Te;luk Intan Chess
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My roommate at Penang Open 2025 messaged me the above and since I was
still in Teluk Intan, I had to check it out. The reason was 2 decades ago,
I had a ...
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Just got my copy of Pocket Fritz 2 on my iPAQ PDA. This is something I wanted since last year!
Maybe I'll do a review of the program later.
Here are some screenshot of the program in the meantime:-
Let me play with this program for a few days before I write something about it.
Former world champion had this to say about the World Championsip selection process about to start in Argentina:-
"This can hardly be called a world championship, as the rules of sports were not observed," he said. "There was no [proper] selection. Of course, each of the eight candidates deserves respect, but others had no chance to have their say."Original source:- RIA Novosti - Sports - Selection process for world chess championships invalid - Karpov
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GilaChess weblogs was on the top 50 for some time but after the recent Malaysian Chess Festival blogs we have jumped to top 10 on Technorati!!
The list was sorted based on the keyword Chess and sorted based on authority. I'm taking this with a pinch of salt but it's nice to think that my blog is top 10 in something :)
The list was sorted based on the keyword Chess and sorted based on authority. I'm taking this with a pinch of salt but it's nice to think that my blog is top 10 in something :)
The Russian grandmaster Anatoly Karpov Monday played human chess with Diego Maradona as part of the TV show the Argentine soccer star hosts in Buenos Aires. The match ended in a draw, but Karpov played with his eyes covered by a black strip.Read more here..
GilaChess blog has just been listed it self at BlogShares. We are at no 53 at the moment.
Just got a PDA with WiFi support.
I addition I got a keyboard to go with the PDA so that I can key in articles and results faster.
This means I can now post articles from any WIFI 'hotspots'. I can't wait to try this out at coming local tournaments. Let's see how this works in practice.
You should see chess news and my blog articles being published faster than before (I hope :) )
I have never seen so much chess activity in a month!! First we had the Malaysian Open and Chevrolet Open. Then came the Merdeka Team Championship, a short blitz open, and the FIDE World Championship Zonal 3.3 here in Malaysia. GilaChess.com managed to cover all the events.
The Malaysian Open was a nightmare as GilaChess.com was under DOS (Denial Of Service) attack. Basically it's just some hacker who turned on some PCs to repeatedly request for webpages from our servers, overwhelming and flooding it to the point other visitors cannot load the website. It went on for the first 3 days of the championship and we could not get out the latest results.
Luckily our webhosting company managed to move the website to new servers and stave of the malicious attack.
It was indeed memorable to witness the magic of Wang Hao as he effortlessly beat 5 strong GMs and a couple of other IMs to score a fantastic 10/11.
Then came the Team championship where many of the GMs stayed back to take part in this yearly event. The Philipinos headed by GM Antonio Rogelio Jr took the first place for the 2nd year in a row.
After a few days rest, it was the Zonal 3.3. My favourite player, GM Mark Paragua took part but unlike Wang Hao he didn't win this event outright. He got 7/9 sharing the same points with GM Utut Adianto from Indonesia. Utut won on tie break but it wasn't very important as both have qualified to represent this region in the World Championship cycle. This is Mark's 2nd attempt and I wish him luck. Also notable is WGM Anya Corke decision to take part in the Men's Zonal instead of the Women's Zonal. She started badly with 3 losses in a row. She ended with a more or less respectable 3.5 points. All her 3 wins were against Malaysians, notably - Francis Tan, FM Anas Nazreen and World Police Champion Ismail Ahmad.
The Women Zonal was completely dominated by the Viets who took the top 5 places. Unfortunately there was only one qualifying place only in this section.
Malaysian's were totally outclassed in the zonals except for a respectable performance by FM Lim Yee Weng who managed to draw games against some strong GMs as well as beat GM Bazar of Mongolia. However for his efforts, it was not enough for another IM norm.
My website has never seen so many hits. Eg: I usually get 1 Gigabyte of traffic per month but the last 2 months I was getting 5 Gigabytes per month!! Anyway things are winding down and I can rest again. I have to thank my partners da5thknight as well as remisaman I know must have been dying to be in Kuala Lumpur to witness the tournament first hand but he had to watch the entire event via the internet in Kedah.
