Announcement
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 [...]
PERCAWI open tomorrow
Just a reminder that the PERCAWI open is tomorrow and they will be accepting registration from 3.30 to 6pm today (Saturday - 26th July 2008) at Wilayah Kompleks.
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GP3 tourney at Cochrane cancelled
Just got this SMS from the organiser that the GP3 tourney scheduled this weekend has been cancelled due to unforseen circumstances.
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Malaysian as FIDE’s new Web Editor
FIDE announced a new web editor for their website:-
FIDE and Global Chess is pleased to announce the appointment of Peter Long as a Web Editor of FIDE.com to facilitate the publication of news and information from the international chess community.
Read more ~ FIDE website
It also looks like Peter Long is getting very busy in [...]
14 year old chess player killed by hit and run
JOHOR BARU: It has been a week since 14-year-old student Chai Jun Xian was killed in a hit-and-run accident and his younger brother is struggling to deal with the loss.
Wen Qin, 12, misses the chess games he used to play with Jun Xian; he keeps the chessboard beside his brother’s bed and sometimes plays a [...]
OUG Chess Meet
If you are one of the many who feel that there is not enough places to play a friendly game of chess, here’s some good news..
For those who are staying in and around OUG area there is a chess meet at the following address on Thursday July 3, 2008 at 8pm to 10pm.
If you [...]
KEJOHANAN CATUR TERBUKA TANJONG KARANG 2008
TARIKH :26 JULY 2008
HARI :SABTU
MASA :08.00 pg – 6.00 ptg ( Pusingan 1 jam 9.30 pagi )
TEMPAT :DEWAN ORANG RAMAI KG.SUNGAI GULANG GULANG,
TANJONG KARANG, SELANGOR.
YURAN :OPEN (RM20), BAWAH 18 (RM15), BAWAH 12THN ( RM10 )
FORMAT :RAPID - SWISS SYSTEM 6/7 PUSINGAN ”
Time Control : 25 minit.
Tie-break : Solkoff , SB , [...]
Chessbase 10
New integrated CB online database
Fritz 6-Engine and Crafty-Engine
Player encyclopedia with over 29,000 pictures
ChessBase Big Database 2008 with 3,75 Mio. games + automatic update until 31 December 2008
Three issues of ChessBaseMagazine - the world’s only interactive magazine.
Language: English, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, German
Due for release: 21 July 2008
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Happy Birthday Anas
Today is FM Anas Nazreen Bakri’s birthday!!
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IGB - 5th Dato’ Arthur Tan Malaysia Open Chess Championship 2008
Date : 17th-24th August 2008. (1st round on 18th August)
Venue: Bintang Ballroom, Cititel MidValley Kuala Lumpur.
Tournament Regulations:
1. This 11 Round, individual tournament is open to all players.
2. FIDE (World Chess Federation) rules and regulations will apply. The tournament will be FIDE rated.
3. The Swiss Manager Program will be used for pairings.
4. The games will be [...]
Happy Belated Birthday Audrey Wong!
Yesterday was our first Woman International Master (WIM) Audrey Wong’s birthday.
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Bus to Taylor’s Open
You can get to Taylor’s College by taking the RapidKL bus T623 from Kelana Jaya LRT station.
Taken from RapidKL website.
You should get off at Sri Kuala Lumpur. Taylor should be a short walk from there.
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Myanmar GM and IM in KL
IM Wynn Zaw Htun and GM Zaw Wyn Lay are in KL for a month. According to KLChess Blog (maintained by FM/FA/FT Peter Long), both are available for training matches. Check out the blog for more info.
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Tomorrow’s RSC Blitz
One piece of bad news is that I could not reach the photostat shop in time to get the bulletins. It’s already ready but when I reached the shop it was closed. I forgot that they only opened half day today
Oh well that means I can only collect them on Monday.
However, the MalaysianBase [...]
Myanmar/Burma disaster
It is feared up to 1 million people may have died in this disaster, and although this is disputed, if Nargis did kill this many people, it would be the deadliest cyclone ever recorded, and the third deadliest natural disaster ever recorded in history, behind the Yellow River floods of 1887 and 1931 in [...]
Yeah thanks to Colin + Jimmy for the report.
