Archive for November, 2008
Holiday programs success
Just got an SMS from the person who organised the Venus Kids chess camp last week. She said their program was a success and parents want more lessons and it’s been extended on Saturdays.
She thanked me for giving them the publicity. Just to clarify, I do not know the owners of Venus Kids and [...]
Ideas of a new website
Since I’m a patzer, I’d love to collect useful chess related tips into a note book. Better yet why not save them into a website a share them. This will be my new website titled “Teach The Patzer”. URL to be announced once completed. I’m doing this because I’ve learnt how to use new templates [...]
December Chess Calendar
That’s the coming month chess events at a glance. Please tell me if I missed out any tourney.
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Terengganu Open details (finally!)
I didn’t get any details from the organisers of the Terengganu Open and I thought they did not want to publicise the event via GilaChess.com. Anyway I found the email from Encik Arshad dated 11 November in an email account I rarely use (andrewooi at yahoo). GilaChess (at) gmail and yahoo are two email accounts [...]
I am an Uncle!
My sister gave birth to this handsome baby boy - Raymond.
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3 tourneys on 21st Dec
At least all three tournaments are far apart (relatively speaking) - “geographically” ?
I just posted the details of the CRC in gilachess.com
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New blood needed
With our less than stellar performance at the Olympiad, I personally think that improvements should be seen at the grass roots level. No point discussing how we should have won that critical last round which would have propelled us to 80th ++ position. No point discussing who was the weak link or who pulled the [...]
Some Analytics Stats
Just took a look at the stats on my Google Analytics for this blog and it’s interesting to see the top 10 keywords used in Google to find this site:-
The top 10 website visitors click to get here (also know as referrals):-
Top 10 country visitors:-
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Day Care Centers and Chess
Took a different route home yesterday because I was curious to see exactly where the Venus Kids Chess Camp was held.
It’s a big double storey corner house that is converted into a day care center. They are no strangers to teaching kids. I guess it’s good to see more of such places teaching [...]
Olympiad 2008 top teams
Final Ranking after 11 Rounds
Rk.
SNo
Team
Team
Games
+
=
-
TB1
TB2
TB3
TB4
1
9
Armenia
ARM
11
9
1
1
19
400,5
152,0
31,0
2
8
Israel
ISR
11
8
2
1
18
377,5
149,0
28,0
3
10
United States of America
USA
11
8
1
2
17
362,0
146,0
29,0
4
2
Ukraine
UKR
11
7
3
1
17
348,5
163,0
25,5
5
1
Russia
RUS
11
7
2
2
16
375,0
156,0
27,0
6
4
Azerbaijan
AZE
11
7
2
2
16
359,5
147,0
29,0
7
3
China
CHN
11
7
2
2
16
357,5
150,0
27,0
8
5
Hungary
HUN
11
7
2
2
16
341,5
140,0
27,5
9
37
Vietnam
VIE
11
7
2
2
16
340,0
137,0
29,0
10
12
Spain
ESP
11
7
2
2
16
337,5
142,0
27,5
11
17
Georgia
GEO
11
8
0
3
16
321,0
138,0
28,0
Women’s Olympiad
Final Ranking after 11 Rounds
Rk.
SNo
Team
Team
Games
+
=
-
TB1
TB2
TB3
TB4
1
4
Georgia
GEO
11
8
2
1
18
411,5
148,0
31,0
2
2
Ukraine
UKR
11
7
4
0
18
406,5
146,0
30,0
3
7
United States of America
USA
11
8
1
2
17
390,5
145,0
30,5
4
1
Russia
RUS
11
7
3
1
17
367,0
144,0
29,5
5
9
Poland
POL
11
8
1
2
17
364,5
157,0
27,5
6
6
Armenia
ARM
11
8
0
3
16
353,0
145,0
28,0
7
10
Serbia
SRB
11
7
2
2
16
318,5
146,0
26,5
USA has something to celebrate as both their Open and Women team won Bronze. First seed Russia on the other hand must be very unhappy to have missed out the medals in both the Open and Women team finishing 5th [...]
Malaysian Chess Coach Directory
This wiki page is a little dated now. I’ve forgotten all about it until I received an SMS asking for the URL.
If you are a chess coach, please add your name and/or update your existing page.
http://malaysia.maribelajar.com/my/Malaysian_Chess_Coaches_Directory
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First Saturday in Malaysia?
No it’s not the famous event organised by Mr Lazlo of Hungary. It’s a chess clinic and tournament combined in one organised by Encik Fadli @ Stonemaster.
it’s a unique idea when a chess enthusiast get to attend some lessons while taking part in a mini chess tournament.
Details at : http://stonemaster.info/?p=1117
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Pasar GilaChess
One of the advantages of being a (ex) web programmer is that I have no difficulties taking advantage of the many free web applications out there for my own use.
I got this idea when I got a few SMS from chess vendors selling the latest demo board or chess clock but I’m simply too [...]
Offline
My phone charger KOed and my notebook powersupply broke. Will be offline for a while..
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Chess Camps galore
It seems everybody is offering chess camps or some form of holiday program for kids this coming school holidays.
I was surprised that there is a chess camp that I just randomly discovered while passing Bandar Utama.
From a distance I could make out the word CHESS CAMP.
Got nearer to take a picture of it.
I [...]
:mrgreen:
:-o
Of course I already know about the new Stonemaster.info and the new sections that are going to be built.Anyway, thanks for passing the info along. I'm sure there are