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

Hilmi has changed the orientation of his blog from personal to serious chess trainingI guess that puts me to shame as my own Patzer blog has been inactive for a long time :(Anyway, you can find Hilmi’s Training in Chess here.It’s good to see more local serious chess bloggers :)PS: That blog is also part [...]

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 [...]

There’s this term almost all programmers know. “Egoless programming”.In order to program well and effectively, you must leave your ego behind. We all know that is easier said than done.  After you spend months of your life building your programming ‘masterpiece’, it’s hard to take comments, suggestions or criticism from your colleagues. It is one [...]

It’s good to see more people are going on to the net to have an online
presence.  A blog or a website gives you a voice. I encourage more
people to setup blogs and express your feelings and opinions. Blogs are a great way for communication, building communities and even organising ideas to be carried out.Many of [...]

Check out Tan Eu Hong’s latest blog article on how he beat a world champion Continue reading

I got this via email from Alexandra Kosteniuk via my contact form.
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New video podcast chesskillertips.com also now in flash version. Best wishes!
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There you are. Chess celebrities really listen. Previously I mentioned that the video formats were restrictively limited to mp4 format. You can now watch the videos in flash format. Almost every browser now [...]

Although Wordpress is free, recently someone evaluated the worth of Wordpress blogging application to be USD 1million. That’s probably overvalued but I cannot deny that it’s one well written piece of web application. I’ve recently just dugged into to ir’s source codes and as a programmer it’s quite efficient and tidy. After what I’ve seen [...]

That’s the title of this blog that Remis Aman discovered. It’s primarily a personal blog of this college student called Hsu Jen who represented her college at MAPCU (Malaysian Association of Private Colleges and Universities) chess tourney last week.
Although there is little chess there (not different from this blog ), she did write an [...]

This is Tan Eu Hong’s blog and he sometimes talk about chess.
His latest entry is about him winning 8th place in the recent Penang weekend tournament.
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It makes me happy to welcome another local chess blog to our community.
http://www.mindacatur.blogspot.com/
It’s by Shamsuddin Mat Isa who is quite a strong player too as he finished top 10 in this year’s Selangor Open. His latest post gives some interesting endgame pointers.
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Susan Polgar’s blog post mentioned my Chess Publisher tool used to easily publish chess games on blogs.
The flash component was actually developed by Robert Ambalong but you had to code the HTML manually to insert the game. I used it extensively in my own blog, so I came out with an easy [...]

Here’s a new Malaysian chess blog created by Masros Tukiran. The blog is in Bahasa Melayu.
URL:- http://masroschessgames.blogspot.com/
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Found this while searching for “Malaysia Chess” in Technorati. .
Mr Quah Seng Sun’s as you know is our regular writer for Chess in the LifeStyle columns of The Star on Fridays (fortnightly). He is also the moderator for Malaysia’s biggest Internet Circle - Chess Malaysia.
In his blog titled It’s All In The Planning!, he mentions [...]

FM Mok Tze Meng has posted some nice souvenir items he has collected in his many chess adventures overseas.
Thanks to Mok for allowing me to post the pictures here. (You can find the original items at Mok’s website)… Continue reading

You must first show how to love chess, how it moves before the technical parts. In competition they play against Chinese kids who have been playing since age 3 who practice four hours a day! Sure, they play well. But there are no Chinese chess masters at the elite level.

… quote taken from a [...]