Dug this scoresheet while clearing out my junk. Throwing out all the scoresheets but not before converting it to digital form. One of those games I was winning but …

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Been raining heavily the past few days so only got in swim today. 8+2 lapse. (8 backstroke and 2 freestyle)… Continue reading

Yes it’s been ages since I last posted to this chess blog. I’m surprised it’s still alive and none of the scripts have crashed of old age
Anyway I’ve been terribly off form mentally and physically.
As proof here is my game where I blundered away a potential win the latest DATCC Team Open 2011.
Anyway [...]

This patzer managed to draw against an ELO 2000+ player.
Here is the game.
[Event "2nd DATCC League"]
[Site "GilaChess"]
[Date "2010.01.05"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Andrew Ooi"]
[Black "Nur Ilhamuddin"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C29"]
[PlyCount "112"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. f4 d5 4. fxe5 Nxe4 5. Qf3 Nxc3 6. dxc3 Nc6 7. Qg3 Bf5 8.
Bd3 Bg6 9. Bf4 Bxd3 10. cxd3 g6 11. [...]

It’s only 4 days into the new year but with so many rubbish games I’ve been playing this is considered good against someone rated higher than myself.
[Event "Excel Firs Saturday"]
[Site "OUG"]
[Date "2010.01.04"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Ooi"]
[Black "Joshua Foong"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B23"]
1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Bxc6 bxc6 5. f4 Nf6 6. [...]

This is a nice variation of the Sicilian used by GM Saidali in the last round of the Kuala Lumpur Open 2009.
[Event "Kuala Lumpur Open Chess Championship 200"]
[Site "Shah's Village Hotel, Petaling"]
[Date "2009.09.07"]
[Round "8.6"]
[White "Iuldachev, Saidali"]
[Black "Farid, Firman Syah"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A00"]
[WhiteElo "2519"]
[BlackElo "2207"]
[PlyCount "83"]
[EventDate "2009.09.08"]
1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nd4 4. Bc4 [...]

This is my second Celcom broadband speedtest (using Speedtest.net) :-

Location is still the same at Ikea cafeteria on a Sunday morning.… Continue reading

Downloading the CD version (about 700Mb) and not the DVD version. I would have liked to download the DVD version but don’t have the patience to wait that long
It’s been over a years since I tried the last version of Ubuntu. Can’t wait to see how the new version looks like. Particularly interesting… [...]

In Wilayah Kompleks now trying out Gregory Lau’s Maxis broaband connection.
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It’s exactly 18 months and my original Dell 640m notebook battery is giving out. I finally got the above message when i booted up.
I still get about 30 mins with WiFi on. I clicked on the link to get more info and it advised me to get a new Dell battery from… Continue reading

Ok this is slightly stronger than RoboChess. See how many moves it takes for you to beat FlashChess… Continue reading | 1 Comment

 Playing at the Selangor Open I’m surprised many people don’t know that the old chess blog that used to be here has moved to http://blog.gilachess.com
So here’s a reminder. If you want to find chess content and news it’s at gilachess.com. Just add the word “blog” in front of it.… Continue reading

 
Mr KZ at the Selangor Open chess tournament is actually using the DiGi package that I talked about.
He didn’t bring his ASUS EEE Pc and connected his modem to his notebook instead.

From the initial browsing, it looks like… Continue reading

Finally this blog managed to break the 4000 visitor mark after 6 months.
It’s good that after changing the theme topics to chess gadgets, chess money and chess tech, the traffic has not dropped drastically. In fact, it’s going back to it’s normal trafic levels. There is an average of more than 100… [...]

I’m using this new blog theme called SEOadMax from Gary Conn on the chess malaysia aggregated website. SInce this is just a summary site, I guess it’s ok to plaster it full of Adsense ads … Continue reading

Head crunching chess (Flickr)… Continue reading | 1 Comment

Congratulations to anonymous visitor 1337 who checkmated ROBO CHESS in 4 moves !!… Continue reading

Tomorrow I’ll be doing a trial to see if I can update the ongoing chess results via SMS/twitter.
I would have to SMS a UK number but I found out it’s only RM 0.20 for each SMS on my DiGi prepaid, so that’s ok. Check it out on GilaChess Blog tomorrow to see if it [...]

Oops.. since the flash automatically starts and the Robot is a motor mouth I’ve put it in the Read More link … Continue reading

I almost missed knowing about this event if I didn’t hear about it via SMS from a friend. I posted about what techies were saying about PC Fair such as:

you can get cheaper prices at Low Yat plaza (everyday is PC Fair there)
old goods were being dumped at PC Fair
it’s overcrowded [...]