Archive for August 26th, 2008
AmBank 2008 Results
You can find the standings here.
Crosstables here.
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Kamaluddin is a wood pusher?
That’s according to Philippino Sun Star Davao (Philippines news website).
In the Malaysian Ambank Chess Challenge, meanwhile, Filipino NM Leonardo Carlos led the individual open event with nine points after Round 10 while Retanal gained eight points in the 11-round Swiss System format chessfest.
Malaysian woodpusher Kamaluddin Yusof occupied the third spot with 7.5 points.
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Aaron Chua
Aaron Chua from Johor.5th Best Malaysian at DATMO. USD 200.
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Malaysian Chess Heroes
For once I have to agree with ‘Malaysian’. FM Lim Yee Weng and IM Mas Hafizulhelmi’s valiant efforts in chess is a good example to Malaysian chess players. Both have come close to obtaining the GM norm.That in itself is must be inspirational to many Malaysians.
Both have made sacrifices in their work to strive and [...]
DATMO over or is it?
Dato Arthun Tan Malaysian Open is over. It has reached the 5 editions promised by Dato Tan. It is indeed sad to think there will be no more international tournaments of this magnitude in Malaysia for next year.
I was hoping that in Dato speech that new sponsors have already been found and would take over [...]
Clarification on Scoresheet dispute
Back to Jax Tham’s resignation to protest the dispute on his opponent not recording.
I got it wrong. Actually Jax’s opponent totally did not record a single move till the end when time trouble was looming. It was only then, Jax noticed his opponent scoresheet was blank!
Some say the correct thing to do was to stop [...]
Yeah thanks to Colin + Jimmy for the report.
