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I have not followed the chess scene lately so you must forgive me for only posting about this now especially since the tournaments are happening as soon as tomorrow! I think it's a pity as these 3 tourneys are relatively big as far as 1-2 days rapid tournaments go in terms of prize money(RM 2500-3500 for first prize). Personally I wished they did...

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Don't forget to look out for this in the cinemas.. Related link: http://gilachess.blogspot.my/2016/09/queen-of-katwe.html ...

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Lately I have been seeing some interest on Facebook focused on online  FIDE titles offered on Arena Chess playing site. The attraction of course is that it is recognized by FIDE itself and you can use the title as prefix to your name like the traditional FIDE titles. For example if you meet the criteria of earning an online rating of 2000 and...

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It's over. Will be packing and heading back home today. GM Dhopade ended up being the 2016 Malaysian Open Champion with a final round draw against IM Le Tuan Minh. Dhopade lead most of the tournament and the final round was thankfully not a quick 7 move draw unlike one of the games in the Open. Board one played till they had only...

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It's over. Will be packing and heading back home today. GM Dhopade ended up being the 2016 Malaysian Open Champion with a final round draw against IM Le Tuan Minh. Dhopade lead most of the tournament and the final round was thankfully not a quick 7 move draw unlike one of the games in the Open. Board one played till they had only...

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IM Lim Yee Weng and FM Lim Zhuo Ren are currently the best Malaysians in the Dato Arthur Tan Malaysian Open so far. Each has 4 points and sitting at 15 and 19 place respectively. ...

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GACC helper watching over the sight disabled and paraplegics section in case there is any aid needed. Example a guide to go to the bathroom for a blind participant. That's Mr Khong Wai Cheong whose excellent pictures I've  used in the GilaChess Facebook group and Chessbase articles. The man in action... ...

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Challengers Board 1 WHITE won 1-0 ...

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Challengers Board 1 You can move forward and backward using your cursor keys. ...

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Challengers Board 1 ...

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Although it looks like there are no norms achieved by our Malaysian Team, we do get yet another new WFM. Nur Nabila qualifies and should get her WFM title automatically from the Baku Olympiad. The other player who got a title is FM Sumant. ...

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Open Board 1 Challengers Board 1 Sorry some technical problems as the rest of the games were not recorded by the DGT board. Open Board 1 : draw Challenger Board 2 : draw ...

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This is definitely the best results ever for the history of the Malaysian Women's team. They beat Peru 3.5-0.5 in the penultimate round of the Baku Olympiad. Here's a screenshot of Jimmy Liew's FB post last night: ...

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Small error in the PGN header. Koneru is Black (not white) ...

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Please don't just cut and paste to blog. Case in point. One new and very raw chess blog enthusiastically posted the recent Malaysian Chess Festival Blitz #1 tournament result as being won by FM Mehar of India. In fact FM Mehar only got shared 7-8th place. This is the result of the blogger not taking the effort in communicating with anybody in the...

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Watching the Malaysian Olympaid team live for Round 9 using big screen. It's a LED projector to be exact that I got, intending to use it for the Blitz event. However it was not bright enough. Still it's way to watch live chess in the hotel room compared to using the 20" TV or my notebook screen It's like watching football on those...

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From NM Kamal Abdullah:- 42nd Chess Olympiad, Baku, Azerbaijan. Round 7: Guatemala vs Malaysia. Won 3.5-0.5 We were on a high after our second 3.5 win in a row! Tze Han on board 2 had a rather exciting miniature (21 moves) against his higher rated opponent. Jimmy had no trouble punnishing his opponent after the latter made an error in the opening. Sumant...

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After 7 rounds PAMA Chess club is in the lead out of a total of 96 teams taking part. 9. PAMA Chess Club (RtgAvg:2213 / TB1: 11 / TB2: 140,5) Bo.NameRtgRtgIRtgNFEDPts. Rp 1GMFominyh, Alexander  243524352347RUS4.52415 2IMNolte, Rolando   242724272312PHI3.52240 3IMFang, Yuxiang (NR2279)  220222020CHN52747 4FMDilwen Ding Tze How  178817881742MAS3.52071 4Fong Yit Ho  202320231877MAS2.51769 ...

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Team pairings Round 4 on 2016/09/10 No. SNo Team Pts.  MP Res. : Res. MP Pts.  Team SNo 1 1 Chess Castle 10½  6 ½ : 3½ 6 10 PAMA Chess Club 9 2 8 Tagaytay City Philippines 10½  6 ½ : 3½ 6 10½  KLChessKids 2 3 10 The Empty Revolution 10 6 2 : 2 6 10 Jakarta - B 4...

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