Archive for December 17th, 2007
Good systematic syllabus
Me, a coach?
I was a coach before. No, not in chess! I coached my students in passing Java exams a few years ago. I say coached because what I did was actually coaching students how to pass the exam. I don’t consider myself a teacher. It was one of the most challenging things I’ve done.
Singapore Masters Round 1 Update
Round 1
Bad news
FM Lim Yee Weng lost to GM Azmaiparashvili Zurab (ELO 2606). Yee Weng had the black pieces.
IM Mas Hafizulhelmi lost to FM Terry Chua Zheng Yuan (ELO 2096) .
Top 20 players taking part there are:
No. Name FED Rtg
1 GM Zhang Zhong SIN 2634
2 GM Azmaiparashvili Zurab GEO 2606
3 GM Sandipan Chanda IND 2593
4 GM Megaranto Susanto INA 2569
5 GM Nguyen Anh Dung VIE 2537
6 GM Dao Thien Hai VIE 2530
7 GM Paragua Mark PHI 2514
8 IM Dimakiling Oliver PHI 2491
9 IM Jayson Gonzales PHI 2454
10 GM Wu Shaobin SIN 2449
11 IM Girinath P [...]
Why did Malaysia lose?
This year is possibly the worse results Malaysia has managed to get in the 19 series of “friendly” matches that we have had. My personal prediction that the margin of win/loss will be small was way off. It was disappointing to say the least.
It is also not comforting to note that Singapore was “playing up” [...]




