One of the reason Exabyte shut me down earlier was because of my PLIGG website. PLIGG is a DIGG clone and the site I used it on was a chess news website. Unfortunately my PLIGG version had weaknesses that allowed spammers to flood my website with spam content. I believe the spam was automated and [...]

Got closed down by Exabytes again. This time it was for CPU overload abuse and the website is my main chess website - www.GilaChess.com. I have been warned and my website temporarily disabled a few times before and after reducing my Wordpress plugins, I have been pretty confident that I’m not threading on broken glass. [...]

It’s nice to see chess personalities embrace the use of new technologies like Twitter. In case you don’t know, twitter is a micro-blogging platform that allows people to blog about what they are doing using the web, SMS or via instant messenger services. It’s a quick way to get out a message or tell your [...]

Here’s some information about Chinese Yang Kaiqi current playing in the Open section of the KL Chess Open 2008.

 
Yang Kaiqi (Chinese: 杨凯淇; born 1988) is a Chinese chess player, who won the First (Hi Seoul) Korea Open Chess tournament held at the… Continue reading

(China’s Zhang Jing vs Vietnam’s GM Dao Thien Hai - Round 1)
I have to admit that the reports coming from KL Chess Open 2008 unofficial blog is very unstructured and messy with some grammar/spelling mistakes here and there. The blog also is seriously lacking in terms… Continue reading

gila, do i have a choice not to put adsense ad in my blog?i put the banner of ICC and chess monroi instead, i dont want to much add in my blog, please advice me
Just pulled this recent shoutbox comment.
I’ll answer it directly here as a blog post as things are quickly lost in a [...]

The Kuala Lumpur Lumpur Chess Association (KLCA) was recently set-up under the leadership of Edmund Santhara, CEO of Masterskill.
This is a very interesting development because we now have a chess player who after becoming a successful businessman is getting involved in the administration of the game in our country
 
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It’s always good to compare your site’s traffic with a similiar website. For GilaChess.com the closest comparison is of course Stonemaster.biz. I’ve been quite busy and inactive ever since December last year and have been slow to update GilaChess events. There are so many new local chess sites that I’ve just… Continue reading

IA Lim Tse Pin is providing round by round updates on the MASTERSKILL National Age Group 2008. Check it out on the Malaysian Chess and The Academy
blog.
Tomorrow (12/03/2008) will be the last day of the NAG… Continue reading | 2 Comments

GilaChess Blog Network (GBN) started only a couple of months ago and two the blogs run by Wisepawn and ChessDigest has already obtained Google Page Rank 2.  I guess the first page links to these two blogs helped pass some PR juice. My own blog at blog.GilaChess.com also got upgraded from PR… Continue reading

GBN - GilaChess Blogging NetworkIf you want to start a new blog, you don’t have to worry about search engine marketing to publicise your site as you can have GilaChess brandname behind your new blog literally.This is an idea that came about while talking to another friend about TheMalaysian.com.my’s great idea of having regular chess

Take a look at the site (China Digital Times) and you would not guess it was running on WordPress.It goes to show you can run any website (including chess websites ) using WordPress. I’ve always believed that it is very extensible and for a news site it fits perfectly.They have just migrated over from [...]

Last month there was the first 2008 Google Page Rank update.
Basically FIDE and Chessbase website remain the only top 2 with the highest PR after TWIC fell one rank to PR5. I don’t see any blog or website getting a PR promoted except for Zhang Jilin’s blog’s new entry at PR3.
PR6FIDE.com ChessBase.com
PR5TWIC (previously [...]

After over 2 years of using the same theme, I’m changing the theme to the one you are seeing now. So how is it? Better?Less Ads!Also, in the past I went crazy with ads and had over 10 ad networks plastered all over the blog !! I have decided to reduce it to only 3 [...]

Every morning my routine is to read up on all the local and internation blogs to see if there is anything interesting. This has replaced reading the morning newspapers since I don’t subscribe to The Star anymore.I thought I’d share one of my page collection of all local chess blogs. It will list 3-5 latest [...]

Right now I have 3 main chess blogs.

chess.maribelajar.com
blog.gilachess.com
www.thepatzer.com

I’m going to split them and assign them different topics to blog about.chess.maribelajar.com - Chess, Technology and Moneyblog.gilachess.com - Anything related to Malaysian Chesswww.thepatzer.com - My quest for chess improvement… Continue reading | 1 Comment

It’s exactly 20 hours now that I’m on my computer. The reason is because this blog and all my other websites on this domain was suspended for CPU overuse by Exabytes. I’m planning to make the upgrade but I won’t get the money until next week so I had to hunker down and reduce CPU [...]

One of the things that got my blood pressure up was not getting on the internet to do updates for the ASEAN+ tournament. There was a Starbucks just 5 minutes walk from the hotel but I didn’t have time to run across because I had to enter the scores of the games. That’s another big [...]

I will be in Shah Alam to cover the ASEAN+ Youth Team from 2nd-5th December. Since this blog is a little slow, I’ll be blogging about it at
http://blog.gilachess.com
The official website is :-
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I am happy to see that this very strong player, Rizal Ahmad Kamal has join the blogosphere.Here is his new blog:-His latest post is an annotated  game he won over NM Ng Ek Teong.Rizal is also a chess trader and sells chess equipments and books. This is a good way to use blogs to market [...]