Many people do not know it, but a lot of wealth in Silicon Valley is built by very strong chess players, which is not surprising.
Paul Allen is an avid chess player and co-founder of Microsoft together with another chess player, Bill Gates (whom I featured previously to be worth $56 billion) and… [...]

I ‘d like to see Malaysian entrepreneurs go online and sell some chess products. No I don’t mean chess books and chess sets. Those are already well covered by other chess merchants online. What I mean would be to sell electronic products like chess tutorials in the form of ebooks and videos.
Nowadays it [...]

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Got this from Remis Aman (XLop also highlighted this in yahoo groups) :-My Brilliant Brain is a three-part series offering a rich mix of fascinating experiments new to TV. The show, which airs on National Geographic Channel (Astro channel 553), features special effects photography and computer animations based on the latest brain scanning technology. Full [...]

One of the more popular belief to boost Malaysian chess development is for the country to get our very first GM.
Can a Malaysian GM really make such a difference?
Morale boost
A GM will give an overall morale boost to the Malaysian community . So far the title is something so elusive, many people are starting to [...]

Malaysian Chess has benefited from big name sponsors like IGB, AmBank and Astro.
Personally, my own website GilaChess.com was created from money taken donated out of the wallets of some chess enthusiasts a few years ago. I thank you. You know who you are Continue reading

3 months ago I mentioned that simultaneous chess exhibition is a fantastic marketing tool for chess where IM Mas Hafizul played against 20 opponents simultaneously. It’s good publicity for chess. The public is just awed seeing one person take on so many people at the same time.
CM Collin Madhavan made a record breaking simul taking [...]

I’m glad that one of the strongest player in the country is doing his bit for chess promotion in the form of a chess simul.
IM Mas Hafizul took on 20 players at Kuala Trengganu on 30/5/2007 and defeated all except one ( 19-1 score). The sole loss was to Nik Hasmera, a Form Five student [...]

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