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Archive for December, 2008
A big THANKS to donations received 31 December 2008 at 3:13 pm by GilaChess
+ Test post from PDA/phone By GilaChess 31 December 2008 at 2:34 pm and have No Comments
+ Chess.maribelajar.com suspended By GilaChess 31 December 2008 at 12:50 pm and have No Comments
The Brave One buy
That’s my MariBelajar.com domain. The effect is that all the chess publisher diagrams that was hosted there is inaccesible and is replaced with the message above. This is bad as many websites use the original Chess Publisher. Susan Polgar regularly uses it for her blog.
I’m getting the money to pay the webhosting company. Hopefully all the data is still there and restoration can be done ASAP. 
Actually GilaChess.com is set to expire 30/12/2008. That’s yesterday! I think I still have a ‘buffer’ period of one or two days.
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+ January 2009 packed again By GilaChess 30 December 2008 at 11:50 pm and have No Comments
Here’s GilaChess Calendar for January 2009 and 4 of the weekends have a chess event on!
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+ 10K visitors By GilaChess 30 December 2008 at 11:39 pm and have No Comments
December is the only other month besides August with the highest GilaChess traffic this year. It is also the only other month that just cross the 10,000 visitor mark.
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+ Last minute reminders By GilaChess 30 December 2008 at 10:55 pm and have No Comments
Tomorrow is new year’s eve and there are two important reminders to chess fans:-
Chessmate Academy Scholarship
You may have already realised by now with the big banner logo I’m displaying at the right side of this blog, I’m a big supporter of this program. Granted that it is good marketing to offer something free to publicise the chess centre(Magic Tree Child Development Sdn Bhd). Still, I’ll support anything that is beneficial to scholastic chess in Malaysia.
The Punisher dvdrip Tomorrow (31st Dec) is the last day to submit your entry for this chess scholarship.
2009 New Year Blitz
Also don’t forget that tomorrow there will be a countdown to the new year with Blitz at OUG.
Contact Jax Tham (013-332280)to pre-register or be there at the centre in OUG after 5pm. The games will start at 8.30pm. .
Venue: Excel Chess Academy (26A,Jln Hujan Emas 4)
If you are taking the bus, take KL Rapid bus no. 73 from Klang Bus Stand (Pasar Seni).
Some pictures of the playing venue.
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+ Intchess Singapore in shared 2nd spot By GilaChess 30 December 2008 at 5:39 pm and have No Comments
Al Ain Chess Club A from UAE and Qi Yuan Club from China remained at the top of the table with 8 match points. Seven teams — Vietnam Victory Club, Club India, Tagaytay Chess Club from Philippines, Fajr Shams Chess Club from Iran, Chirchik Chess from Uzbekistan, Club Intchess from Singapore and Al Ain Chess Club B from UAE — shared the second spot with 6 match points.
~Full article from Khaleej Times
Related link:-
- Hairulov’s analysis of Peter Long vs Li Chao
- Full results from chess-results.com
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+ Singapore chess better than Malaysia By GilaChess 30 December 2008 at 11:02 am and have No Comments
Although there was no Malaysia vs Singapore match this year, I’m unnoficially declaring ..
Year 2008 – Malaysia vs Singapore -> a WIN download Finishing the Game movie for Singapore.
This is just my 1 and half cents worth (right or wrong please don’t ‘tembak’ me 
):-
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+ Keeping GilaChess afloat By GilaChess 30 December 2008 at 10:35 am and have No Comments
Just received the invoice for GilaChess.com and Maribelajar.com webhosting. The billed amount comes out to RM 700++ !! Shocker. I totally forgot about it until Exabyte shut down my MariBelajar domain just now. GilaChess.com is next on the chopping block as it is set to expire on 31st Dec. With my extra spendings on the 22″ monitor, wireless keyboard+mouse and just now getting the PDA phone – I am quite broke. Bad budgeting on my part.
I need to think of ways of generating more income to keep this “hobby” of maintaing chess website running.
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+ Dopod 818 pro By GilaChess 30 December 2008 at 8:21 am and have No Comments
Enough of just talking about “I want this or that PDA”!. I’m getting this from Masros 2nd hand. It’s better than the iPaq 2200 because it’s a PDA as well as a phone. My current Sony Ericson phone is bad and I’ve frequently miss calls because of it.
The CPU is a little slow at 195 Mhz but that’s a good thing as most reviews I read about this PDA phone is that it’s very stable and performance is very smooth and surprisingly faster than some O2 Atom phones. Anyway overclocking the CPU for this PDA is no problem if I really need to.
Best of all, it can run the slew of Pocket PC chess software including Pocket Fritz 3. Check out Masros screenshots as proof.
Haven’t got it yet. Going out to the bank NOW to make payments. Masros, don’t sell this phone yet,
ok ??!!!
Update:
Just banked in the money to Masros as payment. Should be hetting this in 2 or 3 days time. (Faster if PosLaju’s promise of “Dijamin Sampai Esok” holds true)
I also see that Masros has updated his blog.
Ok. Masros is already sending it via Pos Laju. 50% mine already
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+ The mess I call my room By GilaChess 29 December 2008 at 7:34 pm and have No Comments
Before and after pictures of my work space.
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+ Oops was it my fault? By GilaChess 29 December 2008 at 3:16 pm and have No Comments
The RSC tournament turn out was only 36 players in total. Dr Wahid emailed me the details about 5 days in before the event. It was posted on the same day in GilaChess.com. However I forgot to put in the contact details such as the contact person and telephone number. Colin Madhavan did put it in the comments section in this blog one day before the event.
I hope the poor turnout wasn’t because of this. If it was, I have to say sorry to the organisers.
Cheech & Chongs The Corsican Brothers buy
Just to make sure of getting better response next time, it’s probably advisable to post the event at least 2 weeks before.
Memphis Belle dvdrip To avoid making the same mistake The Frank Goon cup on 10th January 2009 in Johor is already posted. Hopefully this early enough. Full details together with contact numbers are included. Take a look
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download Pokemon 3: The Movie dvd
(Also as an experiment, I’ll give this event some extra publicity via permanent graphic button ads to see if it increases the response ~ this will probably be a ‘premium’ option in GilaChess.com in future )
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+ Funny T-Shirts By GilaChess 29 December 2008 at 11:18 am and have No Comments
Saw this on a T-shirt being sold at the Curve (RM 35).
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+ It's been a Gila year By GilaChess 28 December 2008 at 11:16 pm and have 1 Comment
+ Getting lazier By GilaChess 28 December 2008 at 10:02 pm and have No Comments
I wanted badly to go to the RSC today but was too bogged down with work. That’s my fault for falling behind again. Still trying to get into the rhythm of programming again.
Anyway I called Jax by using Skype’s computer to phone feature and recorded him reading out the results. Why write it down by hand when I can get it straight from the horses mouth ?
Coincidentally Greg was beside Jax at the time (Now it’s confirmed he is NOT in Africa!! 
). He read out the KL Open simul result.
The wonders of technology! A big thanks to Jax and Greg for the results.
Have a listen The Visitor movie …
(I really hate the sound of my own voice! . Otherwise I’ll use this tool more often for interviewing some chess personalities by phone)
P/s: listening to the whole conversation again, I’m embarassed to say I have lousy phone manners
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen dvdrip
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