15th Kepong Juniors Open @ 13/09/2009
SJK(C) Kepong 2 will be holding a junior chess tournament on the 13th September 2009. Details and entry forms as follows:-
Download Entry Form (MS Word format)
Download Entry Form (PDF format) – get Adobe reader here,
Sukan Kerajaan Tempatan Negeri Selangor Results
Klang hosted and won first place in the team event of the Sukan Kerajaan Tempatan Negeri Selangor held on 28th June 2009.
Mohd Hussein Jamil won the individual event for Sukan Tempatan Kerajaan held in Klang.
Hussein also represented Majlis Perbandaran Klang to win the team event.
Second in the team event was Majlis Perbandaran Subang Jaya.
Third place is Majlis Perbandaran Petaling Jaya. 
Klang hosts Sukan Kerajaan Tempatan Negeri Selangor
Majlis Perbandaran Klang (MPK) will be the host to Sukan Kerajaan Tempatan Negeri Selangor yang merupakan sukan diantara kakitangan Pihak Berkuasa Tempatan (PBT) for the state of Selangor starting from the 25th to the 28th of June.
This event started in 2001 by Majlis Bandaraya Shah Alam as host and the current series held in MPK is the 6th.
13 events are contested namely: football, netball, badminton, ping pong, bowling, chess, carrom, darts, draughts, tug of war, futsal, sepak takraw and for the first time, paintball.
Majlis Perbandaran Klang which finished fourth last year is hoping to be champs this year as they have homeground advantage.
Some photos from day 1 of the chess event:-
Kepong Baru Open Chess Championship @ 28/06/09

Penang Heritage City International Chess Open 2009 results
FM Mok Tze Meng became champion of the 1st Penang Heritage City International Open with his win over Tan Eu Hong in tinal round. As early as round 3, Mok was leading the tournament with IM Mas Hafizulhelmi. Mas beat top seed GM Schebler in the fifth round but his chances to win the championship was dashed by a loss to NM Ronnie Lim in Round 7. That left Mok as the sole leader going into the final 2 rounds.

Despite the loss, Mas bounced back with a win and the last round saw him setting for a peaceful draw against Vietnamese Do Thi Thuong thus tying in points with GM Gerhard Schebler who beat Ismail Ahmad in the same round.
Mas had the better tie-break so takes 2nd place.
Top seed GM Gerhard suffered a loss to Mas and a draw to NM Ronnie Lim. He takes third place after having the same score as Mas but losing out on tie-break.
Local Penang coach, Loo Swee Leong took fourth place after defeating NM Ronnie Lim in the final round.
Yeap Eng Cheam, Looi Xin Hao took 5th and 6th place respectively with 6 points out of 9.
NM Ronnie Lim Chuin Hoong with the unexpected final round loss settled for 7th place.
Ismail Ahmad, Sumant Subramaniam and Do Thi Huong took 8-10th place respectively.

FM Mok Tze Meng receiving his RM 4,000 prize from Ng Wei Eik who is the Secretary to the Penang Chief Minister and Komtar
state assemblyman.

IM Mas Hafizulhelmi
GM Gerhard Schebler
Loo Swee Leong

Yeap Eng Cheam
Looi Xin Hao
NM Ronnie Lim Chuin Hoong
Sumant Subramaniam
Do Thi Huong
Related links:-
- Penang Open on Chess-Results.com
- PenangChess.com
- PenangChessOpen.com
- Old hands win (Quah Seng Sun article on The Star – Lifestyle)


