JOHOR BAHRU SECONDARY SCHOOLS CHESS COMPETITION 2023

The chess competition for secondary schools of Johor Bahru district was back again. As usual, I was there at SMK Mohd Khalid to help the organizing committee with the annual event for 2 days, on 26th to 27th June 2023.

The Chess Team of SMK Dato' Jaafar also took part - sending the boys for the two categories: under 15 and 18.

On the other hand, the other exciting part of this competition was the chance to meet with ex-students and friends/ex-colleagues.

This could be my last official duty during the district level. Hoping I could still go for the state level competition after this with the Johor Bahru Chess Team.

DISTRICT LEVEL CHESS COMPETITION FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS 2020 - DAY 2

The Chess Competition for Johor Bahru Secondary Schools continued today at SMK Mohd. Khalid. There were three more remaining rounds before we could crown the winners of the four categories - boys and girls under 15 and 18.

Unfortunately, the team of SMK Dato' Jaafar was not doing that well this time if compared to last year. There are a lot of things to be done if we want to excel in chess in the future.

Everything went well as planned. Kudos to everyone who was involved in this year's competition. We will be meeting again next week for state level competition which is going to be held in Muar.

DISTRICT LEVEL CHESS COMPETITION FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS 2020 - DAY 1

The district level chess competition was carried out earlier this year. SMK Mohd. Khalid was chosen to be the host this time and the school has a huge and air-conditioned hall which should be a very suitable venue.

I was there to help out a bit here and there, and at the same time chaperoning the two teams of SMK Dato' Jaafar.

ex-colleagues of SMK Taman Universiti

One reason I choose to stay with the team is because this is the time to meet old friends (and students/ex-students).

the committee members

SDJ Chess Team with the Principal and Co-curricular Senior Assistant

an ex-student of SDJ

We managed to finish 5 rounds of matches today and there would be 3 more tomorrow. There is still a long way to go for the school's teams, and just hope they could do better for the upcoming rounds.

JOHOR BAHRU DISTRICT CHESS COMPETITION FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS 2019

Johor Bahru District Chess Competition for secondary schools was back again this year. The competition was held from 10th to 11th April 2019 and glad I got to meet with people whom I have been working with for many years. It was like an annual reunion.

I was again involved as one of the technical committee members as well as chaperoning students from SMK Dato' Jaafar. 

The event was organized more efficiently this year as schools had to pay for the chess sets and clocks which were rented. Before this, individual schools had to bring their own equipment to be used in the tournament and managing this was always a big headache.

As for SMK Dato' Jaafar team, they did better this year as two students managed to win medals and one team emerged as the 4th place winner.

There will be a selection for the state level players so I might go to the next competition if someone from school is chosen. Let's wait and see.