Archive for August 18th, 2008
Pictures from Day 1
An incident where Timothy Capel handphone went off in a game vs Ian Udani. Apparently it was not because of an incoming call but an alarm set earlier and still went off despite the phone being off.
Ian was quite sporting in that he didn’t want to claim a win which no doubt would have [...]
DATMO 2008 about to start
I’m still putting the finishing touches for the official website (DATMO.NET). Remis Aman ( all the way from Kedah) is here and everything looks set to go.
One bad news is that the WiFry antenna cannot find the Starbucks signal and the WCG2008 free WiFi is gone. This means there will be no live blogging [...]
Overslept
My sleep schedule is supposed to be 10am - 2pm - 6pm - 10 pm and 2 am.
Hard to follow that schedule during the rapid team event since I to anxious in following GilaChess team progress. Even though we didn’t finish as prize winners but we performed well enough losing only 2 rounds out of [...]
Record 116 participants in DATMO
There are 116 names in the 2008 Dato Arthur Tan Malaysian Open. I will know today if all the names are confirmed.
SNo. Name IRtg FED
1 GM Zhang Zhong [...]
DATMO.NET
The official tournament website for the 2008 Dato Arthur Tan Malaysian Open is:
http://datmo.net
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Li Chao plane on fire
I was in the player’s meeting tonight and was shocked to find out that last year’s champion Li Chao plane caught fire. That is the reason he is not present at the player’s meeting. Thankfully he was not on the plane and is taking the next plane. That would mean he will arrive later but [...]
