MyMetro reported on the following news about chess gambling in Jalan Chow Kit. Of course this is well known among local chess players. Personally, I’ve seen the chess gamblers in action when I was blogged about the 2005 Zonal in KL a few years back. I remember someone joking if GM Utut (who was playing [...]

Whitenavel just published the new elected committee members of PCMM elected just last week.You can find it on http://whitenaval.googlepages.com/chessCongratulations to the new PCMM President Encik Johari Hassan… Continue reading

I’m very “out of touch” from chess and didn’t realise that this event is just around the corner.
It’s special because it’s an international/regional youth team event where each team consists of 4+1 (4 boys and one girl) and it’s FIDE rated. This event will be special for me as I am very biased in [...]

FOR NATIONAL RATED PLAYERS 1601 & ABOVE (PRO)AND FOR NATIONAL RATED PLAYERS 1600 & BELOW (AMATEUR)
Organized by Stonemaster Event Management Enterprise (S.E.M.E.)
Date : 2nd December 2007 (Sunday)
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This is a repost.
Date: 1-7 December 2007
Venue : Grand Ballroom of the 5 Star Concorde Hotel, Shah Alam.
This event, held in Visit Malaysia Year 2007, and organised jointly
with the Ministry of Education Malaysia and the ASEAN Chess
Confederation, is open to any properly constituted or representative
organisation and the categories are U-15, U-12 and U-9. Each [...]

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 [...]

Yes. The long Ramadhan month is over and now after the Raya celebrations it means there will be a whole slew of local tournaments coming your way.Are you excited? I am. I am listing the tournaments coming up as well as the link to find more details about them.For junior players, you are in luck [...]

It’s been 4 months now since the email informing The Star newspaper about our request to bring back Quah Seng Sun’s chess column back. Looks like it has fallen on deaf ears. I’ve taken all the emails from The Star contact us page and email them a copy of the petition.We’ve collected exactly 100 signatures [...]

Happy Hari Raya !!!
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Persatuan Catur Sarawak is organising the Sarawak Open is on 29 December 2007 – 1 January 2008.… Continue reading

Today is another Friday without Quah Seng Sun’s chess column. Chess is no longer in The Star but it still gets some rare coverage in other newspapers.So when The Sun came out with this small article (on page 27), about the Merdeka Standard tournament, I just had to capture the moment here on this blog. [...]

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 [...]

Today the Prime Minister delivered the 2008 Budget speech. A sum of RM984 million is allocated to implement various youth and sports development programmes, including Program Rakan Muda. In addition, a sum of RM677 million is provided for training 110,000 youths under the National Service Training Programme. To encourage sports among Malaysians, a sum of [...]

The Malaysian Chess Festival is not over yet with the end of DATMO. There is one last event to go. So, are you playing in the Astro Merdeka Team ?… Continue reading

Universiti Malaysia Sabah will be organizing a Chess tournament on the 1st & 2nd of September 2007 during the convocation week. UMS welcomes participants from all over the country to participate in this tournament.

Download the entry form: borang-pendaftaran.doc
Nama Kejohanan : Kejohanan Catur Terbuka sempena Pesta Konvo TamuGadang ke-9 Universiti Malaysia Sabah
Tempat : [...]

Date : August 12, 2007
Venue : Royal Selangor Club (Bukit Kiara), off Jln Bukit Kiara, Kuala Lumpur
Categories : Under-10, Under-13, Under-16

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With the internet restored at home, I got to play with my first application.
Dug up some free scrollers and rss readers from dynamicdrive and added them to the Malaysian National Rating page. The scrolling news is pulled from ChessNinja.com, Google News and of course GilaChess.com

The chess headlines was created by mashing up a [...]

Top 10 Junior Chess Players
0001 Anas Nazreen Bakri19950002 Siti Zulaikha Foudzi-G19580003 Soon Wai Cheong18930004 Zarul Shazwan Zullkafli18650005 Sumant Subramaniam18530006 Fariz Shafruddin18270007 Johan Iskandar Foudzi18090008 Amir Hamzah KZ17920009 Edward Lee Kim Han17900010 Francis Tan1787taken from http://malaysianrating.thepatzer.com/top10juniors.php Continue reading