Australia’s Newest GM

Very commendable, but certainly it is not against all-comers

ZW is certainly no underdog and could hardly be described as having creating upsets with his wins. His rating is actually above that of Wesley So and on par with Megaranto. Currently he is holding Li Chao cormfortably in his

Congrats Tse Pin!!

There's also plans to break the Malaysian Book of record with 101 players at a Penang hotel. Simuls details to be advised.

It is not so much about how many points eg LYW's national rating is compared to Fide's. It is about how many national rating points he is above eg Ismail Ahmad, an unbelievable 408!!!!! With that difference LYW is expected

I've heard Tse Pin say before that the National rating list is 200-300 points below the actual ELO rating.

A national rating list which makes no attempt to reconcile the obvious existing rating discrepancies is of doubtful value to the promotion of healthy chess development.

This is a perfect example of unconstructive posting on the net. You should address the rating discrepancy instead of narrow minded personal verbal attack on me for not crossing the t's and dotting the i's. Don't you realise that makes the

I've been to so many tournaments and I don't even know that!!

You are right Ken Wei. I guess they made a mistake or rather the DGT board (as is common) made a mistake recording some of the moves.