Pit your chess skills against one of the world’s best players. WE ARE almost there. Just about a week away from the start of the Malaysian Chess Festival and there’s really good news for chess enthusiasts in the country, especially if you are already in Kuala Lumpur for the festival. Apart from the Merdeka rapid open team tournament, the IGB Arthur Tan memorial Malaysia open chess championship, the AmBank chess challenge and the Merdeka open chess tournament, the organisers have thrown in one more big event: a simultaneous chess exhibition. American chess grandmaster Yasser Seirawan will be giving his simultaneous chess match on 30 boards on Aug 28, followed by a closed clock simultaneous chess match on Aug 29 against the 12 winners of this year’s national age-group chess championship. It’s not going to be just any chess...
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