NMCC Saturday Blitz Thematic Tournament 10/09 : Bird's (From's Gambit)!

16th May 2009 - NMCC Thematic Tournament will be organised today - ( Saturday, 16th May 2009). The opening is Bird's (From's Gambit). This will be the 10th edition of this thematic tourney.

A thematic chess tournament is a tournament with every game is played with a certain opening variant. And for this Saturday , the Bird's (From's Gambit) (diagram below) has been selected as the starting position. ( with white to play) .You will find the board set up for this variant at the start of the game. So all white player will start the game on the 4th move ! And black player will start after white's 4th move.

NMCC Saturday Blitz Thematic Tournament 10/09 : Bird's (From's Gambit) 

1. f4 e5 2. fxe5 d6 3. Nf3 g5

white to move !

The tournament details is as follow.

Tournament : NMCC Saturday Blitz Thematic 10/09 : Bird's (From's Gambit).

Format : Blitz 5 minutes. Round Robin. ( On the tournament day, the organiser will decide whether to organised a single or double round robin) .

Location : Neo Manhattan Chess Centre,
No.42B, Jalan Tun Mohd Fuad 1,
Taman TunDr.Ismail, Kuala Lumpur

Date : 16th May 2009 ( Saturday)

Starting Time : 2.30 pm

ONLY the first 24 participants will be accepted for this tournament! So be quick !

FEES : RM 10.00.
Payment can be made to AlRajhi Bank , Current Account : 10300-001-0001080211285 under the name NEO MANHATTAN CHESS CENTRE or pay at the chess centre from 1.00pm -2 pm on Saturday 16th April 2009.

Prize: Only the champion will receive a prize which is RM 70.00 cash prize