Archive for February, 2008
Quick go out and buy today’s The Star!!
He is back!!
After almost a year we have our regular chess columnist back in The Star.
I found from an SMS from Remis Aman just now.
I went out to the nearest sundry shop and got the last copy of The Star (phew)
Life is not the same without Chess in The Star
I don’t [...]
Hilmi gets serious
Hilmi from GBN has changed emphasis on his blog from personal to serious chess training.
You can Hilmi’s Training in Chess here.
PS: That blog is also part of GilaChess Blogging Network so you can find it at the sidebar of GilaChess.com
PCMM new comittee 2008
Whitenavel just published the new elected committee members of PCMM elected just last week.
You can find it on http://whitenaval.googlepages.com/chess
Congratulations to the new PCMM President Encik Johari Hassan.
Happy Birthday IM Mas !!
Today is IM Mas Hafizulhelmi’s birthday. Join me and wish Malaysia’s future GM a very
H A P P Y B I R T H D A Y ! !
More chess videos!
Yeah. I’m happy to see more people taking videos of local chess events and posting them up online.This is Kaushal vs Alia - video taken by ferdowzruqman.
Here’s the prize giving from the Chessmasters Open GP 1 Tournament. Video also taken by ferdowzruqman.
Keep it up ferdowzruqman whoever [...]
Transformers Chess Set
I know I blogged about this when the movie came out in my other blog. Now I see this chess set being sold here in Lelong.com.my:-
Price: RM 160
Link here.
In case you are wondering, I am not paid to advertise this here Just thought it would be interesting to note there is such a [...]
Happy Chinese Year !
Happy Chinese Year ! From cool cameron h
Originally uploaded by gilachess
Happy Chinese Year ! From cool cameron highlands.
List of High PR chess blog/websites
Last month there was the first 2008 Google Page Rank update.
Basically FIDE and Chessbase website remain the only top 2 with the highest PR after TWIC fell one rank to PR5. I don’t see any blog or website getting a PR promoted except for Zhang Jilin’s blog’s new entry at PR3.
PR6
FIDE.com
ChessBase.com
PR5
TWIC (previously PR 6)
Boylston Chess [...]
Chessmaster Open Top 20
Abdullah Che Hassan (7pts)
Ian Udani (5.5pts)
FM Lim Yee Weng
FM Mok Tze Meng
NM Zarul Shazwan
Kamaluddin Yusof
CM Nur Shazwani Zullka(18)
Mohd Fairin Zakaria (5pts)
Edward Lee Kim Han (18)
Justin Ong Way (18)
Fariz Shafruddin
Mohd Rodzaly Osman
Muhammad Nabil AH (18)
Ahmad Nazri Mohamad (4.5 pts)
Tan Ken Wei (18)
Yeoh Chin Seng
Abdul Haq Mohamad
Lim Zhuo Ren (18) (4 pts)
NM [...]
Australia’s Newest GM
21 year old, Zhao Zong Yuan of Australia completed final GM norm after defeating French player Gildas Goldsztein in a tournament at the 2008 Gibraltor Chess Festival.
Part-time chess player Zhao Zong Yuan - now the highest rated Australian player after the nation’s first grandmaster, Ian Rogers, retired from competition last year - completed the [...]
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