Name Rating Results
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Nur, Nabila Azman Hisham 1837 lost Tham, Tick Hong Jax 2074 draw Zakaria, Fairin 2188 lost FM Ooi, Chern Ee 2325 lost Abdul Shukor, Abdul Aziz 2009 lost Tham, Tick Hong Jax 2074 lost Zakaria, Fairin 2188 draw Cheah, Cheok Fung 1941 lost FM Ooi, Chern Ee 2325 lost IM Liew, Chee-Meng-Jimmy 2299 lost Shaik Ali, Nor Ilhamuddin 2025 win
Personally I think the expected rating is slightly overrated 
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Taken from FIDE’s website (http://ratings.fide.com/tournament_report.phtml?event16=46293)
DATCC Chess League 2009 – Malaysia November 2009
| ID | Name | Fed | Title | Rc | Rp | W | N | K*change |
| 5700426 | Ooi, Chern Ee | MAS | 2150 | 8.50 | 9 | 31.95 | ||
| 5700329 | Mok, Tze-Meng | MAS | 2131 | 7.50 | 9 | 17.25 | ||
| 5700469 | Zakaria, Fairin | MAS | 2137 | 6.00 | 9 | 12.75 | ||
| 5702127 | Shaik Ali, Nor Ilhamuddin | MAS | 2143 | 5.50 | 13 | 21.5 | ||
| 5701279 | Tham, Tick Hong Jax | MAS | 2148 | 5.00 | 12 | 1.05 | ||
| 5703271 | Cheah, Cheok Fung | MAS | 2160 | 5.00 | 10 | 66 | ||
| 5700418 | Yeoh, Chin-Seng | MAS | 2156 | 5.00 | 9 | 3 | ||
| 5700019 | Liew, Chee-Meng-Jimmy | MAS | 2195 | 5.00 | 7 | 5.7 | ||
| 5701104 | Che Hassan, Abdullah | MAS | 2055 | 4.00 | 7 | -6.9 | ||
| 5700639 | Sabri, Mohd Saprin | MAS | 2115 | 4.00 | 10 | -25.35 | ||
| 5206243 | Udani, Ian | PHI | 2122 | 4.00 | 5 | 13.8 | ||
| 5700590 | Lim, Yee-Weng | MAS | 2143 | 4.00 | 6 | -9.9 | ||
| 5701074 | Ooi, Chong Hean | MAS | 2188 | 4.00 | 10 | 1.5 | ||
| 5701171 | Yusof, Kamaluddin | MAS | 2022 | 3.50 | 5 | 0.6 | ||
| 5704227 | Abdul Shukor, Abdul Aziz | MAS | 2138 | 3.00 | 8 | 9.25 | ||
| 5701120 | Chan, Nicholas | MAS | 2170 | 3.00 | 4 | -1.5 | ||
| 5702895 | Yeoh, Li Tian | MAS | 2113 | 3.00 | 5 | 23.7 | ||
| 5703433 | Chew, Yaw Chong | MAS | 2086 | 2.50 | 7 | -22.25 | ||
| 5707455 | Ng, Bernard | MAS | 2126 | 1933 | 2.50 | 10 | 0 | |
| 5707358 | Husain, Hazril | MAS | 2089 | 1931 | 2.00 | 7 | 0 | |
| 5800200 | Giam, Choo Kwee | SIN | 2122 | 2.00 | 9 | -51 | ||
| 5701791 | Nik, Nik Ahmad Farouqi | MAS | 2073 | 2.00 | 2 | 14.7 | ||
| 5704278 | Ooi, Boon Seng Andrew | MAS | 2117 | 1855 | 2.00 | 11 | 0 | |
| 5700507 | Mas, Hafizulhelmi | MAS | 2090 | 2.00 | 2 | 2.4 | ||
| 5700167 | Soh, Han Loong Gerald | MAS | 2144 | 2.00 | 3 | 9.15 | ||
| 5702488 | Lim, Zhuo Ren | MAS | 2144 | 2.00 | 2 | 20.25 | ||
| 5700523 | Wahiduddin, Kamalarifin | MAS | 2117 | 1.50 | 6 | -25.65 | ||
| 5703760 | Rahman, Shamsol Bahrain Patahol | MAS | 2087 | 1938 | 1.50 | 5 | 0 | |
