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King’s Gambit as a viable weapon

My main opening as White against 1. e4 e5 is the Vienna (2. Nc3 and 3. f4) so it’s natural for me to look at the King’s Gambit too. Even though I don’t have a book on the Vienna or King’s Gambit, today, with chess videos and databases it’s easy for me to start learning [...]

King’s Gambit as a viable weapon

My main opening as White against 1. e4 e5 is the Vienna (2. Nc3 and 3. f4) so it’s natural for me to look at the King’s Gambit too. Even though I don’t have a book on the Vienna or King’s Gambit, today, with chess videos and databases it’s easy for me to start learning [...]

A game from Taylor’s Open

This is yet another one of my sillier games I’ve played.
As you can see, I went out of my way to protect my Bishop pair. The Bxh6 sac was probably not quite sound and the only reason I won in the end is my opponent cooperated by blundering in the final moves
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Young vs Old

As far as I remember Jax Tham has always beaten talented but young Yeoh Li Tian. Even in the recent Port Klang rapids was won by Jax. On the other hand I’ve lost to Li Tian 3 times in a row. So I was curious to see what was the ’secret’ Jax had winning Li [...]

Final Round 9 board 1 game


Round 7 Board 14

I publish for no special reason other than this is the highest board to finish first. The top boards are still playing..

Round 5 Board 1


Round 3 Board 1

Leong Mun Wan continues his winning streak beating junior Low Jun Jian with the White pieces in a 17-move game. Here it is:-

National Closed 2008 - Round 2- Justin Ong vs Leong Mun Wan

Top seed Leong Mun Wan continues his perfect start of the tournament with a win over a promising and strong junior - Justin Ong. Interesting game as Justin went for a nice piece sac in the middlegame which netted him some advantage. However, that slowly slipped away as Justin could not convert it.
This is [...]

My game vs CM Colin Madhavan

Colin Madhavan vs GilaChess(Black) 
This is the final position of my game vs Colin Madhavan. Black just moved Bg7. My opening was NOT good at all but my strategy was to get as messy a position as possible and that would definitely be to my advantage as Colin has less than a minute to [...]