Played against Players from 30 Countries

As at 31st December 2014, The cHEss pIRATE had played against players in 30 countries in various internaional competitions like the World Youth C.C in UAE, Asian Schools C.C. in Sri Lanka and Taiwan, ASEAN+ Age Group C.C. in Macau and the Asian Dragons in Taiwan as well as domestic competitions like the Malaysian and KL Open.

ASIA @20
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MALAYSIA

Azerbaijan (WYCC 2013, UAE)
China (15th A+AG 14, Macau)
Hong Kong (15th A+AG 14, Macau)
India (10th ASCC 14, Taiwan)
Indonesia (Polgar Juniors 14, Malaysia Open 14,KL)
Iraq (WYCC 2013, UAE)
Kazakstan (10th ASCC 14, Taiwan)
Kuwait (WYCC 2013, UAE)
Kyrgyzstan (WYCC 2013, UAE)
Macau
Mongolia (10th ASCC 14, Taiwan)
Philippines (15th A+AG 14, Macau)
Qatar (WYCC 2013, UAE)
Singapore (15th A+AG 14, Macau)
South Korea (9th ASCC 13, Sri Lanka & WYCC 2013, UAE)
Sri Lanka (9th ASCC 13, Sri Lanka & 10th ASCC 14, Taiwan)
Taiwan (8th Asian Dragons 14, Taiwan & 10th ASCC 14, Taiwan)
Thailand (KL Open 14, KL)
Vietnam (15th A+AG 14, Macau)


OCEANIA @1
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Australia (15th A+AG 14, Macau)


EUROPE @4
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England (KL Open 14, KL)
Finland (WYCC 13)
Slovenia (WYCC 2013, UAE)
Ukraine (WYCC 13 & KL Open 14)


NORTH AMERICA @ 1
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USA (WYCC 13)


SOUTH AMERICA @2
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Ecuador (WYCC 13)
Peru (WYCC 13)


AFRICA @2
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Kenya (WYCC 13)
South Africa (WYCC 13)

4th U12, 2nd Piala YDP MPSJ 2014

RESULTS

In the first U12 competition with the prefix CM to his name, a fourth place was all he could muster after being out of competition for 1 month and 4 days due to interviews which his elder sister had to attend. In a 7-round 20 minutes each player event, he recorded 5 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss.

For his efforts in the now nicknamed "Elevator Games", he received a nice plaque and RM80 bringing his 2014 earnings to RM630 excluding vouchers and hampers.

THIRD U14, Term Break Chess Tournament

Took part in a rarely entered age group i.e. U-14 for the Term Break Chess Tournament held at Polgar Chess in Sri Hartamas.

Came in third. The players from the drawn games finished 1st and 2nd.

Results:
R1: B, Draw
R2: W, WON - Illegal Move.
R3: B, WON
R4: W, WON.
R5: B, Draw.

Took a Break from Chess & EMERGED SPRINT CHAMPION.

CHAMPION U8, 20th KEPONG JUNIORS 2014

( Challenge Trophy, Trophy, Cash, Hamper & Certificate )

* Pictures courtesy of Megat Khushairi *

The cHEss pIRATE emerged Champion for the U8 category in the 20th Kepong Juniors Open 2014 held yesterday at the SJKC Kepong in Kepong, W.P.KUALA LUMPUR.

In a 7-rounds competition, CP finished with a perfect score of 7 points from 7 wins.

Apart from the Challenge Trophy, Trophy and hamper he also received RM80 as the U8 Champion, bringing his 2014 earnings to RM550 which excludes vouchers and hampers (2013 @RM270 / 2012 @RM65)

YOUNGEST CM in Malaysia's History.

Refer FIDE website: AMIRUL, AMIR FAIZ (5714729).

At 7 years, 7 months and 28 days Amir Faiz Amirul is officially Malaysia's youngest CM historically when FIDE publishes its latest update.

CHAMPION U8, 1st KTJ Chess Tournament @Mantin, NEGERI SEMBILAN

The cHEss pIRATE emerged Champion for the U8 category in the Inaugural Kolej Tuanku Jaafar Chess Tournament 2014 held yesterday at the KTJ campus in Mantin, NEGERI SEMBILAN.

In a 7-rounds competition, CP finished with 5 points from 4 wins, 2 draws(one of which is to the 3rd place finisher) and a loss to the eventual runners-up.

