Malaysian Chess
Hantu Chess!
Here’s another new chess blog titled Chess dan Dot dot dot,,, I want to promote and it’s by Ahmad Eizran Ezra. He is no pushover in chess either. I’m impressed by Eizran’s play in the Taylor as he quietly beat strong players such as Ismail Ahmad, Abdullah Che Hassan, Nur Shazwani and Cheah Cheok [...]
Wan Khye Theng’s blog
Met Wan Khye Theng who was instrumental in helping out with the organisation of Taylor’s Open last week. I found it strange that she said I linked to her blog as I never knew she had a blog. Man I must be getting senile in my old age..
Luckily a quick Google search confirmed I have [...]
MAINS Seremban results
As usual Ian Udani conquered this one day event as he done so with other one day events these past few months. Ian finished an outstanding 6/6 and takes home RM 500 for his efforts. He beat Ganesh, Andrew Ooi, Abdullah Khairi KZ, Jax Tham, Kamaluddin Yusof and Mohammad Nabil.
Funniest quote from him was “There [...]
Seremban tourney
Who is going for tomorrow’s Seremban tourney?
I don’t have much details other than below:
DATE : 28 June 2008TIME : 10.00 a.m startsFees : RM 25 (dewasa), RM15 (under-18)Registration due on : 25 June 2008
Prize : RM 500 for championCall Kamar Dani (013-6405845) now for registration
I have SMSed my name to Kamar Dani and he has [...]
Malaysia vs Indonesia Friendly match results
I totally forgot about this results which I received by email during the Selangor Open. Found it after cleaning up my bloated gmail.
MALAYSIA vs INDONESIA ( Friendly Chess Match – Ladies Team ) - 30 April 2008 – Wilayah Kompleks
Taylor’s Open crosstable results
Reposted this so you can mouseover to see each player’s results and opponents:-
Taylor’s Open (22/06/2008)
Not many people know this but prior to being a computer programmer, I was also a computer programming lecturer for several years. I taught computer programming in Taylors for about 6 months somewhere after the SARS virus episode when they could not get enough quota of Canadian lecturers to teach in Malaysia. Although it was [...]
Women’s National Championship Results
Alia Anin Azwa Bakri is 2008 National Women champion with an overwhelming score of 6/7, one and a half point ahead of her nearest rivals.
Final Ranking
Rank SNo. Name Rtg FED [...]
More pictures and video added of the Perlis Open
Final Round Top of the Table clash between Langkawi’s Nur Ahmad Faiz Mohd Azmi & Penangite Anthony Liong In Kiat. Nur Ahmad Faiz won the event with 6.5/7 points.
(thanks to Remis Aman for the video)
More pictures of the event can be found here.
The full results page(with added pictures and videos) here.
Rating Stats for National Closed
Lots of request for this but I did not dare put it up officially on GilaChess or TCN or NC08 because I’m not sure of it’s accuracy. So here’s a disclaimer: The rating stats may be right or wrong. I don’t know. I take no responsiblity in it being accurate. Just found this as [...]
Seremban Parade - Photo report
1st FARIZ SHAFRUDDIN,2ND FAEIZUL ZAINAL,3RDABDULLAH KHAIRI,4RD ABDULLAH CHE HASSAN,5TH ISMAIL AHMAD,6th SHAHARUDIN MAPPA,7th SYAZRIN 8th NM KAMAL ABDULLAH,9th MARSITAH BABA 10th GANESH MAHENDRA
It was a rainy morning. Woke up late as usual and reached the bus stop at 7.30. Got to Sentral train station at 7.50 sharp. Boarded the train to Seremban 10 minutes later. [...]
Who will be national champ?
15 year old Edward Lee is half a point ahead of Leong Mun Wan whom he’ll be meeting tomorrow. Edward would need just a draw to be the new National Champion and with it the title National Master (NM). Leong Mun Wan would have to win the last round to be champ. It will be [...]
Round 9 pairings - sort of
This is the pairings I got but it may not be accurate as there might have been changes to the original already. What I have is just a copy. There was some last minute request for byes (zero points) from some players who cannot make it. Players please check at the actual paring list pasted [...]
Round 8 Pairings and results
Round 8
Bo. Name Pts Res. Pts Name
1 Guadis Goridau 5½ 0 - 1 6 Edward Lee
2 Leong Mun Wan 5½ 1 - 0 5 Mohd Kamal [...]
Leaders take a stumble
Tournament leaders Leong Mun Wan and Ismail Ahmad both lost their games on board 1 and 2. The new leaders are Abdullah Che Hassan, Aizuddin Che Hassan and Edward Lee who now have 5/6. Mun Wan and Ismail trail only half a point behind.
It will be an interesting National Championship with the field now wide [...]
