Malay Mail Online: Early Impressions Of The Malaysian Chess Festival 2015

http://www.themalaymailonline.com/opinion/peter-long/article/early-impressions-of-the-malaysian-chess-festival-2015

Malay Mail Online: Malaysian Chess Festival: Ending The Year With A Bang

http://www.themalaymailonline.com/opinion/peter-long/article/malaysian-chess-festival-ending-the-year-with-a-bang

Start List - Malaysia Chess Challenge 2015

http://www.chess-results.com/tnr187219.aspx?lan=1

Start List - 12th IGB Malaysian International Open Championship 2015

http://www.chess-results.com/tnr187220.aspx?lan=1

Start List - 6th KLK Tan Sri Lee Loy Seng Seniors Championship 2015

http://www.chess-results.com/tnr187221.aspx?lan=1

Start Lists - 6th Swensen's Rapid Age Group Championships 2015

U-16: http://www.chess-results.com/tnr187113.aspx?lan=1
U-14: http://www.chess-results.com/tnr187114.aspx?lan=1
U-12: http://www.chess-results.com/tnr187117.aspx?lan=1
U-10: http://www.chess-results.com/tnr187122.aspx?lan=1
U-8:   http://www.chess-results.com/tnr187123.aspx?lan=1
U-6:   http://www.chess-results.com/tnr187124.aspx?lan=1

Team Lists - 35th ASTRO Merdeka Rapid Open Team Championship 2015

http://www.chess-results.com/tnr186743.aspx?lan=1&art=32&wi=821

Malay Mail Online: Time For Malaysian Chess Players To Get A Reality Check

http://www.themalaymailonline.com/opinion/peter-long/article/time-for-malaysian-chess-players-to-get-a-reality-check

Malay Mail Online: More Chess Events Coming Up

http://www.themalaymailonline.com/opinion/peter-long/article/more-chess-events-coming-up

Some Photos from the KL Open

Yup, the KL Open has now come to an end. Congratulations to the winners (and all the participants). We celebrated Merdeka (Independence Day) together in the right spirit!

The final standings can be seen at http://www.chess-results.com/tnr185296.aspx?lan=1 (Open) and http://www.chess-results.com/tnr185297.aspx?lan=1 (U-16).

Below are a few photos I managed to take:

Open Section

 Backdrop

U-16 Section

The Current KLCA President is Dato' Tan Chin Nam's latest victim

The VIPs & Prizes before the Start of the Closing Ceremony

Close Up of VIPs

Introductory Remarks... and Many Many Thank Yous!

Speech by the President of the Kasparov Chess Foundation Asia-Pacific

Dato' Tan Talking 

IM Mas Hafizulhelmi - 3rd Prize and also KL Champion 

IM Rolando Nolte - 2nd Prize

IM Roderick Nava - 1st Prize & Challenge Trophy

I would like to place on record the hard work of the many who are part of the KLCA council, officially (and also unofficially!) who worked extremely hard to make the event a success.

Despite being new to this, both Tournament Director Ng Ling Gee and KLCA Hon. Secretary Amirul Mohamad deserve special mention. Unless you have organised before you will have no idea how much work is involved!

Shireen Ding helped enormously at the event itself, Zaidan Zulkipli proved to be a good Master of Ceremonies, and I am very grateful for the help given by my assistant arbiters.

Finally my personal thanks to Lim Tse Pin, MCF Ratings Officer, who not only responded to all requests as to issuing of new FIDE IDs and registering the event in a timely fashion, but clearly had made a special effort to facilitate.