Archive for June 11th, 2008
Women’s National Championship Results
Alia Anin Azwa Bakri is 2008 National Women champion with an overwhelming score of 6/7, one and a half point ahead of her nearest rivals.
Final Ranking
Rank SNo. Name Rtg FED [...]
Bulletin Hangover
I have to confess. I did not finish the bulletin on Saturday before the Seremban Open. There were about 20 scoresheets marked with asterisks because I hit moves that were illogical/illegal so there must have been mistakes made in previous moves. Since it would be time consuming to figure them out I just marked it [...]
Our kids in Vietnam
It’s going to be tough on our juniors playing in Vietnam. I think this is the largest contingent of Malaysians playing chess abroad in Malaysian chess history. Anyway here is the current results from Chess-results.com. :-
SNo
Name
RtgI
FED
1
2
Pts.
Rk.
K
rtg+/-
Group
4
Amier Hamzah B. Mohd Zuhri
0
MAS
½
0
0,5
29
0
0,00
Open 8
6
Danish Hamzah Al-Hadi B. Noor
0
MAS
0
0
0,0
33
0
0,00
Open 8
9
Eng Ying Xuan
0
MAS
1
0
1,0
14
0
0,00
Open 8
19
Lee Benjamin
0
MAS
0
0
0,0
35
0
0,00
Open 8
33
Tan Yong Zhao
0
MAS
0
1
1,0
12
0
0,00
Open 8
20
Mohd Faizal [...]
Aiyo resignlah!
One of the things I hate during my short stint as bulletin boy for the National Closed is the unnecessary long games that is played. Being the National Championship you would think that players have the courtesy to resign when they are clearly lost. What I dread is finding such games (and there are many!) [...]
Young vs Old
As far as I remember Jax Tham has always beaten talented but young Yeoh Li Tian. Even in the recent Port Klang rapids was won by Jax. On the other hand I’ve lost to Li Tian 3 times in a row. So I was curious to see what was the ’secret’ Jax had winning Li [...]
