The IGB Dato Arthur Tan Malaysian Chess Open Championship website goes into hibernation mode after the event ended a few weeks ago.Like this blog, DATMO website was also hosted on Exabytes but it was fortunately located on a shared hosting server that didn’t have webmasters that were ‘resource abusers’. There was not a single incident [...]

WFM Sherry Joy Lomibao, Maria Wong and baby Caissa Wong. (left to right)
Caissa was there for all 11 rounds of the AmBank and DATMO… Continue reading

After 7 rounds and 3 draws in the top 3 boards, there is no clear leader for the Malaysian Open.9 players tie for top spot with 5.5 points out of 7. They are:

WGM Li Roufan
GM Zhang Zhong
Li Chao
IM Wang Rui
Wan Yunguo
Ziaur Rahman
Zhou Weiqi

7th round resultsDATMO 8th round pairing Continue reading

[Event "4th IGB Dato' Arthur Tan Malaysian Chess Open"]
[Site "Kuala Lumpur MAS"]
[Date "2007.08.22"]
[Round "6"]
[White "IM Lane, Gary W"]
[Black "GM Chandler, Murray"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2412"]
[BlackElo "2540"]
[PlyCount "129"]
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6 5. Bd3 Bc5 6. Nb3 Be7 7. O-O Nc6 8. Qg4 Nf6 9. Qxg7 Rg8 10. Qh6 Ne5 11. [...]

It’s finally out, a day before the first round begins. Here is the Dato Arthur Tan’s 4th Malaysian Open first round pairing:-
DAT Open
Starting rank list
No. Name IRtg FED No. [...]

No confirmation yet but GM Erik van den Doel has indicated interest in the coming DATMO 4.
Also likely to appear is 13-year old Wonder kid IM Wesley So who performed spectacularly in the World Under-16 Youth Olympiad.

IM Wesley So, who is chasing for yet another GM norm at DATMO
I’m keeping my ears to the [...]

Looks like August will be a very busy month. There is the Malaysian Chess Festival consisting AmBank Challenge, DATMO 4, AmBank Savers Gang, National Women 2007, ASTRO Merdeka Rapid Team event, ASTRO Merdeka Standard Team event. In addition there is the RSC Juniors, Intchess holiday program, World U16 Youth Olympiad (ongoing), Klang Open, UTP Convofair, [...]

Just a reminder to all that the official website for the 4th Dato Arthur Tan Malaysian Open is:
http://www.MalaysiaOpen.net

As usual, I’m kept busy at the office so I have no time to sit down and add more features to the website. It’s pretty bare bones at the moment. I will work on it during the weekends. [...]

Here are the full details of the Malaysian Chess Festival 2007 events with the entry forms.
 
 
 
 
Event Date Venue Form [...]

I just renewed the domain name for DATMO (www.MalaysiaOpen.net) using GoDaddy for another year. It’s bare bones at the moment. Will change the theme and add more sections later. This tournament is the 4th installment of the Malaysian Open and is most likely the second last one we will have. I want to give it [...]

IGB 4th Dato’ Arthur Tan Malaysia Open Chess Championship 2007
Tournament Regulations:

This 11 Round, individual tournament is open to all players.
FIDE (World Chess Federation) rules and regulations will apply. The tournament will be FIDE rated.
The Swiss Manager Program will be used for pairings.
The games will be played according to the schedule given below.
[...]

The price is now RM25 RM15 RM 9 with CD (with pics and games in pgn & cbh format) !. Limited copies (ignore the old price shown below ) I’m bringing only a few copies to the UM Team tourney tomorrow (SMS 016-6270488 to reserve a copy)… Continue reading

Stonemaster.biz is holding another ‘freestyle’ chess tournament. It’s basically an online free-for-all chess game where you are allowed to make use of computers vs your opponent. Sure, it won’t add or improve your playing strength but at least it’ll be interesting to see people going into the ‘my engine is stronger than yours’ mode. [...]

Finally the sweat and blood that I and Ching Kim Lye (Remis Aman) that have poured into this bulletin two months ago is complete!!
This is the balance of the bulletins yet unsold after the Stonemaster #2 tourney.
The price is now RM25 RM 15 with CD (with pics and games in pgn & cbh format) !… [...]

Take a look at this participant from Vietnam in last month’s DATMO:-
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Did you know that there was a Under-12 World champ playing in the Dato Arthur Tan 3rd Malaysian Open ?… Continue reading | 1 Comment

Picture courtesy of Encik Ahmad Shafruddin (CAS President)
With all the attention to results and games I almost forgot to mention something important.
Chess got a big boost in publicity, thanks to our Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.
Media coverage for chess is very little in Malaysia with only Quah Seng Sun’s fortnightly Chess column [...]

Only 2 days away from Astro Merdeka Team tournament!!
I’m very excited. All the top players from all over the country will come to KL tomorrow ( a day before) and battle it out in Mid Valley Mega Mall on Saturday and Sunday. My ‘preprations’ for the tournament include getting extra batteries for my camera - [...]