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Making A Chess Board The Quick&Easy Way - Click here for more free videosAny Malaysian carpenters out there??… Continue reading

This was a funny way of finding out that I “lost” in terms of traffic to Stonemaster.biz for 2 months in a row. I was taking a video of Fadli officially opening the tourney yesterday. I didn’t expect him to talk about website traffic !!
Congratulations Stonemaster.biz for the all time new record of visitors. I [...]

This is the first video I took using my new Panasonic Lumix camera. It’s Siti playing in the Merdeka Team Rapid section where the endgame is reached and both players have Queens with other minor pieces on board. Pretty tense moment as things can go either way.
Siti was struggling to win but her opponent held [...]

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Here’s a video capture of one of my sessions playing bullet. My opponent is about 100 points above me. Bullet games is not really “chess” and should not be seen as serious. Some say it spoils your actual chess game as it encourages impulsiveness and shallow thinking.
I’m of the opinion bullet chess is like playing [...]

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It’s always a treat to see top players analyse. I remember seeing foreign players who don’t speak the same language conduct post mortems without even speaking… Continue reading

Here’s an car ad using a chess theme. Wish there were more ads like this on TV. Continue reading

Judit is doing well in Essent defeating Topalov and Sokolov to share the lead with Shakhriyar Mamedyarov. Both have 2.5/3.
Here’s a video from that event taken by Peter Doggers.
Related Links:

Official Website
Chessbase report on round 3
Essent Round 2 - TWIC
Essent Round 1 - TWIC
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I know it’s late, but I want to congratulates Kramnik on becoming the world unified chess champ!
A quick look at the polls, it is clear that Kramnik is the favourite and has many well wishers. Also quite surprising that many like to see a Kasparov comeback - it’s the second highest popular vote.
Here’s a nice [...]

Here’s an old video showing Bobby Fischer interviewed in a park bench. Short but it’s interesting to see how ‘normal’ Fischer was at that time. He is a legend and chess hero to many people, including me. … Continue reading | 2 Comments

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Here is Fairin Zakaria, webmaster from Petak64.com giving a half hour talk on chess improvement at Stonemaster’s 1st Unrated Tournament.
It was very instructive. I regretted not making the video taping longer because I wanted to save memory to take pictures for the rest of the tournament.
With systematic training plans mentioned by Fairin, it [...]