Also with the strong interest shown by readers in GilaChess, perhaps there will be an Anya Corke fan website. We'll see ....
There were lots of things I wanted to do but didn't. Among them were:-
GM Dao misses a possible win as GM Paragua triumps again. I will get the scores of that game later. (I still am not sure that there was a missed win now that I have the game). Was GM Dao mistaken or did my patzer brain total miss it. Can anybody see a missed win ?
Anyway I think it was an exciting-no-holds-barred game.
In the meantime enjoy the following avi video of Dao vs Paragua being discussed by GMs
You can find the 3rd round game between GM Paragua vs GM Utut here.
FM Mok Tze Meng caused the upset of Round 3 when he beat GM Bazar (ELO 2445) on the black side in a tense ending. Picture above showing FM Mok being congratulated by fellow Malaysians after his brilliant win. He now has 2 points out of 3 points.
From the previous blog article, WGM Anya lost the ending (in picture) and GM Mark Paragua won again. GM Mark Paragua will now meet GM Utut Adianto tomorrow noon at 4pm.
A fierce chess battle is taking place in an area of Kuala Lumpur city known as "Chow Kit".
Chow Kit is a long road where you can find all sorts of shops that sells a variety of cheap goods.
It's also known as the downtown area of KL so it's the most unlikely place to find gladiators of the mind doing battle.
This place is well known for ease of getting whatever things you may want such as clothes, bags, and even cheap imitation goods.
A kaleidoscope of colours and fragrances dominates the Chow Kit "wet market" which is one of the largest wet markets in Kuala Lumpur.
At the hotel Stanford, there are 44 players vying for the 2 coveted places to represent this zone for the FIDE world championship 2005.
One of the hot favourites is GM Mark Paragua of the Philipines (picture from 3rd round vs GM Edhi Handoko. The other strong contenders are super GM Dao Thien Hai, GM Anthonio Rogelio, GM Utut Adianto and many more GMs whom have equal opportunity to win.
One of the surprise of the tournament is WGM Anya Corke who did not play in the Women Zonal section. She instead opt to play in the Men's Zonal Open Zonal.
Here's a tense position from Anya's game that is still on going. Anya is Black.
Chow Kit is a long road where you can find all sorts of shops that sells a variety of cheap goods.
It's also known as the downtown area of KL so it's the most unlikely place to find gladiators of the mind doing battle.
This place is well known for ease of getting whatever things you may want such as clothes, bags, and even cheap imitation goods.
A kaleidoscope of colours and fragrances dominates the Chow Kit "wet market" which is one of the largest wet markets in Kuala Lumpur.
