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Since I started that page, it's my responsibility and I probably should update it soon with this year's schedule and details.

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.. :)

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 custom script to generate the thumbnails. Sadly because of the move I have lost those codes.

That again may take time.. :(

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 you can get it for only a tenth of the official site price. Amazing !

Of course, it's pirated and I do not want to highlight that page here but most local chess Facebook users here already know it as they were unwillingly added to it too. So I won't highlight the actual address.

It contains literally almost every major chess software you can think of. From the proof of receipts and postal receipts on the FB page it looks like the owner is doing brisk sales. :)