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CHESS ASSOCIATION OF SELANGOR CHESS CALENDAR 2010

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Here’s a game between our very own NWM Nur Shazwani vs China’s wondergirl Hou Yifan.

This game took place in 2006 at the Turin Olympiad.

[Event "Turin ol (Women) 37th"]
[Site "Turin"]
[Date "2006.05.21"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Nur Shazwani, Zulkafli"]
[Black "Hou, Yifan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B59"]
[WhiteElo "2108"]
[BlackElo "2298"]
[PlyCount "78"]
[EventDate "2006.05.21"]
[EventType "team"]
[EventRounds "13"]
[EventCountry "ITA"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2006.07.14"]
[WhiteTeam "Malaysia (W)"]
[BlackTeam "China (W)"]
[WhiteTeamCountry "MAS"]
[BlackTeamCountry "CHN"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. Be2 e5 7. Nb3 Be7 8. O-O O-O 9. Be3 Be6 10. Kh1 a5 11. a4 d5 12. exd5 Nxd5 13. Nxd5 Bxd5 14. f3 Rc8 15. c4 Be6 16. Nc5 Bf5 17. Qxd8 Nxd8 18. Ne4 Bxe4 19. fxe4 Ne6 20. Rad1 Bc5 21. Bd2 Bb4 22. Be3 Bc5 23. Bd2 Bb6 24. Bc3 Bd4 25. Bxa5 Bxb2 26. Bb4 Rfd8 27. Rb1 Bd4 28. Rfc1 Be3 29. Rd1 Rxd1+ 30. Rxd1 Ng5 31. Bf3 h6 32. c5 Rc6 33. Rd5 Bd4  34. Bg4 g6 35. Bd7 Rf6 36. h3 Rf1+ 37. Kh2 Bg1+ 38. Kg3 Nxe4+ 39. Kh4 g5+

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I really wanted to go to Ipoh last weekend for the 1st Perak Grand Prix leg but had no transport.

Anyway, I hope I can get some pictures of the historic event where a record 189 players turned up to participate. I want to include that in the results at Gilachess.com and the wiki.

If you have any pictures of the event, please email me at:

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I hate this time of year because school holidays is about to begin. The shopping complexes are jam packed with people, there is traffic jams and I can’t go out to watch movies on weekdays because of the crowd.

Anyway, I’m sure the kids are happy with it. There is the usual holiday chess camp organised by various coaches and academies. So far besides the one held at DATCC here’s another one involving our newest IM, Mok Tze Meng.

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One of the spotlight discussion on shoutbox these few days was  the ‘controversial’ decision taken by MCF was to hold the National Age Group in Penang. I have nothing to add but an observation that Penang has a different chess culture from players in Selangor and KL.

For example last year’s NAG I saw the Penang kids walk over one after another to enter their games into the notebook right after the game. What they do with the games I do not know but I presume this will aid the coaches to help the students later. It may or may not prove useful but these are good elements for team spirit and unity. It was easy to recognize the Penang players because they wore the same uniform T-shirt. I don’t see any of the KL/Selangor kids doing the same. They are their own individuals. Penang also came by the busloads last year showing some good organisation by Penang Chess Association. Klang valley players I believe have to arrange their own transport to go to Penang this year.

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It’s been a long time since I’ve been stumped by a programming bug. Guess I’m really getting old to take such a long time to find and fix an error that occured only on one line.

Really felt silly that it took over an hour of changing the wrong lines of codes trying to fix things.

Anyway the result is that the new wiki has a PGN player. Easier see the results for yourself. Take a look.

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I just made a comparison with just one section the Under 16 of NAG 2009 and NAG 2010.

From last year’s blog there were 58 players taking part in the U16 while the pre-registration number up till today is only 28 for this year’s National Age Group. 

Another comparison is the U10 Boys which had 78 players but only 36 pre-registered this year. I’m sure some other blog will make a more accurate comparison of all age group when NAG actually starts in 2 days time.

taken from NAG 2009 blog

I covered last year’s NAG but will not be able to go to Penang this year. However I’m sure there will be more than enough blog coverage from various bloggers up north.

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One of my regrets since starting GilaChess somewhere in 1999 was that I did not backup the various chess results.

Consequently many years of results were lost when I changed servers. I’m trying to archive all the results I have now using a Wiki. Starting from this year onwards. I’ll move backwarks to past years when I have the time.

