Archive for August 7th, 2008
Going Polyphasic again
Being without a regular full time job makes what I’m going to try out possible. I’m doing away with monophasic sleep for about a month. That is, I’m not going to sleep in one chunk of my usual 6-7 hours but break it up into naps. You can read more about this in StevePavlina’s blog [...]
World Junior 2008
Someone asked me to ’start a thread’ on the world juniors in the shoutbox. Funny that this blog is becoming more like a forum
Anyway here’s a mention to the World’s Junior 2008:-
It’s Under-20 for those not familiar. Taking place on August 2-16 in Gaziantep, Turkey.
In the Women’s World Junior, notable names are WGM Yifan [...]
WiFRY thoughts
Waking up in the morning sure has fill my head with weird ideas.
Here’s another one…
I always face problems with internet connections during DATMO as there is no WiFi signal in the playing hall making live reporting hard. Sure there is the Hotel WiFi which cost an arm and a leg. I remember one of the [...]
The Malaysian "Dream Team" for the 38th World Chess Olympiad.
This is just a thought. Would the Malaysian team be it’s strongest with it’s 5 strongest players based on FIDE Rating list?
IM Wong Zi Jing
IM Mas Hafizulhelmi
FM Nicholas Chan
FM Lim Yee Weng
FM Peter Long
This would be a young an very strong team - the only old member would be FM Peter Long.
I asked if [...]
Last chance to meet GMs
I woke up this morning (for a change!) with a sad realisation. This may be last chance we can meet real GMs in the Merdeka Team. With this year’s Malaysian Open being it’s last, next year’s Merdeka team events will be mostly local. I regret not playing
Anyway just a reminder. Today is the [...]
