Chess Improvement

NM Tan Khai Boon, NWM Fong Mi Yen

EuHong — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 15:19:10 +0000

National Championship 2010 concluded with Khai Boon finishing first with 8/9 while Fong Mi Yen winning the Woman’s category with 7.5/9!

Final Cross Table at ChessInMalaysia. Detail coverage at Malaysia National Chess Championship Blog.

Congratulations to NM Tan Khai Boon and NWM Fong Mi Yen!!

20,000 tries!

EuHong — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:00:28 +0000

This marathon was completed the night before the UHS Open. Practices make oneself fresh the day before a tournament.

And I managed a 200 tries in 1 night!

NAG Summary after 2 days

EuHong — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:52:49 +0000

Dear readers,

I got some comments that the content / pairing / ranking on this website is unreadable and are very messy. My apologies for the mess.

Here are the summary:

U08
Boys: Round 7 Pairing, Ranking after Round 6
Girls: Round 6 Pairing, Ranking after Round 5

U10
Boys: Round 7 Pairing, Ranking after Round 6
Girls: Round 6 Pairing, Ranking after Round 5

U12
Boys: Round 7 Pairing, Ranking after Round 6
Girls: Round 6 Pairing, Ranking after Round 5

U14
Boys: Round 7 Pairing, Ranking after Round 6
Girls: Round 6 Pairing, Ranking after Round 5

U16
Boys: Round 7 Pairing, Ranking after Round 6
Girls: Round 6 Pairing, Ranking after Round 5

U18
Boys: Round 6 Pairing, Ranking after Round 5
Girls: Round 6 Pairing, Ranking after Round 5

Cheers,

Eu Hong

National Age Group Round 1

EuHong — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:12:46 +0000

Pairings for NAG is up!

Pairing:
U08B - Round 1
U08G - Round 1
U10B - Round 1
U10G - Round 1
U12B - Round 1
U12G - Round 1
U14B - Round 1
U14G - Round 1
U16B - Round 1
U16G - Round 1
U18B - Round 1
U18G - Round 1

Note:
All the Girls are playing 7 rounds only 3 on Sunday, 2 Monday, and 2 on Final day.
Only boys U18 are playing 7 rounds – follow Girls schedule.
The rest of the other sections are playing 8 rounds as per schedule.

All the best to everyone!

See you at Dewan Sri Pinang!

National Age Group 2010!

EuHong — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:13:04 +0000

Forget about all the serious stuff for now. Enjoy watching the kids play chess at National Age Group 2010!

The tentative pairing is coming out later today! Visit http://chess.euhong.net or http://penangchess.com for pairings!

Warming Up!!

EuHong — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:18:22 +0000

Okay, I got started, now I need perseverance! Step 2 is reading! I organized my books before CNY and had my to-read list going again. After reading a game from Capablanca’s Best Chess Endings, I started to have some feel for chess again.

Meanwhile, sense of tactics are still not coming back.

More works have to be done!

Upcoming tournament:

Union Open 2010 on March 21!

Let’s get started!

EuHong — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:35:06 +0000

Following the tragedy, I started to solve some puzzles today and I need to keep this up! Tournaments are coming at Penang here throughout March to April, I am yet to see the details of the events but I am sure I am playing!! The plan is to practice in these weekends tournament and excel during a FIDE rated event I am planning to play this year…

Today, I started step 1, there are other activities including studies of books, openings, analysis of own games and masters’ games and play a lot of online games!

Step 1: Chess Tactics Server

Today’s practice:

Previously:

Tragedy @ Chess

EuHong — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:19:40 +0000

First of all congratulations to the winners at USM Team tournament 2010. My performance was disastrous scoring only 5/7 playing at the lower tables (mostly around table 10-20) and giving a free queen in the final round!!

No more excuses for myself. The only way to still continue to survive in chess is to start practising! It’s time to go home a draft out a training plan and throw away all my bad habits throughout last year…

CLHS Open 2009

EuHong — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:01:04 +0000

The just past CLHS Open 2009 was quite successful with >150 registered players and saw players like Ronnie Lim, Marcus Chan, Chuah Heng Meng, Tan Khai Boon and etc playing.

Sadly, I missed the tournament and might do so more often in future…

Congrats to CLHS!

4 Elo points

EuHong — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:57:54 +0000

According to the FIDE tournament report, I am gaining 4 Elo points thanks to the Penang Heritage City International Chess Open. That will slightly increase my rating to 2101.