Collection of Malaysian Chess news and happenings
CM Chow Yi Chen, IM Mas Hafizulhelmi and FM Kavin MohanYes all of them are National Champions (too obvious) but other than that they were all record breakers in terms of age when they became champions.1. IM Mas Hafizulhelmi (The 31-Year Benchmark)Year He Won: 1994 (Malaysian National Closed Ch
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Malaysian chess organisers love flyers. tournaments distributed via image-only flyers and that's a problem : Search engine indexing and overall event visibility. The core problem is real. When organisers post tournament information exclusively as graphic flyers—JPEG or PNG files—the text inside tho
Before catur there was GilaChessI lost GilaChess.com in the late 2000s because I procrastinated in renewing the domain and totally lost the name, coupled with my disappointment with Exabyte my webhost that allowed malware to attack their computers. It was a nightmare experience.I have not recovered
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There are 2 chess tournaments held at the same time on Sept 7-14. The Blue Chevaliers in Phuket and Berjaya Global in Johor Bahru. So I told Gemini AI to evaluate and help me choose. Gave Gemini the fact that I am an ELO 1870 rated player and asked it to choose mainly b
This is rare that I post any featured games on this blog but here goes... Praggnanandhaa vs Carlsen — Norway Chess 2026: Two Games That Made History Round 3 — May 27, 2026 (Pragg with White) Praggnanandhaa came out swinging with a rare 6.h4 in the Sicilian Najdorf — only the 13th most popular sixth
Read in mcf.news that it appears that at least the final Men/Open slot is being filled through an application-and-evaluation process rather than a structured qualifying tournament. And if the Women's Team was similarly assembled without an open qualifying event, then potentially multiple Olympiad re