Kuantan Masters Chess Open / Junior 2007 was held at SMK cenderawasih Kuantan on Sunday 5/8/07. It was an interesting event,as the total of 167 participants taking part in the event! The organiser would like to thank all participants, parents, and volunteers (including arbiters) that make this event a very successful.Also a special thanks to [...]

Tan Khai Boon emerged champion at the recent Taiping CRC tournament. Here are pictures from the tourney:-

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Was I late. I’m still at the Sentral LRT station. Clock shows 9:38am when the first rounds are scheduled to start at 10am.It would take at least an hour from here to get to Klang.

Klang Express Bus no E4 from Klang Bus stand (or ‘Pasaramakota’)
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A big thanks to everyone who took the time to come and help out in one of the rare events where chess actually contributes to some good cause.
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Thanks to Remis Aman who took all the pictures.
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Had to work late tonight but caught some time to walk over to Wilayah Kompleks for the Selangor Open 2007. … Continue reading

Mid Valley Exhibition Hall Level 3 (Saturday - April 21, 2007)

Chief Arbiter in red. More disputes / complaints ?

1370 players in one hall. An organisational nightmare

… the majority of the players were children

The Open Category had slightly more than 100 players and promising the biggest prize fund. My opponent was FM Lim Yee Weng (eventual [...]

Sorry there was no postings last night. I was so tired after coming home last night I just crashed.

We won!!!
Fifth place at the Tun Zahiruddin cup yesterday (31/03/2007). Here’s a short picture report..
(full results later - probably after the Stonemaster tourney tonight)

GilaChess 2.0 Team: (left to right, GilaChess, Lee Kwan Pin, Francis Tan, Vickneswaran)
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Here’s some pictures from the CFSIIUM a few weeks ago.
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I used Picasa Web photo features to post the photos online. I took over 50 pictures but only half turned out decent..

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On a related note, click here to see Stonemaster’s pictures from Rembau which was held at the same time. Also give a read to his successful ‘mission’ in preparing [...]

This is some of the GilaChess Team members who played in the Merdeka Team 2006 (not in picture is Leong Mun Wan, Chow Mon Ben, Vickneswaran, Balendran and me).

(from left to right)
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As you know I lost my camera a night before the Malaysian Open started so this blog is very deficient in terms of pictures from such a big chess event.
Hence, I’m grateful to Encik Ahmad Shafruddin for sending me this pictures he took of the event.
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I am very happy with the pictures taken by the new camera.
Here is a sample of the 200+ pictures taken at the MBSSKL junior tournament. I think I got more that 2/3 of all the junior faces participating in that event on Saturday (27th May 2006).
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Here’s the details I got on a friendly match played a few days ago.
Tournament : Kuantan vs Temerloh Friendly Match 2006
Organised by : Kelab Catur Setia Kuantan
Venue : At a restaurant near KWSP Building in Jalan Besar, Kuantan
Date : 14th May 2006
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GilaChess reporter da5thknight provides the pictures from the tournament in which he himself won first prize on board 2.
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Here are some pictures of the final day of the 33rd Royal Selangor Open 2006. Thanks goes to AleyaDGenius for all the photos.
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