Here’s GilaChess Calendar for January 2009 and 4 of the weekends have a chess event on!
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Archive for 30 December 2008
January 2009 packed again 30 December 2008 at 11:50 pm by GilaChess
+ 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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