Helping out at the Malaysian Open
Both me and Ching Kim Lye (aka Remis Aman) offered our services to MCF to enter the game scores and prepare daily bulletins for the Malaysian Open.
About 80% of the scores are ok but the ones that give us the most trouble are ones like the above. The handwriting is unreadable particularly reaching the end of the game. Missing moves compound the problem of guessing the correct moves.
Asking the players personally what moves they made is also difficult. For example, one morning going for breakfast in the hotel, I happened to bump in to a player whose score I found was a nightmare to decipher the night before. So I shot him a question hoping for some help : “You know, I find it hard to read your scores in yesterday’s game”. The player replied “I can’t even read his own hand-writing”.
But once in a while we do get lucky to get a player who is free at that time and remembers his or her game. For example, GM Nguyen Anh Dung (above) helped to complete one of his interesting wins.
Ching Kim Lye. Arguably Malaysia’s fastest bulletin data entry man. He entered more than 3/4 of the games of the Malaysian Open while I helped with the remainder.
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