FM Habla Jony emerged champion of the Blue Chevaliers Open – Phuket scoring 7 points from 9 rounds. He tied with the same points with
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Malaysian Chess Festival 2022 is back!
The Malaysian Chess Festival is back! It is the longest running chess event classified as “chess festivals” in Asia. The 17th edition will be held
Portugalera Ric leads in Blue Chevaliers’ after 6 rounds
Portugalera Ric continued his unbeatable streak by winning 6 games in a row. This puts him a full point ahead of his nearest rival. His
Fancy playing chess at a beach resort? (Blue Chevaliers’-Phuket)
I probably would love to go. But I am selfish and don’t want to share my vacation time with playing chess. I’d rather blog about
Alireza played in a GilaChess tournament?
This happened in the 15th Malaysian Chess Festival 2018 when 15 year old Alireza Firoujza decided to take part in a blitz tourney I was
Chess Pennies
My motivation for my websites (catur chess portal, gilachess blogs, chess calendar, chess formatted results, tournament websites – DATMO,Johor Open, Penang Open) was to fill
Tournament Proximity and other criteria
Update: As per Ahmad Muzaffar aka Chess Tourist excellent suggestion other criteria need to be added besides proximity like: Tournament Type (time control, swiss/round-robin, etc)
GilaChess lives again
It’s almost hilarious how many times this blog has died and came back to life again. Well GilaChess.com is gone anyway because I forgot to