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My teacher 31 July 2008 at 9:39 pm by GilaChess

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Are You Being Served? divx I was surprised to meet my Advanced Programming teacher, Jason Lim (picture) at last Sunday’s PERCAWI Open. He taught me back when I was doing my advanced diploma in computer studies. It was the most memorable class for me because there were some programming whiz kids in class and they always challenged (and tortured) Mr Jason. He was a competent teacher but was always a good sport and accepted the “correction” by those gifted students whenever he inadvertently made some mistakes. It was his class that made me interested in programming and later make it my profession. It was also the only class where I actually took effort in reading up library books, magazines and any literature I can get on about programming.

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Back to chess. Apparently he has a son taking part in the Under 15 section. He is a “brand new” chess parent as this is his first experience seeing a chess competition taking place. He had the wrong impression that the U15 was going to be a knock out tourney and it would all be finished before lunch time. He was surprised to find out that it would stretch till 5 or 6pm. Anyway, he stayed around the tournament hall the whole day watching many of the games being played out.

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Probably a sign that chess is really catching on when I get to meet my teacher of 15 years ago in a chess tournament!

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+ 1 win + 1 draw = 3.5 points By GilaChess 31 July 2008 at 8:49 pm and have No Comments

Yep. I only got to play and win one full game in last week’s PERCAWI open. I also got a draw but ended up with 3.5 points. That’s because I had 2 walkovers. I finished 27th place our of 74 participants in the Open section. Also, the interactive crosstable was not posted as I fell asleep after preparing it that night and then forgot about it.

Here it is:-

 

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Junior Tan Ken Wei did pretty well finishing 3rd in such a strong field.

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+ Mas has a chance for GM norm By GilaChess 31 July 2008 at 8:37 pm and have No Comments

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Mas is playing at the 41st Biel International Chess Festival and has scored a fantastic 6.5/9 rounds and now faces GM Evgeny Gleizerov ( FIDE 2549) in round 10 (For GM Evgeny’s photo go to http://hairulovchessmaniacs.blogspot.com/ ) .I am guessing that the game should start around 8pm Malaysian time.

I spoke to Mas this morning & was glad to hear that a win in this round would give him a GM norm! Otherwise a draw with GM Evgeny  followed by a win in the last round would also be sufficient.
As far as I can recall, I am not aware of any other Malaysian that had come this close before (Maybe Zi Jing?). Rightfully, we should all feel excited. Unfortunately, the games are not live but the results will be out by the morning at http://www.bielchessfestival.ch/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=144&Itemid=169
One of my favorite games was Mas vs GM Ulbin in round 3. You may replay the game at http://www.bielchessfestival.ch/cms/uploadfiles/games/dgt_chesstheatre.htm & see how he completely demolished a GM. Mas had informed me that when the game ended, he had about 50mins while GM Ulbin only had 10seconds!

That’s posted by Lim Yee Weng on the newsgroup today. It’s certainly a big deal as Mas is very close to a GM norm. Too bad there’s no live games or reports. We will have to wait till tomorrow morning then.

Best of luck in tonight’s game, Mas!

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+ Crazy months of chess By GilaChess 31 July 2008 at 8:33 pm and have 3 Comments

Every chess fan worth his salt already know the coming Malaysian Chess Festival which includes the Malaysian Open/AmBank Open/Merdeka Team Rapid & Classical. A month after that, October is also packed. It looks like every week of that month will have at least on event. At least one of them will be unique or record breaking in terms of number. Apparently October is school holidays and it’s the optimal time to have tourneys.

I will post the details into the calendar when some of the events are confirmed.

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+ Pictures from PERCAWI tourney By GilaChess 28 July 2008 at 5:43 am and have No Comments

Finally the pictures are uploaded!

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Official results and the pictures will be posted in GilaChess.com later..

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+ Picture of the day By GilaChess 27 July 2008 at 9:53 pm and have No Comments

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+ Ian Udani triumps again! By GilaChess 27 July 2008 at 9:29 pm and have 15 Comments

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Here’s a quick post I’m making at the Kelana LRT station (piggy backing on the free Mr Pizza WiFi from across the road) before I get home.

