Archive for September, 2008
Dinner at Japanese Restaurant
(left to right) Philipino PERENA Catherine, WIM Irine Sukhandar and GM Susanto Megaranto at a Japanese restaurant.
Irine having a go at cooking.
Pictures used with permission from ChessAsia.net
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Kosteniuk World Women Champion 2008
This was the first time I watched a chess game live (on PlayChess.com) and it was a liitle disappointing as I was rooting for Hou Yifan. Anyway the general opinion is that she will be Women Champion eventually (hopefully next year).
Name
Rating
G1
G2
G3
G4
Total Points
Kosteniuk, Alexsandra
2510
1
½
½
½
2.5
Hou, Yifan
2557
0
½
½
½
1.5
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IM Goh Weiming vs FM Hoang Canh Huang
This is in round 6 and Goh is playing against his Vietnamese room mate. Black just played Qd6. Can you find the move that caused Black to resign immediately?
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Kim Steven Yap
CHESS is in his blood. His father is NM Lincoln Yap, who is working as a chess instructor and arbiter in Singapore and his mother is Mona Ruelan, daughter of the late NM Marcelo “Loloy” Ruelan.
His uncle is IM Rico Yap Mascariñas, a chess coach in Singapore, who, for a long time, was the country’s [...]
4th Pichay Cup - Round 6 update: GM Li Shilong and GM Zhang Zhong leads
Rk.
Name
FED
Rtg
Pts.
1
GM
LI Shilong
CHN
2503
5,0
2
GM
ZHANG Zhong
SIN
2632
5,0
3
GM
MCHEDLISHVILI Mikheil
GEO
2604
4,5
4
GM
DZHUMAEV Marat
UZB
2549
4,5
5
GM
SO Wesley
PHI
2577
4,5
6
GM
GHAEMMAGHAMI Ehsan
IRI
2597
4,5
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Women World Chess Championship
Malaysian has been ’side blogging’ on this blog using the comment section. I thought for once I’ll bring out his comments as a post here:-
Today’s game for the WWCC crown should be most interesting. Hou Yifan needs a win to get a shot at the title play-off while Kosteniuk only needs to draw with [...]
Nice Wooden Chess sets
Top 6 boards at the 4th Pichay cup are using DGT chess sets which are nice wooden sets. On lower boards they use PVC boards but the chess pieces are still wooden sets. I saw some wooden chess sets in the supermarket and the price is pretty cheap. Wish I had time to shop [...]
Featured in Quah Seng Sun’s blog
I had a good laugh reading Quah Seng Sun’s blog abot my ‘WiFry’ antenna. It was posted last month and I’ve forgotten about the pictures he took then.
http://ssquah.blogspot.com/2008/08/andrews-wifry-antenna.html
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Random picture
IM Alex Wohl enjoying the day out and taking pictures during the tournament rest day (Sept 13).
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The Invisible GilaChess
People think that GilaChess.com is run only by me. That’s simply not true. Remis Aman is the invisible man instrumental in keeping GilaChess.com updated most of the time. Above is a rare picture of the man.
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Crown Regency Hotel, Makati
One thing I liked about the tournament hotel is that there is FREE internet access. Just plug the network from the wall to the notebook and there is internet! Since it’s free it does get slow at night - probably some kids downloading full movies via torrent. But at other times it’s fast enough.
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Xu Tong
This should be Xu Tong’s sixth time to the Philippines but she is not doing well in the 4th Pichay Cup after having collected only half a point from 5 rounds. She doesn’t look happy in the picture either.
She gets a bye in the 6th round.
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NCFP website down
It appears that the ncfphilippines.org website which has the results and latest games for the ongoing 4th Pichay Cup is down.
Luckily you can find the same updates at the tournament website: http://chessasia.net
Sometimes redundancy has it’s advantage.
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Zhang Jing
She lost her first two rounds to Goh Weiming and Rolando Andador but bounced back to draw with compatriat Jia Haoxiang and beat WIM Irene Sukhandar (2262) and Edgar Reggie Olay (2398).
So far that’s a rating performance of 2340 which is good considering her current rating is at 2033. After both tournaments it’ll [...]
Bus to tournament hall
When there are morning round, the games will starts 9am and the bus leaves early at 8.15 am. Many players are having last minute breakfast at the hotel lobby as late as 8am.
Still everybody gets on the bus on time.
GM Marat and GM Saidali.
Today’s round start later in the afternoon at 2pm. So I guess [...]
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