Sunday, October 25, 2020

The Coldest War vs The Queen's Gambit

 One is a movie and the other a mini series. But both are about chess or at least centres around the game.


The depiction of Chess from The Coldest Game was silly to say the least. For one thing, in The Coldest Game, the person who overseeing the game is called "arbiter", not a "judge". Also, when a player wants a draw, there is no need to pass the offer via the arbiter, they just ask the other player.  Of course there are many tiny inaccuracies in the movie that would make a tournament player cringe.

The other aspects of the show is acceptable and I only watched because I like Bill Pullman's acting.

The new mini series "The Queen's Gambit" starring Anya Taylor-Joy is way better in terms of chess accuracy. All the chess openings are right, like the Sicilian Najdorf, Levenfish variation, how a simul event is conducted are all correct. I just appreciate it when film makers take the trouble for small details like that and not "inventive" when it comes to chess facts. Overall, I think The Queen's Gambit will be a worthwhile watch especially when IMDB rates this at 8.7 out of 10.

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Hail the new National Champion



Lim Zhuo Ren is crowned the new National Champion!

Blitz is on and MAS is playing

After the National Closed prize giving ceremonies, there will a blitz tournament. Mas will be taking part too. What are you waiting for? Come down to DATCC for some fun blitz!

Lim Zhuo Ren - Jimmy Liew (live)

Video chat rooms at Ustream


Round 7 pictures















Men Round 9 (final) pairings


March 20, 2011
Bo. No. Name Pts. Pts. Name No.
1 10 Lim Zhuo Ren  Liew
Chee-Meng-Jimmy 
1
2 12 Subramaniam
Sumant 
6 Lee Kim Han
Edward 
2
3 4 Loo Swee Leong  6 6 Yeap Eng Chiam  5
4 26 Fong Yit Ho  6 6 Yeoh Li Tian  7
5 32 Fong Yit San  Nayan Ahmad
Fadzil 
19
6 38 Lee Kah Meng
Elgin 
5 Tan Khai Boon  3
7 8 Wahiduddin Mohd
Khair 
5 5 Yeoh Phee Leong
Marcus 
27
8 28 Looi Xin Hao  5 5 Ong Thian Loon  13
9 15 Azman Hisham Mohd
Nabil 
5 5 Wong Jianwen  29
10 24 Shaik Ali Nor
Ilhamuddin 
5 5 Yusof Kamaluddin  17
11 33 Azhar Muhammad Syakir
Shazmeer 
5 5 Erowan Masrin  18
12 20 Tan Ken Wei  5 5 Kamin Al-Kamil  35
13 30 Siew Kit-Tze
Mark 
5 5 Cheah Cheok Fung  21
14 41 Tan Jun Feng  5 5 Fong Choong Ee  23
15 14 Nik Nik Ahmad
Farouqi 
5 See Kai Loong  37
16 42 Chin Choong Wee
Kenneth 
Shafruddin Fariz  9
17 16 Abdul Shukor Abdul
Aziz 
Ajeet Singh
Roshan 
44
18 25 Ismail Ahmad  Low Jun Jian  36
19 49 Liew Ken Yew  Kamal Rizal
Ahmad 
31
20 34 Lim Kian Hwa  Aron Teh Eu Wen  47
21 60 Wong Yinn Long  4 Che Hassan
Abdullah 
11
22 6 Jamil Mohd Johan  4 4 Iskandar Danial
Adam 
45
23 57 Dutton Lucas
Matthew 
4 4 S Balendran  40
24 69 Subramaniam
Shreyas 
4 4 Azhar Muhd Irfan
Haqqim 
43
25 61 Teh De Juan  4 4 Ooi Zhi Yang  51
26 71 Tee Han Kang  4 4 Amier Hamzah B  Mohd Zuhri  52
27 54 Hamzah Razali  4 Roslan Mohd
Faizal 
39
28 50 Sivanesan
Subramanian 
Mustafa Albakri
Suhaimi 
62
29 53 Parimanam Paul  Muhalip Sotimin  64
30 55 Kalivanan Suniil  Ding Tze How
Dilwen 
74
31 68 Tang Wei Kit  Saleh Fikri  56
32 92 Mahmood Mohd
Ezmi 
Yap Wan Lin  58
33 46 William Lee Kah
Howe 
3 Aminuddin Muhd
Faris 
78
34 77 Mohd Hisham Muhd
Hafiz 
3 3 Low Jun Keat  48
35 63 Tan Kok Liang  3 3 Ng Jen Sheng  75
36 85 Choong Ee Jin
Eric 
3 3 Zakaria Mohd
Fadrus 
65
37 66 Yahaya Muhammad
Nurislam 
3 3 Mohd Hisham Muhd
Fareed 
76
38 89 Ganesh Kuhan  3 3 Teh Wee Zhun  72
39 90 Ong Wei Bin  3 3 Narayanan Sri Shiva
Kumar 
73
40 88 Singh Kabir  Yeop Mat Zaki  59
41 67 Yahaya Muhammad
Nuriman 
Hanif Harleiff  80
42 83 Ng Shi Xuan  2 Kughan Ravindran  82
43 70 Harun Bustaman  2 2 Ng Shi Yang  79
44 91 Sik Kuan Ming
Shaun 
2 2 Abdul Rashid
Hasidin 
81
45 84 Sabri Shamsuddin  2 1 Mohd Jamil Afiq  87
46 86 Aminuddin Muhd
Faqih 
2   bye  
47 22 Saifuddin Muhd
Izz 
0   not paired  
48 93 Ong Aik Liang  ½   not paired