Archive for July 31st, 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 [...]