| 5700655 | Ismail, Ahmad | MAS | 2021 | 1.00 | 3 | -11.1 | ||
| 5704537 | Tan, Jun Feng | MAS | 2094 | 1901 | 1.00 | 4 | 0 | |
| 5700647 | Ibrahim, Mohd Irman | MAS | 2200 | 1.00 | 3 | -9.25 | ||
| 5700132 | Karim, Wahid | MAS | 2140 | 1.00 | 2 | -2.85 | ||
| 5703549 | Hamid, Hairul Abdul | MAS | 2031 | 1906 | 1.00 | 3 | 0 | |
| 5706866 | Parimanam, Paul | MAS | 2062 | 1937 | 1.00 | 3 | 0 | |
| 5701155 | Lau, Gregory | MAS | 1948 | 1.00 | 1 | 3.45 | ||
| 5704456 | Thien, Varian | MAS | 2138 | 1816 | 1.00 | 8 | 0 | |
| 5707404 | Mohd, Ahmad Nazri | MAS | 2088 | 1895 | 1.00 | 4 | 0 | |
| 5707420 | Mohd, Shirajuddin | MAS | 2141 | 1832 | 1.00 | 7 | 0 | |
| 5702534 | Andin, Faizal | MAS | 2164 | 0.50 | 1 | 5.25 | ||
| 5700701 | Marmono, Roslina | MAS | 2123 | 0.50 | 7 | -25.8 | ||
| 5702658 | Haslindah, Ruslan | MAS | 2029 | 0.50 | 6 | -6.25 | ||
| 5707463 | R., Subramaniam | MAS | 2115 | 1749 | 0.50 | 5 | 0 | |
| 5701872 | Yap, Jinwei Abel | MAS | 2076 | 0.50 | 1 | 1.05 | ||
| 5800048 | Tan, Lian Ann | SIN | 2187 | 0.50 | 2 | -10.8 | ||
| 5704847 | Wahiduddin, Mohd Khair | MAS | 1929 | 0.50 | 1 | -5.5 | ||
| 5706629 | Hamzah, Razali | MAS | 2018 | 0.50 | 2 | 7 | ||
| 5702135 | Nur, Nabila Azman Hisham | MAS | 2096 | 0.50 | 4 | -6.75 | ||
| 5702763 | Khandhar, Kaushal | MAS | 2190 | 0.50 | 2 | 0.15 | ||
| 5700698 | Wahiduddin, Khairunnisa | MAS | 2132 | 0.00 | 3 | -21.25 | ||
| 5705681 | Yat, Guo Jie | MAS | 2129 | 1429 | 0.00 | 6 | 0 | |
| 5707501 | Seow, Liang Wei | MAS | 2011 | 1311 | 0.00 | 4 | 0 | |
| 5701325 | Soon, Wai Cheong | MAS | 2163 | 0.00 | 2 | -11.1 | ||
| 5707196 | Hew, Zhen Jing | MAS | 2084 | 1384 | 0.00 | 9 | 0 | |
| 5707374 | Lim, Chong | MAS | 2073 | 1373 | 0.00 | 6 | 0 | |
| 5701538 | Zullkafli, Nur Shazwani | MAS | 2163 | 0.00 | 2 | -9.45 | ||
| 5707218 | Lim, Jing Hong | MAS | 2162 | 1462 | 0.00 | 13 | 0 | |
| 5704820 | Tan, Li Ting | MAS | 2223 | 1523 | 0.00 | 5 | 0 | |
| 5704677 | Camilia, Bt. Johari | MAS | 2060 | 1360 | 0.00 | 3 | 0 | |
| 5702160 | Sidi, Rusdi | MAS | 2149 | 1449 | 0.00 | 3 | 0 | |
| Rc – average rating of rated opponents, Rp – rating performance | ||||||||
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The Dato’ Arthur Tan Chess Center will be hosting the Hari Raya Open House Blitz Tournament as follows:
| Date | Saturday 3 Oct 2009 |
| Time | 12 – 7 pm followed by dinner (buffet) on the house |
| Winner (Champion) | RM 400 |
| Second | RM 200 |
| Third & Fourth | RM 100 |
| 5th – 8th | RM 50 |
Entry Fee RM 20.00, Open to all, and you are to be at the venue before 12.
