So far our Under 8 rep in Turkey is doing well winning all four rounds in a row.
Picture (c) Lim Tse Pin (http://malaysianchess.blogspot.com)
Here’s one of his games in the third round:
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Archive for 22 November 2007
Yeoh Li Tian is hot! 22 November 2007 at 6:16 am by GilaChess
+ GilaChess was Hacked! By GilaChess 22 November 2007 at 12:08 am and have 5 Comments
Last night GilaChess.com got hacked. And the hacker was me!
Yes I hacked my own site 
Some thought it was a big joke but most thought that my site was really hacked. Sorry for the deception and if you were fooled by this. I just wanted to test a theory of mine.
If GilaChess was to close down temporarily just for one day, the traffic should be diverted to other websites such as Stonemaster. It was only logical. That’s the main reason I “hacked” my site and rendered it useless for a 24 hours.
Some of you saw this:
or this:
10 minutes after the hack I already got messages via SMS, Instant messaging and phone calls warning me that someone “hacked” GilaChess.
Anyway it was worth it just to look at the stats:
My theory was wrong. Even though GilaChess went down, the traffic for Stonemaster did not increase significantly. So this can only mean both Stonemaster and GilaChess have the same audience. These are people who visit to both sites. So when my traffic dropped, Stonemaster traffic did not increase because the same visitors were already there. So I see no reason for a traffic fight as the majority of chess players will go to both sites.
Another reason for the hack was to show Stonemaster that who has the biggest traffic is not important to me. He can be the new no. 1 for forever 
. GilaChess main function is as a news website and making sure organisers gets their event publicised. It’s as simple as that.
Good luck and congratulations to Stonemaster.biz as the new No. 1 biggest no of visitors for a Malaysian Chess website.
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