Malaysian Chess
Lim Yee Weng beats a GM!
The biggest news for Malaysia is that FM Lim Yee Weng beat GM Shilong of China in Round 8.
The win propels Lim to play on board one vs GM Li Chao which is ongoing at the time of writing.
There is also a possiblity that Yee Weng may have made a GM norm! I’ll have to [...]
GM Shi Long as Black
[Event "Round 1, Table 9"][Site "?"][Date "2008.08.18"][Round "?"][White "Tan Khai Boon"][Black "GM Li Shilong"][Result "0-1"][ECO "E94"][WhiteElo "2133"][BlackElo "2511"][PlyCount "70"][EventDate "2008.08.18"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 O-O 5. Nf3 d6 6. Be2 Na6 7. O-O e5 8. Be3 c6 9. Rb1 Qe7 10. dxe5 dxe5 11. Qc2 Nh5 12. Ne1 Nf4 [...]
DATMO Round 6 Crosstable results
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Record 116 participants in DATMO
There are 116 names in the 2008 Dato Arthur Tan Malaysian Open. I will know today if all the names are confirmed.
SNo. Name IRtg FED
1 GM Zhang Zhong [...]
Li Chao plane on fire
I was in the player’s meeting tonight and was shocked to find out that last year’s champion Li Chao plane caught fire. That is the reason he is not present at the player’s meeting. Thankfully he was not on the plane and is taking the next plane. That would mean he will arrive later but [...]
DATMO participants
No. Name IRtg x
1 GM Zhang Zhong 2632 SIN
2 GM Li Chao [...]
AmBank participants
No. Name IRtg
1 Mallick Masudur Rahman 2078
2 Yusof Kamaluddin 2155
3 [...]
GMs playing in DATMO
GM Marat Dzhumaev
GM Mark Paragua
GM Saidali Yuldashev
GM Li Chao
GM Drazen Sermek
GM Ziaur Rahman
GM Zhang Zhong
GM Susanto Megaranto
GM Darwin Laylo
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Malaysia’s Top 50
..according to FIDE’s
active list
Malaysia (Active players)
#
Name
Title
Fed
Rating
G
B-Year
1
Chan, Nicholas
f
MAS
2386
8
2
Mas, Hafizulhelmi
m
MAS
2385
47
3
Lim, Yee-Weng
f
MAS
2367
7
1982
4
Long, Peter
f
MAS
2353
11
1961
5
Mok, Tze-Meng
f
MAS
2308
0
6
Liew, Chee-Meng-Jimmy
m
MAS
2306
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Questions to ask chess players
There will be many IMs and GMs taking part in DATMO so this time, I hope, I will have the courage to set up some short interview with them.
Questions to ask:
1. When did you start playing chess?
2. How many hours do you spend on chess?
3. On a scale of 0-10 how do you rate DATMO?
4. [...]
Final DATMO going out with a BANG!
At least as far as online coverage is concerned. I will be giving this 100% more effort compared to the past DATMOs as this will be the 5th and last Malaysian Open.
The tournament website has been registered and I’m setting up the various sections. The template I’ll be using very similiar to http://nc08.gilachess.com
It was purposely [...]
Map To Tanjung Karang tourney
Here’s the map to the Tanjung Karang tournament this Saturday. The organiser sent me this on the 14th July but I did not have time to post it simply because the map was in PowerPoint format. Finally got around to converting it to a web friendly graphics.
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As different as day and night
I just completed most of my work and for the first time this week I could browse the web just reading for leisure.
After re-reading Edwin’s absolutely positive article in Chessbase on our 5th and final Malaysian Open, I read this blog post written by Peter Long that is totally the opposite.
The title above [...]
Mas in First Saturday
Mas is playing in the Hungary’s First Saturday GM Tournament. So far he is doing well and after 12 rounds he appears to be in sixth place.
All the results here was taken from the official website at : http://www.freeweb.hu/firstsaturday/0807/gm.htm
Games from the tournament can be downloaded here.
Ranking after round 12 of First Saturday GM tournament [...]
MBS Live Update
I rarely cover junior events. In fact I can only remember one junior event held at the Olympid hotel near MSSKL.remember when I ever reported from a junior event before
So this is sort of a second tiime for me.
Currently in MBSSK Open where age groups are being contested are the U19, U15, U12 [...]
:mrgreen:
:-o
Of course I already know about the new Stonemaster.info and the new sections that are going to be built.Anyway, thanks for passing the info along. I'm sure there are