The selection for the chess team members who will represent Malaysia to Dresden Germany will start tomorrow (31st May 2008). I will be there to blog about the event and you can follow the news via http://blog.gilachess.com and http://tcn.sourceforge.net.
Once in a while I bump into a website that is wacky and weird. Bush League, http://www.bushleague.tv is one such site. Thought weird, it is funny with it's humorous pictures and videos. It's a little sexist but hey, what the heck, I don't care :)
Basically the pictures and videos are focused on sports and women. In short it's targeted at men’s lifestyle. They use the digg style of voting a story up or down. However for them they use the monkey icon "sweet" or "bush" to indicate "dig" or "bury" respectively. Sweet!
The content is definitely unique and I guess I'll be visiting this site daily to check out on any new goodies this site has to offer. It certainly beats YouTube surfing to find something entertaining to watch.
This one is worth bookmarking. There! I've bookmarked it as a blog post here :)
Here's a sample video I took from the site.
I keep getting this popup from AVG these couple of days and I thought the upgrade was free, I've been clicking Upgrade later but only today I decided to make the upgrade. The cost cited at the AVG website was USD 59!! Man, now I have to find another free alternative to AVG, Anybody know of a good one?
There will be a crazy number of chess events and competitions organised this coming months. The National Closed which will be used to choose representatives to Germany for the Chess Olympiad at the end of the year is one of the biggest. After that there will be many one day tournaments as well. Check out GilaChess.com for more information and details.
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More drama on how Krush took it badly and sent her King flying off the board here.
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NZCF Olympiad Funds Appeal
In November 2008 the prestigious FIDE (World Chess Federation) Olympiad will take place in Dresden, Germany. The massive chess Olympiads are staged at two year intervals. For this coming event, New Zealand has an historic opportunity to send what may well be our strongest ever men's and women's teams. The New Zealand Chess Federation is now launching an Olympiad Appeal fund, to raise essential travel funds to assist the 10 team members and accompanying managers.
from http://www.newzealandchess.co.nz/
Looks like New Zealand is similiar to Australia where their Chess Olympic team have to go out to the public to ask for donations. Sad to see both Australian and New Zealand government is like Malaysia. They get ZERO support!
I know from some friends who have stayed in New Zealand for some time that it is a place of beauty. If you have watched Lords of the Rings trilogy you'll know what I mean as all three films were made there.
However, the biggest attraction for me to go to New Zealand is their New Zealand Chess Open. I got to know about this event thru Hilton Bennet a New Zealander who plays in the Malaysian Chess Open every year. So the attraction of New Zealand is two fold. I can visit their beautiful nature surroundings as a tourist and I can play competitive chess there too. Match made in heaven for a chess addict like me.:
Of course as a preliminary step, I've already checked on the many online offers for Auckland accomodations, Wellington, Christchurch and Queenstown. A cheap but nice place to stay is essential. Also, the location must be near the tournament halls knowing how prone I can get being late all the time for a game.
I'll also try to find time and add to my stay there (perhaps one week extra?) to view New Zealand's culture, arts and entertainment.
Like a caveman I arrived at Cititel last month for the #MYchessFestival meeting confused about where the hotel parking space has gone. As ...
