Announcement
Malaysian FIDE rated players(October 2008)
The latest FIDE rating list is out.
Interesting facts:-
Malaysia is now no. 73 in the world average rankings - 12 places behind Singapore (ranked 61).
Lim Yee Weng just missed the 2400 mark (I thought he achieved it in DATMO?)
Mas has crossed the 2400 mark
Peter Long is now in the active list with a slight [...]
Women World Chess Championship
Malaysian has been ’side blogging’ on this blog using the comment section. I thought for once I’ll bring out his comments as a post here:-
Today’s game for the WWCC crown should be most interesting. Hou Yifan needs a win to get a shot at the title play-off while Kosteniuk only needs to draw with [...]
Kuala Langat Open 2008
Download tournament details (MS Excel format)
KUALA LANGAT CHESS OPEN 2008
AmBank Round 9 Pairing
AmBank Chess Challenge 2008
Round 9
Bo. SNo. Name Pts Pts Name SNo.
1 [...]
MCF blog on DATMO
Visit Encik Ahmad Shafruddin’s blog on the Malaysian Chess Federation to follow the highlights of the AmBank and DATMO.
Official site for results and pairings is DATMO.NET
DATMO.NET
The official tournament website for the 2008 Dato Arthur Tan Malaysian Open is:
http://datmo.net
Malaysianbase CD 2008
I’m still selling the CDs (RM 10 each) at the event. There is only a few left as I had no time to make new copies.
Some have asked me if I can post to them but I cannot during the event. I simply won’t have the time. I can send it after DATMO. (Charles, I [...]
Players in DATMO
Sorry couldn’t get the full list. This is the tentative names who will be taking part in DATMO that I have heard so far …
Ziaur Rahman
Zhang Zhong
Li Roufan
Drazen Sermek
Li Chao
Dimakilling
Mark Paragua
Please note this is not confirmed yet so don’t take my word for it.
Whoa now. Slow down!
Which webmaster doesn’t like traffic? In my case, I’m not so happy with higher traffic this time. I’ll have to ask GilaChess readers to do me a favour. Try to visit GilaChess.com only a few times a day (3-5 visits is ok). GilaChess traffic has been spiking ever since Stonemaster website expired.
Bigger number [...]
World Junior 2008
Someone asked me to ’start a thread’ on the world juniors in the shoutbox. Funny that this blog is becoming more like a forum
Anyway here’s a mention to the World’s Junior 2008:-
It’s Under-20 for those not familiar. Taking place on August 2-16 in Gaziantep, Turkey.
In the Women’s World Junior, notable names are WGM Yifan [...]
Sponsor GilaChess Team
Every year, I sponsor GilaChess team for the Merdeka Rapid Team but unfortunately this year, since I don’t have a full time job, cash is a little tight. So I’m asking for sponsorship for the team.
The lineup this year for GilaChess team is:
Marcus Yeoh
Ezran
Lee Kwan Pin
Michael Siong
We need RM 300 for the entrance fee. The [...]
Thanks to GilaChess Sponsors and Supporters
When I first started GilaChess it was because I was so addicted to chess during my school years that when the internet came along it was a fantastic place for me to put up news and materials related to chess.
Over the years it has grown beyond what I’d imagined it would become. It is now [...]
Did Mas make the GM norm?
Sorry for the last two post titles being question marks. I just don’t know how GM norms are given or calculated.
Mas lost his second game which we hoped he would win as that would have given him the GM norm. However, last night’s final round, Mas managed to beat Misho Cebalo who is ELO rated [...]
Mas has a chance for GM norm
Mas is playing at the 41st Biel International Chess Festival and has scored a fantastic 6.5/9 rounds and now faces GM Evgeny Gleizerov ( FIDE 2549) in round 10 (For GM Evgeny’s photo go to http://hairulovchessmaniacs.blogspot.com/ ) .I am guessing that the game should start around 8pm Malaysian time.I spoke to Mas this morning & [...]
Crazy months of chess
Every chess fan worth his salt already know the coming Malaysian Chess Festival which includes the Malaysian Open/AmBank Open/Merdeka Team Rapid & Classical. A month after that, October is also packed. It looks like every week of that month will have at least on event. At least one of them will be unique or record [...]
