Malaysian Chess
Featured Game of the week: Fairin Zakaria vs Sebastian Simanjuntak
This was one of Mas opponent in the 2nd Philippines Open which he drew with. Sebastian Simanjuntak was at an ELO high of 2377 many years back. Here’s a game where Fairin beat Sebastian in the very first DATMO in 2004.
[Event “Malaysian Open 2004 August”][Site “Mid Valley Megamall, Kuala Lumpur”][Date “2004.08.26″][Round “11.20″][White “Zakaria, Fairin”][Black “Simanjuntak, […]
National Closed 2008 details
Date
: 31 May - 4 June 2008
Venue
: 2nd Floor, Kompleks Wilayah
Time Control
: 90 minutes with 30 seconds increment per move.
System
: 9 rounds swiss
Closing date
: 25 May 2008
Misc
: Results of this tournament will be used as one of the criteria to choose players to represent the country for 2008/2009.
(Late fee RM 50 is charged […]
Chance to go to Dresden
Yep. That’s Dresden, Germany. Beautiful isn’t it?
That’s where the 38th Chess Olympiad will be held.
How to get there? Why, play in the coming National Closed 2008 of course !!
As comparison, National Closed is not as attractive as the Selangor Open because there is no prize money. However every 2 years when the Olympiad is […]
Tse Pin’s wedding dinner
IA Lim Tse Pin is by now a face very familiar with any Malaysians who have anything to do with chess.
Tonight was his wedding dinner and I got the opportunity to attend it. My only comment is that It’s about time !!
Tse Pin has been pretty selfless in his work for Selangor Chess being instrumental […]
Another tournament clash!!
There are so many one day tournaments nowadays, there’s bound to be clashes.
The latest clash will be next week’s KSAS Open and the Pel Klang Open.
I would love to go to both tournaments but since they are both on the 17th of May, that would not be possible. The other problem is transportation to […]
What is GilaChess?
Received this email just now
Hello, I’m interested in Chess all around the world and I want to know if you should explain me the difference between international chess and Gila Chess?Thanks
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My reply:
Don’t get me wrong. GilaChess.com is a portal […]
KLCA Chessmaster 2008 Open results
Place Name Score M-Buch. Buch. Progr.
1 Sarudin Mappa, 6 […]
Malaysia vs Indonesia (Women)
This is a friendly event held on the 30th April at Wilayah Kompleks.
Details:-
Reminder: Royal Selangor deadline nears
To enjoy the early bird reduced registration fees you have to register before April 25 which is very close!
I’ve decided to register, and I’m going to click pre-register button on my own blog here
Note: just found out that the button wasn’t working previously. Now it’s fixed. Click to register now!
More details at Selangor […]
Johor Results
Here’s the results from Narayanan Krishnan:-
OpenChampion : Ian Udani - 6.5 pointsSecond : Ismail Ahmad - 5.5Third : IM Mas Hafizul - 5.5Fourth : Daniel Lam - 5.5Fifth : Mak Weng Yee -5.5Sixth : Soh Zee Wee - 5.5Seventh : Mike Palma -5.0Eighth : Aaron Chua - 5.0Nineth : Hamid Taib - 5.0Tenth : Zarul […]
at stesen pelabuhan klang right ? I'm going to pre- register the tournament now
thanks in advance
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