Wiki page at: www.gilachess.com/wiki

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While on the subject of computer peripherals, this is another offer that caught my eye. Like all tech gadgets, the price of touch screen LCDs have fallen too. The last price I remember for a 15” LCD touch screen was around RM 1500. So a 23” touch screen for under RM1000 is relatively cheap.

I am still itching to know if playing online chess using touch screen LCDs is practical.

Features of this model:

• 23″ wide (16:9), full HD LCD screen
• Rapid 2ms response time, 80,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio and 300 cd/m2 brightness
• Multi-touch capability lets users rotate images, flip pages, pinch and draw on the screen with hand gestures
• Advanced HDMI connectivity delivers highest quality video/audio currently available
• 2 integrated speakers with 1.5W power

Of course you’d  need Windows 7 to fully use the multitouch features. Anyone who has bought this monitor and tried it out please tell me if it’s any good for FICs, Playchess etc.

One thing I can’t help thinking is how oily the screen will get using my fingers.

(PS: I’m not advertising for any computer shop. You can find the offer easily from the flyers you get passing by the shops in Low Yat Plaza)

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Just passed by a computer shop and noticed that the prices of portable harddisks is falling!

I’m planning to get a one Terrabyte portable harddisks to backup all my photos and videos. I think DVD backups are just not reliable enough. Also the price per Gig (around RM1) is more expensive compared to harddisks (around RM 0.37).

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Here’s a game between wondergirl Hou Yifan vs one of India’s strongest GM, Sasikiran Krishnan.

Yifan has white vs Sasikiran’s ultra solid Karpov’s variation of the Caro Kann. The final position is quite pretty.

[Event "Corus (Group B)"]
[Site "Wijk aan Zee NED"]
[Date "2009.01.18"]
[EventDate "2009.01.17"]
[Round "2"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Yifan Hou"]
[Black "Krishnan Sasikiran"]
[ECO "B17"]
[WhiteElo "2571"]
[BlackElo "2711"]
[PlyCount "135"]

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nd7 5. Ng5 Ngf6 6. Bd3  e6 7. N1f3 Bd6 8. Qe2 h6 9. Ne4 Nxe4 10. Qxe4 Qc7 11. O-O b6 12. Qg4 Kf8 13. b3 Bb7 14. Bb2 Nf6 15. Qh4 Nd5 16. Ne5 g5  17. Qg4 Nf4 18. Rfe1 Rg8 19. Qf3 Rd8 20. Be4 f5 21. Bxc6 Bxe5  22. Bxb7 g4 23. Qc6 Qxc6 24. Bxc6 Bxd4 25. Rad1 Ne2+ 26. Rxe2 Bxf2+ 27. Kxf2 Rxd1 28. Rxe6 Rd2+ 29. Re2 Rxe2+ 30. Kxe2 Ke7  31. c4 Kd6 32. Bd5 Re8+ 33. Kf2 f4 34. Bg7 h5 35. Bf7 Rd8  36. Bxh5 Ke7 37. Bc3 Rg8 38. h3 gxh3 39. gxh3 Rg3 40. Bb4+ Kf6  41. Bg4 Ke5 42. Bc8 a5 43. Ba3 a4 44. Bb2+ Ke4 45. Bb7+ Kd3  46. Be5 axb3 47. axb3 Rxh3 48. Bxf4 Kd4 49. Bf3 Kc3 50. Bd5  Kd4 51. Bg3 b5 52. Kf3 bxc4 53. bxc4 Kc5 54. Kf4 Kb4 55. Be1+ Kc5 56. Bf2+ Kb4 57. Ke5 Rh5+ 58. Kd4 Ka5 59. Kc5 Rh6 60. Bg3  Ka6 61. Bd6 Rh8 62. Kc6 Rh7 63. c5 Ka7 64. Be6 Rg7 65. Bd7 Rg6  66. Kc7 Rh6 67. Kd8 Ka6 68. c6

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Don’t you just hate it when the pairing comes out and you have to squeeze in a crowd all trying to find their names on a small A4 sized paper pasted on a wall.

A projector and a notebook is much preferable way to see the pairings.

I already see this being used in DATCC and KL GP tourneys. I’m sure more organisers will pick up on. It’s small things like these that make the tournament experience that much better.

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