For chess
aficionados in the district, the greatest show will soon be back around the
local area! Yes, Cititel Hotel at Mid Valley Kuala Lumpur will at the end of
the day have the USD 20,000 $ Malaysian Chess Festival 2016.
As in earlier years
there will be the twelfth IGB Dato' Arthur Ten International Open Championship,
ASTRO Merdeka Rapid Open Team Championship, sixth KLK Tan Sri Lee Loy Seng
International Open Seniors Championship, tenth Malaysian Chess Challenge, and
sixth Swensen's Open Rapid Age-Group Championships.
Dated
From 18-28 September
2016 it will again be 11 days of relentless chess!
International Open Championship
The IGB Dato' Arthur
Tan International Open Championship or IGB Malaysian Open as it is famously
known is obviously the lead occasion with a rundown of past victors that would
beauty any adversary rivalry.
Cititel Mid Valley Hotel
A year ago it was
Singapore's Zhang Zhong and in 2013 China's Xiu Deshun while in 2012 the
Philippine's Rogelio Antonio was the victor without Chinese members. China's Li
Shilong won in 2011 while 2010 was the turn of Vietnam's Cao Sang.
China's Ni Hua was
the primary champ in 2004 and he was trailed by Wang Hao in the next year 2005.
Vietnam's Dao Thien Hai softened the Chinese control quickly up 2006 which was
reestablished by Li Chao in 2007 and 2008 when he turned into the main ever two
time and consecutive champ. However another enormous name champ was India's
Parimarjan Negi who then won in 2009.
For some members an
equivalent highlight and maybe a significantly all the more avidly anticipated
occasion is the ASTRO Merdeka Day Rapid Open Team Championship.
About group occasions
What is it about
group occasions? Every year the top neighborhood players racer amongst
themselves to shape the most grounded groups in order to be the best Malaysian
group while outside players quick to participate in a customary fun two days
before the begin of the IGB Malaysian Open would search for less exceedingly
positioned local people to make up their groups.
This is obviously on
account of a rating roof forced by the coordinators to make everything fair by
requiring that the players in every group normal 2250.
Nobody is forgotten
with the seniors having the sixth KLK Tan Sri Lee Loy Seng International Open
Seniors Championship and additionally the beginners and those exceptional
youthful players still under 2000 in the Malaysian Chess Challenge, both which
run simultaneously with the IGM Malaysian Open.
The Malaysian Chess
Festival is constantly held amid the two week Malaysian summer school break
thus there is dependably a phenomenal reaction to the sixth Swensen's Open
Rapid Age-Group Championships which brings out players of any age for this one
day occasion and which for the members in the more IGB Malaysian Open, Tan Sri
Lee Loy Seng Seniors and Malaysian Chess Challenge, additionally speaks to a one
day rest – and a chance to quiet down – after the fervor of the ASTRO Rapid
Teams!
New sponsorship from
the Kasparov Chess Foundation Asia-Pacific has guaranteed the well-known
conventional occasion is finishing.
Blitz Championship is tackling another life and
making conceivable a second rush occasion to observe Malaysia's freedom mid
route through the occasion while the Lim Chong Memorial will have the capacity
to proceed as a Rapid competition on the rest day.
For a long time now
the Malaysian Chess Festival has been the point of convergence of all
neighborhood chess movement while keeping the nation noticeable in global chess
and credit for it needs to go to the resigned.
Previous Malaysian Chess
Federation President Dato' Tan Chin Nam who has proceeded as a supporter for
the amusement with this brainchild while as of late the Organizing Chairman
Daniel Yong Chen-I who is likewise the Executive Director of Mid Valley City
has tackled a hands on part with has everything except guaranteed the occasion
will proceed.
