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Woke up at 4 am and finally fixed the broken / missing thumbnails on catur.org after the whole mess of moving out of my old host GoDaddy. Feels good after weeks of not having a clue how to fix it. Guess some problems you have to sleep on it.. :) ...

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Catur.org is "new" if anyone noticed because I moved my entire website from GoDaddy to Digital Ocean because GoDaddy double charged me and didn't respond to my email to reverse the charge. It's a painful process moving because of the effort of moving things around. Also things like missing thumbnails above.. I already solved this problem over a year ago writing my own...

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Received the shocking news that Ahmad Fadzil Nayan passed away last night after sufferering from heart troubles. This is sad news indeed as he was only 27 years old. He was a fellow Perakian and I met him over the board over 10 years ago playing at Wilayah Kompleks during one of the weekend rapid tourney. May he rest in peace. The last...

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I was "sucked in" to a FaceBook group selling chess software. I wasn't interested but didn't leave the group because I was curious. For example the latest and at this monent, most powerful engine in the world, Komodo 8 is available there. The cost (after conversion) only RM 21.40. The official website selling it is USD 59.96 which is about RM 215. So...

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IM Mok Tze Meng became this year's first rapid winner by taking first place in the 2015 Kastam Open on new year's day at the Kastam headquarters, Kelana Jaya. Mok won his first 6 games before conceding a draw in the final round to Kamaluddin Yusof when he was assured first place going into the final round. Syazwan Zulkifli took clear second place...

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