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Dell restored and connected to 22" monitor
My Dell 640M power connector is repaired and a new battery installed. I wasted another full day at Low Yat Plaza browsing the new and shiny tech stuff that I can never afford to buy
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CM Colin Madhavan sets a new record
New record of 101 simultaneous games played.
According to Eu Hong’s website the score is 83.5 to 17.5 but it doesn’t tell of the number of wins/draws/losses.
Related links:-Archer03120http://snake03120.blogspot.com/2008/12/simultaneous-chess-by-collin-madhavan.html
http://chess.euhong.net/
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Need my tools
I haven’t even started on my work yet because I spent the whole day at Low Yat looking for a netbook and a good shop to repair my Dell notebook. Although I am using my sister’s Sony notebook, it’s just too slow for my work. The Dell is so much faster in doing what I [...]
Ushering the new year with Blitz
Chess Countdown 2009 Blitz.
Venue:Excel chess academy 26A Jln Hujan Emas 4, OUG.
Date: 31st December 2008
Come before 8.30pm. (The centre is open from 5pm onwards)
Entrance fee : RM 18
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RSC Open Chess Tournament (2008 year end celebration)
Date: Sunday, 28 December 2008
Venue: Royal Selangor Club, Bukit Kiara
Time: 9 am registration
10 am to 5 pm ( 6 rounds Rapid) <– correction made (It’s RAPID not blitz as earlier stated)
Entry fee: RM 15 + lunch
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Malaysian Chess Bloggers headlines
Since I will not be as active in the chess space as before, it’ll be good to highlight the efforts of other Malaysian chess bloggers.
It would be nice to see at one glance the latest chess post written instead of browsing from blog to blog. If you are a Malaysian chess blogger and I missed [...]
PDA for chess
I lost my HP IPaq 4150
The thing I miss most is not being able to use Pocket Fritz 2. Now with the launch of Pocket Fritz 3, I am itching to find a replacement PDA. However, today’s smartphones (PDA+Phones) have pretty much killed off the standalone PDA.
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FM Mok Tze Meng wins Terengganu Open
FM Mok Tze Meng won the Terengganu Open (Pencarian Jaguh Catur Terengganu) with a score of 8/9. He won all his games except for two draws vs IM Mas Hafizulhelmi and Zarul Shazwan (in the final round).
Clear second was IM Mas Hafizulhelmi who recovered from a lost game due to time forfeit. Mas finished [...]
Happy Birthday Hairulov
To the most dedicated chess blogger in Malaysia. (even though it’s a few hours too early )
Happy Birthday !!!
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1901 hotdog
Having a 1901 Hotdog and blogging about Round 7 from the Bukit Jalil - KL Open 2008 a few days ago.
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25,000 students in Terengganu to receive Laptops
From The Star newspaper. They mention “e-books” in the article. Now is it ebook readers or real laptops? Anyway with the cash-rich Terengganu Open and now 30 million allocation for laptops, I think the Terengganu folks are pretty fortunate. I wonder if those are ASUS EEE PC netbooks?
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I want a netbook!
Taking a break from chess and I want to take a look at one of those new fangled mini notebooks called netbooks.
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Terengganu Open: Round 9 pairing
This is tomorrow’s round 9 which is also the final round pairings for the Terengganu Open.
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Terengganu Open: Round 8 results
Top two seeds clash.
IM Mok Tze Meng vs IM Mas Hafizulhelmi on board 1. Mohd Fadli vs Ian Udani on board 2. Abdullah Che Hassan vs NM Zarul Shazwan. What could be more interesting than that?
Read on..
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KL Open now indexed by Google
The “Bloggers united” KL Chess Open blog was just indexed by Google a couple of days ago. Previously all the traffic was referred to by this blog, Hairulov, Marcus Yeoh and Gilocatur blog. To hit 2000 visitors in the space of a week without search engine referral is certainly a good achievement.
We rank even higher [...]
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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