Category Archives: Chess

Medias King’s tournament earns a spot in chess world. I STILL stand by my opinion that the Medias King’s tournament that ended in Romania last week wasn’t by far the most exciting chess event that I had been following recently, … Continue reading →

FOR most of the past week, I’ve been trying to follow the Medias Kings tournament that was going on in Romania. The first time I heard about this tournament, I thought it would be an interesting event, seeing how the … Continue reading →

Chess players will be spoilt for choice come August and September. MANY chess players will be heaving a sigh of relief when they read this, and I mean a really big sigh. I know, because that was what I did … Continue reading →

The overwhelming response at this year’s MSSM chess tournament augurs well for the future of chess. IT’S not often that I get to attend an MSSM chess tournament, so the fact that it was being held in Penang this year … Continue reading →

Boris Gelfand has qualified as the official challenger in the current world chess championship series. BORIS Gelfand, the 42-year-old former Soviet chess grandmaster who emigrated to Israel in 1998, has earned the right to be the official challenger in the … Continue reading →

WILL we ever get to see Hou Yifan, the women’s world chess champion from China, grace any of our local tournaments this year or ever again? I wonder. The first and last time that she played in this country was … Continue reading →

Watch the thrilling finale live on the Internet. CHESSWISE, this has been a rather eventful fortnight. The field, which started out with eight players, has by now been whittled down to only two. In case you do not know what … Continue reading →

It was a tight race at the men’s and women’s selection trials for the SEA Games. LAST weekend, the national selection trials for the SEA Games continued from where it had left off two weeks earlier. When the men’s trials … Continue reading →

Dr Nicholas Chan scores a hat-trick at the 38th Selangor open chess tournament. NOW, don’t start me off. I’m not going to launch myself with superlatives to describe Dr Nicholas Chan’s feat in winning the annual Selangor open chess tournament … Continue reading →

EVERY year, the Malaysian Chess Federation (MCF) faces the same old dilemma of selecting players to represent the country at official overseas chess tournaments. The federation has not been able to find a satisfactory solution for almost 40 years. Initially, … Continue reading →