Malaysian Chess Websites and Blogs

Take a flight from KL to Penang this morning but landed in Langkawi!? Yup. This is what actually happened. My flight was re-routed to Langkawi when Penang Air Port was closed due to heavy rain at around 10:00am It was quite scary as the plane was about to land and suddenly ...

Akismet managed to filter almost 100% of all the spam comments. Only 2 comment escaped the filtering. I save my time from trying to look at all the comments… More: continued here

I had been trying to join a gym and do regular exercise. But some how, just can’t get the time to do so (excuses!). I had contacted MyFitness at Endah Parade which is a walking distance from my house and they are kind enough to offer me a ...

I had been getting a lot of spam comments lately. It comes in hundreds, so I activate the Akismet today. Activation is simple, just register at WordPress and get the API. Will see what happen after this… More: continued here

As expected, my rating increased to 2076 (2075.75) to be exact after the National Closed. But the top country players is not updated to reflect the current rating? Very strange. May be it will be updated in a few more days. Lets wait and see. More: continued here Powered by ...

I think this is one release that have a lot of changes. The top 10 players are: Mas, Hafizulhelmi m MAS 2386 1 1 2396 Chan, Nicholas f MAS 2386 2 2380 Lim, Yee-Weng ...

Received a gift set from Dell. It is a combined Chess & Wine Gift Set. There is one mini Chess set. Don’t think it is big enough for a good game but probably enough for playing through games when you don’t have a proper set. There is also a corkscrews, a ...

After the National Closed, I am once again bogged down by work. To get started again, I would like to share with you another chess lectures/videos site. One thing good about this site is that all the lectures are free, you don’t have to register or pay for them. There are ...

26 years ago, I played my 1st National Closed in 1982! The venue was in Penang, Minden Teacher Training College. It is a pity that I just can’t recall all the details of the event but it was really an experience for me. I can only remember bits and pieces of ...

My 8th placing in National Closed 2008 is my best result from a total of 3 times that I participated. I am very happy with the result as I managed to perform up to my 11th seeding. If my interpretation of the FIDE rules is correct, I will gain 3.75 points ...

Final Top 10 players for the National Closed 2008 (Man) 1. Edward Lee            7.5 (50) 2. Leong Mun Wan    7 (51.5) 3. Ismail Ahmad        7 (45) 4. David Chin Hon Lin    6.5 (49.5) 5. Evan Timothy Capel    6.5 (48.5) 6. Kaushal Khandhar        6.5 (45.5) 7. Muhd Aizuddin Che Hassan    6 (51) 8. Chew Yaw ...

Have a fantastic day today. Managed to score 2/2. Andrew a.k.a gilachess had provided a good couverage for today, please visit his blog at http://blog.gilachess.com , you can also click the links on the sidebar. Hopefully, I can share with you some more when the tournament ended. Good Night. More: continued here ...

Some how the file given is for round 4 Round 4Bo. Name Pts Pts Name 1 Ismail Ahmad ...

This evening/night game seems too tiring for a lot of players. No less than 15 drew results Board 1 & 2 drew. Lost my round 3 game but managed to win the round 4 game. Good Night More: continued here

Drew my 2nd game. A premature attack/pawn push allow my opponent to come up with a tactic sacrifice a Knight for a pawn and pinned a piece and attacked with a pawn. Draw agreed after some exchanges. Leading with 2 points are: Leong Mun Wan, Victor Liam, Abdullah Che Hassan, Ismail Ahmad, ...

Leong MW vs Low JJ Victor vs Evan Timothy Kaushal vs Abdullah Che Hassan Ismail Ahmad vs Lim Zhuo Ren Tan KW vs Zarul Syafiq David Chin vs Edward Lee Mohd Kamal Abdullah vs Charles Lucas Fong YS vs Abang Mohammad Reduan Chew YC vs Guadis Goridau Muhammad Tariq vs Mohd Rodzaly Zaidan Zulkifli vs Sumant Subramaniam Muhd Aizaddin vs Mohd ...

Playing in National Closed at Kompleks Wilayah. 71 players taking part in this event. 25 players were listed with FIDE ratings, surprising some names like Victor How Wee Liam and Yeoh Li Tian (MSSM 2008 U12 Champ) were not rated?! Finished my game quick early (actually 2nd to finished). Play against ...

This is going to start tomorrow 31st of May and end at 4th of June. It is a 9-round event, FIDE rated. I will be there and hopefully I can write something about it in the next few days. More: continued here Powered by SmartRSS

Finally from NCFP. Mas Hafizulhelmi managed to finished at 10th place with a 2472 performance! Didn’t state what tie-break was used but looks official. Wesley So finished at 2nd. Hmm…Looking at the final list, seems to break using the opponent’s average rating?! More: continued here

Picked this up from the Net today: Nicholas Nip Youngest Chess Master in the History? More: continued here

Jayson Gonzales win the 1st Subic International Chess Tournament with 7 points, followed by Wesley, Torre, Villamayor and Yuriy. Mas finished with 5.5, quite ok according to his rating. Results from NCFP. More: continued here

After a break of almost 2 months, I finally do my 4th Chess Video. More: continued here

Mas managed to register a win against Jonathan Tan to share 5-19 with 3.5 points. He is paired against Indonesia IM, Sardikin Irwanto on board 7. Wesley drew with Gonzales. Gonzales is the sole leader with 4.5 and will play Susanto in round 6. More: continued here

Mas lost his game to Susanto. Gonzales and Wesley leads with 4 and 3.5 playing each other at round 5. Full results from NCFP. More: continued here

Mas on Board 5 after beating GM Antonio in round 3. He got 2.5 points from Kimberly Jane Cunanan(1), MYA IM Oo Kyaw Tun Nay (.5) and Antonio(1) from 1st 3 rounds. He is playing against Indonesia GM Susanto Megaranto in this round (4). Hope he can keep up his fine run… Wesley ...

Ok. I got the spelling wrong. It should be Filipino, not Philippino as what I found from wikipedia. My apology. More: continued here Powered by SmartRSS

I had updated the top 3 sites where I normally get the results or updates at this blog’s Links, they are: 1. Indonesian Kristianus Liem’s blog. I think he had been very kind to include Mas’s info as no one from Malaysia is in Philippines to cover the updates. 2. NCFP’s official ...

Asia’s 1st GM Eugene Torre is confirmed to play in this tournament. Other players include:Sadorra, Vilamayor, Wesley So, Antonio Jr. Foreign Yuriy Kuzubov of Ukraine & Susanto Megaranto of Indonesia. Taken from The Journal More: continued here

Some results for round 1 of my interest: Wesley won, Mas won, Torre won, Yuriy drew… More: continued here

Looks like the the 2nd Philippines International Chess Open is not only taking a toll on Wesley, the NCFP site is also down Bandwidth Limit Exceeded The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again ...