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One or at most 2GMs, but 4 GMs in a one day rapid tournament in Malaysia? Yes the Merdeka Day - Individual Open Chess Championship, held on the rest day of the Malaysian Chess Festival attracted 4 GMs to participate. This is unexpected as these GMs are playing in long time control games (5 Rounds) so far in the Open and Seniors section...

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5 GMa share the lead with 4½ out of 5 points in the Open section of the Malaysian Chess Festival 2017 in the biggest Malaysian Open ever consisting of 162 players. They are: GM Zhou Jianchao  GM Fang Yuxiang  GM Tran Tuan Minh  GM Yu Ruiyuan  GM Vishnu Prasanna. V There are 4 more rounds to go. Today (Thursday, 31 August) is a...

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The biggest Malaysian Chess Festival started it's first round yesterday on 28th August 2017. The event boasts of 396 players taking part in 3 different sections. Here is the breakdown: Open :162 players Challengers:194 players Seniors: 40 players The 14th edition of the chess festival also is the most challenging for the organisers as they will be catering to 19 physically challenged chess...

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This year's Malaysian Chess Festval sees the biggest number of physically challnged players including those who are paraplegic and visually impaired. It is interesting as many of us have not seen how the blind cope with playing chess vs sighted players. Here's a video:- ...

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* Download the Follow Chess App from Google Playstore * Go to http://live.catur.org (9 boards live) * Download AI Chess App (8 boards live) ...

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Last minute entry Indonesian Team, PTP IPC A took the championship ahead of 90 teams taking part in this year's Astro Team Merdeka 2017. Another strong team from India, Garuda Returns (they took third place last year) also had 8 wins and 1 draw but had to take 2nd place after the tie break. Rk. SNo Team Games   +   =   - TB1...

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