The Malaysian team to play in the coming 44th Chess Olympiad in Chennai was confirmed on 23rd June 2022 by Malaysian Chess Federation (MCF) According to announcement on their website, the Open and Women section, Malaysia is sending 5 players each. Also accompanying the players will be MCF officials headed by Muhammad Firdaus Ismail as…
Just a reminder that the closing date for registering is August the 1st, 2022. Yes that’s one full month before the start of the Malaysian Chess Festival 2022. Why? I am not sure but I’ve been told to announce and remind people of this. It may be that entries are reaching the target number and…
Pictures before the start of the biggest Chess Olympiad ever. Pictures courtesy of FM Peter LongBlog: http://peterlongonchess.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-construction-is-in-touch-up-stage.html
FM Habla Jony emerged champion of the Blue Chevaliers Open – Phuket scoring 7 points from 9 rounds. He tied with the same points with Portugalera Ric and Salvador Louie but won out with better tie breaks. Portugalera Ric who was leading the tournament from the start and needed only a draw to become clear…
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 again at Cititel Mid Valley from the 2nd to the 11th September 2022. The chess festival was interrupted for a two-year period due to Covid-19. So what exactly is a…
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 latest victim being FM Mariano Nelson III who was seeded fifth at the start of the tournament. His wins are impressive as he has beaten the top two seeds.In round…
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 the event and enjoy the beach and swimming pool. But that’s me. However there are many chess enthusiast that don’t share my thoughts and would enjoy both fighting out at…
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 in charge of. Thanks to Encik Hamid Majid for making this happen when he said just call it the “GilaChess Blitz” when I asked him about the name. He probably…
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 the personal need to document chess happenings around me. However, over the years forgetting to pay renewal fees for webhosting and domain names resulted in losing many years of valuable…
