Archive for May 11th, 2008
2nd Philippines Open: Round 8 pairings
Round 7 results
Zhou Weiqi drew against Li Chao and but still maintains his half point lead in the tournament as some of the other top boards drew too. Board 2 Ghaemmagami, Ehsan drew with Le, Quang Liem. Board 3: Megaranto beat Rolando Nolte. Antonio drew with Wesley on board 4. Richard Bitoon beat Wynn Zaw […]
Featured Game of the week: Fairin Zakaria vs Sebastian Simanjuntak
This was one of Mas opponent in the 2nd Philippines Open which he drew with. Sebastian Simanjuntak was at an ELO high of 2377 many years back. Here’s a game where Fairin beat Sebastian in the very first DATMO in 2004.
[Event “Malaysian Open 2004 August”][Site “Mid Valley Megamall, Kuala Lumpur”][Date “2004.08.26″][Round “11.20″][White “Zakaria, Fairin”][Black “Simanjuntak, […]
Blast from the past
World Youth Olympiad 2002
The Malaysian Chess Federation (MCF) organised the World Youth Olympiad (U16) which took place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 20th-28th August 2002. 2nd seeds China A took clear first on the back of an 85% score on board 1 by Wang Yue and an 80% score on board 2 by Zhao Jun. Top […]
National Closed 2008 details
Date
: 31 May - 4 June 2008
Venue
: 2nd Floor, Kompleks Wilayah
Time Control
: 90 minutes with 30 seconds increment per move.
System
: 9 rounds swiss
Closing date
: 25 May 2008
Misc
: Results of this tournament will be used as one of the criteria to choose players to represent the country for 2008/2009.
(Late fee RM 50 is charged […]
Chance to go to Dresden
Yep. That’s Dresden, Germany. Beautiful isn’t it?
That’s where the 38th Chess Olympiad will be held.
How to get there? Why, play in the coming National Closed 2008 of course !!
As comparison, National Closed is not as attractive as the Selangor Open because there is no prize money. However every 2 years when the Olympiad is […]
Tse Pin’s wedding dinner
IA Lim Tse Pin is by now a face very familiar with any Malaysians who have anything to do with chess.
Tonight was his wedding dinner and I got the opportunity to attend it. My only comment is that It’s about time !!
Tse Pin has been pretty selfless in his work for Selangor Chess being instrumental […]
Kristianus Liem’s blog
Kristianus Liem’s blog is now also including Malaysian results in his reports.
Lots of candid picture such as above. (Li Panru - whom Mas beat in round 4).
Check it out at:http://potretcatur.blogspot.com/
thanks in advance
