Brunei 25th National Rapid

Brunei 25th National Rapid Result

Sabahan Participants

1.Abdul Sahim bin Wising 7.5 pts
11.Sarragan bin Amir 6.0 pts
17.Abdul Wahab bin Abu Bakar 5.5 pts
21.Charles Lucas 5.0 pts
26.Amran @ Jasper A. S. 5.0 pts



63 players took part. Abdul Sahim emerged as the champion after drawing with Danny Limosinero in the last round. He scored 6 wins and 3 draws. Congratulations!



1st place, Sahim the Chess Pari!



Brunei Chess Centre in Kompleks dotdot... (I forgot the name LOL)



Sahim got 6th place on blitz.




Hey, I got B$55 for 7th place hihihih



Md Aliuddin got the champ, took away B$150. I got a winning position versus him but lost because of my own 'buduh' and Aliuddin power of turning the table LOL.
Anyway, congrats Aliuddin.

UMS Closed 2009

Congrats to Loo Yien Bin for organizing a UMS Closed Chess Tournament.




kenapa ni kabur? (the winners)
From left: Taulani Tukiran , me , Dr. Jumat, Azali, Onnin and Victor




tuan, ini round berapa aa?



Round 5 (play against Taulani)



Ex-UMS student - GMs Sarragan (9th place)



Onnin Osthen or onnin(4th place)

mana standing nya? bulum c Loo bagi oo heheheh

Brunei

We will heading to Brunei this Saturday to take part in a tournament there :-)



unfortunately Shahrin cannot go, he plays golf often lately than chess LOL.
Ilyas also go. Hopefully we will get some pride there.

Sabah Chess 2009

Michael Kimin Guntili re-elected as SCA President

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah Chess Association (SCA) incumbent President Michael Kimin Guntili was re-elected as its President for 2009/2010 term during its annual general meeting held on Jan 18 at a hotel here.

The post of Deputy President was won by Muammar Julkarnain, a practising lawyer and son of former state chess player, Zulkifli Zulkarnain. Former Deputy President, Frank Leong who is also a practising lawyer did not seek re-relection due to personal commitment.

State No 1 chess player David Chin retained his position as Vice President whereas the second slot of Vice President won by former veteran state player, Donald Peter who has just returned to serve the Association after a lapse of 15 years. Former VP Sairin Jamal did not see re-relection.

The new Hon Secretary is Chi Yin Phin replacing Libur Imui who did not seek re-election whereas the incumbent Hon Treasurer retained his post unopposed.
The five newly elected supreme council members are Abdul Aziz Julkarnain, Daulip Lakkui, Awang Yusuf bin Awang Sabli, Rosnani bte Mendeli and Libur Imui.

The newly elected President, Michael Kimin Guntili affirmed commitment of the Association to organise the National Inter-State Chess tournament this year which is supposed to have been held last year but was postponed indefinitely due to ROS refusal to grant permit to publish a souvenir programme until the AGM was held.

picked on New Sabah Times dated 22nd Jan 09

'hopefully Sabah Chess will be more success in 2009'