Official RESULTS

1st KTJ STORY

He earned RM100 as the U8 Champion, bringing his 2014 earnings to RM470 which excludes vouchers and hampers (2013 @RM270 / 2012 @RM65).

RUNNERS-UP U12, 1st PUTERI PANDAN Juniors Tournament 2014

The cHEss pIRATE emerged Runners-Up in the Inaugural Puteri Pandan Juniors 2014 chess tournament held today at S.K.Pandan Puteri 2 in Kuala Lumpur.

Finishing with 4 points from 4 wins and a loss to the eventual champion, he recorded a personal best today when he completed his 3rd Round game with 4 Queens. The 4 Queens recorded surpassed his 3 Queens in the 10th Asian Schools Chess Championship held in Taichung-Taiwan last August.

Full RESULTS.

He earned RM50 as Runners-Up, bringing his 2014 earnings to RM370 which excludes vouchers and hampers (2013 @RM270 / 2012 @RM65).

In KL for 9th MALAYSIA CHESS CHALLENGE 2014

UPDATE:
CP finished the event with 4 points and is ranked 89th out of 122 players.
An improvement of 10 places and 1.5 points compared to last year's results.

                    2013                                     2014                                  CHANGE

POINTS:     2.5                                       4.0                                       + 1.5 Points
RANK  :      99/103                                89/122                                  - 10  Position
PERCENT:  96%                                    73%                                     - 23% Percentile
RATINGS:  NR(FIDE)/1353(NR)         1472(FIDE)/1517(NR)            + 164(NR)

>>>>>>>
Today, CP is taking part for the second consecutive year in the 9th Bukit Kiara Malaysia Chess Challenge 2014 starting today at the Cititel Kuala Lumpur.

Ranked 47th out of 125 players (of which 60 are FIDE-rated players), it is hoped that he can improve on his 2.5 pts, 99th place finish in last year's 8th edition. With 1 point from 2 rounds today, he's just 2 points away from improving from last year. 

Poem for Faiz @The CP, by Sheikh Ghazali.

Upon hearing the good news from Taichung-TAIWAN, Sheikh Ghazali penned the below words for The cHEss pIRATE.

TQVM Sir.

>>>>>>>

OHMYBOBBYFISCHER
WELL DONE ADIK FAIZ AMIRUL

Faiz used to be budak kampong
Now he is out of kepompong
Umur 5 mula berjinak dengan catur
Mula belajar cara bidak diatur
Raja hanya bergerak demi setapak
Permaisuri ligat semuanya disepak
Terdengar suara berteriak ..” Mat”
Penanda game dahlah tamat
Di Taiwan, Faiz dinobat Pahlawan
Syabas atas kemengan tewaskan lawan
Penacapaian awesome harumkan Negara
Kami rasa kagum dan gembira
Kepada OP Amirul Hj Mohamad
Kejayaan Faiz bukanlah muktamad
Three Cheers for Adik Faiz
Hip..hip..hurray 

CP is 2nd in ASIA @10th ASIAN SCHOOLS C.C. 2014

( RUNNERS-UP on Tie Break @10th ASCC 2014. 1st from India & 3rd from Mongolia )

Official RESULTS

In the just concluded 10th Asian Schools Chess Championship 2014, the cHEss pIRATE finished tied on first place with 7 points in 7 wins from 9 rounds. However, after the first tie-break i.e. PE he ends up being the RUNNERS-UP.

It was announced during the prize-giving ceremony that the top 3 finishers from the U7  to U11 Open categories will be awarded the Candidate Master or, CM title.

CP is in TAIWAN for the 10th ASIAN SCHOOLS C.C.2014

(Players Lounge)

(10th ASCC 2014 Venue)

CP Amir Faiz is in Taichung-TAIWAN for the 10th Asian Schools Chess Championship 2014.
The event will be held at the Washington High School in Taichung.

This will be his second participation in the Asian Schools C.C. event having participated in last year's 9th ASCC 2013 in Hikkaduwa-SRI LANKA and finishing on 31st place out of 41 players with 3.5 points. 

MAIDEN Classical FIDE-Ratings - 1498

Despite initial reservations, participating in the 8th Asian Dragons U-16 category turned out to be a good decision. The 2 points notched against 2 Olympiad Players from Taiwan and 1 from Macau enabled his ratings to be issued.