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I asked Ian today how many first prizes he has won. He says he don’t know.

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Hmmm I’ll probably have to look back the past gilachess.com past results and count…

The Art of War III: Retribution psp Yes. Ian won yet again in today’s PERCAWI open which had a massive 275 240 number of participants. Ian ploughed thru the field with 5 straight wins and settled for a draw in the last round against Kamaluddin Yusof when no one else could catch up with him.

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With such a large number of participants it is not surprising that there are hiccups and slight delays were inevitable but after the late start, everything was smooth sailing.

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As for me, personally, I was disappointed with my results. I got to play and win one game and draw one game only! More on this later..

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I’ll post the full results and pictures after I have had my bath and dinner (and if I don’t fall asleep after that :) ).

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+ Fast Domain name renewal with GoDaddy.com By GilaChess 26 July 2008 at 11:33 am and have 1 Comment

Wow! Less than 30 minutes after I made payments I checked and ChessPublisher.com is back up again! Now that’s what I call fast service from GoDaddy.

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+ PERCAWI open tomorrow By GilaChess 26 July 2008 at 10:55 am and have No Comments

Just a reminder that the PERCAWI open is tomorrow and they will be accepting registration from 3.30 to 6pm today (Saturday – 26th July 2008) at Wilayah Kompleks.

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+ Whoops! Chesspublisher.com expired By GilaChess 26 July 2008 at 10:46 am and have No Comments

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Since ChessPublisher is a service, it’s bad for it to go down for a couple of days as it also affects all the blogs using the chess diagrams hosted on this domain.

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Price : USD 7.15 for the year which is pretty cheap because I got it with discounts. Renewal was done in minutes and I paid online using PayPal. ChessPublisher should be up in 24 hours.

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+ Map To Tanjung Karang tourney By GilaChess 24 July 2008 at 8:06 pm and have No Comments

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Here’s the map to the Tanjung Karang tournament this Saturday. The organiser sent me this on the 14th July but I did not have time to post it simply because the map was in PowerPoint format. Finally got around to converting it to a web friendly graphics.

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+ As different as day and night By GilaChess 24 July 2008 at 7:45 pm and have No Comments

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I just completed most of my work and for the first time this week I could browse the web just reading for leisure.

After re-reading Edwin’s absolutely positive article in Chessbase on our 5th and final Malaysian Open, I read this blog post written by Peter Long that is totally the opposite.

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+ Busy By GilaChess 23 July 2008 at 1:43 pm and have No Comments

One of the essential traits one must have to work and make money online is that you have to be disciplined and deliver your work on time. I definitely lack in this respect and have procrastinated for the past several weeks. Now I’m catching up on all the backlog of work.

What this means is that there is also a backlog of chess news waiting to be published on GilaChess.com such as the UUM results and pictures, Tanjung Karang detail map, Mas in Biel, and the coming PERCAWI open. I also missed the chance to go to Singapore for the 4th World Schools Individual Championships. I was offered a place to help out in the event doing the bulletin and/or website but missed this chance because of work and a wedding dinner this weekend. Don’t get many chances to go out of Malaysia to report on chess event. What a waste..

 

Anyway I will try to post updates later tonight on GilaChess.com

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+ King's Gambit as a viable weapon By GilaChess 20 July 2008 at 2:05 pm and have No Comments

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Here’s an example King’s Gambit in Grandmaster play. No lesser than V. Anand fell to the dangerous King’s gambit :-

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[Event "PCA/Intel-GP"]
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[Round "2.3"]
[White "Morozevich, Alexander"]
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[EventDate "1995.04.??"]
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[EventCountry "RUS"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2004.01.01"]

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+ King's Gambit as a viable weapon By GilaChess 20 July 2008 at 1:58 pm and have No Comments

My main opening as White against 1. e4 e5 is the Vienna (2. Nc3 and 3. f4) so it’s natural for me to look at the King’s Gambit too. Even though I don’t have a book on the Vienna or King’s Gambit, today, with chess videos and databases it’s easy for me to start learning about the main lines for the King’s Gambit.

Confidence buy Here’s an example King’s Gambit in Grandmaster play. No lesser than V. Anand fell to the dangerous King’s gambit :-

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