Result of RSC Festival 2005
1. GM Bong Vilamayor (6.5)
2. Jimmy Ng (6)
3. Herman Rahman (6)
4. Abdullah CH (6)
5. Jax Tham (6)
6. Choo Voo Koon (6)
7. R. Subramaniam (6)
8. Tan Vooi Giap (5.5)
9. A W Karim (5.5)
10. Masrin Erowan (5.5)
11. Muhd Faizal KZ (5) Continue reading

Malaysia got knocked out of the Men’s Rapid Team section.
Malaysia lost 1.5-2.5 to heavyweights Philippines and also lost to Vietnam with the same score too.
The Malaysian was just unlucky to be paired with the 2 most strongest team there in the first round. Still 1.5 points is a good effort against these chess giants… [...]

Taken from Chess-Malaysia newsgroup regular posts (spotted by Jimmy Liew)
Sometime i fill,sorry not fill anything
when a ..
Feel or Fill??? if u english cant make it,u talk so
much at here…
Note: This is just a sample. Most of the discussion there is in better English Continue reading

Fadli Zakaria offers these cash incentives to chess SEA GAMES players for 2005, 2007 and 2009 SEA GAMES.
Gold medal for individual -RM1,000
Gold medal for team -RM1,500… Continue reading

This is just a partial result (thanks to Ching Kim Lye for obtaining it).
Sea Games Men’s Individual Rapid 2005
Final 28/11/2005
FM Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son 1.5-0.5 GM Susanto Megaranto
Semi-Finals 28/11/2005
IM Jason Goh Koon Jong 1-1 (0.5-1.5) GM Susanto Megaranto
FM Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son 1.5-0.5 GM Eugenio Torre
Quarter-Finals 27/11/2005
GM Wu Shaobin 0-2 FM Ngyuen Ngoc Troung Son
IM [...]

This is the probable list of the Fide-rated players at the Penang international open chess championship 2005 (7-11 Dec 2005)
GM Mark Paragua (PHI) 2596
GM Drazen Sermek (SLO) 2526
GM Bakre Tejas (IND) 2484
GM Bong Villamayor (PHI) 2451
IM Stefan Loeffler (GER) 2440
WGM Tania Sachdev (IND) 2379
IM Chandrashekhar Gokhale (IND) 2377
[...]

So has anybody bought the all new Fritz 9 yet? From some of the feedback from blogs and forum, some buyers say that the ‘new’ features are just fluff and only visual eye candy.
Some people has reported the pirated edition has hit the market here in Malaysia. That was fast…
Full Edition USD 50.42 (DVD edition)
Viva [...]

There is the Johor open down South and then there is the CAS tourney Klang Valley (Central region).With the latest Penang Juniors open (up North), this makes it a 3 way clash of chess events in Malaysia on December 4, 2005.
Penang tourney is for Juniors.
Details:-
THE third and final leg of a junior chess circuit [...]

I know that this is a bit of a touchy issue at Chess-Malaysia newsgroup recently but I’ve decided to post it anyway. Any monetory incentive for chess is good even with the racial limitation this particular scheme proposes:-
From Mr Fadli Zakaria representing Epolychess Enterprise:-
On behalf of Epolychess Enterprise,we gladly to announce starting [...]

I haven’t posted in GilaChess.com for over a month.
The last article I posted was one of my rare wins against Chan Tze Chen in the Chevrolet Open 2005.
The reason is because the firewall at my office completely blocks GilaChess.com. That’s very unfortunate as I can visit any other websites. That’s why you see me posting [...]

There will be a tournament organised by
The Johor Sports Council (Majlis Sukan Negeri Johor)
Date : 4 Dec 2005
Start time : 8.30 pagi
Place : Main Entrance,Stadium Larkin, Johor Bahru
Fees : RM10.00… Continue reading

CAS last event of the year
Date : 4th Dec (Sunday)
Venue : Wilayah Complex.
Rounds : 6 rounds
Time : 10 am (Rd 1)
Category 1 :National Rating of at least 1400 points and
unrated Adult
Category 2 :unrated Under-18 players and those [...]

The electricity at my home is terrible. There are spikes and surges. Even with a surge protector there are still mishaps. The latest casualty was my Video card which blew up. One good thing that came out of it is I replaced it with an older card and it happened to be a better video [...]

Holmes, who coaches at East Chapel Hill High, said he wants the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board to begin paying chess coaches at schools. He also wants local districts to follow in the lead of the Charlotte-Mecklenberg schools, which are spending close to $100,000 this year to teach students chess.
“It says something that the school [...]

From Australian IT article.
Ranked 30th in the world and living in Greece with his wife and two children, Short accuses the World Chess Federation (FIDE) of mismanaging the game and failing to attract sponsors.
“Next year people will be playing chess on their mobile phones, but FIDE is just not up to the job,” he says. [...]

Computer Chess - Assisstive Tools
My first serious exposure with computer chess was back in 1987. The chess program was called Colossus
and it ran on a Spectrum 8-bit computer connected to the TV. It had no
mouse. It had no hard disk. I ran the program for a cassette tape!.
Moves were entered via keyboard (eg: “e2-e4″). [...]

“Lack of sponsors cripples Humpy: Coach
Vijayawada: Koneru Humpy, fourth in the world women ranking and first woman Grandmaster in juniors (below 20 years) is suffering from lack of sponsors after the Bank of Baroda (BOB) severed its links with her in March. “>Lack of sponsors cripples Humpy: Coach .:. NewKerala - India’s Top Online Newspaper: [...]

One of the many Chess websites that I maintain, The Chess Network (TCN) was down for almost a week because of server upgrades. The database has been upgraded from MySQL 3.23 to the newer (and supposedly better) MySQL 4.1.
It took a bit of work on my part to figure out how to migrate all [...]

New Straits Times - Malaysia News Online
Malek will soon venture into a new area - food. He would open an eatery, an alfresco dining outlet with big screen television and tables with chess and checker boards.
Source :New Straits Times - Malaysia News Online Continue reading

Sofia News Agency (a Hungarian website) posted these allegations about Veselin Topalov the winner of the FIDE World Chess Championship in San Luis Argentina.
Source: Sofia News Agency
An unnamed participant in the World Chess Championship in San Luis, Argentina, has accused Chess King Bulgarian Vesselin Topalov of using unallowed measures to win the title, index.hu [...]