Chennai Olympiad After 9 Rounds
Most significant is Poh Yu Tian 100+ Elo points gain. His current score of 7 out 9 is impressive! Malaysian Women team rating performance Malaysian Open team rating performance
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Manuel Aaron
FIDE trainer, Peter Long, posted on his blog, a picture of this elderly man and it is not clear who he is.Peter’s picture style posting didn’t have any text clarifying who he was but from the picture of the book, looks like he is Manuel Aaron – an author. Further Google search revealed a long…
ASEAN Uni Games 2022: Malaysia clean sweeps gold medals
The Malaysian chess team performed above and beyond when they won all 4 gold medals at the 20th ASEAN University Games 2022. The Gold medals came from the Men’s individual, Women’s Individual,Men’s Team as well as the Women’s Team. Rohan Shan Tze Navaratnam won Malaysia the gold the Men’s Individual whereas Tan Li Ting won…
Chennai Olympiad:Round 6 – double wins
Malaysia posted double wins for the Open and Women section improving their standings just past the halfway mark for the 44th Chess Olympiad held at Chennai. Also, today will be a rest day. Where we are at: Standings/Seedings: Malaysia Open team initial seeding :80. Now at 64. (up 16 places) Malaysia Women team initial seeding…
Chennai Olympiad: Round 5-Malaysia bounces back
Both the Open and Women team bounced back after a poor showing in the initial rounds. Finally clear wins that should lift the morale of both the teams! The Malaysian Open team won 4-0 against Ghana whereas the Women team won 3-1 South Africa. Ghana (GHA) Rtg 0 – 4 Malaysia (MAS) Rtg Adu-Poku, Kwabena…
Chennai Olympiad: Round 4 – double loss
MAD beat MAS. Malaysia lost to Madagascar (MAD) narrowly by half a point. A little disappointing result as Madagascar was lower rated than Malaysia (MAS). FM Lim Zhou Ren and FM Wong Yinn Long faltered losing on board 1 and 2 respectively. CM Tan Jun Ying got a draw from Dylan Rakotomaharavo on board 3…
Chennai Olympiad: Round 3
I guess the picture sums up how it feels for the Malaysian Open team to go up against a monstrosity like Croatia. Sure, Malaysia is small and agile but we are no match for the hulking monster like Croatia. Just look at the rating! All 2600+ except their last board who is 2500+. It was…
Chennai Olympiad Round 2: Poh Yu Tian beats a GM
ROUND 2 13 year old Poh Yu Tian on his first ever Olympiad beat Grandmaster Lubomir Ftacnik (ELO 2483) in Round 2 of the 44th Chess Olympiad in Chennai, India. This win helped Malaysia hold a draw against the superior Slovakia which has a rating average of ELO 2543. FM Lim, Zhuo Ren 2318 vs…
Olympiad: Women playing in the Open section
I was a little surprised to see WGM Gong Qianyun name in the Singapore team playing in the Open section. Then I thought maybe Singapore did not send a women’s team which I was also wrong because they did send a team. Actually, WGM Gong Qianyun is ranked 5th strongest overall in Singapore so it…