Not long after the WCN Silver Account gift I got another gift!
Now my account has been upgraded from Silver to Gold. This means I have unlimitated rated play on WCN. A BIG Thanks You again to the person who upgraded my account.

I don’t play every night because I don’t have an internet connection at home [...]

For only USD$19.95/year, or USD$1.95/month, Silver Membership allows you to play up to 12 rated games each day, maintain a rating and game history and archive your games - plus, you can participate in designated Tournaments and other events that are open to Silver Members.
Silver Membership provides rated play, game history and more, at a [...]

Played online chess at WCN full 7 hours starting from 5am Saturday morning. My Silver account has already expired but since it was Friday (U.S. time), I could play unlimited rated games. It was more for fun rather than chess improvement.
Still, I managed to play a little more 5 minute games (as suggested by some [...]

I was the first one to try out the chess playing feature on Stonemaster Fadli’s website.
It’s not really “online” as in WCN but more like itsyourturn.com, ChessManiac or cowplay.com website where the pace is similiar to correspondence chess.

I’m very impressed at this web feature seeing that it is open source and free. I can see [...]

The Olympiad has really ignited my interest for chess training again so here I am making some training plans for the upcoming Stonemaster tournament.… Continue reading | 5 Comments

Finally reached my desired 1500 rating at WCN
Like I said, it won’t help me for tomorrow’s Selangor Open with classical time control. However I’m happy that I’ve polished my opening a bit. So at least if I lose in the Selangor Open, it will not (hopefully) be because of my opening Continue reading

One of the cool features I like about WCN is the rating graph. I especially like the multiple ratings for 3 different time controls such as bullet, blitz and standard. Last year WCN only had one overall rating no matter what time control you chose to play.
I like the fact that I can visually [...]