Reports
Battle of GMs: Wesley So in the lead
Wesley So at solo lead after six rounds in ‘Battle of GMs’
Popular Filipino chess Grandmaster Wesley So maintained hold on his solo lead by beating Moscow Olympiad veteran FIDE Master Fernie Donguines at the sixth round of the 2008 “Battle of GMs” chess championship City State Hotel, Padre Faura, Manila.
According to Sportsnews.ph, So’s win over [...]
Stonemaster Amateur Pictorial report
Arrived late. 9.15 am when I’m supposed to reach there before 9am to confirm registration. My excuse was that I was setting up my page so that Twitter SMS could work
Arrived and saw that Fadli was already on the first floor waving to me. You can’t see it from this picture [...]
Cheating via SMS
A player from the recently ended Dubai 2008 Open was caught cheating. He actually got caught while playing one of the top finishers, GM Li Chao.
M. Sadatnajafi, with an Elo rating of 2301, while playing against Chinese Grandmaster Li Chao, made his moves based on the text messages he received on his mobile phone.
Chief arbiter [...]
NAG 2008 selection results
U8B Selection 2008
Final Ranking
R No Name FED 1234 Pts SB. Res.
1 2 Danish Hamzah MAS * * 1 0 1 1 1 1 5 10.00 0
2 1 Tan Yong Zhao MAS 0 1 * * 1 0 1 1 4 9.000
3 4 Eng Ying Xuan MAS [...]
Pertandingan Catur Terbuka Piala Tun Syed Zahiruddin 2008 results
Here is the results of the UM Team Championship held on March 16, 2008. Fusion Excel comprising
FM Nichloas Chan, FM Mok Tze Meng ,FM Lim Yee Weng and FM Ooi Chern Ee won the even 2½ ahead of the nearest rival team Nameless.
Pertandingan Catur Terbuka Piala Tun Syed Zahiruddin 2008
Table/tie-breaks
Rank Team [...]
List of High PR chess blog/websites
Last month there was the first 2008 Google Page Rank update.
Basically FIDE and Chessbase website remain the only top 2 with the highest PR after TWIC fell one rank to PR5. I don’t see any blog or website getting a PR promoted except for Zhang Jilin’s blog’s new entry at PR3.
PR6
FIDE.com
ChessBase.com
PR5
TWIC (previously PR 6)
Boylston Chess [...]
Chessmaster Open Top 20
Abdullah Che Hassan (7pts)
Ian Udani (5.5pts)
FM Lim Yee Weng
FM Mok Tze Meng
NM Zarul Shazwan
Kamaluddin Yusof
CM Nur Shazwani Zullka(18)
Mohd Fairin Zakaria (5pts)
Edward Lee Kim Han (18)
Justin Ong Way (18)
Fariz Shafruddin
Mohd Rodzaly Osman
Muhammad Nabil AH (18)
Ahmad Nazri Mohamad (4.5 pts)
Tan Ken Wei (18)
Yeoh Chin Seng
Abdul Haq Mohamad
Lim Zhuo Ren (18) (4 pts)
NM [...]
Australia’s Newest GM
21 year old, Zhao Zong Yuan of Australia completed final GM norm after defeating French player Gildas Goldsztein in a tournament at the 2008 Gibraltor Chess Festival.
Part-time chess player Zhao Zong Yuan - now the highest rated Australian player after the nation’s first grandmaster, Ian Rogers, retired from competition last year - completed the [...]
1st Leg - ASEAN Chess Circuit - Tarakan, Indonesia - Results
Full results at ASEANCHESS.com.
GM Tournament “A” Standings
GM Tournament “A” Crosstable Results
Singapore 60th National Championship
Breaking from the norm here and looking at chess results from our neighbours, Singapore. IM Goh Wei Ming took the championship title with a 7.5 score out 9, half a point ahead of his nearest rivals.
Full results
Final Ranking after 9 Rounds
Rk.
Name
FED
RtgN
RtgI
Pts.
TB1
TB2
TB3
1
IM
Goh Wei Ming
SIN
2233
2396
7,5
45,5
37,50
40,5
2
FM
Fernandez Daniel Howard
SIN
1898
2102
6,0
46,5
29,50
29,5
3
GM
Wong Meng Kong
SIN
2483
2445
6,0
46,5
29,50
28,0
4
IM
Goh Koon Jong Jason
SIN
2247
2384
6,0
39,0
23,25
26,0
5
FM
Chua Xing Jian Graham
SIN
1930
2065
5,5
48,5
27,75
31,5
6
IM
Chan Peng Kong
SIN
2169
2287
5,5
48,0
27,50
28,5
7
CM
Chan [...]
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