Archive for July, 2008
My teacher
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 [...]
1 win + 1 draw = 3.5 points
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 [...]
Mas has a chance for GM norm
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 & [...]
Crazy months of chess
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 [...]
Pictures from PERCAWI tourney
Finally the pictures are uploaded!
Official results and the pictures will be posted in GilaChess.com later..
Full PERCAWI pictures album
Picture of the day
Ian Udani triumps again!
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.
I asked Ian today how many first prizes he has won. He says he don’t know.
Hmmm I’ll probably have to look back the past gilachess.com past results and count…
Yes. [...]
Fast Domain name renewal with GoDaddy.com
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.
PERCAWI open tomorrow
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.
Whoops! Chesspublisher.com expired
I was only busy for one week this month and I let ChessPublisher.com expire because I didn’t check my emails.
Luckily I noticed this morning and quickly renewed it using GoDaddy. If I had been late it would been a hassle to pay for re-activation fees or risk losing my domain like Stonemaster.biz.
Since ChessPublisher is [...]
Map To Tanjung Karang tourney
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.
As different as day and night
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.
The title above [...]
Busy
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 [...]
King’s Gambit as a viable weapon
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 [...]
King’s Gambit as a viable weapon
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 [...]
