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Optical Illusion by Jr and Wei Ming
I was very pleased with a win I made at 3 minutes blitz - in which I had stopped my opponent's aggressive intentions with an exchange sacrifice to nullify his kingside attack.Check out the following...
View ArticleA clash of champions - by Junior Tay
The recently concluded World Championships won by GM Magnus Carlsen had English GM Nigel Short tweeting about the 'end of an era', signifying that the new generation has finally taken out the old...
View ArticleFM Daniel Chan-top Singaporean player at RCA Open Blitz Tourney- by Junior Tay
The Remote Chess Academy (helmed by GM Igor Smirnov) and Chessbase has combined to hold a 13 round, 3 minute (with 2 second increment per move) blitz event on the Playchess.com server, in honour of the...
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Games from the Toa Payoh West Rapid 2013 - by Junior Tay
The abovementioned event, which boasts the 2nd biggest prize fund among local Swiss Opens (after the TCA Mega Open) had thirteen ELO 2000+ rated players participating, inclusive of 2 IMs and 2 FMs. IM...
View ArticleOne heck of an attack! - by Junior Tay
Yesterday's blog post saw how Tan Poh Heng crush FM Jarred Neubronner in a Grand Prix attack. What readers didn't read about is that Jarred got fed up with having to defend the whole game so he...
View ArticleNaypyidaw (10th - 21st December) - Acknowledgements
In approximately 1.5 days, I will be on my way to the 27th SEA Games. This has been a very difficult period in my career as the responsibilities of becoming an audit manager have been overwhelming in...
View ArticleOutstanding performances by Edward Lee and William Woong at the London Chess...
Last week's London Chess Classic saw Nakamura demonstrating why he should be considered a contender to the World Champion Magnus Carlsen's future title defence. From the quarter finals onwards,...
View Article27th SEA Games - the story (Part 1)
Liu Yang and I have returned from Myanmar and while we may not have won any medals, I am pretty satisfied with my play in general and our team work during the mixed transfer event. As the results often...
View Article27th SEA Games - the story (Part 2)
My next event was the 7 rounds rapid event where there are formidable opposition in the form of Vietnam's GM Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son and IM Nguyen Duc Hoa, Indonesia's GM Megaranto Susanto & IM...
View Article27th 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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