Archive for April, 2008
3 more articles from FM/FT Peter Long
After the first article that appeared here, FM/FT Peter Long continues his in-depth analysis of some games he played recently in Singapore:-
http://www.trainersnotebook.blogspot.com/
Knowing when to make exchanges
Won games must be won
It’s about making decisions
We need a place to play chess!
Hi , i do not haave any comment here , however , i am trying to look for a chess club here which i can send my 9 year old girl for it.
She likes to play chess , and i wanted to improve on her moves. Since she is interested to play chess i do [...]
Johor Results
Here’s the results from Narayanan Krishnan:-
OpenChampion : Ian Udani - 6.5 pointsSecond : Ismail Ahmad - 5.5Third : IM Mas Hafizul - 5.5Fourth : Daniel Lam - 5.5Fifth : Mak Weng Yee -5.5Sixth : Soh Zee Wee - 5.5Seventh : Mike Palma -5.0Eighth : Aaron Chua - 5.0Nineth : Hamid Taib - 5.0Tenth : Zarul [...]
Place to stay?
I received this on GilaChess.com as a comment..
where can i stay at selangor from 30th april to 5th may?i’m from terengganu.can you give me your contact number so that it will be easier for others to know any information about the tournament.
Can somebody here suggest a place to stay?
Wesley So in Gulf News
Closetgrandmaster spotted this piece of news from GulfNews.com.
But the picture is Li Chao!
Let’s check the old pictures…
Wesley goes 3-0 vs Megaranto
VS
And it’s only a 6 game match!
Looks like Wesley So is on fire in Indonesia. He only needs a draw to win overall.
More from Susan Polgar’s blog
Betul betul Gila chess
One of the reasons today’s second series of Stonemaster Amateur is cancelled is because there is a tournament in Johor too. Stonemaster wanted to avoid the clash. In fact, Stonemaster is playing in that tournament !
Some of us complained that the entrance fee for Selangor Open was too expensive. Well guess what’s the entrance [...]
Picture of the day
Big dog vs small dog (from Flickr)
Quah Seng Sun’s column going back to old format
Did anyone noticed that Quah Seng Sun’s last week’s chess column has gone back to the old format?
It has a chess diagram and sample game from the Amber tourney.
I like it !!!
In the past Mr Quah stopped including games and diagrams for unknown reasons. And at that time, I think the column lost some [...]
Stonemaster Amateur Pictorial report
Arrived late. 9.15 am when I’m supposed to reach there before 9am to confirm registration. My excuse was that I was setting up my page so that Twitter SMS could work
Arrived and saw that Fadli was already on the first floor waving to me. You can’t see it from this picture [...]
4th Stonemaster Amateur Results - GilaChess is FOURTH !!!
It’s not often I can see my own name in the top 5 list. As I said before this is only the 2nd time in my life I’ve EVER finished top 5 in a local tournament. Also it’s the 3rd time in my life I’ve ever won prize money for chess. So let me gloat [...]
I love Twitter!!
Sometimes when a new technology comes around it truly astounds you. Twitter is one such technology. I love how it can post to my blog almost immediately using phone SMS. I’ve registered with Twitter last year but never knew what it was about. That time I thought it was a pretty lame tool where [...]
Follow me on Twitter via SMS
One of the coolest thing I discovered with Twitter is that whenever I make updates, my “followers” can receive the updates via web or even SMS.
Yes that’s right! For example if you follow me via SMS, every update I make will go into your phone as SMS. The good thing about this is that [...]
Mate in 2 puzzle
White mates in 2!!
Can you find the solution?
This was sent by Charly Founes - remember him? The French guy who was in Malaysia some time back..
SMS update trial
I’ll be updating tomorrow’s Stonemaster Amateur tournament via SMS and Twitter tomorrow.
What this means is that whatever I SMS to Twitter would appear almost instantly on this blog.
Cool eh? Those who have nothing better else to do on a Saturday, can see this in action on this blog somewhere on the right sidebar labelled [...]