At the hotel Stanford, there are 44 players vying for the 2 coveted places to represent this zone for the FIDE world championship 2005.
One of the hot favourites is GM Mark Paragua of the Philipines (picture from 3rd round vs GM Edhi Handoko. The other strong contenders are super GM Dao Thien Hai, GM Anthonio Rogelio, GM Utut Adianto and many more GMs whom have equal opportunity to win.
One of the surprise of the tournament is WGM Anya Corke who did not play in the Women Zonal section. She instead opt to play in the 
[Event "FIDE (Zone 3.3) World Chess Ch"] [Site "Stanford Hotel, Kuala Lumpur"] [Date "2005.09.04"] [Round "2.2"] [White "Paragua, Mark"] [Black "Nadera, Barlo A"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "A00"] [WhiteElo "2596"] [BlackElo "2423"] [PlyCount "73"] [EventDate "2005.09.03"] 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 Nf6 4. e5 Nfd7 5. Bd3 c5 6. c3 Nc6 7. Ne2 cxd4 8. cxd4 f6 9. Nf4 Qe7 10. Nf3 fxe5 11. dxe5 Ndxe5 12. Nxe5 Nxe5 13. Qh5+ Nf7 14. O-O g6 15. Qe2 Bg7 16. Bb5+ Kf8 17. Bd2 a6 18. Nxd5 Qd8 19. Bb4+ Nd6 20. Nf4 Kf7 21. Rad1 Qf6 22. Rxd6 axb5 23. Nd5 Qe5 24. Qc2 Rf8 25. Qc7+ Kg8 26. Bc3 exd5 27. Bxe5 Bxe5 28. Rxg6+ hxg6 29. Qxe5 Ra6 30. Qxd5+ Be6 31. Qxb5 Rf7 32. a3 Rc6 33. Re1 Rfc7 34. Qg5 Bf7 35. h4 Rc5 36. Qd8+ Kg7 37. Re7 1-0
FIDE (Zone 3.3) World Chess Championship 2005 (Men)
Round 1 Bo. SNo. Name FED Pts Res. Pts Name FED SNo. 1 1 Dao Thien Hai VIE 0 0 Tirto INA 23 2 24 Pg Mohd Omar BRU 0 0 Paragua Mark PHI 2 3 3 Adianto Utut INA 0 0 Dinh Duc Trong VIE 25 4 26 Barbosa Oliver PHI 0 0 Wynn Zaw Htun MYA 4 5 5 Nguyen Anh Dung VIE 0 0 Mok Tze-Meng MAS 27 6 28 Lim Yee-Weng MAS 0 0 Torre Eugenio PHI 6 7 7 Irwanto Sadikin INA 0 0 Laylo Darwin PHI 29 8 30 Sales J. Noel PHI 0 0 Myo Naing MYA 8 9 9 Antonio Rogelio PHI 0 0 Chan Peng-Kong SIN 31 10 32 Dimakiling O. PHI 0 0 Wu Shaobin SIN 10 11 11 Juswanto Denny INA 0 0 Pham Chuong VIE 33 12 34 Byambaa Zulzaga MGL 0 0 Gonzales Jayson PHI 12 13 13 Mariano Nelson PHI 0 0 Duong The Anh VIE 35 14 36 Ly Hong Nguyen VIE 0 0 Wong Meng-Kong SIN 14 15 15 Hatanbaatar B. MGL 0 0 Altanoch Genden MGL 37 16 38 Lim Chuing HoongMAS 0 0 Dableo Ronald PHI 16 17 17 Nadera Barlo A PHI 0 0 Corke Anya HKG 39 18 40 Battulga Namhai MGL 0 0 Roca Petronio PHI 18 19 19 Handoko Edhi INA 0 0 Pg Mohd Omar Ak Hira BRU 41 20 42 Anas Bakri MAS 0 0 Goh Weiming SIN 20 21 21 Tu Hoang Thai VIE 0 0 Ismail Ahmad MAS 43 22 44 Francis Tan MAS 0 0 Situru Nathanael INA 22
FIDE (Zone 3.3) World Chess Championship 2005 (Women)
