These are the juniors who will be going to Antalya, Turkey on 17th November for the World Youth Chess Championship 2007.

Yeoh, Li Tian [U-08 (B)]
Azhar, Puteri Rifqah Fahada [U-08 (G)]
Tan, Wei Hao [U-10 (B)]
Azman Hisham, Nur Nabila [U-10 (G)]
Yeap, Eng Chiam [U-12 (B)]
Zullkafli, Amira Syahmina [U-12 (G)]
Azhar, Muhammad Syakir Shazmeer [U-14 (B)]
Lim, Zhuo Ren [...]

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Rk. Name Rtg FED R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 Pts
1 MAS FM Anas Nazreen Bakri 2254 MAS 9b1 5w1 [...]

FM Anas won his 3rd game in a row against the only other FM in the U15 section of the 2nd Asian Schools Chess Festival 20-06.
Dominic Lo playing White, went down to Anas in only 35 moves. Suhairi mentioned that Anas suffered “sakit perut” (stomach ache) during this game but luckily that did not influence [...]

The Singapore Masters 2006 starting on 26th December 2006, looks set to be a very strong tournament with about 18 GMs participating. There are more than 20 players rated over ELO 2500.
Malaysian representatives: Lim Yee Weng, Anas Nazreen Bakri, Soon Wai Cheong (recent winner of the CAS allegro).… Continue reading | 1 Comment

Last reported by Encik Suhairi, our very own talented junior Anas is playing in the 2nd Asian Schools Chess Festival Open U15 Category.
So far Anas has won his first two rounds.
Here’s a game from the 2nd round.
[Event "2nd Asian Schools Chess Festival 2006"]
[Site "Singapore"]
[Date "2006.12.19"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Anas Nazreen Bakri" (2257), Malaysia]
[Black "Lee Yi-Sen,Ian" (1897), [...]

Posted a game taken from the current Rakan Muda GACC where GM Wang Hao beats Singaporean FM Goh Wei Ming.
What’s nice is that Goh uses Wang Hao’s own favourite defence as Black - the French Defence which Wang Hao used to great effect to become 2005 Malaysian Open champ.

I’m always amazed to see how [...]

I have won the Asian title before,” said Humpy, “but this, winning a medal for your country, this is different. I feel really proud. Rapid isn’t my favourite format, and that makes it feel better

~ GM Koneru Humpy after winning India’s first gold for the 15th Asian Games.
More from The Indian Express
PS: picture is Malaysian [...]

Shen Yang (18) and Hou Yi Fan(12) finished in first and second place respectively in the recent World Under 20 World Championship that was held in Yerevan, Armenia, from October 2nd to 17th 2006. Read more from Chessbase
Incidentally Eesha Karavade who finished 5th also played in the 2006 Malaysian Open. I was… Continue reading

I’ve learnt my lesson from the Malaysian Open website. It was really a disaster on my part for not putting up updates in time. The previous two years DATMO reports was really much better than this year’s website reports.
I’ve put my GilaChess.com redesign on hold to focus on the next biggest international tournament in Malaysia [...]

Can you imagine being a GM at age 13 ??

Parimarjan Negi (b. 9 February 1993) is a 13-year-old chess prodigy from India. In July 2005, he became the youngest International Master ever when he earned his third and final IM norm at the Sort International open chess tournament in Sort, Spain.
In July 2006, he [...]

Gold Silver Bronze Total
Vietnam 70 29 30 129
Indonesia 10 31 [...]

Nur Nabila’s bronze was the first but not the only bronze Malaysia managed to obtain in the 7th ASEAN age group. Siblings FM Anas Nasreen Bakri and Alia Azwa Anin Bakri managed to secure 2 more bronze medals from the Boys Under-16 blitz and Girls Under-12 respectively.… Continue reading | 1 Comment

Excerpt from the Closet Grandmaster blog
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Pinoy players were also issued with, wait for it Aussie readers, brand new laptops - courtesy of the National Chess Federation of the Philippines.

He was saying this to make the Australian readers mouth water. Well it has same effect to this Malaysian patzer
Does technology help in chess preparation? [...]

Wesley So makes it in the qualification matches to qualify to represent Phillipines for the Turin Olympiad.
In the penultimate round So was leading with 2 points ahead of Roca, Nava, Nolte and Maga who were only half a point behind.
In the final round, the 12-year old held Rolando Nolte to a draw.
The Pinoy mens team [...]

The Philippines chess federation choose 3 players outright and the other 3 has to battle it out in the National Championship. The 3 chosen are:
Mark Paragua

Eugenio Torre

Rogelio “Joey” Antonio Jr
Their national championship is a swiss tourney of 11 or 13 rounds held at a shopping complex.
Read more from Daily Mirror, Davao City, Philippines Continue reading

On the 25th March 2006, WGM Xu Yuhua became the 11th Women World Champion. She dispatched IM Alisa Galliamova of Russia in the finals with a winning score of 2.5-0.5.
All this is well known from reports from Chessbase. What was not publicised was she was 4 months pregnant!! I think that’s a first for [...]