Time Control 5mins+2seconds increment
Those who wish to bring along their Hari Raya cakes are welcome !!!
Lets get together for Hari Raya !!!!!!!!
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I rarely watch foreign movies but this Korean made disaster movie turns out to be very good.
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The late arbiter, Foong Chee Leng, once told me not to play against computers and instead spar with human chess opponents instead if I wanted to improve my chess. He said it was totally useless to play against computers and I would learn nothing from it. There is of course obvious truth in that belief but I still think that some computer programs can be good sparring partners.
Playing against a monster like Fritz or Rybka is pointless but there are some computer programs that can made to behave more human by ‘weakening’ it in certain areas. For me personally I think Chessmaster Grandmaster Edition (version 11?) is the best computer sparring partner. There are about 200 personalities already programmed with faces and various special characteristics and attributes. For example, you can choose an opponent that plays super positionally like Karpov or sacrificial tactician like Tal.
Set up an actual chess board beside the computer and you can have a good sparring partner.
Anybody else out there spar against Chessmaster?
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Didn’t balik kampung this Raya holidays because the car is not in good shape and didn’t buy bus tickets early.
Morning show again at TGV One Utama. 11am and the cinema is empty again. Quite a good show in my opinion and probably it will be challenging to logic loving chess players to try and guess who the bad guys are in this murder thriller.
Great acting by Timothy Olyphant as the man who is “damn hard to kill” as well as newly wed couples played by Steve Hahn and Mila Jovovich (Fifth Element/Resident Evil fame). The final scene could have been revved up a little with more action though. Still it’s recommended.
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Samsung DualView TL225 is innovative that it lets the person in the picture see himself or herself before the shot is taken. However I guess you’d have to be near enough to see the tiny LCD screen to benefit from the second screen. It also shows a countdown timer too.
It’s new and set to come out in the US in October.
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Just installed a new flashcard plugin for this blog to hide the answers to puzzle questions.
This idea is inspired by one of my ex-student who had a unique way of memorising programming definitions. She had note book filled with cellotaped paper flaps which you can lift to see the answers to various questions.
Have a go at the following puzzle:-
1.d4 Nf6 2. Bg5
This is a good opening for White d4 players to adopt if they are fed up of facing traditional Black defences such as the Indian Defences (King Indian, Nimzo Indian, Queen Indian) as well as Queen’s Gambit Accepted/Declined defences.
It used to be fresh and aimed to avoid the reams of opening theory to memorise but the “Tromp” is popular enough that today it too has collected a sizeable amount of opening theory. I’ve seen it played quite a number of times in the recent DATMO as well as KL Open.
White threatens to mess up Black’s pawn structure early by Bxf6 inflicting doubled pawns after either exf6 or gxf6.
2. .. Ne4
Common and active reply which avoids getting doubled pawns.
3.Bh4 c5
4. Qd3
White challenges Black knight using the Queen. There are 3 options when your piece is attacked:
What do you think is the best answer for Black ?
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A chess friend mentioned this and I thought it was an old cartoon from my childhood. 
Watched it this afternoon (12.30pm) which I think is the best time to watch a movie. No crowd.
However it’s a kids show and there were kids running around the cinema hall! Even with the kids, the movie only had less than 20 people watching. Still a nice show (minus the screaming kids) with great animation/effects and voice acting from Nicholas Cage, Penelope Cruz and some names I can’t remember. The effects (+ acting) are so realistic they make the guinea pig characters very belieavable.
Fun movie to watch on a Wednesday afternoon.
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NWM award collected by Tan Li Ting during DATMO prize giving ceremony.
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Found this picture taken several months back. Almost posted it to this blog to announce that KFC was actually holding chess tournaments. Luckily someone told me that “Catur Bistari” is not chess but a whole different game similiar to Monopoly.
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