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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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