Congratulations to Justin Ong for winning the Singapore Challengers 2007.The Singapore Challengers is something like our Ambank Challenge that is held side by side the strong Malaysia Open but looking at the ELO rating it is just slightly weaker than the Ambank. Still to finish above 62 Singaporean players and ahead of 2 strong Indonesian [...]

Organisers : Organised by Johore Chess Academy, JB Chess Association &
MBJB and played under the Laws of Chess
Date : Sunday , 23rd December 2007
Time : 8.00am 6.00pm
Venue :MBJB Indoor Stadium, Johor Bahru
Category : 3 categories, namely open , Under 16 & Under 12
Format : Swiss System of 7 rounds with 25 minutes each player
to complete [...]

It feels strange to be the moderator of chess-malaysia. After all I’m just a small time patzer. It’s also sad to see Mr Quah Seng Sun take a less active role in Chess Malaysia. Anyway, I logged in 6am this morning for the first time to see what it was like. Immediately I was hit [...]

Mohd Hafez Hilmi Harun emerged champion in the Stonemaster Amateur Championship 2007. He finished unbeaten after 7 rounds with a total of 6 ½ points. I promised him a big picture, so here it is :DFor more details such as pictures and full results, go to

FIDE Oct 2007 Malaysia Top Active Players

IM Wong Zi Jing 2414
FM Nicholas Chan 2380
IM Mas Hafizulhilmi 2372
FM Mok Tze Meng 2346
FM Lim Yee Weng 2336
IM Jimmy Liew Chee Meng 2309
NM Ronnie Lim Chuing Hoong 2276
Ahmad Maliki 2254
FM Anas Nazreen Bakri 2253
NM Jonathan Chuah Jin Hai 2250

The above list shows the Country top 10 active players. [...]

One event to look forward on November is the Stonemaster Amateur.
Details as follows:-
Organized by Stonemaster Event Management Enterprise (S.E.M.E.)
This is a nationally rated tournament.
Date : 4 November 2007 (Sunday)
Venue : 2nd floor- The Chess Network, Kuala Lumpur.
Time Control : 25 minutes per player
Tie-Break : (1) Solkoff; (2) S/B; (3) Cumulative; (4) P/E (where applicable) [...]

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University Teknologi Petronas is having a chess competition with 3 categories
Category A(Open), Category B(Under 18) and Category C(under 12) on the 18th of August 2007.
The venue is UTP Main Hall.
Official Site: http://www.utpconvofair07.org/
Details can be read from the brochures below (click to see a bigger picture):

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Edward Lee and Tan Ken Wei finished tops in the 12th Royal Selangor Grand Prix Final. However Edward had the better tie break and took first place. Both players won all their games except the penultimate round where they drew each other.
Muhd Syakir Shazmeer also finished unbeaten but drew two games to end up on [...]

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 [...]

A report from a participant, organiser, photographer and blogger ~ Lim Poay Sim on Tan Eu Hong’s new chess website.
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Temerloh Open 2007 Results
1 RM 1,000 Lim Yee Weng
2 RM 750 Kamal Ariffin
3 RM 500 Masrin Erowan
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Malaysia may not be a significant chess power internationally but we do have a good online presence in terms of websites and blogs.
Today I’m listing down 9 local blogs that I know of. If yours is not listed here please email me and I’ll add it here
SoMeTHinG aBoUt eVeRyTHinG

http://someimprove.blogspot.com/
Tan Eu Hong - [...]

I’ve created an online petition to be sent to The Star to show our support to bring back Mr Quah Seng Sun’s chess column.
Click here to sign the petition.
Or just view who has signed so far.

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This tournament for Under-9 players will be held on the 25th March 2007.… Continue reading

Exciting new tournament similiar to Stonemaster FIDE unrated theme. This time only players 1600 below can enter. The details will be in forms available at The Chess Network during the Chinese new year tourney organised by PCMM on the 17th and 18th of February.… Continue reading

As most of you know, the GilaChess website is maintained mostly by me and Ching Kim Lye (and Vicky for most of 2005) from our own efforts without getting paid from any party. It’s all done for the love of the game. … Continue reading

Here’s the crosstable results first. Can’t seem to access GilaChess.com at the moment. Will post the full results with pictures later today..
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