Finally, after participating in 12 FIDE-rated classical events over 3 years since he was 5years old way back in 2012 staring with the 4th Penang Heritage City Open as his debut classical tournament,  the cHEss pIRATE got his maiden FIDE-rating for the classical game in the August 2014 list published by FIDE.
Refer Amir Faiz's FIDE Rating.

Based on. ChessDB website his ranking are as follows:-
#4 World - U7 category (6th if inactive players are included).
#2 ASIA  - U7 category
#1 MALAYSIA - U9 category

Based on this FIDE link, he is ranked no.186 in Malaysia amongst active players sandwiched between Chun Hong (1500) and Jagathees GB(1492).

For information, the following are the classical events that he'll be participating in 2014 and events that  he'd participated since 2012:-

2014 (another 2x, at least)
(15) 1st Johor Open, Open - Challenger Section (Johor) or Singapore Age Group (SINGAPORE)
(14) World Youth Chess Championship, U-8 Open (SOUTH AFRICA)
(13) 10th Asian Schools Chess Championship, U-7 Open (TAIWAN)

2014 (4x)
(12) 8th Asian Dragons International Chess Tournament, U-16 Open (TAIWAN)
(11) 15th ASEAN+ Age Group Chess Championship, U-8 Open (MACAU)
(10) 41st Selangor Open, Open (KL)
(09) DYTM Raja Dr. Nazrin Shah Kuala Lumpur International Open Chess Championship, Open (KL)

2013 (6x)
(8) World Youth Chess Championship, U-8 Open (UAE)
(7) 5th Penang Heritage City International Chess Open, Challenger Section (PULAU PINANG)
(6) 6th National Juniors Chess Championship, U-20 (Johor)
(5) 9th Asian Schools Chess Championship, U-7 Open (SRI LANKA)
(4) 8th AMBank Chess Challeng (KL)
(3) DCC Golden Special (KL)

2012 (2x)
(2) 5th National Juniors Chess Championship (KL)
(1) 4th Penang Heritage City, Challenger Section (Pulau Pinang)

8th ASIAN DRAGONS INTERNATIONAL Chess Tournament 2014 @New Taipei City-TAIWAN

( TAIWAN Chess Association, logo )

Representing the Kuala Lumpur Chess Association (KLCA), the cHEss pIRATE is presently in New Taipei City-TAIWAN to take part in the 8th Asian Dragons International Chess Tournament 2014.

( Kuala Lumpur Chess Association-KLCA, logo )

Event INFO.

This is also the first time he's taking part in a FIDE-rated event for the U-16 category.

RESULTS

UPDATE 1 @ 14 July:
Round 1: 1PM - lost   (1619)
Round 2: 9AM - WON (1636)
Round 3: 3PM - Draw (NR)

UPDATE 2 @ 15 July:
Round 4: 9AM - Draw (1530)
Round 5: 3PM - Draw (1602)
After the conclusion of rounds and the release of the pairings for Round 6 on Thursday, the cHEss pIRATE is on schedule to get his maiden FIDE rating. Taking into account his results at the 41st Selangor Open in KL where he played against 4 FIDE-rated players, he just needs to play against a minimum of 2 more FIDE-rated players...one of which he'll be playing in the 6th Round. Hopefully, he gets to play against at least another FIDE-rated player in the final 3 rounds.

Based upon his results against the previous 8 FIDE-rated players his provisional rating (as per FIDE website, HERE ) would be 1558 (1498, assuming the next game is taken into account with a worst case scenario ).

UPDATE 3 @ 17 July:
Round 6: 9AM - lost (1447)
Round 7: 3PM - lost (NR)

UPDATE 4 @ 18 July:
Round 8: 9AM - BYE
Round 9: 2PM - WON (NR)

(TBC)

Team BRONZE in BLITZ for CP at 15th ASEAN+ AGE GROUP CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP 2014

( R-L: Amir Faiz, Ooi Zhi Ping & Iskandar Haikal - Malaysian Team 

with Former World Champion Garry Kasparov )

FINAL STANDINGS for BLITZ event:
Gold -   VIETNAM
Silver -  PHILIPPINES
Bronze- MALAYSIA
Fourth - SINGAPORE
Fifth    - CHINA
Sixth   - HONG KONG

The cHEss pIRATE is at the 15th ASEAN+ AGE GROUP C.C. 2014 @MACAU S.A.R

( Round 8, Board 10)

( Snapshot of Pictures for Sale incl.a picture of The cHEss pIRATE)

(Round 8 v. Nguyen Quang Anh, VIETNAM )

Note:All Pictures Above, courtesy of 15th ASEAN+ Official fb page

UPDATE 6 @06/06:
9th June, 6th & Final Day. 4.5pts/9@50%.
R9, He Ruibin (CHINA) - WON in under 1 hr.

