Breakfast at Downtown Cafe, Tanah Rata in Cameron Highlands. The old PDA+keyboard is great for getting online. This is the only place where you can get free WiFi in the highlands… Continue reading | 1 Comment

Breakfast at Downtown Cafe, Tanah Rata in Cameron Highlands. The old PDA+keyboard is great for getting online. This is the only place where you can get free WiFi in the highlands… Continue reading

Shah Alam-Concorde Hotel (last week).Mr Phillip Tan briefing his Singaporean team just before the final round of the ASEAN+ Youth Team Chess Championships. Singapore finished 2nd and 3rd place in one of the age group categories… Continue reading

Top 2 boards showing the top two players of the Klang Executive Club tournament. The event was held on 10th November 2007 in Klang. FM Mok Tze Meng plays against his former student while Leong Mun Wan is on board 2.Lee Kwan Pin. Don’t play play..this is a very STRONG chess player… Continue reading

Picture from yesterday’s Stonemaster’s Amateur tourney. The enthusiasm of this little boy is amazing. You can see from his smile and the way he moves non-stop at his seat. He can’t wait to start!! He is so short that he can hardly keep his head above the top of the table. This kid has nothing [...]

Australian GM Ian Rogers may be retired but he is still playing a prominent role in Australian chess.Here he is pictured as Head Coach of the Australian teams that played at the 2007 World Youth U16 Olympiad in Singapore 4-11 August… Continue reading | 2 Comments

Rapid King that is :)FM Nicholas Chan is back and to test the local waters he played and won the recent chess rapid in Johor. He is back from India and continues his studies in Melaka. We can be sure to see more rapid action from him in the months to come… Continue reading

Here’s a picture report on the short blitz tournament held right after the Malaysian Open ended.

Junior Edward Lee got to play GM Nguyen Anh Dung and draw!! That’s the fun part of blitz. It’s one of the few instances where you get to butt heads with GMs.

Yeap Eng Cheam vs FM Lim Yee Weng
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Here are some pictures from the Astro Merdeka Team Rapids.… Continue reading

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

Li Chao (left) is the current leader after 9 rounds analysing with Weiqi (right) after their 9th round game.… Continue reading

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Malaysian Open Chief arbiter Encik Najib Wahab (wearing tie)Beside him is Hadi (left) and Encik Ibrahim Abu Bakar (right) Continue reading

The fourth day (23rd August 2007) was a rest day for DATMO participants. The tournament hall was used to host another tournament - AmBank Savers Gang for juniors. Here are the pictures from that event::- Continue reading

GM Zhang Zhong of China.
Top rated seed in the Malaysian Open with an ELO rating of over 2600… Continue reading

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