Round 1 Bo. SNo. Name FED Pts Res. Pts Name FED SNo. 1 1 Mongontuul Bathuyag MGL 0 0 Roslina Marmono MAS 15 2 16 Sukandar Irine Kharisma INA 0 0 Nguyen Thi Thanh An VIE 2 3 3 Le Thanh Tu VIE 0 0 Tay Li-Jin Jeslin SIN 17 4 18 Sia Xin-Yun Suzanna SIN 0 0 Pham Le Thao Nguyen VIE 4 5 5 Le Thi Phuong Lien VIE 0 0 Hui Sau-Mun Dawn SIN 19 6 20 Liu Yang SIN 0 0 Hoang Xuan Thanh Khiet VIE 6 7 7 Lumongdong Lisa Karlina INA 0 0 Wan Khye Theng MAS 21 8 22 Toh Li Cheng SIN 0 0 Tran Thi Kim Loan VIE 8 9 9 Dang Bich Ngoc VIE 0 0 Bakri Alia Azwa Anin MAS 23 10 24 Dian Chery Stefani INA 0 0 Luong Minh Hue VIE 10 11 11 Lomibao Sheerie Joy PHI 0 0 Handayani Tri INA 25 12 26 Ho Yin Ping HKG 0 0 Lindiawati Evi INA 12 13 13 Bayaraa Zorigt MGL 0 0 Nguyen Quynh Anh VIE 27 14 28 Verdiana Norasa INA 0 0 Zakiah Ai INA 14
Player List (Men)
No. Name Rtg FED No. Name Rtg FED 1 GM Dao Thien Hai 2601 VIE 23 FM Mok Tze Meng 2351 MAS 2 GM Paragua Mark 2596 PHI 24 FM Lim Yee Weng 2348 MAS 3 GM Adianto Utut 2588 INA 25 IM Chan Peng Kong 2332 SIN 4 IM Wynn Zaw Htun 2578 MYA 26 FM Dimakiling Oliver 2329 PHI 5 GM Nguyen Anh Dung 2555 VIE 27 FM Byambga Zulzaga 2299 MGL 6 GM Torre Eugene 2535 PHI 28 FM Simantuntak Sebastian 2284 INA 7 FM Sadikin Irwanto 2517 INA 29 Gunbayar Uyagmarguren 2259 MGL 8 IM Myo Naing 2516 MYA 30 Lim Chiun Hoong 2239 MAS 9 GM Rogelio Antonio 2513 PHI 31 Battuga Namkhal 2210 MGL 10 GM Wu Shaobin 2510 SIN 32 Pg Omar Ak Hira 2194 BRU 11 IM Juswanto Denny 2509 INA 33 FM Bakri Anas Nazreen 2150 MAS 12 IM Gonzales Jayson 2477 PHI 34 Ahmad Ismail 2138 MAS 13 GM Sharavdorj Dashzeveg 2470 MGL 35 GM Tu Hoang Tai 0 VIE 14 GM Mariano Nelson 2466 PHI 36 IM Nadera Barlo 0 PHI 15 GM Wong Meng Kong 2460 SIN 37 IM Roca Petronio 0 PHI 16 GM Khatanbaatar Bazar 2445 MGL 38 Barbosa Oliver 0 PHI 17 IM Dableo Ronald 2440 PHI 39 Duong The Anh 0 VIE 18 GM Handoko Edhi 2407 INA 40 Glentoch Alantoch 0 MGL 19 FM Goh Weiming 2390 SIN 41 Laylo Darwin 0 PHI 20 IM Situru Nathanael 2382 INA 42 Ly Hong Nguyen 0 VIE 21 Pg Omar Ak Hirawan 2364 BRU 43 Pham Chuong 0 VIE 22 Tirto 2364 INA 44 Tan Francis 0 MAS
Player List (Women)
No. Name Rtg FED No. Name Rtg FED 1 WGM Munguntucel Bazkhuyug 2370 MGL 17 Bayarag Zorigt 2061 MGL 2 WGM Nguyen Thi Thanh An 2358 VIE 18 Jakiah Al 2058 INA 3 Le Thanh Tu 2283 VIE 19 WFM Kharisma S Irene 2010 INA 4 Le Thi Phuong Lien 2239 VIE 20 Tay Jeslin 2010 SIN 5 Corke Anya 2223 HKG 21 WCM Sia Suzanna 1997 SIN 6 WFM Baganmunkh Ankhchimeg 2222 MGL 22 Hui Dawn 1996 SIN 7 WIM Tamin Darmayana Upi 2219 INA 23 WCM Liu Yang 1958 SIN 8 Hoang Xuan Thanh Khiet 2175 VIE 24 WFM Ho Yin Ping 0 HKG 9 WIM Lumongdong Lisa K 2163 INA 25 Bakri Alia Azwa Anin 0 MAS 10 Tran Thi Kim Loan 2159 VIE 26 Dian Chery Stefani 0 INA 11 Dang Bich Ngoc 2158 VIE 27 Handayani Tri 0 INA 12 WIM Mendoza Beverly 2150 PHI 28 Marmono Roslina 0 MAS 13 Jargatsaikhan Dagisuren 2139 MGL 29 Toh Li Cheng 0 SIN 14 Luong Minh Hue 2133 VIE 30 Verdiana Norasa 0 INA 15 WFM Lomibao Sheerie Joy 2126 PHI 31 Wan Khye Theng 0 MAS 16 Lindiawati Evi 2091 INA
Newly crowned Grandmaster - Mark Paragua will be playing in the Zonal held here in Kuala Lumpur. Tonight will be the player's briefing and the first round will start 3rd of September 2005.
