What’s MAIGOC?
It’s the Macao 2nd Asian Indoor Games. Take this date down: 27th October (Saturday) because it’s the start of MAIGOC 2007.
Malaysia has 3 representatives that are going there:-

-FM Lim Yee Weng
-WIM Siti Zulaikha
-FM Anas Nazreen Bakri
I’m definitely excited over this and there will be updates here on this blog or in GilaChess.com.
Also, lets give [...]

24 teams including Malaysia will be taking part in the the 2nd Asian Indoor Games on 26th October to 3rd November 2007 in Macau.
Events include Standard, Rapid and Blitz Chess with categories  of mixed team competitions and individual competitions for both men and women.
Here are the countries taking part and their participants:-… Continue reading

GM Zhang Pengxiang emerged champion with an impressive unbeaten 8/11 score from a very strong field in tge Asian Individual Championship that just ended in Cebu, Philippines. 2005 DATMO champ, GM Wang Hao finished with the same points also but dropped one game to GM Susanto Megaranto.
Top 50 players
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After 9 rounds GM Zhang Pengxiang is still the sole leader for the VI Asian Individual Championship in Cebu, Philippines.1st - (7 Points)

GM Zhang Pengxiang (2649) CHN

2nd - 4th (6.5 Points)

GM Zhao Jun (2558) CHN
GMWang Hao (2626)CHN
GMMegaranto Susanto (2554)INA

5th - 11th (6 Points)

IM Filippov Anton (2481)UZB
GM Kunte Abhijit (2519)IND
IMWen Yang (2475)CHN
IM Laylo Darwin (2486) [...]

Being at the receiving end last year for lousy coverage for the Malaysian Open 2006 I’ve learnt my lesson. As a webmaster for a major tournament website, there is a big responsibility to get the news out there for the many chess enthusiasts who follow the tournament news from afar. That is why I’m quite [...]

After the first round all the stronger players as expected won. However one accident is Ni Hua who lost to Iranian IM Mahjoobzardast Morteza (2479).
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NameRtgFED1.Rd2.RdPts. TB1  1GMZhang Pengxiang2649CHN 52w1 14s1,00 2GMWang Hao2626CHN 53s1 16w1,00 3GMSandipan Chanda2563IND 54w1 15s1,00 4GMZhao Jun2558CHN 55s1 17w1,00 5GMMegaranto Susanto2554INA 56w1 18s1,00 6GMLe Quang Liem2542VIE 57w1 19s1,00 7GMTorre Eugenio2536PHI 58w1 20s1,00 [...]

The 6th Asian Individual Championship currently taking place in Cebu, Phillipines features all 4 past Malaysian Open champions! They are Li Chao, Wang Hao, Dao Thien Hai and Ni Hua.Judging from the list of participants, the playing field is very strong with 28 Grandmasters taking part. This is possibly one of the strongest tournament held [...]

One of the surprises of the tournament is GM Zhang Zhong who was the highest rated player in DATMO with ELO 2634.One of GM Zhang Zhong best results is a 2800+ performance at Wijk aan Zee. (+10=2=1) in 2006.
I assumed he was playing under China but somewhere in the middle of the tournament I [...]

Malaysian representatives are:-

Justin Ong
Anas Nazreen Bakri
Sumant Subramaniam
Lim Zhuo Ren

Details of the event (from singaporechess.org.sg):-
Date : 4 - 12 August 2007
Venue: Asean Chess Academy, Beach Road, The Plaza, Singapore
1. TOURNAMENT: The Singapore Chess Federation (SCF) will organise the above-mentioned event in Singapore from 4 August (Arrival) to 12 August (Departure). The Championship will be conducted under [...]

Sumant remains with the leaders of the tournament with a score of 6 points after drawing with the White pieces against FM Narayanan Srinath in the 7th round. He will meet FM Bajarani Ulvi in the next round.
Rk.NameRtgFED1.Rd2.Rd3.Rd4.Rd5.Rd6.Rd7.Rd8.RdPts.
1FM Narayanan Srinath2218IND 74w1 53s1 77w1 12s1 2w½ 5w1 3s½ 4s6,0
2FM Bajarani Ulvi2164AZE121w1 [...]

Sumant wins his sixth round game to join the leaders in the top 3.
Abdulla Khalaya was leading the tournament up to the 5th round but she lost to pre-tournament favourite and former world U-12 champ FM Srinath.
Rk.NameRtgFED1.Rd2.Rd3.Rd4.Rd5.Rd6.Rd7.RdPts.
1FM Narayanan Srinath2218IND 81w1 65s1 56w1 21s1 2w½ 4w1 3s5,5
2FM Bajarani Ulvi2164AZE117w1 47s1 28w1 14s1 [...]

Abdulla Khayala remains unbeaten in the 6th Dubai Juniors Chess CH. 2007 Shiekh Rashid Bin Hamdan Cup. He has a 100% score at 5/5 and is the sole leader. Following closely behind are Sumant Subramaniam, Narayanan Srinath, Bajarani Ulvi, Valerio Axel John and Mehdi Mammadov.
Sumant is doing exceptionally well in this tournament so far. [...]

Sumant has won all 4 of his games and is currently one of five players with 4/4 score.
Rk. NameRtgFED1.Rd2.Rd3.Rd4.Rd5.RdPts. 1   Abdulla Khayala 2019 AZE 34w1 [...]

DUBAI — Seeded players cruised to the second round with comfortable wins at the opening day of Dubai Junior Open Chess Championship held at Dubai Chess and Culture Club.
World U12 Champion Fide master Srinath Narayanan of India scored an impressive victory against Hamza Al Argha of Syria in just 17 moves in a Italian opening.
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The ever sharp Remis Aman aka Ching Kim Lye spotted this news:-
Sumant Subramaniam (ELO 1964) and his sister Sarika are now playing in the 6th Dubai Juniors from 2nd July to 12th July 2007 with former World U12 Champion FM Srinath Narayanan (ELO 2218) of India leading the field of 137 players.
Swiss-Manager link [...]

Le Quang Long and his teammates bagged two gold medals for Viet Nam on Sunday at the ongoing Southeast Asian Age-Group Chess Championships.
Long, the older brother of International Grand Master Le Quang Liem, finished with 6.5 points in the men’s singles blitz event after beating fellow countryman Nguyen Duc Hoa in the all-Vietnamese final.
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Final Ranking crosstable after 9 Rounds
Rk. Name Rtg FED Pts. 1 [...]

The 2007 National Chess Championship wound up in Chongqing city with 13 year old Hou Yifan setting an unbeaten record to win her first title. Hou becomes the youngest player to win the championship, breaking the record set by Shanghai’s Qin Kanying who won her first title at the age of 14 in 1988.
Full story [...]

The results from the Pattaya tourney clearly shows complete dominance of the Vietnamese juniors. The Vietnamese boys won the under-18, under-16, under-U10 and under-8 categories. The girls dominated all the age categories!
Vietnam took the 2007 Southeast Asian Junior Chess Championship by storm this week and last, dominating the chess blitz event with wins in all [...]