27th SEA Games - the story (Part 3)
After the heart breaking loss in the previous round, I had to pull myself together as I had to face another strong Grandmaster in the form of Oliver Barbosa. A medal was still within reach but I had to...
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An old but interesting game, and an update on book sales!
Since I woke up unusually early today, I thought it will be interesting to run through some of my old games with Houdini 4 and correct some of my old analysis. I retrieved one game which I remember...
View ArticleReflections on the SCF Administrative Fee - by Junior Tay
Rather than to dispute or speak in defence of the controversial SCF adminstrative fee (which in short requires local players to pay 60 bucks or get their ratings wiped off the FIDE list, unless you are...
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The Benko Gambit: Move by Move by Junior Tay (!)
I am extremely happy to be doing an advert on what has been the first chess book in a long time written by a Singaporean. My co-blogger, Junior Tay, who has been writing incessantly on current affairs...
View ArticleMinistry of Health topples Ministry of Education to win the Public Service...
This year, the organizers introduced a TN - scheduling the event on a Sunday (23rd March 2014) instead of a Saturday. This enabled the doctors to get a full team line-up. I mean, when you can rest...
View ArticleThe Benko Gambit Move by Move...not! - by Junior Tay
I would first like to thank Wei Ming for plugging for me on this site and FB, as well as all the kind souls who have placed their FB likes for my first book, The Benko Gambit - Move by Move. I actually...
View ArticleImminent retirement?
In 4 days, I'll be boarding a flight to Tromso to attend what may very well be my last Chess Olympiad and this is possibly the last time that I'll wear the Singapore colors. This is not meant to be...
View Article41st World Chess Olympiad - Part 1 (of 3)
Having announced my possible retirement from National duties in my previous post, this year's Olympiad is a particularly important and emotional event. I badly wanted to do well for 3 concrete reasons...
View Article41st World Chess Olympiad Part 2 - Rounds 4 and 5
(Apologies for the late post - it has been a hectic week back at work. Hopefully, the game commentaries are instructive enough to worth waiting for...) Paired with 4 2600+ Grandmasters, the team...
View Article41st World Chess Olympiad - Rounds 6 - 8
Round 6: Bangladesh 1.5 - Singapore 2.5In round 6, we faced a dangerous and highly ambitious all GM team from Bangladesh. In 2012, the Bangladeshi team had finished 32nd, their best ever result and...
View ArticleNational Championships 2014
This is going to be a short post.The following statement was posted on the SCF website:"In view of the withdrawal of a player from the National Premier one day after the Technical Meeting, the EXCO...
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Boxing Day Blitz Match - Raffles JC Alumni vs the Rest of the World! by...
A good friend and sparring partner of the gang, IM Lim Yee Weng notified us that he would be making a trip to Singapore over the Christmas week so I rustled up the usual suspects to see if they were...
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Mighty Mok celebrates Christmas and New Year with back to back tourney wins!...
Just a week ago, during a Whatsapp conversation with Malaysian IM Mok Tze Meng, the full time chess coach (as well as 'chapalang' financial adviser, mobile chess book/equipment seller, chess arbiter,...
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Singapore Masters Blitz Invitational 2015 by Junior Tay
Personally, I would prefer to play in events where I can get a decent number of rounds with stronger players to ‘teach me a lesson’. I also believe my contemporaries also feel the same way, that is,...
View ArticleSingapore Masters Blitz Invitational 2015 - Best games of the tourney
Olimpiu Urcan had placed 25 games from the above-mentioned event on the sgchess.net blog. I went through the lot and decided to showcase the best games from that lot here. First up, the 'Caveman Attack...
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Jarred Neubronner sweeps the 6th NTU IIICC title by Junior Tay
The 6th NTU Inter-Institutional Invitational championships had 29 participants from local tertiary institutions participating from 23-24th May 2015 and it was held at the Sports and Recreation...
View ArticleConclusion to the (long overdue!) report on the Olympiad
Tromso Rounds 1-3Tromso Rounds 4-5Tromso Rounds 6-8While playing a couple of training games with Russian FIDE Master Andrey Terekhov, the dude reminded me that my Olympiad report was inconclusive and...
View ArticleLessons from Kecskemet / Book Review: The Chess Manual of Avoidable Mistakes...
I am finally home after a 3 week stint in Kecskemet and I thought that since I'm obviously still suffering from severe jet lag, I might as well write something about my games and my general thoughts...
View ArticleOfficial Statement
On 7th May 2016, I had published an article that details my issues with the current executive committee of the SCF. Subsequent to the publication, I was approached by various members of the Exco,...
View ArticleMy analysis of Maze - Goh, Helsingor 2016
A highly critical game that I needed to at least make a draw to keep my GM norm chances alive. Ultimately, I was overpowered by my strong opponent but the game was very complex and I had good chances...
View ArticleAnalysis of Utegaliyev - Goh from the Baku Olympiad - Life is tough!
***Addendum: The Rook & Bishop vs Rook ending at move 102 was covered specifically by Karsen Muller & Frank Lamprecht on page 301 of Fundamental Chess Endings. My annotations are slightly...
View ArticleMy analysis of Tin - Hakimifard, Baku 2016 - A tremendous fighting game from...
For a change, I've decided to analyse a game between Tin Ruiqi, (Jingyao's younger sister) and the Iranian board 3, Hakimifard. Even though Ruiqi was outrated by over 400 points, she put up a great...
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Shout out to the internet warriors!
I have recently spoke to some friends (one of whom has known me since I was in primary school) who appear to have been grossly, and perhaps intentionally misinformed over the unfortunate debacle, that...
View ArticleAnnouncement - Migrating to Chess.com
After browsing through Chess.com for an hour, I realised that the interface is so much more user friendly as compared to Blogger and as such, I would be posting more regularly hereMy first article can...
View ArticleSingapore Youth Girls' Chess Championship 2017
I received an email this morning from Girls in Chess, a group of chess enthusiasts who want to encourage and promote girls chess in Singapore. They are organizing the above event and the details,...
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