Only 2 male players and one female player will be selected to represent this zone in the World Championship 2005.Here is the list of participants :
FIDE (Zone 3.3) World Chess Championship 2005 (Men)
No. Name Rtg FED No. Name Rtg FED 1 GM Dao Thien Hai 2601 VIE 23 FM Mok Tze Meng 2351 MAS 2 GM Paragua Mark 2596 PHI 24 FM Lim Yee Weng 2348 MAS 3 GM Adianto Utut 2588 INA 25 IM Chan Peng Kong 2332 SIN 4 IM Wynn Zaw Htun 2578 MYA 26 FM Dimakiling Oliver 2329 PHI 5 GM Nguyen Anh Dung 2555 VIE 27 FM Byambga Zulzaga 2299 MGL 6 GM Torre Eugene 2535 PHI 28 FM Simantuntak Sebastian 2284 INA 7 FM Sadikin Irwanto 2517 INA 29 Gunbayar Uyagmarguren 2259 MGL 8 IM Myo Naing 2516 MYA 30 Lim Chiun Hoong 2239 MAS 9 GM Rogelio Antonio 2513 PHI 31 Battuga Namkhal 2210 MGL 10 GM Wu Shaobin 2510 SIN 32 Pg Omar Ak Hira 2194 BRU 11 IM Juswanto Denny 2509 INA 33 FM Bakri Anas Nazreen 2150 MAS 12 IM Gonzales Jayson 2477 PHI 34 Ahmad Ismail 2138 MAS 13 GM Sharavdorj Dashzeveg 2470 MGL 35 GM Tu Hoang Tai 0 VIE 14 GM Mariano Nelson 2466 PHI 36 IM Nadera Barlo 0 PHI 15 GM Wong Meng Kong 2460 SIN 37 IM Roca Petronio 0 PHI 16 GM Khatanbaatar Bazar 2445 MGL 38 Barbosa Oliver 0 PHI 17 IM Dableo Ronald 2440 PHI 39 Duong The Anh 0 VIE 18 GM Handoko Edhi 2407 INA 40 Glentoch Alantoch 0 MGL 19 FM Goh Weiming 2390 SIN 41 Laylo Darwin 0 PHI 20 IM Situru Nathanael 2382 INA 42 Ly Hong Nguyen 0 VIE 21 Pg Omar Ak Hirawan 2364 BRU 43 Pham Chuong 0 VIE 22 Tirto 2364 INA 44 Tan Francis 0 MAS
FIDE (Zone 3.3) World Chess Championship 2005 (Women)
No. Name Rtg FED No. Name Rtg FED 1 WGM Munguntucel Bazkhuyug 2370 MGL 17 Bayarag Zorigt 2061 MGL 2 WGM Nguyen Thi Thanh An 2358 VIE 18 Jakiah Al 2058 INA 3 Le Thanh Tu 2283 VIE 19 WFM Kharisma S Irene 2010 INA 4 Le Thi Phuong Lien 2239 VIE 20 Tay Jeslin 2010 SIN 5 Corke Anya 2223 HKG 21 WCM Sia Suzanna 1997 SIN 6 WFM Baganmunkh Ankhchimeg 2222 MGL 22 Hui Dawn 1996 SIN 7 WIM Tamin Darmayana Upi 2219 INA 23 WCM Liu Yang 1958 SIN 8 Hoang Xuan Thanh Khiet 2175 VIE 24 WFM Ho Yin Ping 0 HKG 9 WIM Lumongdong Lisa K 2163 INA 25 Bakri Alia Azwa Anin 0 MAS 10 Tran Thi Kim Loan 2159 VIE 26 Dian Chery Stefani 0 INA 11 Dang Bich Ngoc 2158 VIE 27 Handayani Tri 0 INA 12 WIM Mendoza Beverly 2150 PHI 28 Marmono Roslina 0 MAS 13 Jargatsaikhan Dagisuren 2139 MGL 29 Toh Li Cheng 0 SIN 14 Luong Minh Hue 2133 VIE 30 Verdiana Norasa 0 INA 15 WFM Lomibao Sheerie Joy 2126 PHI 31 Wan Khye Theng 0 MAS 16 Lindiawati Evi 2091 INA
I'm back from my Grandmother's funeral. Nothing new to blog about since the event is over but I have some pictures to share..
Me with GM Koneru Humpy (taken after the prize giving). Koneru didn't do too well finishing with only 6.5 out of 11 - but it was still good enough for top 10.
More pictures here.
Me with GM Koneru Humpy (taken after the prize giving). Koneru didn't do too well finishing with only 6.5 out of 11 - but it was still good enough for top 10.
More pictures here.
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