All the top teams keep their position with almost expected results.

Goldis - Nusa Mahkota  3-1

DATCC - PCWM  3-1

SMS Gold - MBS  4-0

Tan & Tan - Spawn  0.5-3.5

PwC - 786 Chess Club  1.5-2.5

There were no changes in the line-up except for Spawn 2009 which added Kaushal Khandhar to strengthen their 4th board.

DATCC over take PCWM for 8th place after a 3-1 victory.

The DATCC Chess League is now at the half-way hall mark after 9 rounds. SMS Gold widen the lead with additional 0.5 point to lead with 32 points after beating PCWM 4-0. Goldis beats 3rd seed 786 Chess Club 3.5-0.5. It is quite clear that Goldis and SMS Gold will be the top 2 contenders for the overall title when the League go into the 2nd half next week.

786 Chess Club will have outside chances to go better than 3rd place if they perform better against the top 2 teams.

PricewaterhouseCoopers, Nusa Mahkota and Spawn 2009 will continue to fight for the 4th, 5th and 6th unless there are major changes in their line-up.

Tan & Tan and PCWM seems to have some some problem fielding their strongest line-up. They will get better results if they can overcome this weakness.

DATCC can act as a spoiler by taking a point or two from teams that don’t take them seriously.

Lastly, the courageous young boys from MBS should learn and gain experience from the more senior players and seek advice as part of their learning. Any points are bonuses but the lessons learned would be more valuable.

A person? A Title? or what?

see more at my sudoku blog.

Despites not having Mas, Mok & Ismail Ahmad, the top 2 teams of SMS Gold and Goldis continue to dominate the league with 4-0 victories against Nusa Mahkota and DATCC. 3rd placing 786 Chess Club keep up their hope of topping Goldis with a 3.5-0.5 win against Spawn 2009. PricewaterhouseCoopers moved up to 4th place defeating MBS 4-0 while Nusa Mahkota did not gain any points. Tan & Tan beat PCWM 3.5-0.5 to move from 9th place to 7th place.

There are 5 walk-over games, the highest so far. Hopefully next week will be better after the school holidays.

SMS Gold continues to lead with 24 points, 1 point ahead of Goldis Bhd. Club 786 maintains 3rd place with 21.5 points. Nusa Mahkota improves it’s position to 4th place after Spawn 2009 lost to Goldis Bhd 1-3. PricewaterhouseCoopers also overtakes Spawn 2009 with a 4-0 victory against PCWM at 5th place. Spawn 2009 is now at 6th place. PCWM remains at 7th place. The remaining teams are DATCC, Tan & Tan and lastly MBS.

From En Hamid

Spawn 2009    1 - 3    GOLDIS Bhd
786 Chess Club    4 - 0    MBS Kuala Lumpur
PricewaterhouseCoopers    4 - 0    Persatuan Catur Wanita Malaysia
Tan & Tan    1½ - 2½    Nusa Mahkota Chess Club
SMS Gold    4 - 0    DAT Chess Centre

Congratulation to 11 year old Tan Li Ting for winning the 2009 Women National Closed. That will make her the youngest ever WNM in the history of Malaysia Chess!

Though yet to play against her in any games but I had seen her in action in the DATCC KL Chess League and my team is playing against the PCWM tonight. Is she playing or she will be away celebrating?

Showing here is one of her game in the KL Chess League, a nice end game.

Staying home as I have flu. Will try to post any resuts if available.

Besides Chess, I also like other mind games like XiangQi, Monopoly, Poker and etc. One of the other mind games that I find very addictive is Sudoku. Sometimes, I find myself spending hours trying to solve a Sudoku puzzle and neglecting Chess

I had created my 2nd blog and the url is http://wisepawn.blogspot.com

For any Chess players who are also Sudoku lovers, please feel free to comment on my blog, it is still pretty empty at the moment, but I will try to blog about it.

For the 1st time, there is signal for Maxis 3G connect at Serom, Tangkak, Muar.

Can access to Internet and vpn to office.