I read somewhere in the shoutbox last month that I missed that. It happened in the Johor tourney. Anyway, if anybody has news on this let me know… Continue reading | 1 Comment

Thinking about features such as :

Online chess games
Friendster style page
Shoutbox
(please suggest other features)

Purpose: to have the most active online chess communities in Asia… Continue reading | 5 Comments

If you have read my old posts about casino Fridays you know that I have been addicted to online chess some time back.
If online chess can be as addictive as gambling, you can imagine how much more addictive real online casino can be. I am not a gambler but I have visited Genting Highland’s casino [...]

I just heard that Leong Mun Wan is chartering a bus of maximum 44 persons to go to the Segamat Open from Johor Bahru. Anyone interested please leave your name in my comments or shoutbox. Now that’s dedication and gila chess with a capital ‘G’ !! Continue reading

Sometimes I do. I know Kwan Pin and will come out and call me betul-betul gila :)It’s one of the steps GM Jonathan Rowson advocates in his book titled “Seven Deadly Sins”. You talk to each of your pieces trying to imagine what they will tell you. In these conversations you get to gauge [...]

This is just my simplistic view but looking at different countries and the effect of chess politics we can see how detrimental it’s effect can be to a nation’s effort in chess development.ChinaAlmost no politics and their country policy on chess developement is clear. There are today one of the chess giants of the world.USAAs [...]

Surprisingly, that’s what Kasparov said during an interview:
“In many western nations the stereotype of the chess player is often synonymous with the underfed weakling or the brainy-but-misanthropic nerd”
I run many websites to promote chess and almost never say anything bad about the game. But once in a while articles like these catch my eye..
David Shenk’s [...]

I was curious to see if the negative sentiments posted on my shoutbox on IntChess was shared by the majority the blog readers. Here’s the results :-… Continue reading | 3 Comments

Question: Who is the best fast player in the world?
Answer : The best slow player.
Question: How did Kasparov, Kramnik, Anand etc get to be the best fast player in the world by playing fast or playing slow ?
Answer: By playing slow

Dan Heisman’s article “The Road to Carnagie Hall” Continue reading

Interesting quote from a shout from the shoutbox.
Discuss this in the Chess Patzer forum Continue reading | 2 Comments