8th June, 5th Day. 3.5pts/8.
R8, 4PM: B10, W v. Nguyen Quang Anh(VIETNAM) - lost
R7, 9AM: B , B v. Royce Hinglun (SINGAPORE) - lost

7th June, 4th Day. 3.5pts/6.
R6, 9AM: B10, W v. Bayanochir Tulgabat(MONGOLIA) - WON in 30mins.

6th June, 3rd Day. 2.5pts/5.
R5, 4PM: B6, B v. Michael Deng (HKG) - lost in 31 moves.
R4, 9AM: B11, W v. Benjamin Kim (HKG) - WON in 22 moves in less than 30mins.

5th June, 2nd Day. 1.5pts/3
R3, 4PM: B14, B v. Wang Xin (MACAU) - WON, opponent resigned after 41moves.
R2, 9AM: B9. , W v. Nguyen Xuan Hien  (VIETNAM) - lost in 61 moves.

4th June, 1st Day. 0.5pt/1.
R1, 2PM: B5, B v. Sheng Feng (SPORE) - Draw

(A+AG 2014 Logo)

The cHEss pIRATE is with his sister at the 15th ASEAN+ Age Group Chess Championship 2014 (A+AG 2014) being held in Macau from 4th till 12th June 2014. This is the FIRST time that he'll be participating in a "Zero-Start Rule" event.

 (Round 1, Full Attendance )

* Picture courtesy of Event Official Website *

( Round 1. First time wearing the New National Jersey )

* Picture courtesy of Event Official Website *

( Picture used by the Organising Secretariat for his Accreditation Card )

NEW MALAYSIAN Jersey for 2014

 ( BACK )

CP tried the NEW Malaysian Jersey to be used for the 15th A+AG 2014 @MACAU S.A.R. 

The ADMIRAL brand jersey is sponsored by PMB TIJARI.

On the LEFT CHEST are the wordings "ADMIRAL 100th ANNIVERSARY".

On the RIGHT CHEST is the "Persekutuan Catur Malaysia (MCF)" logo.

He got the S size, which is still too big for him. However, this is till much better than the 2013 WYCC@Al Ain - UNITED ARAB EMIRATES where no jersey was issued by MCF for the Malaysian contingent.

( FRONT )

15th ASEAN+ AGE GROUP Chess Championship 2014 @MACAU S.A.R.

Event INFO
Official WEBSITE

Malaysian Players LIST
U8 Open Players LIST

Flight Times
DEPART:  03 JUNE - Air Asia - 1415hrs
RETURN: 12 JUNE - Air Asia - 1640hrs

Its 2 Weeks to go prior to the start of the 15th ASEAN+ Age Group C.C (A+AG 2014) which will Be held in Macau S.A.R. There are 39 registered Malaysian players and there are 39 players registered to play in the U8 Open category. Hence, 39 and 39...a recurring number.

The cHEss pIRATE is registered to play in the Under-8 Open category.
Please Pray for his success as well as his sister who'll be competing in the Girls U-12 category.

TV Feature on Bananana @ TV3

( 4th May 2014 - 11AM )

The cHEss pIRATE was featured on a TV programme called Bananana which went on air at 11AM in the morning of Sunday, 4th May 2014.

Unfortunately, he missed the programme as he was playing in a classical event i.e. 41st SELANGOR Open held at the Wilayah Complex - KL.

1st NATIONAL Title - PMB NAG U8 Champion

( Prize-Giving Ceremony )

CP secured his 1st National-level title and his 3rd title for 2014 by winning all his games in the just concluded 2014 PMB National Age Group Chess Championship organised by the MCF at UNITEN Bangi from 25-27 April 2014.  He kept a clean slate by winning all 8 games in 8 rounds for a 100% record.

Being PMB NAG U8 Champion makes it the sixth overall title for the CP since 2012. The PMB title is also his first as a 7-year old.

Official RESULTS

( Former World Champion GM Garry Kasparov at the Opening Ceremony )