By Afifah Adi
Edited by Izyan Nazihah
Two groups taking positions to battle on a large-sized chess board | Credit: Publication and Promotion Team of IIUM Human Chess Competition
GOMBAK, 31st May 2024: Amid the approaching of the semester’s final weeks, the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) Chess Club launched the IIUM Chess Festival 2024 on the 25th and 26th of May 2024. The two-day festival was packed with five sub-events and one of them was the IIUM Human Chess Competition held at IIUM Multi-Purpose Hall, Wadi Budi.
The opening ceremony began at 9.30 a.m. with a speech by the programme manager, Muhammad Al Amin bin Abdul Al Fatah. He was thrilled to have the competition brought to life, as it is the first event ever organised by the IIUM Chess Club. He also mentioned how different the competition is from the classic chess game.
Muhammad Al Amin giving a speech as the programme manager | Credit: Publication and Promotion Team of IIUM Human Chess Competition
The participants came from different backgrounds and consisted of IIUM and non-IIUM students. Two teams of 7 people became the chess pieces by taking their places on the chess board and battling with each other by playing mini-games.
The sister teams getting ready to battle | Credit: Publication and Promotion Team of IIUM Human Chess Competition
Most of the mini-games prepared were familiar to the participants. Some of the games were osom, bottle flip, lompat katak (frog jumping), throwing slipper, timbang capteh (balancing capteh) and thumb wrestling. At some point during the game, a team battle took place where teamwork was essential to win the round.
The brother teams playing timbang capteh | Credit: Publication and Promotion Team of IIUM Human Chess Competition
Following the completion of all rounds, a prize-giving ceremony took place to announce the winners of the competition. Team ‘The Boyz’ and team ‘Pikaboo’ won first place in the brother and sister categories, respectively.
Team The Boyz won first place in the brother category and the best costume award | Credit: Publication and Promotion Team of IIUM Human Chess Competition
Team Pikaboo won first place in the sister category | Credit: Publication and Promotion Team of IIUM Human Chess Competition
The eventful competition ended at 2 p.m. with a photography session. Participants expressed the fun they had when playing the games and wished that the IIUM Human Chess Competition could be held again in the future.***
Photography session of all participants and committees | Credit: Publication and Promotion Team of IIUM Human Chess Competition
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