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Arrived in Jakarta, Indonesia at 5.30pm (Malaysian time). Will be here for 12 days. This is my first going to a different country other than Singapore. Anyway it's for work purpose. I feel I made a blunder by not taking the chance to come here earlier when the Jappfa Cup was on. Now that I'm here that event is over and I am...

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Picture above is in round 2 between veteran Woo Beng Keong and top seed Fairin Zakaria Have to apologise again as I couldn't blog live this time from my mobile phone because I couldn't get connected to the blog site. (I am posting this from a cyber cafe). I slept late at 4am because I promised to burn the GilaChess CD collection for...

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Excited and can wait for tomorrow's allegro. I will blog live from the tournament venue as I am taking part in it too. Not prepared at all (as usual). Excited and can wait for tomorrow's allegro. I will blog live from the tournament venue as I am taking part in it too. Not prepared at all (as usual). ...

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Last Sunday was a big disappointment in addition to the humiliatiion of playing in the 'women section' of the Selangor Closed.On top of that the supplement's I took didn't seem to do anything for my chess. I only obtained 3 points from 7 rounds. But I guess it's unfair of me to think that popping a few supplement pills a day will add...

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This is a record for me. I played 5 girls in a row at the Selangor Closed. Round 3,4,5,6 and 7 were all girls. Apparently one of the girls whom I lost to told my opponent (above picture) that I was prone to time trouble. Here I am in time trouble again -she took her friend's advice and played fast but luckily I...

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Apologies again. At round 6 my handphone battery ran out so I couldn't post the results here. Now it is 7:26pm and the final results are : Last round (that I can remember): Fariz vs Marcus (Marcus won!) Premnath vs Norazmi (Premnath won!) 4 players with 6 points: Fariz, Marcus, Premnath, Abdullah Che Hassan. Fariz was declared winner on tie-break. Selangor Open Champion...

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After the 5th round Fariz is in the lead winning Cheah Eu Gene. Closest is Masrin Erowan with 4.5 points. After the 5th round Fariz is in the lead winning Cheah Eu Gene. Closest is Masrin Erowan with 4.5 points. ...

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Sorry for the late reporting. There is a surprising number of strong players taking part in the Selangor Closed currently underway in Sunway College. Among them are Anas (winner of the Selangor Open - as if you didn't know that already), Marcus Chan, Abdullah Che Hassan, Nik Farouqi, Masrin Erowan,Foo Chee Kin, Johan Iskandar Foudzi and many more my more names my brain...

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Selangor Closed. As usual I am late.As you can see from the small thumbnail picture on the right somewhere, I am having chicken porridge. Safest bet because my poor stomach hasn't felt so good this past few days. Besides I read somewhere Korchnoi took porridge too on advice of the doctor to increase his 'constitution'. If it's good enough for Korchnoi then it's...

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Sorry for not posting anything after round 7 of the Selangor Open 2005. Why? Simple reason that I suffered 4 defeats in the tournament and just felt destroyed. But as most of you gilachess people already know (if not then you are not a chess fan), Anas emerged champ without much difficulty. (http://www.gilachess.com for more info). My own score was disastrous at 3.5...

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After round 7, Anas is still unbeaten with a perfect 7 points. He now plays LAW ZHE KHANG in the 8th round.Anas appears to be winning at the moment. He is 1.5 points ahead of his nearest rivals. There are 5 persons with 5.5 points.Stay tuned for more ... After round 7, Anas is still unbeaten with a perfect 7 points. He now...

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After the loss to Fariz, I lost to Chan Tze Chen. Played a boring opening but obtained some amall advantage going into the middlegame. Going into the endgame I still kept my initiative. Offered a draw since my opponent had only one minute and I had 22 minutes!! He refused. I was so annoyed we played on till 70 + moves and even...

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After round 6, Anas is unbeaten with a perfect 6 points. He defeated last year's 3rd place winner, Marcus Chan. There seems to be no stopping him. Top seed Leong Mun Wan lost to relatively unknown and unrated Steven Retalik so there is few strong players now that has a chance of slowing Anas. As for me, I wasted an attacking position against...

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