Introducing e+Chess. A ebook program allowing reading and moving the chess position according to the chess moves in the book. A great way to read and learn Chess compared to the traditional way of having a chess set alongside when reading Chess book.

Come with a free “Chess Fundamentals” by Jose Capablanca. 6 others ebook are available but they are prized from $9.99 to $14.99. The titles are:

The Flame of Attack , The Power of Tactics and The Wisdom of Strategy (by Lev Aptekar).

Lessons in Chess Strategy (Valeri Beim)

Streetfighting Chess (Andrew Burnett) and

Exploration in Chess Beauty (Andras Toth)

To all my Muslim friends.

Regards

Come across this site

http://www.simplychess.org

A miniture I played on the Net.

[Event “Chess to Enjoy”]
[Site “Internet”]
[Date “2011.08.13″]
[Round “-”]
[White “jet***”]
[Black “author”]
[Result “0-1″]
[WhiteElo “1191″]
[BlackElo “1387″]
[ECO “C23″]
[Time “21:32:57″]
[TimeControl “900″]

1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Nc6 3.Nf3 Nf6
{By diffrent move order, the game get into the Two Knights Defense.}
4.Ng5
{This move go against the principles, “don’t move the same pieces
twice” but it actually attact the weak f7.}
4…d5
{The only move!}
5.exd5
{Black has a few alternatives here.}
5…Nd4
( 5…Na5
( 5…b5 )
)
6.d6 Qxd6 7.Nxf7
{White get greedy. There are better alternatives.}
( 7.O-O
( 7.d3 )
)
7…Qc6 8.Nxh8
( 8.O-O Qxc4 9.Nxh8 Qxc2 10.Na3 )
8…Qxg2 9.Rf1 Qe4+ 10.Be2 Nf3# 0-1

After six long months from this blog. I’m back. Not sure how long but every journey begins with a small step.

Happy Chinese New Year or Spring Festival to everyone.

 Regards

Service my car today. The Taman Midah service centre is packed with cars! I think it is an excellent move (!!) to service your vehicle regularly or according to the specifications required. More over, the CNY festival is around the corner, good idea to make sure your vehicle is in good condition before traveling!

Happy Thaipusam to everyone.

Regards

I recently come to know about this word. “Sandbagging” mean deceiving someone by pretend to be weak. In sports that uses handicap system like golf and bowling, there are people who try to cheat by pretending they are weak like purposely loses.

This is also happening in Chess although we seldom see it in Malaysia because we don’t normally have many tournaments based on multiple rating/class. But for countries or Chess servers that practice tournaments with different rating class, we can see that there are people lower their rating by purposely lost their games so that they are eligible to enter a weaker tournament in order to win.

Fischer Random Chess (FRC) was first suggested by World Champion Bobby Fischer.

The board and chess pieces are the same except the pieces are randomly arranged at the back-rank. It is more tactical and promote creativity rather than memorizing Opening theory. The piece movements are the same except for Castling, that introduce a rule where the King must be placed between 2 Rooks. The other rule is to have opposite colour Bishops. A total of 960 different combination of starting positions can be arranged thus it is also called 960 Chess.

So far, I have yet to see any tournament organized (at least for myself) in Kuala Lumpur but seems to be getting popular in other countries. A lot of Chess server provide this game for members.

Recently I played a few games on the Internet and find it quite nice as you are not handicapped by Opening Theory .