (Bf4 kills white. Now black is completely winning. )
16. Qh4?? Bxg3
17. hxg4 Bxh4 (Sacrificing the queen to avoid mate in 1)
18. Rxh4 Nf4 (White has no chance. His king is stuck in the center and all his pieces are bad.)
19. white resigns  (0  –  1) [Lesson: DON’T MOVE THE SAME PIECE MORE THAN ONCE IN THE OPENING!]

VIDEO DAY: Today is video day because there is no tournament. Round four is tomorow at 9 PM. Anyways, Have a Seat and enjoy these short movies. The First one here is a funny short clip of “Kasparov making a blunder.” Watch his reaction and smile 🙂

These Other Videos were created by PIXAR animations, the creators of “Finding Nemo,” “Cars,” “Toy Story” and many more. All these shown under are short films by PIXAR. 

• The 1st one is a 30 second film called, “Tennis Commercial.” Cute and Funny 😀

• The 2nd clip is a 3 minute film called “Kiwi.” It might make you cry.

• The 3rd and final clip is called “Geri’s Game.” A famous four minute video of a old man playing chess. Watch and enjoy. Can you guess how many illegal moves the man makes? 🙂

The best game so far was between Bader Hajeri and Taher Khateeb. Bader pulled out a brilliant exchange sacrifice that Taher overlooked. Doing so brought Bader three monster passed pawns! And on top of that, in one occasion, instead of queening a pawn, he made a knight with check! WOW! Almost everybody in the crowd smiled or laughed.

Anyways, here are more pictures from the second round of the ramadan chess tournament 2008. The quality is not great but it is clear enough. Please Enjoy.

My Regards

The People leading the ramadan chess tournament 2008 with 2 points each are:

Hashem Hussain, Adel Amairi, Ahmed Hosni, Ahmad Emad, Vincent Saulda, Basim Zaki, Basir Cosain, Nizar Kanan, Ferdinand Bugay, Ferdinand Laming, Ringo Teves, Sheekh Fyaz, and of course Bader Hajeri.

Congratulations everyone. I wish you the best of luck!

The Quality of the pictures are not great. But they are clear enough for everybody to enjoy.

If you don’t see your picture here, tell me so i can take a picture of you and post them.

My Regards

Sorry for the delay. I am sure many of you are logging on just to see the pictures. I am having trouble uploading them for the moment. I will post them as soon as I can. Thank you for your patience.

My Regards

The Ramadan tournament starts this Sunday!!! AHHHH!!!

The details are:

Location: Kuwait Chess Federation, located in Qadsiya, next to the 2nd ring road.

Entrance Fee: 5 KD

Number of Rounds: 7

Time Control: 90minutes + 30second inc.

Round Starting time: 9 P.M. (no exceptions)

DATES AND TIMES OF THE ROUNDS –> (everyday at 9PM the clocks will be started)

Sunday, 7th = Round 1

Monday, 8th = Round 2

Tuesday, 9th = Round 3

Wednesday, 10th = BREAK (no game this day)

Thursday, 11th = Round 4

Friday, 12th = Round 5

Saturday, 13th = Round 6

Sunday, 14th = Round 7 (the last Round)

Call Khalaf Al Azmi For Registration. (9733283)

For more information, please look at the post entitled “Rules and Regulations.”

Thank you and I wish you all well.

P.S. If you end up playing against me, resign immidietly. Because I am a Super GrandMaster baby 8)