These are the Malaysian Top 10 active players:-

So far it looks like Mas and Yee Weng are the only ones who have rated games since the last update.
One surprise (at least for me) is that FM Peter Long might be back on fourth position in the list if his games in the recent ASEAN Mix [...]

Converted IA Lim Tse Pin’s Excel spreadsheet to a webpage that you search by name for a person’s national rating.You can find it at:http://myrating.gilachess.comIf you want to check the old July 2007 rating, it’s still available athttp://malaysianrating.thepatzer.comEnjoy! Continue reading

Top 10 Overall
0001 Ooi Chern Ee23460002 Mas Hafizulhelmi22950003 Wong Zi Jing22500004 Francis Chin22430005 Navin Sawalani22040006 Ronnie Lim Chuin Hoong21710007 Jonathan Chuah Jin Hai21690008 Goh Yoon Wah21560009 Ng Ee Vern21530010 Lim Yee Weng2148Based on July 2007 National Rating List Continue reading

Ok I took a good hour to get the Excel data Tse Pin published into my web database. Getting rusty since I’m just modifying old codes. Since I’m leaving my company I can tell you that a simple application like this can cost RM 2,000 - RM 3,000 easily. At least that’s what the company [...]

FIDE made some changes to the arting list and the following is the updated list. (I’ll update GilaChess.com later..)
# Name Title Rating G [...]

New Malaysians with FIDE rating (April 2007)
1 Au Yoong Yow Loo 2127
2 Low Jun Jian [...]

Made lots of web updates on local chess tournaments as well as played a few games on WCN. Managed to maintain the 1600++ score obtained a few days ago.… Continue reading

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I know. I know. Tse Pin has already released it days earlier but I needed the time to add the data into a web database so you can check online. However I found many inconsistencies in the spelling of names. It’s a difficult thing to make sure people spell their names the same way [...]

As I feared 1700 rating is a little over inflated and it lasted only 2 days. Those lucky games should not count. Also, many lost games from bullet also contributed in pulling the overall rating down
I guess my real overall strength is probably only 1600+ at the moment. 200 points to go!… [...]

Reached 1700 at last. I have to admit I cheated a bit by picking players that I was confident of beating. I relied too much on my opponent falling into my cheap trick variations in bullet games. I scored 3 lucky wins against higher rated opponents in my standard (20 mins) games.

Still it looks nice [...]

That’s part of a lyric from a song I listened to when I was a teenager. (anybody know the title?)
It’s also best describes my WCN rating these past few weeks.
I am still trying hard to reach the elusive 1800 rating. That target will still be the main objective this month but I think l’ll [...]

I want to put more emphasis on Blitz (5/10 min) and Standard (20/30 min). But psychologically I just couldn’t leave my bullet rating lying low at 1500. So you guessed it. I played more bullets and managed to make my rating fall to 1400+
I improved on Standard and bullet ratings though. Even then, [...]

Previously I only had a rating of 1333 for my standard. I really hate to play in time controls that are more than 5 minutes because there is a tendency that you will be pitting your skills against a computer engine.
Last night I had no choice and had to play more standard time control (20 [...]

Seems like my rating has levelled off at around 1547. I guess that should be more or less my current strength now.
Now it’s time to bookup and repair much of my opening weakness. I found some common questions to certain variations. Chessbase has this great feature in generating opening reports with statistics and best lines. [...]

(Click on the column titles to sort)
# Name Title Fed Rating G B-Year 1 Wong, Zi Jing m MAS 2414 7 1982 2 Mas, Hafizulhelmi m MAS 2382 11 3 Chan, Nicholas f MAS 2380 0 4 Mok, Tze-Meng f MAS 2346 10 5 [...]

This morning I opened an email from Lim Tse Pin with the latest National Rating List for July 2006.
I uploaded that to the National Rating List webpage and was disappointed to see the drop in my rating.
I guess it’s not surprising after some recently disastrous results.
Click here if you want to check your [...]

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 [...]

Anas Nazreen Bakri 1999

Siti Zulaikha Foudzi-G 1939

Soon Wai Cheong 1863

Johan Iskandar Foudzi 1860

Abel Yap Jinwei 1855

Francis Tan 1823

Ahmad Fadzil Nayan 1817

Nur Shazwani Zullkafli-G 1817

Zarul Shazwan Zullkafli 1811

Yeap Eng Chiam 1790

The list is extracted from the National Rating List released by CAS secretary Mr Lim Tse Pin. It’s the latest list - updated on April 1, 2006… Continue reading